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Networking I Community and Industry Involvement I Leadership I Visibility
| LAHq CALENDAR | |
| Tuesday | May 18 2004 |
| “The
Vision of the Future” for UCLA on Capital Programs Speaker: Peter W. Blackman Administrative Vice Chancellor, UCLA 11:30am - 1:30pm, Regency Club |
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| Tuesday | June 8 2004 |
| Special
Networking Event 5:30pm - 7:00pm, Palm Restaurant |
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more information go to www.laheadquarters.com |
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MIXING
BUSINESS
WITH PLEASURE
Breaking new ground for a professional business organization, LAHq is
proving that work can be fun. In recent pro-grams members participated
in a quest to find the best Christmas tree in a downtown office building,
toured several loft developments, and bowled at Lucky Strikes.
LAHq’s Holiday Décor Tour, which began as an informal networking
event, was so successful that it has now become a BOMA sanctioned awards
program.We envision lively competition in 2004, with building owners vying
for the prestigious honor of having the best dressed lobby.
On February 26th, 45 LAHq representatives received a tour of the Herald
Examiner Building (led by Devan Pailet of Urban Partners) and three residential
loft developments. Members were interested in taking an inside look at
urban living because of the impact multi-unit housing projects is having
in the revitalization of downtown LA.
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| Mars Exploration
Rover 1, May 29, 2003 Prelaunch at Kennedy Space Center Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL/KSC |
SPRING
FOCUS:LAHq ’S 43RD ANNUAL AWARDS LUNCHEON Each year LAHq honors those people and businesses that have made significant contributions within the City of Los Angeles. This year we are honoring Jet Propul-sion Laboratory (JPL), Pete Carroll, Patricia Kennedy, José Huizar and Stuart Ketchum. These people and institutions have impacted the overall viability of LA as a center of excellence – in high technology, sports, the arts, education, and real estate development. |
Science/Technology Award: JPL For Mars Mission and Other Advancements |
Over the past four decades the mechanical offspring of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory – the probes and robotic craft built for NASA – have explored every known planet except Pluto. JPL’s spacecraft have also taken up orbiting stations that monitor the environment of Earth itself. Behind these achievements stand thousands of engineers, scientists and other professionals who have dedicated their lives to space exploration. It is these pioneers that LAHq is honoring at our 2004 Awards Luncheon. Dr. Firouz Naderi, head of the Mars Exploration Program, is accepting the Science/Technology Award on behalf of JPL. JPL’s latest accomplishment, the successful Mars program, has been tasked with determining if Mars was ever, or is now, a habitat for life. Dr. Naderi has been integrally involved with this program since 2000 and as one of its “architects” is fully responsible for its beginning-to-end implementation. One objective in the master plan has been to launch one or more spacecrafts to Mars every 26 months. Since 2000, three missions have successfully orbited or landed on continued on page 3 |