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Texas Instruments Co-Founder Eugene Mcdermott Ranger College Truck Driving the World Is Changing Fast Cross Plains Review Your Hometown Newspaper Issue 34, October 22, 2020 Page B10 School Board Meeting Wednesday, October 21st, 8 pm NOTICE OF MEETING --- Consider Enterprise renewal or dismissal of a BOARD OF TRUSTEES Security Policy Plan (Senate public officer or employee, CROSS PLAINS Bill 820) or to hear complaints or INDEPENDENT SCHOOL Establish School Health charges against a public DISTRICT Advisory Council officer or employee); Review and Consider Section 551.076 (consider A Regular Meeting of the School Parent Involvement the deployment, or Board of Trustees of the Policy 2020-21 for the specific occasions for Cross Plains Independent district implementation, of security School District will be held Consider ESL Waiver personnel and devices); Shop the Craft Store for Christmas Ideas. 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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.
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