Well Saturday I was at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. It brought back good memories of our team supporting this race each year by sponsoring the Survivor Breakfast and team input each year.

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Posted February 13, 2009 

In honor of Gary Mount (YGM) – Happy Valentine’s Day. I still remember some how getting a card each year from him even after he retired.

Bobbie

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Posted Dec 20, 2008

Merry Christmas to all!!! I hope each of you have a joyous holiday and a Happy New Year!!!!

Bobbie

 

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Posted November 20, 2008

I would like to wish all a safe holiday next week!!! Hope you enjoy time with your families and friends. Be safe in your travels!!!

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posted on September 16, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Good Evening to all!!!

Thought I would give you an update on what I have finally accomplished. After leaving the plant in 2006, I finally have worked a complete year at one place. I am still working at Almatis the old Alcoa plant between Benton and Bryant. My family and I are doing pretty good. The kids are going up fast. I see Karen Ellis about every other week. She works in Benton also so we meet up for lunch.

I thought of us setting up the plant for hurricane victims back in 2005 during this past weekend. Again we are a blessed people to have worked with such a caring group of people. Hope all are well!!
Take care.

Bobbie

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Posted February 23, 2008 

So does anyone know what is in the front building of the plant. I drove by there today and saw cars in the front parking lot of building 50.

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Posted 2/14/08

Today is a day that I think quite often of Gary Mount and giving all of us Valentine’s cards. I can remember coming into work and there on my desk would be a card from someone and the card would be signed “YGM” – Young Gary Mount. So in memory of Gary today, Happy Valentines.

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Posted 2/8/08

This week’s Tornado and last month’s Tornado makes me think of all the good things that we as a group of people and company did for our fellow men and women. I also think about all the good we did for the Susan G. Komen Foundation by helping with their team efforts of data entry and shipping and the Survivor’s breakfast….

I would like to say – Thanks for being there … I truly miss those times and how we all came together as one force….

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Posted 1/3/08

Happy New Year!!!

Can’t believe it is 2008!!! My life has changed a lot in the last two years. My last day at the plant(7400 Scott Hamilton) was in September of 2006. At that time, Randy and I had adopted one son, Justin. Then in December of 2006 we adopted another baby a little red head girl, Mackenzie, and the red hair goes with the temper. I worked for 7 1/2 months for Corporate Alltel and then started working for Almatis, the old Alcoa plant between Bryant and Benton. Corporate world was fun but I am an old factory girl at heart and I hated the drive to downtown Little Rock. It is nice to be 10 minutes at the most from work….

I still enjoy going to the UALR basketball games. Justin and I go with Sherry Turley and one of her sisters. My Mom has moved to the country and with that we now enjoy the country life some and we have a horse named Max. So now at an old age, I have started riding horses some in the Ozark Mountains…..

For those of you who don’t know me as Bobbie Reese, I am Bobbie Hays… I hired in 1983 and worked in Accounting.

Again thanks to the guys behind the scene to get this blog site working for us all…

Happy New Year!!!!!

Bobbie(BJ, Hays)

Holy crap! I just accidentally stumbled across this site by accident. It is great to know you guys are still out there. I am living in Austin TX working for Dell. I hope all of you are doing well!

Bill Umberson

Gary and I still live in Vilonia. Gary goes to work everyday to Smith Fiberglas which used to be A O Smith. I,m trying to raise our 11 year old grandson. We still go fishing and hunting every chance we can.

Have not responded often , but would like to stay in touch with all my coworkers.
I enjoy the notes and pictures.
Hey guys there is not a whole lot of us left, so many have pased on.let us keep in touch.Always so good to run into some ofyou and talk about  the good old days.

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November 20, 2008

Good to know we can finally keep up with good friends and former Teletype-Lucent persons I used to work with. Thank You so much.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSKCi9ml4ME

Just to let you know I’m still kicking you might want to watch the above video.

Jim Stanton

Came into this site for the first time. Will be back. Donnie and I are doing o.k. We run into co-workers from Benton some  times. Don Beaty, Janette Thornberry, Jerry Brown, Dale Howell and the list goes on. I think it’s great that we can stay in touch. We spent many years together. Catch ya later..Oh yea, Donnie and I have two new grandsons. Born in Oct. and Dec. Jackson Melvin in LIttle Rock and Dalton Hough in Forney, Tx. That makes us 5 Grands.

We go to Texas alot as we have two daughters that live in Texas.  Robert Navira lives in Forney where our youngest daughter lives. We meet up with him some.  I need to make sure Shirly Herbert has this site. She lives in Houston and is always on web. I don’t go on but once a week to check my emails. later.

Hi…remember me? I live in Centennial, Co. I have been retired for 3 years.  Feel free to call me at 303-741-4152.

By: John P. Gillen

Mike/ttylr,
I stumbled onto your website/blog today and was glad to find it. Isn’t the internet a great place… My wife Pat & I have an empty nest, but the girls come and visit often. We live on Table Rock Lake in Missouri. I’m retired, but my wife Pat is an RN and still works for St. Johns.
Many of you may remember my uncle John Wolthuis, he and his family came and spent a week with us last year for John and Helens 50th wedding anniversary. What a great time that was.
Anytime I have a chance to recall good times that were had at Teletype, I do so.

I have marked the website and will pass on the information to others that were also at that location.

regards

Bert Manar

My wife and i are doing well in Fountain hills Arizona. we have been here 13 years. There are a few Teletype Skokie folks here too. i just got the website info and am saddened to see the names of those people i knew in Littlerock. We had lived for a while in Florida before coming to Arizona. Hi to all of you who remember me.

Hi All,
Spoke to Cliff Price today and he told me of this website. It was great to see all the faces from the past. I am Freddie England, I was at Little Rock Works from 1979 to 1991. I worked in the maintenance dept the entire time untill I transferred to Atlanta in Oct 1991. I am now have four Granddaughters and am still married to the same gal (Carolyn) she has a lot of patience. I am still with AT&T waiting for a buy out. I’ll be checking back now that I know the address.
take care,
Fred

Marge and I are still vertical and living on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Jack Bonney sends me information on ya’ll from time to time and we get a Christmas card from Maryanne Eastin who fills us in on folks we knew. It is sad to see so many names from the past on the list of those who are no longer with us. you all stay well and tell Tom Nordengren that I am really glad that he is still among the living

Charlie and I are both alive and doing well. He has presently retired; I am still working for the State, and also for AMA Pro Racing.

Hi,
Mike, I’m not “missing”, just misplaced. At least your email to me. I saved it to my hard drive and, well you know the rest.
Anyway I think this is a great site. Kudos to all involved in this adventure.
Here’s hoping everyone had a great Christmas and will have a wonderful and prosperous New Year.
Bob

Hey ya’ll, just wandering by. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and Have a Happy New Year.

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Posted March 7, 2008

I am still living in Colorado. I worked for Teletype/AT&T there in Little Rock as a Electronics Tech from 1977 until 1992, then transferred to Denver. I later worked in St. Louis and Atlanta and then back to Denver. I finished up in Denver working for Lucent in 1999.

Alan Blakley (AKA Killer)

dawntodusktravel.com

Just want to thank everyone for your calls, your cards, your emails, and especially your prayers for me since my freaky accident. I’m doing well and having very little pain now. I’m truly a miracle and God has blessed me greatly.
Love,
Arti VanZandt

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Posted Jan 26, 2008

Does anyone know where Jim Crotty is now? I’d love to get in touch with him.

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It’s great to hear from everyone!

Ray and I, now married alomst 18 years, live in North Little Rock (in the Scott area)with our dachshund Rosi. Our daughter, JoBeth is an advanced practice nurse at UAMS in Little Rock. At age 37, she married Troy Singleton in April. We had a big church wedding and all survived! JoBeth & Troy are state represensatives for the Dachshund Rescue Organization so they always have a houseful of little doxies – our grandchildren we assume.

I’m HR Manager at Dassault Falcon Jet and still enjoy working; not sure when I will decide to retire. I work with several forer AT&T employees – Mike Berger, Walter Jones, Murray Hamilton among others. Ray has retired several times, once from the Navy after 22 years, and then from Celestica in 2006. Seems that when he stays home he is prone to falling off ladders and breaking bones (first a heel, then a wrist) so we’ve decided he’s better off working! He’s now working with Stan Ackerman and Betty McGhee at Deceuninck in the Little Rock riverport area.

Ray’s 89-year-old Mom is in the England Manor nursing home in the same room as her twin sister. Yes – Florene and Corene, age 89, came into the world together and are spending their senior years together as well. Ray and I enjoy each other’s company and our hobby is eating out! We also stay busy with church activities and working in the yard. We still think we’re 21 most of the time, but our bodies don’t always agree. We look forward to keeping up with everyone. Love to all of you. Arti & Ray

Jim Kindy, Minnie Rae Bennett, Governor Ware, Arti VanZandt, ???, Mike Dodge , Shirley Miller

Bill Donaldson, Arti VanZandt, Vickie Hollowell, Sarah Dillard, Florence Roberts

Marlis Wynn, Vickie Hollowell, Florence Roberts, Sarah Dillard, Frances Sager

This picture was taken at a Professional Secretaries Assoc. conference in either Tulsa, OK, or Russellville, AR., about 1992.

Dorthy Barnett, Barbara Spann, Janis Galloway, Judy Mroz, Arti VanZandt, (Linda Roberts—not an ATT employee), Jannette Lovell

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my old friends and co-workers of the past a wonderful and safe HOLIDAY SEASON and a JOYOUS NEW YEAR.
I often think how fortunate I am to have had the pleasure of working with all of you and giving me such great memories. I didn’t realize how fortunate I was at the time but I hold those memories dear today.
May God Bless all of you ALWAYS !
SCOTTIE QUIRE

 

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posted Jan 9, 2008

Thanks Mike Brauer for the email that put me in touch with this great site.
Its so good to connect with the co-workers at AT&T/Teletype. My thanks to all involved in making this possible. I reallyy miss Tom Nordengren’s news letter but this is even greater in that we can actually interact. I have wondered so often where so many of you went. I was kinda out of touch for awhile as I have been in California until June of this year for almost a year.
I retired in 1991 and truly miss all the old gang. Robert (my husband) passed away in 1996 with a long battle of Lou Garick disease and I was so thankful that I was retired then. I had the pleasure of having lunch with Phyl, Shirl and Nell Grimes lately and really enjoyed seeing them.
I’m now living in Little Rock and working part-time as assistant manager of the Senior Cottages of Otter Creek. Not really a job but something to do. I’ll be going back to California on March 1st. for about a month but I will be able to check the site there. Hope all of you have a great 2008 !! Scottie Quire

Hey Everyone -

I stumbled upon this site by accident. And then found that I was listed among the missing in action. I worked at the plant from January, 1986 through July, 1991. I started in Industrial Engineering and Plant Engineering, later worked to help start up the 386SX PC assembly line for the SABRE/American Airlines contract, and finished in the Systems Engineering group working with Don Stuart, Suresh, and George Foo.

Looking at the photos and reading the posts, I am reminded of what a great time that was – and I miss all the great folks who passed through those doors. And the fun outside work…golf, 5K runs, trips to the horse races, fishing trips to the coast, Easter egg hunts, and on and on.

I have had a varied career since leaving Teletype, including GM of a pharmaceutical packaging plant in Texas and VP of Ops for Baldwin Piano, with responsibility for 3 plants in AR and MS. Most recently I have been involved with starting and running the operations for VC-backed technology companies in Memphis. First, mimeo.com and now PlanExpress.net.

I’d love to catch up with some of you all.

Tom DeGreve

Does anyone have the recipe for the cranberry sauce I used to make? Mike Guariello loved it, and I have lost the recipe….

Also, what was that chocolate and hot fudge cake we used to make?

Can we add a tab for recipes to share? Boy is my memory shot!!!

 

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Posted December 29, 2007

Mike,

What a great idea, thank you for doing this. I have e-mail addresses for several former employees and will forward this right away. Thank you John Naglak for forwarding this to me.

Life after AT&T: Walter and I moved to my birthplace near Batesville, AR, to take care of my parents in their golden years. Father died in 1997 after becoming infected with ehrlichiosis from a tick bite, Mother died in 2001 after a long bout with rheumatoid arthritis and a liver disease. When we moved there, we built our house three tenths of a mile off the main road on 145 acres of pasture and timber. Until my parents died, we thoroughly enjoyed the peace and quiet, the spring fed pond in our front yard that my father had stocked with catfish, bass, and crappie. The yard was frequented daily by a variety of wildlife such as deer, quail, and turkey. It was a virtual paradise if you didn’t mind the ticks and isolation. However, after the death of my parents, it became very lonely there, and we longed for bright lights and big city life again. Also, Walter’s health was starting to fail big time, so, in August 2004, I sold my beloved homeplace and moved us to Fort Mill, SC, a suburb of Charlotte, NC, where his two sons now live with their new spouses. Our lot is the size of a postage stamp compared to the 145 acre property; however, we don’t have to maintain the lawn.

Walter had open heart surgery in ‘05 (aorta valve replacement and reduction of enlarged septum), during which time he suffered a “medium” sized stroke which left him with mild dementia and also without vision in the lower left quadrant of both eyes. So, we have now traded roles in life–not an easy thing for either of us to do. But, after two and a half years of practice, we seem to have adjusted satisfactorily.

We live in an age-restricted community for those who are 55 and better where we have a large support group. http://www.fourseasonsgoldhill.org/outside_home.asp Walter looks forward to playing cards every week with some of his old school buddies whom he has known all his life. They play in our community clubhouse that is close enough for him to walk to the games. In inclement weather, I drive him, or one of the guys comes by for him. I do all the driving now. Under the circumstances, life is good.

As usual, I have gotten a “little” long winded….

Happy holidays to all,

Jannette

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Here is a younger Walter.  Couldn’t find anything of him taken at AT&T.  You know we had to call someone from Personnel to take a picture inside the building.  Wonder what happened to all those pictures….

 

 

View Jim Rush’s comments on the above photo here http://ttylr.wordpress.com/events/#comment-70

Just to let everyone know I am still around and doing well. Joanne and I still live at the same place in Little Rock and I continue to work for BEI Precision Systems and Space Company in Maumelle with a couple of Teletype refugees ( Gary Jones, Jeff Hunter, James Rotenberry). I enjoy this site and have passed it along to all I know. Regards to everyone – miss you all.

We have returned from Ruidoso, NM. After 4 months, it is so good to be home.
Upon receipt of Lucent health benefits package for 2009, Dom decided to chuck it and go on Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Has anyone else noticed how your benefits are slowly disappearing? Maybe we can blame this on Bush??
The summer was fun, but there are just no people like good ol’ Arkansas people. Got pretty tired of “Texans”. No offense to anyone. I know, we were in New Mexico, but the place is full of Texans leaving the heat for those cool altitudes. Dom played a lot of golf, and we did a lot of sight-seeing, and eating, of course.
Don’t forget to vote today. It’s your only way to have your say.
God bless.

 

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Posted April 26, 2008

We just saw Kay Loyd at Silver Dollar City and she told us about this blog. This is a great way to keep in touch. We haven’t made any of the Pioneer Dinners, as we rarely want to drive in Little Rock traffic. We are both in good health. Dom decided after working in Big Timber, MT, in 1999 that we should move out of Little Rock to a smaller town. He loved being in that small town. So, we came back home(for Joan) to Morrilton. We have 28 family members who also live here, as well as Joan’s mother, who is 92 and still living in her own home.
I am going to try to enclose a photo of Dom with his two grandchildren from John, if you all remember our son, John.
We were hearing from Tom Nordegren and Gayle Roberts for a while, but not recently.
We are planning to spend from June through September in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Will enjoy the summer better there than in the heat and humidity of Arkansas. We have an RV and will stay in an RV park there. We’ve already been two other times.
If Joan had her way, we would live there permanently. But, it’s really too far away from family.
We are very involved in our church, First Methodist, and the community. We’ve made some very good friends. We live on nearly an acre, so we have lots to keep. Dom is having a great time growing grapes, blueberries, and blackberries, and muscadines, as well as keeping the five pecan trees healthy. For a city boy, who hardly knew how to start a lawn mower when we got married, he is doing great guns.
He put all his certifications in suspension a few years back, and is slowly getting rid of all his technical information. It’s difficult for him though, because he loved the quality field.
We would very much like to know who sent in the photo of Dominick and Tom Benight, because Dom would like to have a copy of that photo. Our mailing address is 1001 E. Burrow, Morrilton, AR 72110. Dom was very fond of Tom and was so sad when he passed away. He saw the photo on this blog and it brought back of lot of good memories.
If I can, I will try to enclose a photo of us now. Dom looks great-I look chubby. haha
I could go on all day-but that’s enough.
We would love to hear from everyone.
Where is David Earls?
Our love and good wishes to all.

Hey, please take both Vern and I off the “missing list”. We are both happy and healthy.

I love the old pictures ( like the ones with names attached to the faces best) lol. Its a joy to see familiar faces of friends and coworkers at Teletype.

Hello all,

I look at this website and the names listed and the memories come flooding back. It’s been a long meandering road since I started with AT&T back in August of 1985. I spent 21 years with AT&T and Lucent Technologies. In 2006 I left Lucent and started work with Solectron which was subsequently bought by Flextronics. I still work with Alcatel-Lucent; they are my customer now.

I’m currently living in New Jersey…I never thought I would be there for any extended time. But here I am.

It was Fantastic Reading the responses of so many
of the people That I worked with for about
thirty years at the Little Rock Location. I left Little Rock in 1995 for the North Andover Plant, then transferred to Phoenix Service Center in 1996. When I Retired in 1999 We Moved back to Arkansas because this was where our 8 GrandChildren live. Must have baked my brain in Arizona because I am still writing Software five days a week.

Posted August 29, 2008

Hey Everyone!!!

I have really been missing all of you!! I really know what it means when I hear someone say “The Good Ole Days”, we didn’t know it then but I’m sure we all know it now.

I was just wondering if anybody has heard from or anything about Sharon Pittman? I used to get email from her and I don’t anymore.

I am getting alittle worried. Please let me know.
Bye for now.
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Posted January 14, 2008
Hello to everyone!!!
I miss you all very much. Hope you are all fine and doing well.
Thinking positively, this year will be the best year for all of us!
luv to all.
Judy

Posted Aug 26, 2008

Greetings,

An update for me on the current Job situation.

In an Ironic twist of fate, I now work for SAP.

It is kind of interesting because I was on the SAP implmentation team just before leaving Celestica.

And was in the process of implementing SAP for IBM for Lucent just before being transferred to Avaya. Don’t you just love ERP’s?

I think I have worked on most of them, and am grateful to be employed still.

26 years down, 17 to go!

 

Out for now,

Shew

 

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Posted Dec 30.2007

Merry Christmas Update.
All is well in Bryant for us this year.
Becky (my wife) and I celebrated being married for 25 years. We were married almost 1 month after I started working for Western Electric out in Aurora CO back in 1982.

Does not seem like 25 years has past….

I now work for a company named visiprise http://www.visiprise.com , those of you now working for Falcon Jet, may be using it in the MES (Manufacturing Execution System), I am a customer service analyst where after the customer reports a problem , we are to

verify the defect and assist the customer/developer in solving the issue.

Me, Flash, Max Webster, Joey, meet almost every Friday at 07:00 am at the Bryant Cafe (used to be moon-pie cafe), occassionally we see Ackerman , and MaxHiemer(??) now a policeman for the city.

Come by and see us if ever in the neighborhood.

Out for now,
Shew
(Dave Shewmaker (at the plant from june 1989- Dec 2005)

HI..EVERY BODY DO YOU REMMEBER ME I WORK AS A TECH FROM 1977 TO 1992..THEN I TRASFERED TO COLUMBUS OH..AND THEN TO GEORGIA AND BACK TO LITTLE ROCK.. STILL WORKING FOR AT&T..GLAD KILLER SENT ME THIS SITE..I WAS SHOCKED, WHEN I READ ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAD PASSED AWAY.. I KNEW AND WORKED WITH ALOT OF THEM..I BOOK MARK THIS SITE..AND ILL SEND THE INFO ON TO OTHER FOLKS THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH US…GOD BLESS YOU..CLIFF PRICE

I’m a transplant from Arizona but I’m here. Hi yall

Hi all! I am certainly enjoying reading about so many of you. This is a great website. So glad for those who graciously put it together for us. I hope everyone is doing great.

I’m working at UAMS now. I’ve been there over 3 years so far, and don’t plan to leave any time soon. As I was one of the unlucky folks that did not get to retire (I’m still moaning over that one, unfortunately), I am starting a part time job soon to help with my daughter’s college expenses. UAMS has great benefits, but lacking in pay I’m afraid–hence, the need for supplemental income. Otherwise we are all doing well. I can’t believe my baby girl is leaving me for college this month. I miss her already! I’m trying to prepare for the infamous empty nest now.

Tommy and I have 3 kids, my oldest one married to a wonderful young lady and giving us 4 beautiful and loving grandchildren. As you know, we lost Tommy on August 4, 2005, and I just don’t think life will ever be the same again. However, we are doing our best to move on in a positive, happy manner as we know Tommy would want nothing less. We love and miss him dearly and always will. It is still difficult for me to imagine my life without him. But I continue to try.

So glad to hear so many of you are doing great! That is wonderful news. God bless you all!

Donna

Posted August 16, 2008

Hey guys so sorry that I have not blogged yet…I am working at a place called Decrane Aerospace Audio International where we make audio for private jets and such…Falcon is one of our customers…I put small and I do mean small components on circuit boards…I worked several areas in the plant and circuit cards was one of many…I got to retire, thank God and was there when it was Celestica and it went to Mexico…I have a lot of great memories about Teletype and thanks for this site!!!!

Posted January 10, 2008

I am now working at a place called Decrane Aerospace Audio International…I put components on circuit boards that have been solder pasted by machine and then they go into an oven that melts the solder for the part..The boards go into small corporate jets at the airport..Falcon jet is one of our customers that we put these into..Decrane is a small workplace with about 50 or so people..Some of the employees have worked at Teletype or Celestica.

Posted Aug 6, 2008

Spoke with Martha Hilson this week who worked in training with Gayle and Max…as far as I know she doesn’t have an email address.

 

 

 

Posted Dec 29,2007

This is GREAT!!!

Richard and I are doing OK. He had to retire in 2006 due to health problems. He hates retirement as much as I hate that I have to continue to work! After being given a Force Management Package and leaving the Avaya Health Services Group in 2001(?), I stayed at home for several months, then went to work at a local furniture store where I have been now for 5+ years. Recently, I was “promoted” to office manager.

Our grandsons are now 22, 19, and 15. Dustin the oldest is in college and working at Eskimo or Mexico Joe’s in Stillwater, OK. He tells us he got A’s and B’s last semester and has 1-1/2 years left to go…I’m not sure yet what his major is…it’s either criminal justice or psychology! Jeremy, 19, got married in July and he and his wife, Regina, are expecting their first child now. He is going to college and hopes to become a veterinarian. Austin, 15, lives to hunt and fish!!

At home, we have Sassye, our miniature pinscher who is 10, and Tuffie Cat…a cat we rescued from being dumped. They are both spoiled rotten and if they were children no one could stand them.

I wanted to include a photo of Richard and me taken at the Mt. Magazine Lodge, but couldn’t figure out how to get it in here! Hey…I’m still on a learning curve with computers! HA!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

 John Van Norman
I had a rather short stay in Little Rock, and if you blinked I had already come and gone but it was a rewarding and memorable experience for me.

Sadly email had not yet become the tool that it is today and I lost track of many dear friends.

It took me a year to get over my hankering for Tex-Mex and jalapeño cornbread for lunch, and more seriously, I missed the everyday friendly greetings from strangers as well as friends.

Cheers everyone, J

What a great way to keep up with everyone.

Thanks to Lee Wright for fowarding the site info to me.
I like so many others miss the good ole days and all of the friends we had at the plant.
I will try to get back soon and often, Thanks again.

Hi all ; I went to the Oklahoma City works in1988 and after 13 years there I retired in 2001 and moved to Scottsdale Arizona. I love living out here and we get about 3″ of rain a year. Not working just play golf twice a week. Hope the note finds you all well.

Just wanting to add my name to the list (again)! This is a wonderful thing, it is a surprise how many people on the list that you remember and that you miss.

Do you remember the pink hand cleaner that was in your seat on the Modle 40 Printer line Gordon?

Those were the day’s my Friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted 2/5/08

This is wonderful………thank you Gordon.

Tom and I are liveing in Royal AR on the Lake it is real nice and quiet compared to Little Rock.

As some of you know………..Tom survied a second Cancer Tumor in his brain his chance of survival were slim to none. He is in a wheelchair but still the same good old guy.

In my 32 years at the plant, I enjoyed all of it and miss all the people. I could stay on this site reading about every one all day.

Thanks to all, Tom & Joanne Nation

Posted 5/12/08
It has been quiet on here! I have had an exciting month so far, and wanted to share. My youngest, Amanda Gail, got her wish granted from Make a Wish on May 1st. She wanted to meet Kenny Chesney, so that is what we did! Make a Wish is awesome and our volunteers were like angels.
Secondly, my oldest, Thomas, graduated from Sheridan High School! It is good to finally get him through… it’s been trying to say the least. Middle child Ryan will be in 10th grade, and he can’t wait for Thomas to move out!!

Take care everyone!

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Posted 1/8/08 

Hello everyone! This is fantastic and thank you to the brilliant master minds behind this! Even though I was only at the plant from ‘96 – ‘06, it was enough time to form some long lasting friendships and many wonderful memories. I am working with AT&T now, formerly Cingular…. here we go again! I am very lucky to have landed here after Celestica, but miss everyone still so much. Take care everyone and keep in touch!!

I was an electronics tech/setup from 1976-2000. My wife and I transfered to the Lucents micro-electronics plant in Reading, Pa. in 2000 which later became Agere Systems. We retired from Agere in 2002 and moved back to Arkansas. We now live in Benton and love being retired.

For those of you that did not come to the Pioneer lunch, you missed a really good time. I was asked to share some information so here goes:

1.Mildred Merritt broke her hip and is in a nursing home hospital and would love to hear from any of you folks. Here’s her address:

Mildred Merritt
Gran Gran’s Place
Room 1138
Yukon, OK 73099

2. Cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and if you don’t want to be bothered by these calls all you have to do is call the National Do Not Call number and it will block your phone for five years. Here’s the number to call:
1-888-382-1222 You must call from your cell phone.

3.Tom Nordengren gave me a web site address regarding Legislative issues on retirement issues. There is a lot of good information if you want to take a look for yourself. The website is:
http://www.NRLN.org.

The next Pioneer lunch is scheduled for the last Thursday in April. April 24th to be exact. Would love to see some more folks.

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 Posted on March 18

The Teletype Pioneers are having their monthly luncheon this Thursday, March 20,2008 at the Golden Corral from 11:30am until 1:00pm. The cost is usually $8.50 but this month it’s free because of a mixup. If you decide to go this month just get your drink and meet up with us in the meeting room. All you have to pay is the tip.

See ya there,

Shirl

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 Posted 2/25/08

The Teletype Pioneer monthly luncheon is this Thursday, Feb. 28th from 11:00am til 1:00pm at the Golden Corral in North Little Rock on Warden Road. The cost is $8.50 and this includes the tip. Just tell the cashier you’re with the Teletype Pioneers. We meet the the meeting room in the back of the restaurant. Hope the weather will be better this month and hope to see some new folks.

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 posted 1/8/08

I’ve been retired for about three years and really enjoying it. I belong to three quilt guilds and am very active with that. I meet on the last Thursday of the month with the Pioneers at the Golden Corral in North Little Rock on Warden Road from 11:00am til 1:00pm. We really have a great time and have a good turnout. We meet in the meeting room in the back of the restaurant. If anyone wants to meet with us, we would love to have you.

Matt is doing quite well with his upholstery business and Dennis is still working but looking forward to retirement. Hope to hear from some of you soon.

Shirl Miller
1632 Matt Lane
Hensley, AR 72065

Hello everyone!
Bob and I are living in Star City, AR.
He has retired, and I’m the office manager and Real Estate Agent at The Harper Company, INC.
We have been enjoying the last 12 yrs. watching our 3 children, all 10 of our grandchildren, and our 2 great grandchildren grow up.
We live in the country on 52 acres in a house we built ourselves.
We couldn’t ask for a better retirement.
We miss you all, and we hope you are all just as happy!

This is fantastic!! Evelyn Allen (used to be) sent it to me. I am so excited to get to hear from everyone. I am not doing anything exciting, just spending time with my two granddaughters, Naomi, 5 and Candice, 8. Have a great day and let me hear from all of you.

In Loving Memory of James Whitcomb Ellis, IV
May 5, 1949 – March 5, 1998

Ten years . . . seems like only yesterday since James died yet it seems like we’ve been without him forever. Here are some stories that made him the great guy we all knew and loved . . .

• He would meet me in the driveway to caution me that my youngest son had to write yet another note telling me about “showing out” in class. James asked me to please go easy on Zach because “we don’t want to stifle his personality.” Anybody that has known Zach over the years knows that his personality has never been stifled!!!

• Once James made it to Benton on Friday evening, there was no getting him back to Little Rock until Monday morning—Bobbie Reese and I still refer to him as “the Bentonian.”

• He drew pencil mustaches on a picture of the Maintenance crew so they would all look like Cauley!

• He and Cam (I think) hid some men’s boots in a restroom stall and watched Martina, the custodian, keep peeking around the door to see if “the person” had left so she could go in and clean.

• He gave me a 50th wedding anniversary card early because he was afraid he’d be senile by the time we’d been married for 50 years and he’d forget to give it to me. The fact that we were in our 40’s when we married was a pretty good indication we wouldn’t see our Golden anniversary.

I hope you have good memories of James also and would love for you to share them with me if you’d like.

God Bless all of you,
Karen Ellis