Pahuta, Lawson and Boyd
win international competition awards
 (Excerpted from The Rocketeer , China Lake's in-house newspaper, November 30, 1995)
Mark Pahuta, Cliff Lawson and Tom Boyd are all recent recipients of awards from an international competition hosted by the Society of Technical Communication (STC). Pahuta won a first place for producing the video, "Secret City : A history of the Navy at China Lake." Lawson and Boyd received third place awards for their brochure, "Living in Harmony: Environmental Diversity at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division."
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"Secret City" was produced for the 50th anniversary of China Lake in November of 1993. The video, which is nearly three hours long, took several years to complete. This kind of comprehensive historical video had never before been attempted at China Lake. Pahuta says that the video is probably the only place where so much diverse historical source material of China Lake can be found: interviews, archival footage, still photographs, newspaper and magazine articles, and official documents.

One instrumental person involved with the video was Leroy Doig III, Station historian. Doig supplied much of the historical information, contributed significantly to the script and narrated the video as well. Pahuta feels a key factor that helped make the video possible was the commitment by China Lakers to preserve the artifacts, such as historical film, photographs and documents. More than 50 people were interviewed on video for this project, and Pahuta says he was thrilled to be able to meet many of the "pioneers" of China Lake.

Pahuta a past member of STC, has himself been a judge in the audiovisual comptetitions for the last 15 years. Pahuta's video was entered in the STC 1995 International Technical Video Competition, where it won first place in the information category. Pahuta is pleased with the end result of his work and is planning to submit other entries in upcoming competitions. Copies of the video are available to the public, through the China Lake Museum Foundation. The cost is $25 U.S. And an additional $3 for shipping and handling.

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