The Los Alamos Daily Post published an interview with Dr. Terry Wallace, who is retired as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory on June 30. Wallace earned his bachelor's at NMT, before getting his Ph.D. at Cal Tech.

Since becoming the director of LANL, Wallace has returned to NMT several times as a guest speaker, including delivering the keynote address at the 2018 Commencement Ceremony (pictured at right).

Here is an excerpt of the article, with a link at the bottom.

 

By LAURA MULLANE
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Terry C. Wallace, Jr., Los Alamos National Laboratory’s former director, retired from the Laboratory on June 30.

When you ask Wallace to list the proudest accomplishments of his 18-year career at the Lab, he’ll tell you that he can’t talk about most of them. As someone who spent a majority of his time as the Lab’s senior intelligence executive, much of the work he did was classified.

“But I know we made a huge difference,” he said. “We can’t talk about those accomplishments, but they were critical to our national security. That’s what I’m proudest of.”

Those words ring true for many at the Laboratory whose successes will never be publicly heralded, despite their importance.

“Those times when you’re tasked with an assignment and the clock is ticking and you’re working with a group of people to get the answer right because you know the stakes are high,” said Wallace, “that’s what I’ll miss the most.”

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