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Newsletter Mailing Must Be Curtailed!
Due to the high printing and mailing cost, please note that effective September 1, 2011, we will no longer mail the RCRA newsletter. The newsletter will continue to be available at the RCRA Website and if you will provide your email address to us, we will email it to you when a new newsletter is available. If you need an exception, we will mail a copy of the newsletter to you via the US Mail, but you must specifically request this exception and verify your address for us, as follows:
1. Come to the meeting and make that request at our special signup table.
2. Mail a written request to us with your current home address to P.O. Box 851271, Richardson, TX 75085-1271
3. Email your request to us at rcretirees@gmail.com. Please include your current home address, as well.
The officers have reviewed our options and we are sorry if we inconvenience any of you. If we do not hear from you, we assume that you no longer need a printed copy sent via US Mail.

Website Information

Jerry Henninger, a past president of RCRA, hosts the RCRA website, http://rcretirees.com/. You may choose to download the current newsletter via the links on that website. We thank Jerry Henninger and his business partner, Lance Ochs for this service. Also, we ask you to forward obituaries and death notices for our members to one of the officers (see page 1 for addresses) and copy Jerry at the following address: jerry@heritagetradegroup.com. Also, we ask you to forward obituaries and death notices for our members to rcretirees@gmail.com and copy Howard Hess.

October 2010 News

Newsletter Email
Up until now, we have only used the US Postal Service to mail printed copies of the newsletter to all of the membership. The cost of printing and mailing the 2000+ copies represents a significant portion of our expenses. We have undertaken the task of sending some of these via email instead of USPS to help defray expenses. At the present time, email distribution reduces the quantity by approximately 300 copies. While this is just a small percentage of the total, we hope to increase that quantity, but we need your help.

RCRA has imported all of the email addresses contained in our database to Google Mail, and we have spent a bit of time honing that capability to eliminate misspelled and outdated email addresses. We need to have more of you on our email list! So please take a moment to send us email from your preferred email account. The destination address is rcretirees@gmail.com. Please include your current home address, as well, so that we can cross check our database, and update it for future reference. You can also provide this information at the sign up desk when you attend our October meeting.

As you know, Jerry Henninger, a past president of RCRA, hosts the RCRA website, http://rcretirees.com/.  We thank Jerry Henninger and his business partner, Lance Ochs at the Heritage Trade Group for this service. Please forward obituaries and death notices for our members to one of the officers (see page 1 for addresses) and copy Jerry:  jerry@heritagetradegroup.com. 

Rockwell Collins Leadership Association

Troy Scoggins reminds us that we can know about current Rockwell Collins Leadership Association activities through their website: http://rockwellcollinsclubs.com/clubs-tx/leadership/

Meeting Attendee Prizes

Our Sponsor, Bob Judd, has made it a habit of offering cash pirzes, drawn at random, from meeting attendees.Here are the winners from our April 2011 meeting.

President Gary Groggin and Bob Judd pose with the April 2011 drawing winners: Emmitt Robitaille, Richard Kaiser and Jim Logbeck.
Click Here for pictures of our April 21, 2011 Meeting

VP Howard Hess presents outgoing VP Grady Fairbairn with a Certificate of Achievement for meritorious service to the RCRA.	President Gary Grogan presents  outgoing President Tomm Schultz  with his Certificate of Achievement award. Current Secretary Cynthia Noah, outgoing Secretary Joanne Patrick, and Grady Fairbairn look on.

 

April 2010 News

Nomination of Officers
The following Retirees have agreed to serve for 2010-2012.
President:  Gary Grogan
Vice President:  Howard Hess
Treasurer: Cynthia Noah

President:  Gary Grogan joined Rockwell-Collins in Richardson in 1979.  He transitioned to Boeing in 1996 when Boeing acquired Rockwell's Defense and Aerospace units.  When Gary retired in 2007, he was a Boeing Executive Program Director responsible for Support Operations.  He was also a Vice President in Boeing Service Company.  During his 28 year career, Gary held positions in Information Systems and Program Management.  As a program manager over the years, he was responsible for a wide variety of programs for the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and the U.S. Intelligence Community.  He also had responsibility for programs in Australia, England, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.  Gary is a past president and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Boeing-Richardson Chapter of the National Management Association.  He received a number of NMA awards, including the Gold Knight of Leadership (2006), the Silver Knight of Management (2004) and the NMA JADE award (2007).
Gary and his wife, Becky, are residents of Plano.  They have been married for 40 years and they have two grown sons.  Gary is an avid golfer and also enjoys fishing, boating, snowboarding and traveling.

Vice President:  Howard Hess joined Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids in 1964 and transferred to Richardson in 1965 to work on the C-System. Howard retired from Rockwell-Collins in 2004. His 40 year career with Collins was primarily in Software Engineering. He held several positions including group head, department manager, program manager, and principal engineer related to the design and development of Automatic Call Distribution Network Management Systems and C-System applications. The latter included airline reservation front-end communication systems and secure store and forward message switching and distribution systems for both commercial and government customers. He completed his career in the Data Links Engineering Department and managed the software effort to develop the commercial aviation HF Data Link product as well as the re-hosting of that software on the ARC-190.
Howard and his wife, Glenda, also a Rockwell-Collins retiree, live in Heath. They have been married for 31 years and have 2 sons and 4 grandsons. Glenda & Howard are avid square dancers and gardeners.

Treasurer: Cynthia Noah started working at Rockwell in 1983 for the Rockwell Leadership Association (the former NMA) and after the divestiture of Alcatel she worked for both Alcatel and Rockwell on a part time basis retiring year before last. She was a part-time employee for both companies.  She finds herself busier after retirement than before.  She and her husband are longtime residents of Richardson and have two adult children and three grandchildren.  Ray is an attorney and his retirement job now is Municipal Judge in Richardson.

Cynthia has always been active in the community as a volunteer - served as Chairman of Author Lecture Series called "In Person Series" sponsored by the Friends of the Library, President of a garden club (whose members do not garden), President of the YWCA, Board of Directors of Richardson Literacy, and has held several offices while on the Richardson Symphony Board of Directors.  She presently serves on the Methodist Richardson Hospital Foundation Board and chairs a committee for it.