What Digital and its culture did for this one Maynard family! 

My son, Chris worked summers in High School in the Mill for Shipping and Receiving…and learned all the quirks of the freight elevators and how to find his way thru the 65 floors and a million square feet!.. A few years later, Pete Sharon found Christopher working as an HVAC mechanic on the roof of one of the Digital Northborough Facilities for a contractor and offered him a job on the spot.  He happily worked for Facilities until it was all over. He had great times and friends….He has since worked for over 25 years at Bedford Mechanical using the skills he learned at DEC.

 

His sister, Linda, worked summers in college in Security, also in the Mill, and loved it. Some really wild stories of her adventures  Later in her career after a series of non-Digital jobs, she finally agreed to join “the army of DECies”… she worked in Telecom and made many wonderful friends…She honed her skills and took advantage of all DEC offered. After Digital, she ended her career as a Director at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, when cancer robbed us of our Lindy.  

 

Chris’ older sister, Elisabeth, worked, after Green Mountain Junior College, for The Harvard Coop’s Management Training Program.  I had a big automobile accident and she left Cambridge to come home and help.  She soon found a position at Stow’, Data Terminals, an off-shoot of DEC .  After a few years and a bonus trip to Rome and Paris, she too found herself caught in the web of DEC.  Digital sent her to Boston University nights and after ten years she got her degrees. All paid for by Digital.  She had many positions within Dec and eventually became a Project Manager.  She has just left Dell and starts tomorrow at National Grid.

 

After my automobile accident and the doctors told me to stay really busy and go find an interesting job…I entered Digital, as secretary to The Office Service’s Manager, who was formerly a Playboy Bunny and wife of Dick Krueger, head of Security for Digital.  I moved along to Coordinator, then Administrator, then Supervisor and finally I was one of the Mill’s Facility Managers. Lots of flights on the helicopter, courses in Chicago, New York City, and even classes at Harvard.

 

God bless Digital and Ken Olsen…We were blessed to be part of the greatest!