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Newsletter Volume 12, Issue 3
NCR RETIREE NEWS
Official publication of NCR REA, Inc. www.ncr-rea.com 3rd Quarter 2008
WHAT’S INSIDE REA ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING September 11, 2008 Front Page Story 1
From the Editor 2 To the Editor On Thursday, September 11, 2008, the eleventh Annual Meeting of NCR REA will be held at The NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio. Did You Know 3 The meeting will include the regular business meeting and presentations by In Memoriam 4 special guests and members. The business meeting will last from 10 a.m. until noon. A continental breakfast, provided by NCR REA, will be available be- Welcome to New 4 ginning at 9 a.m. Members
Directory Update 5 As we did in 2007, we are offering some new activities to provide more op- portunity for you to network with your former friends and associates at NCR.
Annual Meeting 6 2007 An optional buffet luncheon will be served following the business meeting. NCR REA will share the cost of this luncheon with your share being $10.00 Registration for 7 2008 per person. You must be pre-registered to attend this activity. (NOTE: The Annual Meeting NCR Country Club requires a minimum of 25 guests to offer the buffet. If we From our mem- 8 do not register the minimum number required, your money will be promptly bers refunded. (You will be given a luncheon ticket when you check in on Sep- tember 11th.) Calendar of events 9
A putting contest will be held following the luncheon. We will award prizes F.Y.I. 11 for first, second, and third place. Please register now if you plan to partici- pate in this activity. (Putters will be provided.) The Tale End 12 A tour of the NCR Archive is offered at 1:30 p.m. in downtown Dayton. This tour is limited to 25 people, so get your registration in early—first come, first served. NCR will offer a tour of the NCR Solution Center at 1:30 p.m. at World Headquarters. Please indicate on your registration form if you wish to
take either of these tours.
The registration form on page 7 of this newsletter must be submitted by Sep- tember 1, 2008. Alternately, you may print out the form from the MEM- BERS ONLY section of the web site www.ncr-rea.org
Please register as soon as possible. We hope to see many of you in Septem- ber. NCR Retiree News Page 2 FROM THE EDITOR
Board of Trustees John Schikner, president You should have received your copy ONLY section. The online version is Dennis Neufarth, vice of the NCR REA Membership Di- updated at least every quarter. president rectory by now. I’m happy to report The letter to the editor below is an il- Lou Bordonaro, treasurer that many of you have looked lustration of one of the benefits of be- Ken Carr, secretary at/used it already. I’m sorry to say longing to the REA. How nice it is to Peg Butts you found many errors that I made hear from old friends with whom Jim Carroll in compiling it. Some of you also you’ve lost touch. Vern Henkener found that you had forgotten to pro- Gordon Meister vide us with your updated informa- This issue includes the registration Howard Reams tion. While we can’t afford to re- form for the Annual Meeting. We Bill West print, we are providing a list of cor- sure would like to see many of you rections as we know them so you there. NCR REA can update your hardcopy if you Happy reading. Hope to hear from Our mission is to keep wish. (See pages 5 and 11.) Remem- members informed on is- you. ber the directory is also online on sues related to NCR Cor- your web site in the MEMBERS poration and other mat- Dennis ters of interest. REA was started in 1996, and helps perpetuate the legacy of NCR Corporation and its TO THE EDITOR people. Membership in (LETTERS FROM YOU) NCR REA is a great way to stay connected to NCR and its people. Hello Dennis, In 1999, we purchased a 40' motor
home and spent five years on the road. ______… I try to remember when I saw It was a lot of fun, but my wife Wilma NCR Retiree News is pub- you last. [It] must have been in the wanted again a home and not getting lished four times per year, by: 70s. any younger helped in the decision. So
NCR REA, Inc. we bought a small home in San Anto- P. O. Box 218 After 10 Years in Dayton, five years nio, Florida (27 miles north of Germantown, OH 45327 in the Far East, three years in Tampa)… Phone: (937) 285-0014 [email protected] Europe, and five years South and Helmut Haeuser [email protected] Central America, I knew it was 3rd Quarter 2008 printed and distributed by Think Patented, enough. So I left NCR in 1984 and Dayton, OH we headed for California where we started our own company which we Copyright© 2008 by NCR operated until 1998. After 15 years REA, Inc. No reproduction without written permission of of owning and operating the com- NCR REA, Inc. pany, we were able to generate in Printed in the USA the last year [$]164 Million in an- nual sales. Now it was time sell and Helmut retired from International happily we were able to do that very Technical Services after 28 years with NCR. He has been a member successfully. of NCR REA since 2005. NCR Retiree News Page 3
D ID YOU KNOW... S TORY SUBMITTED BY KEN CARR, REA SECRETARY. Y OU CAN CONTACT KEN AT KENC032@AOL. COM
...that one of NCR’s executives owned one of the was involved in many endeavors including chief most luxurious yachts of its day. More on the of airplane procurement for the Army during story of the yacht later. WWI, starting an airplane engine company with Orville Wright, redesigning Delco to manufacture This gentleman, who was with NCR three differ- airplanes during WWI, and selling Delco to the ent times, graduated college in 1897 and began his United Motor Company which was later sold to career with the Thresher Company in Dayton, OH, General Motors. Mr. Deeds was asked by New at $12 per month. It just so happened that the York bankers, who held much of the company Thresher Company shared the Callahan Building [NCR] debt, to take over leadership of NCR to at that time with a rapidly growing company by restore shareholders confidence as the country the name of NCR. emerged from the Great Depression. In 1931, he accepted the challenge and for the third time In 1899, Frank Patterson, John’s brother, who had joined NCR, this time as president and the execu- followed this man’s achievements, hired him away tive with a yacht. from Thresher with an offer of $30 a month. His job was to complete the electrification of the NCR Mr. Deeds commissioned the building of the Factory. He left NCR a couple of years later when yacht at the height of the depression in 1929 at a he accepted the challenge to build a manufacturing cost of one million dollars. It was christened the factory for a cereal company. Lotosland after a Greek mythological creature. The ship was 200 feet long, twice as long as the That job complete, in 1903, John Patterson rehired presidential yacht of the day and required a crew him as the assistant manger for development. of 30 for full operation. Each stateroom had its During this stay with the company, he had the own bathtub and shower and was air conditioned, foresight to hire an Ohio State graduate who later yes, air conditioning in 1929. All the wood was would prove to be a rather inventive person, teak and black walnut and the fireplaces were mar- Charles F. Kettering. Within three years, using ble. The music room contained a Steinway piano this man’s formative work on the project, Kette- and a full organ. It was the first private yacht to be ring had developed a working model of the first outfitted with a seaplane. As president of the electric powered cash register. Over the next few struggling NCR, Mr. Deeds had little time to enjoy years they perfected the electrification of the cash the ship and with the outbreak of WWII, the register as well as working on another electric Lotosland was purchased by the U. S. Navy in gadget in their spare time. Kettering left NCR in 1940 for $140,000. It was converted into a patrol 1908 to spend full time working on this new non- boat complete with guns and depth charge racks NCR product at a building referred to as Deeds and commissioned the USS Siren. It remained Barn. with the Navy until it was taken out of service in 1945. The NCR Archive has model of the Yes, our executive is Edward A. Deeds. Mr. Lotosland in its collection Deeds left NCR for a second time in 1915 to de- vote full time to the new company he and Mr. Ket- Mr. Deed remained president until 1940 and was tering had formed to manufacture and market their honorary chairman until his retirement in 1957. He new product, the electric starter for automobiles. passed away in 1960 at his beloved home, Mo- With an order from the Cadillac Company, the raine Farm, which at the time was owned by NCR Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company just as it is today. (Delco) was born. During the ensuing years, he NCR Retiree News Page 4
I N MEMORIAM This column depends on your contribution of information about the deaths of your former co-workers and friends who were NCR employees. Please send a copy of the obituary or information to us. We extend our sincere sympathy to the families of these former NCR employees.
Allman, Charles, 79, Kettering, OH Kopens, Helen, 90, Centerville, OH Beavington, Jay, 55, West Carrollton, OH Lowman, Richard L., Downey, CA Brewer, Lois, 90, Beavercreek, OH Myers, John Henry, 59, West Carrollton, OH Chenowiteth, William, 80, Kettering, OH Pemberton, Gordon, 81, Kettering, OH Fiore, Sal R, Wilton Manors, FL Riffell, 82, Phillipsburg, OH Hager, Jack, 84, Mansfield, OH Ronneau, Reese A. (Bud), 67, Omaha, NE Hampton, Ernest, 85, Miamisburg, OH Seeley, Robert, 79, Arlington, TX Hannah, Dick, 87, Dayton, OH Talvakar, Shashi, 72, Kettering, OH Holtvoight, Robert, 80, Dayton, OH Wilson, Harold, 87, Dayton, OH Jennings, Charlie, Dayton, OH Windmiller, Robert, 77, Trotwood, Jones, Joseph, 75, Centerville, OH
WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS
Beason, Carl, Kershaw, SC Lyons, Dale, Suwanee, GA Behn, Gerald, Rio Rico, AZ Mathews, Gary C., Goodyear, AZ Brenner, Nora, Bellbrook, OH McGratty, Charles (Charlie), Centerville, OH Brown, Dr. Sharon E., Long Beach, CA Mensching, Shirley, Marietta, GA Cononi, Victor L. (Vic), Raleigh, NC Miller, Jim, Roswell, GA Dhurandhar, Vinod, Miamisburg, OH Murray, Theodore (Ted), Eldersburg, MD Finfrock, Don C., Gainesville, GA Nann, James R. (Dick), Kings Mountain, NC Goubeaux, Donald J., Dayton, OH Noble, Willetta, West Carrollton, OH Herndon, Marilyn, Lawrenceville, GA Pilcher Jr., John E. (Ted), Prescott, AZ Jacobs, Steve, Hilliard, OH Ritchard, Larry, Kettering, OH Jaynes, Gary, Cardiff by the Sea, CA Robinson, Rodney (Rod), Reynoldsburg, OH Lightner, Richard, Miamisburg, OH Scott, Ed, Anthem, AZ Smith, Paul K., Reno, NV Sporleder, Darrell L., Stewardson, IL Sylvester, Dean, Deerwood, MN WELCOME BACK Ulrich, Loren, Suwanee, GA Wagner, Gary, Dayton, OH Wagner, Mary, Dayton, OH Hicks, Louie, Jacksonville, FL Welsh, Sally, Centerville, OH Stuart, Chuck & Linda, Centerville, OH Winters, Stan, Simi Valley, CA NCR Retiree News Page 5
2008 REA MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY UPDATE
Several errors were published in George E. Donovan (Gene) Ray Miolla the last hard copy of the NCR [email protected] [email protected] REA Membership Directory. Robert Estes Calvin Miller We thank all of you for letting cntrysquire@earthlink.net 7208 John Pickett Road us know about them. We apolo- Woodbine, MD 21797 gize for any inconvenience. Chester L. Geiger, Jr. [email protected] Also, many of you sent in cor- 6 Waters Edge rected email addresses. The fol- Mt. Vernon, OH 43050 Carl Noecker lowing is a list of ADDITIONS, 740-393-6610 [email protected] [email protected] DELETIONS, AND CORREC- Robert F. O’Connor (Bob) TIONS TO THE APRIL 2008 Remove Chester L. Geiger, III [email protected] MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY No longer a member (hard copy) The online direc- Paul Odegard Walter W. Gleason (Bill) tory reflects all of these [email protected] [email protected] changes.. Remove Lucian Ghazal Frederick J. Palm Mike Ahern Deceased [email protected] 474 Pleasant St. Kathryn Gleason Dean Parker Marlboro, MA 01752 [email protected] [email protected] Cell #774-249-5549 [email protected] Frederick Greene C. Thomas Partridge [email protected] [email protected] Barbara Bachey Telephone 937-291-3091 Archie M. Hoatson James W. Petrie 46 Morris Drive [email protected] Richard Bandow (Dick) West Orange, NJ 07052 [email protected] Winifred (Kuhn) Powell 973-731-4566’ 157 Rosewood Lane Ken Besecker Marion C. Hoffman Lexington, KY 29072 [email protected] 6445 Far Hills Avenue John D. Price Centerville, Ohio 45459 Tom Bochette 2130 Etzler Rd. [email protected] 937 291-7439 Troutville, VA 24175 Robert J. Crandell Remove Jim Hunt 540-992-3410 6901 Chakarun Ln SE Deceased [email protected] Salem, OR 97306 Shirley Mensching Arnold S. P. Remaly 503-363-6066 [email protected] [email protected] 3450 Chastain Glen Ln. N.E. Marietta, GA 30066 Paul W. Croeber 770-926-1339 Robert Craig Ritter (Tex) Telephone 508-966-0681 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Remove Robert G. Meyer Everett E. Schmidt Thomas Doddridge Deceased
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MEMORIES OF THE TENTH ANNUAL MEETING IN 2007
Check in Desk Packed house
Last year’s NCR speaker
Peter Dorsman The show goes on.
Let’s eat. Putting Contest Winners NCR Retiree News Page 7
E LEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING R EGISTRATION FORM
Thursday, September 11, 2008 Check in opens at 9:00 a. m. Meeting begins promptly at 10:00 a. m NCR Country Club 4435 Dogwood Trail, Kettering, OH 45429 PLEASE REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 1, 2008
Name (member): ______
Spouse/guest: ______
Address: ______
City: ______State/Prov: ______.
Country: ______ZIP/Post code: ______
Phone: ______
Email: ______
# of years with NCR: ______
Please indicate below how many people will attend each activity.
ACTIVITY TIME # attending
□ Reception / continental breakfast 9:00 a.m. _____ □ Business meeting 10:00 a.m. _____
□ Buffet luncheon ($10.00 each) 12:00 p.m. _____
□ NCR REA putting contest 1:30 p.m. _____ □ NCR Solutions Center tour 1:30 p.m. _____
□ Dayton History (NCR Archive) tour 1:30 p.m. _____ Amount due (enclosed) $______
PLEASE PRINT THIS PAGE, FILL IT OUT, AND MAIL IT (with check for amount due, payable) TO: NCR REA P. O. Box 218 Germantown, OH 45327
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FROM OUR MEMBERS
The NCR Retirees & Spouses of Charlotte, NC, held their 15th Annual NCR Luncheon with 61 attending. Those attending included Dwight Gris- wold from Bellbrook, Ohio, also John & Dianna Wallace from Pinellas Park, Florida, and Dot Douglas from Lakeland, Florida. All others were from Georgia, South Carolina, and North Caro- lina.
The meal was enjoyed by everyone with plenty of good food, door prizes, group and individual pic- tures, and lots of fun and fellowship. Many re- marked it was the best and let's do the same next year.
Stan Winters joined REA this quarter What is he doing in California since he retired? Completing honey do list and:winning bowling tournaments 2005 California State Senior Singles Champion - 839 (3 games) California State Senior All Events Champion - 2359 (9 games) 2006 2 Titles - Super Senior Tour of California 2007 2 Titles - West Coast Senior Tour
His most meaningful title came in 2006.. C ALENDAR OF ONGOING EVENTS State City Name Venue Date/Time Contact
Tucson Village Inn 1st Monday each Dick Vail AZ month San Diego The NCR Re- Remington Club 2nd Wednesday Gordon Belgum tirees Club Rancho Bernardo of month except 858-672-0458 CA Mar, May, Jul, Aug at 1:00p.m. [email protected]
Colorado Perkins Restaurant 1st Friday of Fred Miller Springs / 5190 N. Academy month at 8:30 719-578-5182 CO Pueblo a.m.
Orange Chip’s Restaurant 2nd Tues each Jim Lash CT 321 Boston Post Road month 8:30 a.m. [email protected]
Ft. Myers Bob Evans 2nd Thursday Tom Schoenheider 9500 Marketplace Road each month at 239-498-0468 FL 11:30 a.m. [email protected] Atlanta The NCR Golden Corral 2nd Wednesday Roy Greenway [email protected] GA Lunch Bunch Hwy 138 of even months Cal McBroom [email protected] at 11:30 a.m. Conyers John Hughes [email protected] Chicago NCR Pizza Riggio’s Restaurant 1st Thursday Alan J. Helstern IL Night Group 7530 W. Oakton each month [email protected] at 6:30 p.m. Chicago Aurora Break- No regular sched- Mike Ederati IL fast Group ule [email protected]
Chicago X-NCR sales- Stimac’s Restaurant 3rd Tuesday John Roche 773-445-0336 IL men 4843 Butterfield Rd. each month at Gene Gallagher 630-986-9006 noon
Evansville Cracker Barrel 1st Tuesday each Jim Bryan [email protected] IN 8215 Eagle Lake Drive month 7 a.m.
Indianapolis MCL Cafeteria 2nd Tuesday Harry Kuhn 317-862-4408 IN 3630 S. East St. each month at [email protected] 6:00 p.m.
Wichita Wichita TFY Quarterly Linda Ferguson KS Club meetings 3718 N. Rock Rd. Wichita, KS 67226
Lexington / McDonald’s at Palomar Each Wednesday Bill Malicote 859-299-5125 KY London at 9:00 a.m.
Baltimore VFW 6506 Wed. every Nelson Bengel 410-557-7302 MD 8777 Philadelphia Rd. month except [email protected] Dec. at 5 p.m. Rosedale Marion Sippacan Café Breakfast every Pete Suller 508-295-1016 MA Marion Thursday [email protected]
Metheun McDonald’s Breakfast every Richard Bates 603-394-7760 MA Pelham St. Tuesday at 8 [email protected] State City Name Venue Date/Time Contact
Grand Rapids NCR440 Bob Evans 1st Tuesday each Brad DeVries 616-901-7048 MI Walker & I96 month at 8 a.m. [email protected]
McComb McDonald’s Every Tuesday Lee Brown 810-791-2061 MI Township 45700 N. Gratiot morning 20812 Lantz Street MI Saginaw Sullivan’s Restaurant 2nd Tuesday each R. J. (Mickey) McDonald Omaha HY-VEE Grocery 1st Thursday each Henry Lokke 3815 N. 100th St. NE 108th and Fort St. month at 7:30am Omaha, NE 68134 (402)571-6467
Central Ye Cottage Inn 3rd Thursday each Bernie Ondrey NJ 149 W. Front St. month except [email protected] Keyport June, July, August
Saddle Brook Northeastern Re- Marriott Hotel Every 2-3months Anthony J. Pilato NJ tail & Accounting Saddle Brook 516-561-1144 Machine Sales- [email protected]
Albuquerque Furrs Cafeteria 1st Monday of Marc LaChey 505-275-2331 NM Wyoming Mall each month at [email protected] 12:30 p.m.
Charlotte Tryon Restaurant 3rd Tuesday each Walt Miller 704-844-6488 or NC 215 E. Exmore St. month at 7:30am [email protected] or & Pineville Rd. Ralph Weddington 704-366-7226
Dayton Former R&D NCR Country Club 4th Wednesday Carl Wick 937-433-1352 OH employees Reservations suggested each month [email protected]
Dayton E&M Dayton Marion’s Pizza 2nd Saturday of Ray Roppel 513-777-4399 OH Patterson and Shroyer March and Octo- [email protected] Rd. ber Harrisburg Geo’s Country Oven Last Tuesday each Dick Eberly PA 300 Mountain Road month at 9:00am [email protected]
Warwick Bickford Restaurant Every Tuesday at Don Culton 401-942-5594 RI Jefferson Blvd. 8:30 a.m. [email protected]
Columbia ROMEO (Retired Brunches 2nd Wednesday Frank Thrower 803-356-5067 SC Old Men Eating 1208 Knox Abbot Dr each month at [email protected] Out) Cayce 9:00 a.m.
Greenville Flat Rock Grille Wood- Saturday noon Ted Webb 864-234-7869 SC ruff Road every 2-3 months [email protected]
Tacoma Ma’s Place Every Tuesday at Vern Schrotenboer 253-848-6872 WA Near South Hill Mall 9:00 a.m. [email protected]
Puyallup Bowling Every Thursday at Vern Schrotenboer 253-848-6872 9:00 a.m. [email protected] Milwaukee Mayfair Mall 2nd Tuesday each Don Eggert 414-453-8424 WI Food Court month at 9:00 [email protected] a.m. Canada Vancouver, BC XNCRs Group Lunch 1st Tues- Dick Phillips 604-526-8721 NCR Retiree News Page 11
NCR REA NEEDS DIRECTORY
YOU CORRECTIONS CONT. FROM PAGE 5 Are you looking for an opportunity? We will have several positions come open October 1, this year for 106 Grandview Dr. NCR REA. Inc. Board of Trustees. Minimum re- [email protected] quirements call for involvement of a once a month Monday morning meeting to keep NCR REA on John Schroeder track to achieve it vision, mission, and objectives. [email protected]
If interested, call V. Henkener at (937) 293-6696 or Glenn Shean e-mail [email protected] [email protected]
Albert J. Szvetics 14 Bramble Court Hamburg, NJ 07419 973-827-4029 [email protected] F.Y.I. Frank B. Thrower [email protected] R. Dale Torrence (Dale) 444 Clubhouse Dr. Unit 5B ARE YOU SWITCHING TO THE Gulf Shores, AL 36542 INTERNET WORLD? 937-558-1466 and/or 251-923-7390
[email protected] If you would like for us to stop sending you a hardcopy of NCR Retiree News since you can Ted Trzaska now view and/or print it from the web, please let [email protected] us know. Dominic Urbano (Don) [email protected] MOVING? Don’t forget to tell us your new address so we can John Valney ensure you continue to receive your newsletter. [email protected]
Email to [email protected] or write to: NCR James E. Vogel (Jim) REA, P. O. Box 218, Germantown, OH 45327. [email protected]
James T. Wade [email protected] NCR Retiree News Page 12
THE TALE END
Specifications: Displacement 720 t; Length 196' 5"; Beam 28' 2"; Draft 11'; Speed 12 kts.; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two .30 cal. machine guns, two dct; Propulsion two 1,000shp Winton 158 diesel engines, two shafts.
Patrol Yacht: Laid down in 1929 as the steel hulled yacht Lotosland by the Pusey and Jones Co., Wilming- ton, Del; Purchased by the Navy 16 October 1940 from Col. Edward A. Deeds for $140,000. Lotosland was the first private vessel to be outfitted with a seaplane, in this case a 5-passenger Sikorsky. Converted to a Coastal Minelayer, CMc-1, 31 October 1940 by the General Ship and Engine Works, East Boston, MA; Renamed Siren 12 November 1940; Reclassified as a Patrol Yacht, PY-13, 15 November 1940 and com- missioned USS Siren (PY 13); Decommissioned 2 May 1944 at the New York Navy Yard; Placed in ser- vice at the Naval Training School (Salvage); Placed out of service, 23 October 1945 at Thompkinsville, NY; Struck from the Navy Register 3 November 1945 and transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal; Sold, 13 May 1946. Fate unknown.
Lotosland—1931 USS Siren (PY 13) -1943
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