Album: Carolyn Smith retirement reception.
Carolyn Smith retires from Purdue's Department of Physics. Friday, January 31, 2003.

Album: Warren & Virginia Messick retirement reception
Warren & Virginia Messick retired from the Purdue Physics Department together on July 31, 2002. Warren worked in the Demonstration Lecture Lab and Virginia was the secretary for Solid State Physics. We wish them the best and many years of enjoying retirement life together.

Album: Prof. Mullen retirement reception
A reception was held on Wednesday, October 10, 2001, beginning at 3:00 to honor Jim Mullen on his retirement from Purdue University and the beginning of his new career path as an inventor and an author. We wish him the best of luck in his new ventures. Attending with his wife, Sara, were six of his eight children and three grand-children. His youngest son, Kevin, carried balloons, which he released at the reception to make it more festive.

Album: Prof. Simms retirement reception
A departmental retirement reception was held on Thursday, May 3, 2001, for Paul Simms who officially retires on June 30, 2001. Among the many accolades Paul received was one from Frank Rickey, including a special device. According to Frank, "There was a period from about 1974-1982 that we used the tandem for PIXE (that's Proton-Induced-Xray emmission) for the purpose of trace elemental-analysis of various materials, including drinking water. That device I gave him was part of a vapor filtration system that landed us a big contract with the USEPA. This saved the tandem, allowed us to continue our basic reserach program in nuclear physics, and is the reason we had a machine for conversion to AMS." In addition to the faculty and staff in the department, members of Paul's family were in attendance.

Album: Russ Coverdale retires.

Album: Professors Overhauser and Shibata retirement reception June 29, 2004.

Album: Bob Allen retires
August 31, 2005.

Album: Sangita Handa's Retirement, July 14th, 2009

Album: Roger Boyce Retirement Sept, 11 2009