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.