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Retirements

Nikki Moody, Program Assistant for Management Services
Photo of Nikki Nikki's NRCS career is as varied as her federal career. She served as a
  • Personnel Clerk
  • Clerk Typist
  • Secretary for Water Resources
  • Program Assistant in Contracting - Management Staff.

Nikki took on extra activities—including the CFC, preparing for the annual parking allocation, making sure copy machines have plenty of paper, and the unpopular but necessary job of cleaning the refrigerator.

The garden accessories Nikki received as gifts will be put to good use this summer.

July 1970 - May 1976 Dept of Army, Office of Personnel Operations (later USA Military Personnel Center) Washington, DC
May 1976 - December 1977 SDOI Bureau of Mines Bruceton, PA
December 1977 - May 1978 USDOL Mining Enforcement & Safety Administration Bruceton, PA
August - Dec 1979 USDOL Mine Safety & Health Administration Bruceton, PA
December 1979 - August 1985 USDOE  Energy Technology Center Morgantown
August 1987 USDA Soil Conservation Service/NRCS  Morgantown
Lowell Wilks, Great Kanawha Resource Conservation and Development Coordinator
Photo of Lowell receiving a vase  

Lowell majored in Forestry and graduated from WVU in 1976. He started his SCS career as a Soil Conservation Technician in Beaver, PA. He quickly progressed to a Soil Conservationist job in Martinsburg WV, in 1977. He held District  Conservationist positions in Berkeley Springs and Ranson before becoming a RC&D Coordinator in 1987. Lowell was the RC&D Coordinator in Scott Depot, Hurricane, and Cross Lanes, WV.
Lowell receives the traditional Fenton vase from Greg Kist. Pat Bowen is looking on.

Lowell was in the U.S. Navy and served in Vietnam. He also served in the Navy Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, and West Virginia Air National Guard.

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