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Sanford Lab Safety Officer Retires

Sanford Laboratory Safety Officer Tom Regan leaves his position on November 2, exactly 43 years after he started working at Homestake as a student in 1969.  Over the years, Regan has been an underground laborer, a locomotive operator, a miner, a heavy equipment operator and a scheduler.  Regan was among those who worked with the state to help establish the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, which would eventually secure the former Homestake Gold Mine pr0perty for development into a federal underground laboratory.  Regan visits with Karl Gehrke from the Sanford Underground Lab.