Dave Hendrie-long time Director of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Department of Energy retired recently. Jefferson Lab falls under this division's management.

In comments to Physics Today regarding his retirement, Hendrie said one of his proudest accomplishments is Jefferson lab and its physics program. Jefferson Lab has been associated with Hendrie since ground was first broken for the Lab's construction. Ma ny JLab staff members will remember Hendrie from the numerous DOE semi-Annual Construction Reviews.

In April, Hendrie passed the baton to Dennis Kovar, Acting Director of the Nuclear Physics Division. Kovar has already visited the lab twice-once in April to get to know the lab and its many accomplishments, and more recently during the Medium Energy Rev iew held June 4 and 5.

Prior to taking over from Hendrie, Kovar held positions at DOE as the Program Manager for Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics in the Division of Nuclear Physics, and most recently as the Project Officer for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Project. Most of Kovar's caree r, previous to his tenure with DOE, was spent at Argonne National Laboratory. He was honored as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1996 for his heavy ion research at Argonne (1973-1990). Jefferson Lab can look forward to many more visits from Dennis Kovar during his current assignment at DOE.

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