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The San Jose IBM Quarter Century Club
Newsletter
3rd Quarter 2008
Designer
and Editor: Serena Joe Lucchesi
A Message from the President
Dear Friends,
Hopefully all of you are getting
ready for the summer.
The club continues to work on its primary mission
of communication with all of its members
through the website, newsletters and visits to those
that are sick as well as participating in the joint social
activities with the Retirement club. If you haven’t
participated in the joint functions, please do, since it
is a good way to see your fellow IBM’ers active or retired.
The events calendar is very full
for the rest of the
year so come join the fun. By the way, since our
newsletter is quarterly, you should check the web for
any price updates or new events.
Please note that we have changed
the E-Mail address
for the club. As we age and change, fewer of
us are active and so our use of Lotus Notes as an EMail
program diminishes. So, we have shifted to a
non-IBM mail program. Please use this address now
since we will not be answering the old address soon.
I hope all of you have a great
summer and look forward
to seeing you at the club activities.
Mail
Address for Dues
NEW!!!
IBM Quarter Century Club Office
Attn: Terri Edgmon
Almaden Research Center, D2-K10A
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120-6099
Check out Website: www.sjqcc.com
E-Mail: qcclub@comcast.net
There is no phone, use please use email
IBM Quarter
Century Club Board of Directors
Joe Lucchesi President, Web Backup,Newsletter
Quinton O’Neal Vice President,email coordination
Terri Edgmon Secretary
Dave Bennet Treasurer
Junious Ross Past President
Pete Potosky Past President, Web site
Brian Faircloth Past President
Hal Calkins Past President
Dick Kegley Past President
Joe Russo Past President, Database Mgr
Jim Lucke Past President,email addresses
John Yaccarine Visitation Committee
Norm Saulan Visitation Committee
Ken Ravizza Dance Committee
Bob Goetze Special Advisor
Jack Grogan Special Advisor
George Nale Retirement Club Liason
John Yankovich Special Advisor
In Memoriam
Austin Hugh Higginson
Robert Douglas Howard
Dwight Huffman
Ralph M. Inouye
John J. Johanneck
Charles Joseph Kantmann
Gene T. Pipkin
Charles E. Scott
Charles Wullenjohn
Austin Higginson was an engineering manager in
Product Development.
Bob Howard was a manager in Manufacturing Engineering.
Dwight Huffman had a number of assignments, including
management, in Quality Assurance.
Ralph Inouye worked in Production Control.
John Johanneck worked for IBM from 1956 to 1990.
His assignment in 1987 was in Production Planning.
Chuck Kantmann held a variety of assignments in
his IBM career, including Manufacturing test technician
and customer engineer. He later worked in field support in
Engineering. After retirement he was an active participant
in the IBM 1401 restoration at Computer History Museum.
Gene Pipkin worked in Quality
Assurance and Test
Engineering. He was instrumental in the launch of
the 3800 “Argonaut” printer and he spent 6 months
in Sweden to set up its manufacture in Jarfalla.
Chuck Scott worked in field support in Reliability
Availability and Serviceability.
Chuck Wullenjohn had a variety of assignments in
Manufacturing, including Quality Assurance and
Manufacturing Engineering.
Entertainment
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Local
Groups
As part of the QCC
club mission to keep IBM'ers connected, we will periodically advertise
geographical areas that are interested in "getting connected." Below is
a list of the current local groups that you might be interested in.
Also, there are 2 local groups that are looking
for more participants. First, in the Palm
Desert/Palm Springs areas, John Feeley and Pete Joachim want
to set up a get together. You can use John’s email below or email
or phone Pete at Rancho Mirage(760-770-4114) or in Saratoga
(408-867-1176).
In
addition the San Jose
Villages is a gated senior's
community in the foothills approximately three or four miles east of the
(former) Cottle Road plant site. At last count there were about seventy
former IBM employees living there. They are semi-organized with
Annette Rosenberg and Clare Kruse maintaining an e-mail list. They have
had several re-unions in the past but nothing for several years now. So,
if you want get together with them please contact them..
If you are in the
Reno/Incline/Tahoe, California area and interested in a
get-together, please contact Millie Clarke at
mclarke47@gmail.com
If
you are in the Jamestown/Sonora, California
area and interested in a get-together, please contact George
Fontaine at
georgefontaine@yahoo.com.
If you are
in the Discovery Bay,
California area, please contact
Chuck & Shirley Foley at foleyshirl@aol.com.
If
you are in the
Palm
Desert and Palm Springs areas,
please contact John Feeley (all year) at
jfeeley@attglobal.net.
Also
an additional contact is Pete Joachim from Nov to May (seasonal
resident) at Pmjoachim@aol.com
.
If you are
in the Arnold, Calif area, please
contact Dale Pilgeram at
pilgeram@sbcglobal.net.
If you are
in the Southern Oregon area please
contact Lynda Hansen at lyndaah@aol.com.
If you are
in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area, please
contact Wayne Maple
at abcowboy@rt66.com.
If you are
in the Boulder Colorado. area,
please contact Marda Buchholz at
mardab@juno.com
If you are
in the Cedaredge-Montrose-Grand Junction
Colorado areas, please contact Don Elliott at
eaglclaw@tds.net .
If you are
in the Naples, Ft Meyers, Bonita Springs area, please contact
Max Nigh at max-edna-nigh1@comcast.net.
We
have added a new local group just for the
Villages in San Jose. If you are interest please contact
either Clare Kruse at
claregk@pacbell.net
or Lou&Annette Rosenberg at
louis25@sbcglobal.net
In your
reply, please indicate if you would be interested in helping to organize
a get-together.
Other club info:
If you are in the Tucson Area, there is a QCC
club there at www.azqcc.com
If you are
in the Atlanta Area, there is a QCC club there at
www.atlqcc.org.
If
you are in the Boulder Area, there is a QCC club there at www.boulderqcc.com
If you
are in the Mid Hudson Valley Area, there is a QCC club there at
http://www.geocities.com/mhvqcsc
If you
are in the Rochester Area, there is a QCC club there at http://www.rochqcc.org
If
you are in the Charlotte Area, there is a QCC club there at cltqcc.tripod.com
Here are previous newsletters
in PDF format... click to download.
1Q2007
2Q2007
3Q2007
4Q2007
1Q2008
2Q2008
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