Longmont, Golden Ponds Park - Walk Guest Joan L. Mitchell, Ph.D.

Walk Guest Joan L. Mitchell, Ph.D. is a Longmont resident, and the author of Dr. Joan's Mentoring Book: Straight Talk About Taking Charge of Your Career." Dr. Joan is an IBM Fellow (an elite group of 60 or so who guide and advise), and one of the most successful patent recipients in the nation. Through her 32-year career with IBM she has co-invented and has done research on the QuietWriter technology, Facsimille (FAX) data compression and the internationally accepted JPEG standard. As of June 6, 2008, Dr. Joan has 92 patents.

The Walk Co-Hosts for this walk are Richard and Fran Rew, and Suzanne Rowe.

Walk Co-Host Fran says, "It's an honor to have an opportunity to walk and talk with a mentor of mentors, who is playful and down-to-earth. She is an inspirational guide for achieving both avocation and vocational goals."

Walk Co-Host Richard Rew, an IEEE member with Dr. Joan, admires her creative thinking.

Longmont Walk Co-Host Suzanne Rowe has made it possible to organize this walk in Longmont, Colorado. Suzanne is the organizer for the The Longmont Hiking Meetup Group. A special thank you to Suzanne for creating a clear map of the Golden Ponds Park meetup location for the parking and the fishing pier meetup point - map.

The walking audience will be invited to introduce themselves and their topics of interest, and then have an opportunity to share a walking group conversation with Dr. Joan.

There is no rain date. Check back with this detail section, or call Fran Rew at (303) 321-1064, on the day of the walk to make sure there are no cancelations due to weather, or an unforeseen travel-request/schedule-change for our Walk Guest or Walk Co-Hosts. We all look forward to sharing this walk with you.