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Information Technology (IT) Pioneers

Retirees and former employees of Unisys, Lockheed Martin, and their heritage companies

Club Calendar:

IMPORTANT NOTE:

All VIP club social activiities are cancelled until further notice.

Social Activities

If the pandemic abates, we hope to plan:

  1. May 7, 2021: Roseville Good Old Days at the Mermaid
  2. June tbd day: annual reunion picnic.
  3. Sep. 14, 2021:   4one celebration at Royal Cliff 

Board Meetings:

  • December 2nd
  • Feb 3rd, 2021
  • April 7th, 2021
  • Jume 2nd, 2021
  • Aug 4th, 2021

If you as a Club member want to sit in, notify the President the 2 days before.

Welcome to the VIP Club Website

VIP Club members' personal friendships started during our heritage company working days then continued as we've transitioned into retirement or other work. As of October 2020 we have 718 active memberships in 40 states plus one each in Canada, Germany, and Greece - Join us!*  We are proud of our heritage companies, our technology innovations, and our teamwork accomplishments while on the job - an intriguing and continuing legacy.  This is a living web site**, updated periodically with new Club announcements and/or Legacy Anthology articles-items.

  • Posted: Our Stories December article, Standardization - prologue by Charles Alcon (Lcdr US Navy ret.) [11/19/2020]
  • REQUEST FREE ZOOM MEETING: Active VIP club members can request a free Zoom meeting of unlimited duration by sending an email to vipzoommtg@vipclubmn.org. The email must include the requestor’s name, meeting date, start time and duration.
    When the VIP Zoom Meeting coordinator has scheduled your meeting, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link that you must forward to the participants you are inviting to your meeting. Participants need to only click on the link to join meeting. No meeting host is required.
    Requests are honored on a first come first served basis if date/times overlap. Send questions to vipzoommtg@vipclubmn.org.  [11/15/2020]
  • Newsletters: The Dec/Nov newsletter went to the print shop, electronic distributions complete - contact newsletter@vipclubmn.org if you do not receive it by 11/16. Jan/Feb 2021 issue inputs are due to chief editor before December 15th. [11/6/2020]
  • Recent web updates: 1) Added career summary, http://vipclubmn.org/PeopleIJKL.html#Iskos; 2) archived the Sept/Oct newsletter, http://vipclubmn.org/Newsletters.html#Archives; 3) updated the Obituary Logs with 2020 data, http://vipclubmn.org/deceased.html; and added the November article, http://vipclubmn.org/OurStories.html#2020. [11/4/2020]
  • October board decisions: 1) Resolved to extend 2020 board member terms through 2021; 2) Resolved to extend all current memberships by one year, i.e. 2020 paid members now paid through 2021, 2021 thru 2022, etc.; and 3) Resolved to grant 2021 free memberships to qualified new registrants, see http://vipclubmn.org/Membership.html for qualifications and an on-line form. [10/10/2020]

*Within this site, blue text links to another website page/document, or to email software for messaging, or a page/chapter scroll down.  
**Contact webmaster to report broken links or to correct factual errors, or to post items hereon [item post date in brackets].  If you have an address, phone, or email change; please send it to membership@vipclubmn.org.  If you have a newsletter article or an obit to share with our membership, send it to newsletter@vipclubmn.org. 

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