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Texas Instruments Co-Founder Eugene McDermott Ranger College Truck Driving The world is changing fast. McDermott pulled together a cutting edge of developing Some see that as a reason team of partners, including science and technology. for fear, while others see J. Eric Jonsson, the future The school steadily grew, Program Gearing up for New Class Want to make an excellent an opportunity. The most mayor of Dallas, Cecil Green, and the three helped fund a annual salary without successful men and women an English-born geophysicist, new building for the facility in having to attend classes for are those who seize what life and engineer Patrick Haggerty Richardson in 1964. In 1969, years? Want to travel and has to offer and charge ahead to re-form the company as Texas reorganized the center see other places? If you into the future. Those most Texas Instruments. into a full university as the answered yes to the above worthy of admiration are As they created electronic University of Texas at Dallas. questions, Ranger College those who not only become products, the company began McDermott remained an has the program to make successful themselves but also developing ways for these active part of the company as your dreams come true. And open a door for the success products to run faster and new a member of the TI Board of those dreams could begin of others. One of those ways to process information. In Directors until his passing in within a few weeks. Texas builders of the future 1954, TI engineers developed 1973. Though he left behind a The Ranger College was Eugene McDermott, the silicon transistor, a new successful, thriving company commercial truck driving co-founder of both Texas type of semiconductor. This with Texas Instruments, he left program is gearing up for the Instruments and the University was followed by Jack Kilby’s a legacy for education. start of its next Commercial of Texas at Dallas. invention of the integrated The Eugene McDermott Driver’s License (CDL) class Eugene McDermott was circuit for the company in Foundation, established at its Brownwood campus. born in Brooklyn, New York, 1958, a breakthrough that in 1955, gives grants for The 4-week course, which in February 1899, a time heralded the beginning of educational and cultural RANGER COLLEGE COMMERCIAL TRUCK DRIVING is taught in partnership when cars and airplanes were the computer age. Texas purposes. With more than PROGRAM UNDERWAY AT BROWNWOOD CAMPUS with Action Career Training still only dreams and electric Instruments became a $70 million in assets, it has (ACT), provides the training many cases, drivers exceed Classes range in size lights and telephones were runaway success and pushed become one of the largest necessary to obtain a CDL the $50,000 to $60,000 from three to four drivers still distant luxuries for others. for steady improvements in foundations in Texas. One license and employment in threshold for young drivers to maximize the contact He had a sharp sense of computer technology through of the UTD libraries is named a demand occupation. within the first year. between students and the curiosity, and as a young man, the 1960s. While the company for him. In 2000, his wife, “This is an exciting time to Gallagher said many of the instructor. enrolled at Stevens Institute rewarded innovation, it also Margaret, gave $32 million to be a part of the transportation drivers who graduate from “This is a great field for of Technology in New Jersey. strove for efficiency, weeding UTD to establish the Eugene industry,” said instructor the CDL program at Ranger young men and women to He graduated with a degree out waste. It also moved McDermott Scholars Program, Johnny Gallagher. “There College land jobs almost get into,” said Gallagher. in mechanical engineering in into consumer products, which brings together students is currently a shortage of before they finish the course “Especially for those that 1919 while still only 20 years producing the first hand-held majoring in engineering, about 480,000 drivers in the through a pre-hire process. might not want to spend old. electronic calculator by 1967. physics, medicine, and U.S. The opportunity for a “The carriers will recruit years in a classroom at this In 1923, he started working Education became a special the humanities to train not good-paying career is there drivers right out of the class,” point in their lives, but still at Western Electric, an passion for McDermott. Green only future minds but help for those who want it.” he said. want to learn a skill that will electrical engineering and and Jonsson also recognized transform them into future Gallagher said drivers Gallagher said the next give them a great career.” manufacturing firm that the critical problem that leaders. Margaret McDermott completing the month-long truck driving class will get For more information mostly developed telephone the lack of locally-available has continued generous course would have the skills started around Oct. 19th. about the Ranger College wires and components for engineers posed for the philanthropy to the university needed to be employed by As part of the course, CDL program contact American Telephone and long-term viability of the with a new multi-million dollar large trucking companies, or each student driver will Brown County Campus Vice Telegraph Co. At the same company. To create the gift in 2010 to improve and to operate as an independent receive 200 contact hours President Gordon Warren at time, McDermott began products and breakthroughs modernize the look of the driver making the same of classroom and hands- (325) 641-5726, or contact furthering his own education of the future, they needed university and a donation of amount of money as on truck driver training, Action Career Training, and earned a masters degree trained professionals. As a $10 million in January 2017 those who spent four including street driving and Johnny Gallagher, at (325) in physics from New York result, the three founded the to the honors school at the years in college to receive backing maneuvers. 260-3090. City’s Columbia University in Graduate Research Center university. a bachelor’s degree. In 1925. of the Southwest on the Texas Instruments today After graduate school, campus of Southern Methodist is a multi-billion dollar he soon began working University in Dallas in 1961. corporation, and UTD boasts with Western Electric co- Not only would this help more than 26,000 students. worker Clarence Karcher, ensure a steady supply of ### The Recipe Corner who had started a new future engineers and scientists Dr. Ken Bridges is a Texas company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Texas Instruments, but it native, writer, and history Geophysical Research allowed countless students to professor. He can be reached Winning Apple Crisp Corporation. Karcher was have the skills to be on the at [email protected]. Prep Time: 20 Minutes Bake Time: 1 Hour using seismographs not just to detect earthquakes but as Ingredients: a promising new tool in oil * 1 cup all-purpose flour exploration. Along the way, McDermott used his skills to * 3/4 cup rolled oats fine-tune their techniques. * 1 cup packed brown sugar In 1930, McDermott * 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon partnered with Karcher and E. L. * 1/2 cup butter, softened DeGolyer to form Geophysical Services Inc., continuing their * 4 cups chopped peeled apples seismographic oil exploration * 1 cup sugar efforts. McDermott picked * 2 tablespoons cornstarch up five patents for his * 1 cup water devices. With World War II, * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract the company began making equipment for the military, * Vanilla ice cream, optional making radars and equipment Directions to detect submarines. In 1946, 1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine the first 4 ingredients. the company developed its Cut in butter until crumbly. Press half into a greased 2-1/2-qt. baking dish own electronics lab. Though or a 9-in. square baking pan. Cover with apples. there was still a lot of money 2. In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, water and vanilla. to be made in oil exploration, Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thick and clear. Pour over McDermott and his partners apples. Sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. realized that the future was 3. Bake 60-65 minutes or until apples are tender. Serve warm, with ice in electronics. In 1951, cream if desired.Makes 8 Servings.