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Newsletter Volume 18, Issue 1 N C R R E A N EWS Official publication of NCR REA, Inc. www.ncr-rea.org 1st Quarter 2014 WHAT’S INSIDE FROM PRESIDENT CHUCK From Chuck, Our 1 President . rom all of us here at the NCR REA—your trustees, administrator, editor, and webmaster— From Your a hearty welcome to you, our valued members, Editor . 2 to the first newsletter for 2014. We hope you F and yours are off to a safe, healthy, and great Did You Know? . 3 start that continues throughout the year. New Members . 4 As reported in our 2013 Q4 newsletter, the Trustee and Support Team remains not only in place and in our 18th year, but also remains highly In Memoriam . 4 motivated to provide quality and value in our programs. NCR in the News . 5 In 2013, our new website continued to gain momentum. Not only did it attract more users because of all the great information we now have online, it also NCR Distributor, 8 helped us gain new members through our easy-to-complete application. In Blanche Birger . addition, the newsletter you are reading now is a great source of information about your fellow members, as well as a word-of-mouth aid for you to help us From Our Members . 9 say, ”Join us and keep in touch!” Events Calendar . 13 You may recall our 2013 initiative to bring NCR International Distributors into REA membership. Previous newsletters contained articles about the FYI & Contacts . 15 Mittwochs from Israel and Philip Toledo Ltd. in Malta. This issue contains a write-up of Blanche Birger, the longtime NCR Distributor in Mauritius. The Tale End . 16 Planning for the 2014 Reunion/Annual Meeting is coming along very well. Vice President Mike Freeman and his team have a number of exciting and fun events already scheduled for September 11 and 12, 2014. We look forward to welcoming you on September 11 and 12, 2014 for the event! Chuck Stuart President NCR REA News P a g e 2 Board of Trustees N OTES F ROM Y OUR E DITOR . Chuck Stuart, President Mike Freeman, Vice President appy New Year everyone and welcome to Ken Carr, Secretary our Q1 issue of the NCR REA newsletter for Greg Jump, Treasurer 2014! Don Barmore H I trust you’re enjoying 2014 so far and hope Barb Miller the year brings you all the happiness and prosperity you Lew Cluxton desire. Charlie McGratty Dan Taylor We at the NCR REA are particularly excited about this George Ellis year as we look forward to serving you and seeing you at this year’s annual meeting, which is scheduled for September 11-12, 2014. This year, the planning Jack Wheeler committee is making arrangements to hold the event at the Hope Hotel & Administrator Conference Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Although complete Sue Schweitzer arrangements will be provided in the Q3 and Q4 newsletters, please mark your Newsletter Editor calendars now if you plan to attend the event. Steve Wicinski Can’t wait to see you all again! Webmaster Lesley AJ Baumann Cheers! NCR REA N OTEWORTHY T IDBITS ... Our mission is to keep members informed on issues related to NCR Corporation NCR REA Now Linked on NCR Website and other matters of Great News! The NCR website now contains a link to the NCR REA interest. The REA was started website. So after you access NCR.com, just click on About NCR, scroll in 1996, and helps perpetuate the legacy of NCR down the page, and there’s our link! The REA Board would like to thank Corporation and its people. our trustee, Barb Miller, for her diligent efforts in working with NCR to get Membership in NCR REA is a this done. We’d also like to thank NCR’s Communications department for great way to stay connected their cooperation in making this happen! This added visibility to our to NCR and its people. organization is just awesome! ___________________ NCR Retiree News is published Calendar of Events Revisions four times per year by: NCR REA, Inc. From time to time, our Events Calendar (pages 13-14) requires changes for P. O. Box 218 which we’re not always aware. So if you see something that needs updating, Germantown, OH 45327 please let us know. Phone: (937) 285-0014 [email protected] 1st Quarter 2014 printed and N C R Q UOTE OF THE Q UARTER ... distributed by Think Patented, Dayton, OH Copyright© 2014 by NCR REA, Inc. No reproduction permitted without written permission of the “Only fools and dead men don’t change their NCR REA, Inc. minds. Fools won’t. Dead men can’t.” Printed in the USA “ John H. Patterson NCR REA News P a g e 3 D ID YOU KNOW ? S UBMITTED BY K EN C ARR received this story from an NCR REA member. The author is anonymous, but I think we can all identify with him. This is good laugh for people over 60 and those who will soon be there. When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the business I ran for over 30 years with I 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, takes pictures, and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. Under duress, I signed up for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, my 13 grand kids, and two great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with its 140 characters limit. My phone was beeping every three minutes, with details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. Once, I had the phone with me while standing in the checkout line at Barnes and Noble. I was talking to my wife and everyone within 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use the darn thing, so I guess I got a little loud. I am not ready to live like this. Now, I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag. The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday, because they think I got lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dashboard, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-u-lating." You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh then tell me to make a right turn at the next light. Then if I made a left turn by mistake, well, it was not a good relationship. You can’t believe how she acted if I made a U turn. Now I keep the GPS in a box under my tool bench with the Bluetooth (it’s really red) cell phone. Now when I get lost, I call my wife, tell her the name of the cross streets, and she leads me home. Come to think about it, she is starting to develop that same tone as the Gypsy GPS lady. Oh well—at least she loves me. To be perfectly frank, we have had our cordless phones for four years and I am still trying to figure out how to use all those extra buttons. I also still haven't figured out how I manage to lose all three phones at once. The phone rings and there I am running around the house digging under chair cushions, checking bathrooms, and looking in dirty laundry baskets. Thank goodness we have an answering machine. The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves, but this sudden "Paper or Plastic" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them with me. So now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or plastic" I just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look. We senior citizens just don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door remote are about all we want to handle. Well actually, there are buttons on the TV remote that I don't understand. I'm afraid to push some of those buttons. Recently, I was asked if I tweet. I answered, “No, but I do toot a lot." NCR REA News P a g e 4 NEW MEMBERS Alvares, August, Dayton, OH Lundy, Dave, Beavercreek, OH Chromey, Teresa, Beavercreek, OH Melzer, Patricia, Escondido, CA Fedewa, Lori-Beth, Centerville, OH Metzger-Bowman, Dorothy, Dayton, OH Frantz, II, Victor, Dayton, OH Smith, Timothy, Castle Rock, CO Lafferty, Terry, Dayton, OH I N M EMORIAM ( NCR REA MEMBERS ) With sincere sympathy to the families of these former NCR employees. Bassett, Philip, 75, Mt. Holly, NC, 9/17/13 Dallas, Dewain, 90, Dallas, TX, 12/23/13 Murray, Ted, 66, Eldersburg, MD, 10/8/13 Mustaine, W. Max, 91, Ft. Myers, FL, 9/11/13 Seely, Charles R., 87, Lake Wales, FL, 8/23/13 Trine, Charles V., 90, Old Saybrook, CT, 8/13/13 Trippett, Bernard, 89, Potomac, MD, 12/29/13 Willmann, Jerald, 77, San Antonio, TX, 9/14/13 NCR REA News P a g e 5 I N THE NEWS .