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Official publication of NCR REA, Inc. www.ncr-rea.org 3rd Quarter 2010
Newsletter Volume 14, Issue 3
WHAT’S INSIDE
Front Page Story 1
Letter From the President
2
Did You Know ... 3
In Memoriam 4
Welcome New
Members!
4
Introducing Your New Editor!
5
Memories of Our 2009 Annual Meeting
7
Registration Form for the 2010 Meeting
9
From Our Members 10
A Little Humor ... 12
Calendar of Events 13
FYI and
Important Contacts
15
The Tale End 16
NCR RETIREE NEWS
REA THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING S E P T E M B E R 23 , 2010
On Thursday, September 23, 2010, the NCR REA will hold its thirteenth
annual meeting at the NCR Country Club in Dayton, OH. As in previous
years, we are offering various activities to provide you more opportunity to
network with friends and former associates. Check out our schedule below!
OUR PLANNED ITINERARY
09:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Reception / Complimentary Continental
Breakfast.
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Regular business meeting and presentations by
special guests and members. This year, we’ll be showcasing two speakers:
one from NCR, one from Teradata. Presenter names to be announced.
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Optional buffet luncheon ($10 per person).
You must be pre-registered to attend the luncheon. In order to offer the
buffet, the NCR Country Club requires at least 25 participants. If less
than 25 sign up, we will promptly refund your money. You will receive a
luncheon ticket when you check in on September 23.
1:30 pm - Putting Contest! You must be pre-registered to attend the
contest. We will be providing putters and awarding PRIZES!
1:30 pm - Dayton History (NCR Archive) Tour in Downtown Dayton!
Limited to 25 people, first come, first serve. Pre-register early to ensure
your reservation!
You can find the registration form on page 9 of this newsletter and in the
MEMBERS ONLY section of our web site, www.ncr-rea.org. Please
complete the form as soon as possible and send it in.
Registrations must reach us NO LATER than Tuesday, September 14, 2010!
We look forward to seeing you in September!
NCR Ret i ree News Page 2
Board of Trustees
Gordon Meister, President
Jim Carroll, Vice President
Vern Henkener, Treasurer
Ken Carr, Secretary
Bob Barone
Peg Butts
Herb Maxwell
George Punter
Howard Reams
Dick Smith
Chuck Stuart
Barb Swinger
NCR REA
Our mission is to keep members informed on issues related to NCR Corporation and other matters of interest. The REA was started in 1996, and helps perpetuate the legacy of NCR Corporation and its people. Membership in NCR REA is a great way to stay connected to NCR and its people.
___________________
NCR Retiree News is published four times per year by:
NCR REA, Inc. P. O. Box 218
Germantown, OH 45327 Phone: (937) 285-0014
3rd Quarter 2010 printed and distributed by Think Patented,
Dayton, OH
Copyright© 2010 by NCR REA, Inc. No reproduction without
written permission of NCR REA, Inc.
Steve Wicinski, Editor
www.writedataservices.com
Printed in the USA
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
W elcome everyone to our 3rd Quarter newsletter
for 2010! I hope you’re having a fine Summer
and looking forward to the annual NCR REA
meeting on Thursday, September 23!
Your Board of Trustees has been working on finalizing the
meeting agenda and planned activities for our upcoming meeting at the NCR
Country Club. For details about this year’s meeting, refer to our cover story.
Also, if you plan to attend, please complete the registration form on page 9
and mail it in as soon as possible. We must receive registrations no later than
September 14, 2010.
Last year, 90 people attended the meeting. This year, we hope to break 100!
We are really excited about this year’s agenda. Our planned presentations
include comprehensive updates on NCR, Teradata, and the NCR REA. As
always, not only does our annual meeting provide some good information,
it’s also a great opportunity to reunite with friends, acquaintances, and
former coworkers.
FAREWELL NCR CELEBRATION PICNIC AT OLD RIVER PARK
On Thursday, June 24, 2010, over 500 NCR associates showed up for a
gathering at Old River to celebrate NCR’s 126th year legacy in Dayton, Ohio.
It was a great picnic and good time for all. It included lots of laughter, a mix
of tears and emotion, and a lifetime of history on display. Many thanks to
those NCR folks who planned the event. For complete story and photos, see
page 10.
During the event, the NCR REA introduced people to our organization and
distributed over 300 membership brochures. As a result, we have already
acquired some new members!
We look forward to seeing you in September.
Sincerely,
Gordon E. Meister
President
NCR Ret i ree News Page 3
by Ken Carr, REA Secretary
N ow for some interesting, historical
tidbits!
Longest Customer Name?
Back in 2006, I wrote an article about
what some folks thought to be the
longest customer name ever to appear
on an NCR order form. It was a Greek name with 33 letters! Recently, one of our retired friends, Ian Ormerod
of NCR England, read that article and relayed to me a
story about an English customer with an unusual name. In 1961, a Class 51 was sold to a store in
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCI, Wales. This village
name actually means, “The church of St. Mary in the
hollow of the White Hazel trees.”
NCR Street Names
Any of you who worked at or visited NCR Dayton
during your career probably remember two campus
streets named L and K. Ever wonder why NCR used letter designations rather than common street names?
According to the 1895 Dayton Atlas, the area where the
NCR factory was finally built had been previously platted as residential. Since the Patterson family owned
the land, we believe that Mr. Patterson had plans to sell
the property for individual housing. The Atlas shows
both a Key Street and a Locust Street running east and west from Main Street, up near the University of Dayton,
where land was still uncharted by the city.
We surmise that around the late 1800s, Mr. Patterson
was concerned that the Miami, Mad, and Stillwater
Rivers would someday flood downtown Dayton. (Of course, 1913 proved him right!) With that in mind and
factory expansion a must, Mr. Patterson decided to move
the factory from downtown Dayton to his property up the hill and to the south of the city. At that time, the property
was charted and mapped as a manufacturing complex.
The new maps no longer showed a Key Street or a
Locust Street. Instead, they showed K and L streets. Evidently, the names Key and Locust were already used
elsewhere in the city, so a name change was necessary.
Microfiche to the Rescue
As American businesses grew in size and number, so did the amount of paper documents those companies
generated. As a result, efficient document storage and
retrieval became a huge problem. In 1961, an NCR
scientist came to the rescue. Working in California, Carl Carlson developed a solution to the problem. He was able
to reduce images by a factor greater than 200 to 1, then
place those images on film. Born was the Microfiche. The
average film sheet was 4x6 inches and contained 100 typewritten pages. Special magnification readers were
developed to retrieve and read the film. To test the limits
of the process, NCR was able to reduce the complete Bible onto a film sheet only two inches square. To promote the
process, NCR distributed thousands of these. With
millions of documents preserved and stored in this manner, and with an estimated 500 years life expectancy,
in spite of the computer, microfiche is still used today!
Charles Kettering Inventions For NCR
Straight out of Engineering School at Ohio State, Charles
Kettering joined the Inventions Department with NCR in 1904. Before he left NCR to found Dayton Engineering
Laboratories Company (Delco) to develop, build. and
market the first electric starter for the automobile, he developed and patented two major inventions for the
Company.
First, he developed an electric motor that opened a cash
-register drawer automatically with no manual cranking!
The first unit was installed in the Cigar Shop of the Phillips Hotel in Dayton. The first day, 2800 sales were
registered as curious customers purchased cigar products
just to see the cash register operate.
Second, Kettering developed the first credit system. At
the time, when customers wanted to purchase on credit,
there was no efficient way to verify the customer had good
credit with the store, and no good method to approve the
sale.
Often, the Credit Department was far away from the sales floor and in bigger stores, it was usually on a
different floor. If a merchant granted undue credit, the
store could incur a loss. Still, the merchant didn’t want to
upset customers by making them wait too long for
approval.
The Solution: Mr. Kettering modified a standard
telephone with a solenoid-operated stamping device and connected phones by dedicated lines from the sales
departments to the Credit Department. A salesperson
would call the Credit Department, provide customer information, and within a few moments receive verbal
refusal, or the Credit Department would push a button that
embossed the sales slip showing the credit approved.
DID YOU KNOW...
IN MEMORIAM This column depends on your contribution of information about the deaths of your former co-workers and friends who were NCR
employees. Please send a copy of the obituary or information to us.
We extend our sincere sympathy to the families of these former NCR employees.
Branigan, Eugene Sr., 66, Gaylord, MI, 17 July 10
Bruder, Ed, 78, Warren, MI, 09 June 10
O’Brien, Michael David, 71, Fenton, MI, 26 June 10
Paquin, Russ, 85, Centerville, OH, 16 June 10
NCR Ret i ree News Page 4
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
Ashley, Marilyn, Dayton, OH
Baker, Marilyn, Kettering, OH
Baran, Leonard R. (Len), Amherst, NY
Boranian, Richard A. (Rick), Irmo, SC
Borg, Joseph Jr. (Joe), Stuart, FL
Boroff, Paul, Lebanon, OH
Cerkoney, Fred, Whitewater, WI
Fiore, Victoria H. (Vicki), Dayton, OH
Haehn, Kevin, Springboro, OH
Hough, Patricia M. (Pat), Middletown, OH
Jump, N. Gregory (Greg), Dayton, OH
Lawson, Marjorie J. (Marj), Dayton, OH
Linkous, Toni, Vandalia, OH
Lopes, Arthur V., San Diego, CA
Mannix, Vicky, Centerville, OH
McDonald, John H. (Mac), Melbourne, FL
Mitsch, Robert (Bob), Kettering, OH
Nicol, Teana, Dayton, OH
Phillips, Doug, Wichita Falls, TX
Richards, Donald (Don), Gulf Breeze, FL
Robinson, Marvin L., Irving, TX
Schoeny, John J. (Tom), Cincinnati, OH
Shull, Grady, Pelion, SC
Snyder, Nancy, Dayton, OH
Terzian, Pamela (Pam), Centerville, OH
Thompson, Larry, Miamisburg, OH
Wicinski, Steven (Steve Capri), Dayton, OH
WELCOME BACK!
Iiames, Roberta (Bert) and Guy, Springboro, OH
Campisi, Ron, Bradenton, FL
NCR Ret i ree News Page 5
INTRODUCING STEVE WICINSKI , YOUR NEW
EDITOR
by Steve Wicinski
G reetings everyone – friends, retirees, former colleagues! I hope this issue of the
NCR REA newsletter finds you happy, healthy, and enjoying the Summer
season! Seems like 2010 just arrived, and now we’re more than half way
through the year! Life certainly rolls on and presents us many new challenges.
Since the Q2 issue, you may have already noticed that the REA Board of Directors has
graciously passed the newsletter baton over to me. Your former editor, Dennis Neufarth,
is still actively involved with the REA and has taken on some other projects. As I could
clearly see from previous newsletters, Dennis is a fantastic editor and continues to do a fabulous job for
this organization. As the new guy on the block, I walk gingerly in Mr. Neufarth’s footsteps in hopes to live
up to the high standards he set for this job. So I thank Dennis and the entire NCR REA Board for giving me
this opportunity to serve one of NCR’s most precious legacies – the retirees – and all other REA members
who have contributed to NCR’s successes.
ABOUT MY NCR CAREER
Like you, I am a former NCR employee – with 31 years of service! I started my NCR career in 1978 as a
software programmer, supporting commercial banking and savings and loan applications. (I still remember
how proud my parents were when I told them, “I got a job at “The Cash!”) Back then, I was a techie who
loved anything and everything to do with computers. NCR NEAT/3 and COBOL were the programming
languages of choice at that time, and I just thrived on that stuff. On my creative side, I also loved writing,
so developing technical and end-user software documentation came naturally to me.
By the early 1980s, I enjoyed writing so much, I became a full-time technical writer or, as HR called us,
“Publications Specialists.” (And yes; I am one of the Ted Brusaw’s former tech-writing students!) Clearly,
I found my niche. Not only did I bring my technical background to the role, I also had the freedom to be
creative while writing user guides, technical manuals, and so on. It was that mix of skills that set me on
course for the rest of my NCR career as a professional communicator!
Through the 1980s and 1990s, I held several project-leadership roles where I led technical-writing teams
responsible for software documentation. In the late 1990s, I engaged in a dual writer / programmer role,
launching new publishing technology (SGML) solutions across the company. It was that position that
landed me in various higher management jobs responsible for software-development teams, data-
conversion teams, and writing staffs. Those were exciting times supporting new mainstream initiatives
such as online documentation, web-site development, online training, and so on.
In 2000, I joined an exciting new NCR start-up business called eCommerce Solutions. By then, Internet
Banking was becoming a major player on the World Wide Web, and NCR was just then getting in the
game. I joined the team as their Communications Manager. Truly a dream job! I created and implemented
all their communications programs, allowing me to constantly collaborate with all NCR business units!
NCR Ret i ree News Page 6
INTRODUCING STEVE WICINSKI , YOUR NEW
EDITOR (CONTINUED)
Regretfully, in April of 2009, my dream job as Director of Technical and Marketing Communications for
NCR eCommerce ended, along with several other colleagues’ positions. A month later, I was offered a
transitional role in Atlanta, GA, but I declined. Dayton is and always will be my home. And with today’s
technologies, there’s no reason anyone should have to uproot their lives to sit in a cubicle in another city or
state -- especially after such dedication. So I’m staying put. “Sorry Atlanta; you can’t have it all!”
Although I was deeply saddened to no longer work for NCR, and saddened the company left Dayton, I
can’t deny how good NCR was to me all these years. It was a good run. I learned a lot and made a great
living. Best of all, I established solid work ethics and life-long relationships with several wonderful people
along the journey. Those priceless benefits will last me a lifetime. I thank NCR for that.
MY FAMILY
On October 31 (yes, Halloween), I will have been married to
my wonderful wife, Ellen, for 29 years. We have one son,
Brandon, soon to be 25, who is married and starting a family of
his own. Of course, there’s the family dog, Taco, a Chihuahua
mix, who is 15, grouchy, yet still loveable. Presently, most of
our extended family and relatives are in Dayton, so that makes
for easy reunions!
MY NEW BUSINESS
Since leaving NCR, instead of immediately delving into another 8-5 routine, I opted to pursue something
different -- my own technical and marketing communications business. For me, it’s a huge leap of faith
after steadily working for NCR the last three
decades. But if I was ever going to do this, at age 52,
now was the time.
Affectionately, I named my company WriteData
Services, LLC (http://www.writedataservices.com) after my love for writing and what the industry now
calls “content engineering.” So far, things are going pretty well and I enjoy working with a diverse set of
clients. Clearly, running a business is reminiscent of days at NCR when I had to collaborate with numerous
departments and personalities. I have to say that my most recent client, the NCR REA, is one of my
favorites! Truly a great group of people who care deeply about all of you!
Aside from all the business stuff, I am an avid musician. I am a trained singer, plus I play bass and acoustic
guitars, and piano. For those who knew me in my younger years, yes; I STILL perform in local rock bands
in the Dayton and surrounding areas. My stage name is Steve Capri, a name I’ve carried over into my
professional life as a published author, columnist, and speaker.
Please contact me anytime at: [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you! Cheers!
From Left: Ellen, Taco, Steve, and Brandon
NCR Ret i ree News Page 7
MEMORIES OF THE TWELFTH ANNUAL
MEETING , 2009
THE FIRST AND THE LATEST PRESIDENT
MEET THE PUTTERS
LUNCH TIME
FULL HOUSE
GORDON & NED
Marty & Jim Schmidt,
Jack Clifford, Peg Butts
RAMONA & BILL GREENLEE,
RIAD KALLAS
The Prez gives
The State of the REA
NCR Ret i ree News Page 8
MEMORIES OF THE TWELFTH ANNUAL
MEETING , 2009 (CONTINUED)
AND THE WINNERS ARE
(After two playoffs)
First Place: Charlie McGratty
Second Place: Marty Schmidt
Third Place: Don Schieman
CHECK US OUT;
WE’LL CHECK YOU IN.
Financial Statement
September 1,2008-August 31,2009
Expenses:
Newsletters $14,067
Postage 2,005
Annual Meeting 3,146
Administrative Expenses 4,830
Miscellaneous 2,900
Total Expenses $26,948
Assets:
Cash Reserve as of 8-31-09 $32,543
Shares of NCR/Teradata Stock 886
Annual Meeting Deposit 750
Total Assets $34,179
LEO, BONNIE, CAROL, & TED
JOHN O’GORMAN, GENE & JANE PENN
THE ARCHIVE TOUR
GROUP
HOWARD REAMS
&
BRAD DEVRIES
Income:
Membership Renewals $15,480
New Members 2,925
Donations from members 1,703
Interest 113
CD Activity 6,000
Annual Meeting 500
Total Income $26,721
NCR Ret i ree News Page 9
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL NCR REA MEETING REGISTRATION FORM
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010 NCR Country Club
Check-In Time: 9:00 a. m. 4435 Dogwood Trail, Kettering, OH 45429
Meeting Time: Promptly at 10:00 a. m.
PLEASE REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 14, 2010!
Name (member): ____________________________________________
Spouse / Guest Name: ______________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________________
City: _________________________ State / Province: ______________________ .
Country: ______________________ ZIP / Post code: ___________________
Phone: __________________________________
Email: __________________________________
Number of years with NCR: _______________
PLEASE INDICATE HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL ATTEND EACH ACTIVITY.
ACTIVITY TIME # ATTENDING
Reception / Continental Breakfast 9:00 a.m. _____
Business Meeting 10:00 a.m. _____
Buffet Luncheon ($10.00 each) 11:45 a.m. _____
NCR REA Putting Contest 1:30 p.m. _____
Dayton History (NCR Archive) Tour 1:30 p.m. _____
Amount due (enclosed with check payable to NCR REA) $________
PLEASE COMPLETE THIS PAGE AND MAIL IT TO:
NCR REA
P. O. Box 218
Germantown, OH 45327
NCR Ret i ree News Page 10
FROM OUR MEMBERS
FAREWELL NCR PICNIC ….. A BITTERSWEET EVENT FOR ALL …..
O n Thursday, June 24, 2010, a Farewell to Dayton picnic took place at Old River Park. This
event was coordinated by NCR employees Paul
Boutin, Michelle Lamance, Rose Jeffries, Warren
Mansfield, June Newell, and Mary Wagner.
For many years, the saying around NCR and Dayton was
“They all come back to the Cash.” Well, on this occasion,
they did! More than 500 current and former employees lined
up to get their name tags as they entered the Park for a picnic
lunch with old friends.
Donations were accepted to pay for the food. Support was provided by local area businesses including,
NCR REA, Bellyfire Catering, Teradata, Bonbright Distributing, Mike Sell’s, University of Dayton, Prime
Time Party Rental, Dorothy Lane Market, Kroger, Dayton History, and the NCR Archive.
Over the years, time, hair styles, and clothing may have changed, but not the fellowship shared by NCR
coworkers and friends. Truly a day to remember.
NCR Ret i ree News Page 11
FROM OUR MEMBERS ( C O N T I N U E D )
NCR REA members attended the event for fellowship and to promote your organization. A big THANK
YOU to Peg Butts, REA Trustee, who distributed brochures and applications and answered many
questions about the association. Due to her efforts, NCR REA has several new members!
No, this was not a bittersweet cake, but it was that kind of event. From what we observed, people were
very happy to see one another. There were many handshakes, hugs, kisses, laughs, and even a few tears.
Although the longtime icon of NCR in Dayton is no more, its legacy remains in the form of friendships,
marriages, families, companies, social and cultural contributions, and the many stories that will live on.
NCR Ret i ree News Page 12
A LITTLE HUMOR (F O R T H E O V E R - 50 G E N E R A T I O N )
Submitted by Dennis Neufarth (author unknown)
I think about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees -- all
without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures, and
communicated with Facebook and Twitter.
Under duress, I signed up for Twitter and Facebook, so that my
seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids, and two great grand kids could
communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with
only 140 characters of space.
That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon,
Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone
and every other program within the texting world.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel
movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I still keep my cell phone in
the garage inside my golf bag.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday, because they say I get lost every now and then
going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth
phone (which is red) I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore the phone once and was standing in
line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards kept glaring at me.
Seems I have to remove my hearing aid to use it, and I got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside was the most annoying,
rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes she would sarcastically say,
"Re-calc-ul-ating." You would think she could be nicer. It was as if she could barely tolerate me. She
would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then, when I would
make a right turn instead, it was not good.
Now when I get really lost, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets, and while she is
starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least I know she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We
have had them for four years, but I still haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and
have to run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets
when the phone rings.
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 in with me.
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.
Recently, I was asked if I tweet. I answered, "No, but I do toot a lot."
State City Name Venue Date/Time Contact
AZ Tucson Village Inn
Restaurant
1st Monday Dick Vail
CA
San Diego NCR / Tera-data Retirees
of San Diego
Remington Club
Rancho Bernardo
16925 Hibera Dr.
2nd Wednesday of month except
Jul, Aug at
1:00p.m.
Gerry Mikas
858-951-0155
CO Colorado Springs /
Pueblo
Perkins Restaurant
5190 N. Academy
1st Friday of month at 8:30
a.m.
Fred Miller
719-578-5182
CT Orange Chip’s Restaurant
321 Boston Post Road
2nd Tues each
month 8:30 a.m.
Jim Lash
FL Estero Perkins Restaurant
20320 Grande Oaks Shop-
pes Blvd
2nd Thursday each month at
11:30 a.m.
Tom Schoenheider
239-498-8773
GA Atlanta The NCR
Lunch Bunch
Golden Corral
Hwy 138
Conyers
2nd Wednesday of even months
at 11:30 a.m.
Roy Greenway [email protected]
Cal McBroom [email protected]
John Hughes [email protected]
IL Chicago NCR Pizza
Night Group
Riggio’s Restaurant
7530 W. Oakton
1st Thursday
each month
at 6:30 p.m.
Alan J. Helstern
IL Chicago Aurora Break-
fast Group
No regular sched-
ule
Mike Ederati
IL Chicago X-NCR sales-
men
Stimac’s Restaurant
4843 Butterfield Rd.
3rd Tuesday each month at
noon
John Roche 773-445-0336
Gene Gallagher 630-986-9006
IN Evansville Cracker Barrel
8215 Eagle Lake Drive
1st Tuesday each
month 7 a.m.
Jim Bryan [email protected]
IN Indianapolis MCL Cafeteria
3630 S. East St.
2nd Tuesday each month at
6:00 p.m.
Harry Kuhn 317-862-4408
MD Baltimore VFW 6506
8777 Philadelphia Rd.
Rosedale
Wed. every month except
Dec. at 5 p.m.
Nelson Bengel 410-557-7302
MA Pembrooke Boston
Retirees
Friendly’s Restaurant
Rte 139 off Rte 3 exit 12
1st and 3rd
Tuesday 8:30am Clyde Baker
MA Metheun McDonald’s
Pelham St.
Breakfast every
Tuesday at 8
Richard Bates 603-394-7760
MI Lansing NCR445 Flapjack Restaurant
1601 S. Waverly
Second Monday every month
8:30 am
Tom Simmons 517-647-4469
MI Grand Rapids NCR440 Bob Evans Walker & I96
1st Tuesday each month at 8 a.m.
Brad DeVries 616-901-7048 [email protected]
CA L EN DA R O F ON G OI NG EV EN TS
State City Name Venue Date/Time Contact
MI McComb
Township
McDonald’s 45700 N. Gratiot
Every Tuesday morning
Lee Brown 810-791-2061 20812 Lantz Street
MI Saginaw Sullivan’s Restaurant 5235 Gratiot Ave.
2nd Tuesday each month at
R. J. (Mickey) McDonald 989-781-1556
NE Omaha HY-VEE Grocery 108th and Fort St.
1st Thursday each month at
Henry Lokke 3815 N. 100th St. Omaha, NE 68134 (402)571-6467
NJ Central Ye Cottage Inn 149 W. Front St.
Keyport
3rd Thursday each month ex-
cept June, July,
Bernie Ondrey [email protected]
NJ Saddle Brook Northeastern Retail & Account-
ing Machine
Marriott Hotel Saddle Brook
Every 2-3months Anthony J. Pilato 516-561-1144
NM Albuquerque Furrs Cafeteria
Wyoming Mall
First Wednesday each month at
12:30 p.m.
Marc LaChey 505-275-2331 [email protected]
NC Charlotte Carolina Prime Steak House, 225 East Wood-
lawn Road
3rd Tuesday each
month at 9:00am
Walt Miller 704-844-6488 or [email protected] or
Ralph Weddington 704-366-7226
OH Dayton Former R&D
employees
NCR Country Club
Reservations suggested
4th Wednesday
each month
Carl Wick 937-433-1352
OH Dayton E&M Dayton Marion’s Pizza
Patterson and Shroyer
2nd Saturday of
March and Oct
11:30—3:00 p.m.
Ray Roppel 513-777-4399
OH Dayton 3rd Party Main-tainability/ Sup-
port and CTEC
(Retired or Dis-
placed)
El Rancho Grande
2008 Alex Road, W.
Carrollton
1st Tuesday of
each Month
To ENSURE SPACE, Notify: Chuck Dulaney
John Teserovitch [email protected] or
Keith Walden [email protected]
PA Harrisburg Peachtree Rest &Lounge
Last Tuesday each month at
Dick Eberly [email protected]
RI Cranston MISS CRANSTON DINER
1224 Oaklawn Ave.
Every Tuesday at
8:30 a.m.
Don Culton 401-942-5594
SC Columbia ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating
Out)
Brunches 1208 Knox Abbot Dr
Cayce
2nd Thursday each month at
9:00 a.m.
Frank Thrower 803-356-5067
SC Greenville Flat Rock Grille Wood-ruff Road
Saturday noon every 2-3 months
Ted Webb 864-234-7869 [email protected]
TX Austin McDonalds 183 & Braker
1st Monday each month 9am
James Tackett [email protected]
WA Tacoma Ma’s Place Near South Hill Mall
Puyallup Bowling
Every Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.
Every Thursday at
9:00 a.m.
WI Milwaukee Mayfair Mall
Food Court
2nd Tuesday each month at
9:00 a.m.
Don Eggert 414-453-8424 [email protected]
Canada Vancouver,
BC
XNCRs Group Lunch 1st Tues-day each month
Dick Phillips 604-526-8721 [email protected]
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F.Y.I.
Important Contacts
NCR Benefits Center
P. O. Box 770003
Cincinnati, OH 45250-0071
800-245-9035
TDD# 800-610-4015
http://netbenefits.fidelity.com
United Health Care
800-889-2535
Http://www.myuhc.com
Medicare
800-MEDICARE (633-4227)
http://www.medicare.gov
Social Security
800-772-1213
http://www.socialsecurity.gov
NCR Corporation
937-445-5000
http://www.ncr.com
Teradata Corporation
800-242-4800
Http://www.teradata.com
NCR Stockholder Account Inquiries
Mellon Investor Services
85 Challenger Road
Overpeck Centre
Ridgefield, NJ 07660
800-627-2303
http://www.melloninvestor.com
CLIP and SAVE
GIL WILLIAMSON BRINGS BUSINESS
TO DAYTON!
For details, point your web browser to this Dayton
Daily News story:
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/dayton-daily-
news/mi_8035/is_20100618/aircraft-groups-
convention/ai_n54107970/
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NCR REA, Inc.
P. O. Box 218
Germantown, OH 45327-0218
www.ncr-rea.org
On June 24, a farewell picnic took place at Old River Park. See complete story and pictures on page 10.
On July 1, 2010, the University of Dayton took possession of the NCR World Headquarters (WHQ)
building and the grounds that include Old River Park. Shorty thereafter, the university removed the NCR
sign located at the 1700 S. Patterson Blvd. entrance, and removed the logo from the WHQ building.
The photo above shows “The Bunker,” the only remaining NCR-Dayton building which houses NCR’s
computer / telecommunications center. Although NCR employees still work there, future plans for this
facility are yet unknown.