August 19, 2020

In memory of Eugene B. Rickansrud and Ronald D. Jamtgaard

Eugene B. Rickansrud, 1925-2020

Gene served in SLAC's Business Services Division, first as Assistant Director, then as Associate Director for over 30 years. "A man of many hats, Gene's expertise extend[ed] also into technical fields." On the occasion of his retirement in 1993, SLAC Director and Nobel Laureate Burton Richter noted: “[Gene's] common sense approach has served us all very well and [his] vast experience and store of knowledge will be sorely missed."

Ronald Dean Jamtgaard, May 2, 1933 - May 4, 2020

As SLAC’s first Budget Officer, Jamtgaard was praised by SLAC's founding director, W.K.H. Panofsky for an excellent job translating the large variety of SLAC’s research programs and operational needs into financial requirements and persuasive terms to AEC for budgetary allocation. After leaving SLAC in 1967, Jamtgaard concentrated his career on the computing field, serving various positions at Stanford, including the Stanford Center for Information Processing. Panofsky later noted in 1976: “His work here was respected and we were sorry to lose him.” Please sign the online guest book.

By jmdeken@slac.s…

Gene Rickansrud, 1977
Gene Rickansrud, 1977 (SLAC - Zawojski)