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The Pioneer's Club

The Pioneer’s Club Newsletter

Volume 6, Issue  7

July 2012

Rochester Picnic

Obituary Page

We lost  six individuals that I am aware of since the last newsletter.

 

They will be missed by who knew them.

 

John E, Straight - June 7, 2012 in Caledonia at age 88. John retired from Ginna.

 

Raymond B. Luft - June 7, 2012 in Lima, NY at age 94. Ray retired from the Transportation Department where he was the rescue truck driver. Ray was a Gunnery Sergeant in the Marines during WW II. Serving in the South Pacific including Iwo Jima, and retired from Rochester Gas & Electric where he was a Mechanic, a Foreman and Rescue Squad Leader.

 

Loren J. Liptak - June16, 2012, in Ridgeway, PA. Loren retired from Ginna. He served in the Navy and retired after 20 years service.

 

Manuel J. Cottone- June 18, 2012 in Rochester, NY at age 81. Manny retired from Purchasing after 41 years of service with the company. Manny worked in Customer Service at East Ave until health conditions required that he move to Purchasing. Manny was an Army veteran having served during the Korean War.

 

Elsie M. Gelo - June 20, 2012 in Chili, NY at age 96. My records indicate that she worked in Elec Maps and Records, but emails notifying me of her passing indicated that she was thew Main Office Elevator Operator.

 

William R. Lamb - June 29, 2012 in Webster, NY at age 60. Bill worked for over 27 years as an Applications Programmer & Systems Analyst.

June Events

Here are the important dates for July

 

       July 4th    Independence Day.

       July 11th   Jefferson Road Group July Luncheon at                                 Tully's

       July 20     Ramadan Begins at Sundown.

July Birthdays

A Sad Note

Our Retiree Benefits

Jefferson Road Group

Help Wanted

Web Page

As many of you found, our web site had problems. When anyone tried to go to our site Google produced an error message that we had an unsafe site and proceeding on was not advised.

 

So after a lot of complaining and moaning, I repaired all 5000+ pages and took off the code that Google was complaining about.

 

Our web site is back up and running and has been error free for a couple of months. Please check it out and if you find any errors let me know so I can work on them. The only error I know of is the Calendar page. It just plain doesn't work and I’m not sure how to fix it.

 

The Pioneers Club

This is your final reminder on the Picnic. Next months newsletter will be arriving right about the time we’re holding the picnic

 

We will be having Hot dogs (Red & White), Hamburgers, Grilled Chicken Breast, Rolls, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, Milk, Tea, and Coffee, and Dessert, and Chips, Pretzels & Peanuts at the bar

 

 For tickets, you must send a check made out to the “Pioneers of RG&E” for $16.00 per person..  Then mail it to:

Arnie Stockslader

131  LeGran Rd

Rochester, NY  14617

 

The checks must be received by Thursday, July 19, 2012. This allows us time to  make sure the caterer has sufficient food on hand.

 

This year we are again having a 50/50 raffle as well as door prizes for everyone’s enjoyment.

                                                                 June 25, 2012

 

Dear Arnie,

 

Your card about the Pioneers Picnic arrived Saturday. In the past years we have visited Rochester in late August, never hitting the date. But we will not be making the trip again. My wife Gwen is in the late stages of Parkinson’s and in Health/Hospice care — and has congestive heart problems as well— can’t walk an it is 24/7 care and mostly mine. We have been in beautiful NC for 17 years now. I got out in 1994 in TREP 2, all in Electric Distribution— almost 30 years outside and then finished under Bill Fredenburg in engineering —— if I remember correctly, you were in Substations? (Ed Note: That was Arnie’s cousin in Substations)

             In any event, I think that you can remove us from your list as a move to Brenham, Texas is imminent and I am pretty sure I will never see Rochester again. Thanks for all your efforts in behalf of the retirees. RGE was a great place to work.

                                                    Sincerely,

                                                    Dick

Arnie received this note from Richard N. Jacobs. If you wish to respond, please use this address as he has no email listed:

6007 CYPRESS POINT

SANDFORD, NC 27332

Yeah!!!!!  This is the first month since December that I did not an email about RG&E’s Health Care Insurance.  I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or not.

 

As far as the dental insurance goes. I get two answers, one that says there is no allowance and one that says there is.

 

My advise is that you keep the money available just incase it’s some special benefit that older retirees got that new retirees don't get…..

The Jefferson Road Luncheon Group dropped me a note that their August Lunch will be cancelled due tp the Pioneer’s Picnic. But it will resume in September.

 

As an aside, they commented that Tully’s staff is very accommodating and the food is really good.

I received an email from Mary Gardener. I hope we can help.

 

Dear Mr. Clegg:

 

I have been hired on in a part-time consulting role to Dick Ash and CPWard Company to help them write their corporate history.  I am quite convinced that this will be an interesting story, when we can fill in many blanks.  Dick asked Phil Brooks for some direction in seeing how we can benefit from some study of RG&E's archives;

he suggested we contact you.  CPW's history is very much connected to RG&E, and in fact, to the history of the City of Rochester, certainly in terms of its built

environment.

 

I would be happy to meet with you and/or others or to pursue any avenue that would help us gather historical information.  We know that Conrad P. Ward worked with

the Rochester Railway & Light Co., the precursor of RG&E.  Thank you in advance for your suggestions about how I might proceed.  I am trying to to accelerate

information gathering in the next two weeks. 

 

Mary Gardner (315-685-2047) 

mary gardner mlgardner37@yahoo.com

 

Now I know that someone from one of the operating departments can set her on the right path.