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Legacy Committee
 
Co-chairs
John Westergren, LMCO Eng.
 
Lowell Benson, VIP Club Officer

 

Current LMCO employees
Bob Monson - Systems Engineering 
Peggy Mulikan - Communications
John Samuelson - Engineering Mgmt
John Skonnord - Editor

VIP Club volunteers

Bill Bergen - Systems Engineer

Larry Bolton - Component Engineer

Dick Erdrich - Computer Designer

Millie Gignac - Human Resources

Quintin Heckert - Systems Engineer

Gary Hokenson - Computer Designer

Bernie Jansen - Engineering Manager

Don Lovely - Systems Engineer

Dick Lundgren - Instructor/Writer

Ed Michaud - Facilities Management

Ed Nelson - Engineering Manager

Dick 'Ole' Olson - Systems Engineer

Jim Rapinac - Marketing VP

Harvey Taipale - Engineering Manager

Tom Turba - Engineering Manager

Earl Vraa - Engineering Manager

Others

Dr. Tom Misa - Director, Charles Babbage Institute 

Legacy Status

We formed the initial committee in October 2005, then met with the Charles Babbage Institute in January 2006.  We started a web site in March 2006.  Since then we've:

 

Gathered over 150 topical articles and career summaries for web site use. 

 

Conducted oral/video interviews with about a dozen retired persons.

 

Gathered numerous documents from retirees.

 

Cataloged 40 boxes of patent dockets before transferring them to the Charles Babbage Institute.

 

Gathered numerous hardware artifacts including models, plaques, components, printed circuit cards, computers, ...

 

Published "The Fred Hargesheimer Story." for local distribution and web viewing.

 

Transferred all collected articles and career summaries from Lowell Benson's personal web site to the VIP Club's new web site.

 

Created new genealogy charts from old combined and defense charts plus modern information - see computers page.

 

Generated a 1-year and a 2-year Legacy status report to LMHQ.

 

Ole retired on 3/31/2008, John Westergren is now the LMCO focal point.

Developed a technology history display for Minnesota's 2008 sesquicentennial Capitol Mall celebration.  Showed this display at Plant 4, the MACS building, LMCO, and the Eagan Community Center.  

Legacy Plans

Next committee meeting on September 3rd at LMCO, 1 p.m. in the East Lobby

  

Harvey Taipale, Larry Bolton, and Quint Heckert are meeting Monday afternoons at LMCO to catalogue artifacts and documents.  Contact them if you'd like to help.

 

We've started outlining a book intending to eventually publish an anthology using items from the web site. (Quint Heckert)

 

We've begun investigating the process of developing a movie. (Harvey Taipale)

  

We've considered setting up an artifact display in the LMCO lobby.

 

We're seeking contacts to transfer selected hardware artifacts to the Minnesota Historical Society, or other computer history facilities.

 

We're continuing oral interviews of  'old timers. (John Westergren)

 

Earl Vraa is leading a group which is documenting the Computer Aided Design development at UNIVAC. 

 

We're now staffing a display of our History/Legacy booth items at the Minnesota State Fair.  See the Home - Calendar/Activities page.

VIP Page 11 updated 23 July, 2008