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Newest Ncr Rea Trustee Newsletter Volume 11, Issue 2 NCR RETIREE NEWS Official publication of NCR REA, Inc. www.ncr-rea. 2nd Quarter 2007 WHAT’S INSIDE NCR ANNOUNCEMENT NCR Announcement 1 On Thursday, May 10, 2007, NCR announced that its Teradata Division will From the Editor 2 maintain its headquarters in the Dayton area. NCR also reported that Teradata Did You Know 3 has filed an initial registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Ex- change Commission. The filing comes as a part of the spinoff of Teradata to W.S. Anderson 4 NCR Stockholders. Speech Building 26 7 Pending review by the Internal Revenue Service and approval of the SEC and NCR Board of Directors, the spinoff is expected to occur in the third quarter Welcome to New 8 of this year. Members REA Trustee 8 Teradata will emerge with the name Teradata Corporation, NCR officials said, Recruiting and will own the assets and liabilities associated with the Teradata Division. In Memoriam 9 Teradata Corp. will apply to have its common stock listed on the New York John H. Patterson 10 Stock Exchange under the symbol TDC. Visits Dayton With its headquarters in Dayton, Teradata Corp. will continue to manage the From our Members 12 business through Dayton and its hubs in Atlanta, GA, and Rancho Bernardo, CA. Calendar of Events 13 “The majority of our corporate functions such as finance, human resources, F.Y.I. and 15 marketing, and operations are in the Dayton area, so it makes good sense to Important Contacts for our headquarters to locate here,” stated Bruce Langos, senior vice presi- The Tale End 16 dent of NCR Global Operations. “This is good news for the community and we’re excited about opportunities for both the new NCR and Teradata.” Mike Koehler will lead Teradata Corporation as chief executive officer. As of the record date of the distribution, NCR stockholders will receive one share of Teradata Corporation common stock for each of NCR common stock they own. “I am pleased with our progress and believe we are on track to complete the strategic separation in the third quarter of 2007,providing new opportunities for the shareholders, customers, partners, and employees of each company,” said Bill Nuti, NCR president and CEO. NCR Retiree News Page 2 Board of Trustees TO THE EDITOR John Schikner, president Dennis Neufarth, vice president Lou Bordonaro, treasurer This issue includes articles about We sure hope you find this issue to be John O’Gorman, secretary Buildings 18, 26, and 31. We con- interesting. There are lots of stories Peg Butts clude the William S. Anderson Ro- because there are lots of changes go- Ken Carr tary speech that was started in the ing on around NCR and its Dayton Vern Henkener last issue. complex. Gordon Meister Bill West Ken Carr has written another great Please keep those cards and letters article—this time it’s about Sugar coming. NCR REA Camp. NCR REA is incorporated as a non-profit There is an update about the Teradata organization under Ohio spinoff. Dennis Neufarth law. Association [email protected] management is on a And, we have some input from some volunteer basis. of our members around the country. Mission Statement To keep our members TO THE EDITOR informed on issues related to NCR Corporation and other matters of interest. At CPC this year, Jim and I attended a dinner along side the USS Missouri in Honolulu, HI, in January, 2007. During this event, Bill Nuti, acknowledged the significant contributions of three NCR World War II veterans. Bill Anderson, ___________________ who was captured by the Japanese in Hong Kong and held prisoner by them in NCR Retiree News is Hong Kong and Japan; Clark Reynolds, who was in the Battle of the Bulge and published four times per year, in February, May, August, and was one of only 20 from his division of 200 to return; and Dick Moss, who was November by: in the invasion of Iwo Jima. NCR REA, Inc. P. O. Box 218 Germantown, OH 45327 This is a well deserved honor for three men who gave so much to NCR and to Phone: (937) 285-0014 [email protected] their country. [email protected] 2nd Quarter 2007 printed Sincerely, and distributed by Think Patented, Dayton, OH Peg Butts Copyright© 2007 by NCR REA, Inc. No reproduction without written permission of NCR REA, Inc. Printed in the USA NCR Retiree News Page 3 DID YOU KNOW... S TORY SUBMITTED BY KEN CARR, REA TRUSTEE. Y OU CAN CONTACT KEN AT KENC032@AOL. COM John H. Patterson is considered the father of sales (One of the cabins is on display at Carillon Park in education. The common thinking at the time was Dayton, OH). Administration buildings, an assem- that men were born with or without the ability to bly hall, and ten more cabins were added in 1936 to sell. Mr. Patterson believed, and later proved, that complete the facility as it stood through the 1960’s. salesmen are made through education. Much to During World War II, Sugar Camp was given over the displeasure of the minor stockholder’s who to the U.S. Navy for the housing of Waves who were concerned by the cost to transport, to feed, to were stationed in Dayton to build components and house, and to train prospective salesmen, Mr. Pat- to assemble the secret code breaking machine (The terson opened the first sales school in 1894. Bombe) in Building 26. Normal use of the facility Classes were held on the Patterson homestead in a resumed after the war ended. little house that became known as “the Cottage With the removal of the 60 cabins and the majority under the Elm.” of the other structures built in 1934, construction In 1903, while on a horseback ride over his prop- began on yet another new Sugar Camp. Four field erty, Mr. Patterson stopped on a breeze swept hill stone building were erected. One building con- which overlooked to the North both the NCR fac- tained offices, a second housed 35 special audio vis- tory and the city of Dayton. Within 48 hours, the ual equipped classrooms, the remaining two con- sales training school was moved into tents under tained a demonstration room, an audio-visual cen- the maple and elm trees on that 36 acre hill. Every ter, a library, a 450 seat auditorium, and a 450 seat spring the tents were hauled to the site from winter dining room with a large reception area. The new storage at the factory and a sales school was 165,000 feet square facility opened in 1970 as one erected. Every autumn the process was reversed. of the most modern, state-of-the-art educational fa- cilities in corporate America. Over the years, Sugar Camp became the symbol of NCR’s corporate education and remained in use un- til the late 1990s. At this time it was phased out of every day use by the company. The facility was offered for sale and, in 2006, was purchased by a real estate development company who, working The school was known as the “the University un- with the City of Oakwood, OH, will develop the der the Canvas”, however, because the land had property. [See newspaper article on page 12, The once contained a sugar maple camp, the school Tale End.] Using existing buildings and new con- site officially became known as Sugar Camp. struction, preliminary plans are for single and multi In 1933, construction began on a permanent facil- family dwellings, some retail, a medical facility, ity. When construction was complete in the Spring and office space. of 1934, there stood 50 cabins, a caretakers cot- Soon, for the first time ever, the top of that breeze tage, a dining hall, and an octagonal recreation swept hill will be used for something other than cor- building. There were also two school room build- porate education and Sugar Camp, as we know it, ings, each with three air conditioned classrooms.. will only exist in the minds of the thousands of Yes, air conditioning in 1934. Each cabin housed NCR men and women who had the pleasure of at- four men. There was a two man bedroom on each tending a school or class at Sugar Camp. side of the cabin with the closets, bathroom, and shower in the center running from front to back. NCR Retiree News Page 4 S PEECH TO DAYTON ROTARY CLUB DELIVERED BY W ILLIAM S. ANDERSON ON OCTOBER 1,2006. ( CONTINUED FROM VOLUME 11 ISSUE 1) ...In 1947, I was asked by the British War Crimes one among the 30 officers of the parent company . Commission to be a witness at the Minor War that could do the job of saving the company and I Crimes Trials in Japan. The Commandant and 17 was asked. As happy as I was in Japan, which was of our guards were to be tried for their brutality at at that time the most profitable of all NCR's opera- our camp. The trial lasted several weeks and they tions worldwide, I loved and owed the company and were eventually sentenced to various terms rang- accepted. ing from 30 years to 3. It is interesting to note that So in June, 1972, I started the transformation of all the defense lawyers were sent from the U.S. to NCR to be a full electronic data processing (EDP) do the job. They were very aggressive and tried company. Many of you will remember those diffi- hard to convince the judges that the evidence pre- cult days and the problems I had.
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