NAVCOMPARS Gang

Updated 24 Jun 11
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Darlington, Diana
Davis, Joseph "Joe"
Dewland, John J.
Deyermond, Robert "Bob"
Dickerson, Everett "Ev":
Dixon, Carl
Dodohara, Jimmmy
Duckworth, Ralph
Dungan, Anita
Dunn, Carl
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Earle, Dougr
Ekstrom, Ron
Embody, Jill
Emerson, Bob
Ennis, Bob
Evans, Carmen
Evans, Ray "The Fossil"
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Faba, Barry
Fendler, Eric
Field, Conrad
Flynn, Capt John
Frazier, Mary
Freeman, Nancy
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Gaddis, David L.
Galvin, Patrick "Pat"
Garmew, Tom 30 mar
Garrity, Diane
Ging, Earl
Glenn, Gordon "Stonie"
Goforth, George
Greengrass, Ed

(prior lifetime known as Diana D. Long)
Bio: -- Started with NAVCOSSACT as consultant in 1971 to 1974 at which time I moved from the area and started a family. Returned to Washington area to live and work in 1976 . Now have 3 grown children and 2 grandsons. I presently work for Encore Networks and live in Ashburn, VA.
Contact:
E-mail=ddarlington1@yahoo.com
Phone=703-724-0780
Address= 43120 Wintergrove Dr.,Ashburn VA 20147

Davis, Joseph "Joe"

Last Word: 15 Feb 05 -- Joe says,thanks for the news. Cathy and I are 'hanging' down here in Florida. Say Hi for us to the gang meting at ZIOS for lunch. We would like to join you some day this summer or fall.
Updates: See pictures of the new hog for those nonbelievers.
Bio -- Joe hired BH in 72. He retired in 1994 did some consulting and other work until Cathy was able to retire. They moved to State College PA. We were all "surprised" to learn they have a "MILD" attraction to PENN State football. They also have a "non-football season" home in Homosassa FL.
BH Memory: Joe laid down the "one beer rule" (smile). BH recalls many beers and good times and hard work that was fun too.

Dewland, John J.

Last Word: 14 Jan 05 -- E-mails, This is from your old roommate at the Navy Yard John Dewland. I finally moved up to the cutting edge of technology and got E-mail installed. My new address is jjdbwd@mac.com, . . . I have been retired for a number of years and am enjoying life to the fullest.
John worked on MPS with me in Bldg 196 WNY before move to Cheltenham. As I recall we painted two offices when they had a program letting you, and afterward we got moved to another office needing painting, we stopped after the second and soon after John took job with Army in AZ. He and wife now live in Owings, MD.

Deyermond, Robert "Bob"

Last Word: 19 Jan 05 -- I made the move to NNSOC in October. Ron made me an offer. Could not stand SPAWAR any longer!!!
I hope to play in the Duckworth, but will not be part of the organizing.
Dahlgren is great. It reminds me of a big Cheltenham!
Bio: -- Started in 1980 with NAVTASC in Cheltenham. First began with CDSI (Carter’s hiring freeze impact) and then join as a ‘Govie’ in 1981. Had various supervisors along the way, but mainly they were Bruce Miller, Don Akers, Joe Kelly, and now Kenny Atkinson. Have also worked on various projects, but primarily LDMX/NAVCOMPARS, GateGuard, and now FSM.
Married to my wife Jayne and have two children; April and Robbie. April is a junior at UMBC studying to become a nurse and Robbie is in the 7th grade studying to become a NBA star

Dickerson, Everett "Ev"

Last Word:11 Jun 05   BH & Otto,
I want to let you know that you and Steve are doing an outstanding job keeping us informed. I hope other NCP employees recognized the effort it takes to maintain Such an accurate list. It is our only source of information to keep us informed of such a special group of friends and Employees.
That was a special group, the best that I have work with, I enjoyed every reporting to work. You could write a book About our experiences at NCP, and it could be a best seller.
Everett
Bio:  I started working for CDSI in June 1972, assigned to WNY NAVCOSSACT, then LDMX and NAVCOMPARS. I took a GS -12 in 1978 relocated to NAVCOMPARS San Diego in January 1980, returned to NTSIC (Cheltenham) in Sept 1984, resigned in 1986 took a job with ENSCO working on a contract at the GE Plant in Baldwinsville,NY., testing underwater sonar, resigned the same year and was hired to work on DDN at CNCTC, retired in 11/26/94.
FAMILY: Wife Doris J. Dickerson, living in Seaford, DE Children: Shelton & Sherman (twin's) Sherman was killed in a car accident. Adrienne, Craig, Anthony, (Clifton, step son) (Daniel adopted son). .
Grandchildren: Cherelle, Brianne, Andrea, Shayla
Ervin, Terrell, Eric

Last Word:  28 mar 04 -- Ev recovering from major surgery to remove thyroid thought removed years ago, but Doctors suspect a piece broke away, re-attached and grew down in Ev's chest. It was cancer free, thankfully.

Carl Dixon

Carl retired from NAVTASC/SPAWAR SCCNCR at the end of May 2003. He joined us in 19xx at Bldg 31 Cheltenham.
Last Word: 09 Oct 03

I am enjoying R E T I R E M E N T from Spawar, however, I am working for Safeway 40 - 46 hrs a week -- what a blessing
See retire party photos.

Jimmy Dodohara

Last Word: 11 May 04--I am alive. I down here in on Patuxent River Navy Base working for a contractor called Sabre Systems. I'm doing development work for the Mission Planning software the fighter pilots use to plan their missions. We have to take into account plane, weapons, etc...

Duckworth, Ralph

BH memory: Ralph passed away at work of heart failure, I do not recall year. He was at NAVTELCOM Code N5 when BH started. He was a fun person to be around loved golf. Those in TELCOM/NAVCOSSACT and the contractors that worked around him remember him and the friendship and work ethic he represented each year with the annual Duckworth Golf Tournament

Dungan , Anita

Anita Dungan is living in East TN with her husband Tom. I still have two sons, one daughter-in-law and two grandchildren (2 and 3). I say, "still have two sons" because we almost lost one to a near fatal accident 10 years ago. I am 3.25 years away from retirement. I work as a Webmaster for the government but I am looking for work in the southwest right now. I have been in TN for 4 years now but was in the DC area all the time before now.
Last Word: 23 May 04 --I have been in AZ for the last 9 days looking to see if I could afford living there. I have gotten spoiled for TN prices. We drove 1500 miles from the Grand Canyon south to Tucson and around about. My choice would be Tucson for a new job - no doubt. I am supposed to find out Aug. 18 if the IT folks are getting contracted out. We were supposed to find out April 30. So ... if you know anyone in Tucson that needs an old lady (that still works her ass off), let me know.
Anita

Carl Dunn

Contractor in 80's working in Software Control at Cheltenham Bldg 50. In 04 working for AFSCME - Information Services as Manager, Applications Development.
cdunn@afscme.org
Last Word: 18 Mar 04 -- I'm still plugging away, staying quite busy, and enjoying life.
Carl Dunn

Doug Earle

Seems to have retired in Jan 03 from NAVTELCOM.
Last Word: 30 Mar 04 -- I have been a vagabond the past year and a half. I moved from Dumfries, VA to Fredericksburg, VA and back to Dumfries in the space of one year. After I returned to Dumfries I moved again (within Dumfries). I believe I have done my last move for quite a while now. My wife and I downsized when we first moved to Fredericksburg but found that the place we moved to was too small and too close to our friends in Dumfries (we were traveling back 3-4 times a week) so we decided to bite the bullet and move back. We bought a house in a "adult" community but while waiting for it to be completed, we rented for six months. Finally, our house was completed (last month) and we moved in to what we hope is the last house.
I've been too busy packing, moving, and unpacking. I'm still unpacking but since this is the final destination we're taking our time . . .
Doug Earle

Ron Ekstrom Ron

Last Word: 28 Dec 05 -- Ron came into town and spent a couple enjoyable days with me and visiting other friends in the area returning home just before the New Years Holiday.It was really great to see him, can't believe I did not think to take a photo!!!!!
Bio: CDSI head of Software Control Group living in Arkansaw with second wife and a second career in embroidery.
www.chenille.cc
Ron & Peggy Ekstrom
Lasting Impressions Embroidery Company
12009 Geyer Springs Road
Little Rock, AR 72206-4524
(866) 568-2300 - toll free
(501) 568-2345 fax

Embody, Jill

Last Word: 19 Jul 05

Previous Last Word: 16 Jul 05

Bio:

Emerson, Bob

Last Word: 22 Jan 04 - Sent BH a bio
Bio: -- I was in the active duty navy from 1969 - 1980 and last worked at NAVCAMS EASTPAC Hawaii and NAVCAMS WESTPAC Guam as a CUDIXS instructor and NCP Chief-in-Charge respectively. I was recruited as an NCP Site Rep by Chuck Wall when I decided to get out of active duty around 1980. I moved to Stockton California and worked at NAVCOMMSTA Stockton with Fritz Collier as an NCP Site Rep from 1980 to 1987. In 1987 I went to work at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California for ten years. It's a community college where I helped build and implement a Student Information System and HR/Payroll system developed in Object Oriented software using Smalltalk/VisualWorks. In 1997 I moved to Lafayette, Indiana (to be closer to my then wife's family) and went to work at Purdue University as a programmer/analyst. At the time they were developing a student recruitment system using Smalltalk/VisualWorks as a pilot and I kind of fit right in. As an aside, Purdue bought the student system (System 2000) from San Jaoquin Delta College I help build. Although that system wasn't used, the developers analyzed it and took some ideas from it. For the next six years, I continued to help develop and extend the features in the recruitment system into a more sophisticated Student Information System. In 2002, new management decided to buy versus build, and off we went to find and ERP solution for the whole campus (HR, Financial, and Student). Some of the developers went to the ERP project, and I was promoted to manage the 12 developers left to maintain the student applications until ERP implementation. By the way, I completed my naval career in the reserves and retired in 1998 as an E-8. I've recently attained my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Ennis, Bob

Deceased -- June 2001. -- Bob Ennis was the CSC manager back in the 70's. He was into local Republican politics in PG County. He and wife Ella were living in Fort Washington, MD Notes show Ella also ran for a county position once and Bob was the county party chairman at the time.

Evans, Ray "The Fossil"

Rumor deceased. BH told in March 2000 by some they had heard he passed away in FL. Any other info on him let me know.
BH Memory: Fun, smoked constantly, we got drunk three times and sobered up twice on the way to Guam install that was a long trip

Faba, Barry

Last Word: 07 Mar 06    Hinson! I'm not on your list! Steve Otto sponsored web site, with an "o"! Stay healthy!   and provides me a bio ?? without times he worked with us!!!!
Bio:  Barry Faba, 52 [03/07/06, has lived in Northfield, MN, for about 24 years, and continues to do so. He has a couple of large-ish telescopes which help him keep up with neighborhood current events. He has three children, tropical fish, and a wife. Two of the preceeding have left home, and occasionally one of the others is flushed down the toilet. He has been married for what seems an eternity, which has been good training for later. He currently pretends to work at Compellent Technologies, as a professional bottleneck. He also gets to write code. He drives a lot, and at the moment has one and 3/4 cars in the garage, which he believes is the traditional way to maintain a garage. His house has an old and new section, each painted in a slightly but noticeably different shade of light brown; the garage door is another slightly different shade of brown. This makes it easy to find his house, with the added bonus of keeping neigborhood taxes down, a thankless task. He rarely finishes yard projects, preferring to let continental drift deal with them. He thought planting an apple tree in the back yard was a good idea. He was rescued from drowning a couple of years ago, which was OK, aside from the fact he wasn't drowning, which irritated the lifeguard no end when he discovered that. He has opinions, and if pressed, will share them. For example, he takes the long view on recycling, in that everything gets recycled, eventually, so there's no need for any immediate action; as far as the impact on the unborn generations, well, what have they ever done for him? He looks 40-ish, by the way, gals. Speaking of gals, he came -this- close to getting fixed up with Sharon Stone, but the fixer-upper thought he wouldn't like her. Wife thought it was a great idea, though, and was disappointed when it didn't work out. He washes his own clothes, and no, the whites aren't pink; however, this is accomplished simply by not having any red clothes. In 1989 he spent four weeks in the Soviet Union by invitation of the Soviet Academy of Sciences ("You have dollars? Da? We invite you then."), secretly undermining their economy by handing out packets of 3M PostIts - he knew they'd want more - need more, actually - and that would require their tossing that centrally-planned goofiness into the dustbin of history, upgrading to a market economy, and stealing PostIts from work like everybody else. He was given a medal by somebody there, mainly to commemorate getting the medal. This sort of recursion appeals to him. He'd like to get interested in opera, really, he would...really...someday, perhaps...when he has the time. He still buys vinyl recordings, which he thinks are much cooler than CDs, especially when played through ancient McIntosh amps. Some summer nights he puts Bach on the turntable, cranks it up a bit, goes outside, looks up at the stars, and wishes he was there.
BH Memory:  Yes, had half a car he rebuilt at nights in my garage one winter coming over by moped and often just sleep on sofa as to cold to go home or to late, etc. Wife wasf beginning to think we were taking him to raise which would have been like have two sets of twins! CDSI programmer that worked for BH when BH MPS team leader and we did the MRDIS (do I recall it correctly) - the machine to replace that very, very cute Xerox operator in LANT that copied messages for OTC delivery.

Fendler, Eric

BH Memory: Began on project under Ridgeway with the Love brothers at Cheltenham, then BH lucky enough to get him on the MMS project.
Last Word: -- 05 Jun 04 -- Still with Northrop Grumman ... finished up a project manager job with Marine Corps at Quantico supervising 6 developers. The contract is over - the software works! ...

A month ago, I switched to a Northrop project with the Red Cross in Test Engineering (shades of JITC!). There are 40 people in that department alone - pretty big operation. Northrop and other contractors develop and maintain all of the software that supports the blood donation, testing, production and distribution processes - very interesting stuff, CMM Level 3 since it's all FDA regulated - blood is treated as a drug.

Long Term: I'd like to work in DC - (please contact me if you see an opening that might be a good fit..)!

Short Term: I'm going to Vegas tomorrow - the COTR job will have to wait ;-> ...
Regards to all. Eric

Flynn, Captain John J.

Deceased -- 09 Mar 03
Captain John J. Flynn, USN (Retired) of Vienna, VA and South Bethany, DE, passed away on Sunday, March 9, 2003, at Halquist Memorial Hospice Center, of a malignant brain tumor. He was 68 years old. There is an eternal memorial [visited 10 Sep 03] is available on the web at http://www.CaptainJohnJFlynn.com. Interment was at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. Desired contributions made to: Halquist Memorial Hospice Center, 4715 No. 15th St., Arlington, VA 22205.
Bio: --
From 1975 to 1978, Capt. Flynn was the Pacific Fleet Communications Officer; he served two tours at the Naval Telecommunications Command, Washington, DC. He retired from the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1983; joining Northrop Grumman Corporation until he retired in 1997.

Field, Conrad

Deceased -- Early April 2004 --"... the best hardware field representative that Unisys has ever known, died last week at age 60. He was a superb technician, a true joy to work with, and most of all, a fine friend and gentleman. I miss him terribly." said Stockton site rep Fritz Collier 7 April

Frazier, Mary

Mary cam aboard as contractor for BH when we were cleaning up a lot of NAVTELCOM non-communications software such as satellite scheduling, etc. She left us to National Weather Service and now at the Census Bureau.
Last Word: Mar 04 -- Mary has been working over at the Census Bureau in Suitland for about 10 years now. she is living up in Annapolis.

Freeman, Nancy Rettig</dt>

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Gaddis, David L.

Last Word: 01 Apr 06 I was very saddened to read about the tragic loss of Bruce Miller's son. I cannot imagine what he and his family are going through. My thoughts and prayer are with Bruce and his family. I will anxiously await further info regarding funeral plans and also Bruce's mailing address so I can send Bruce and his family a condolence and sympathy card. -- David Gaddis
Bio: Waitin input -- Retired in nnnn after working at LANT and TELCOM (?) as NAVCOMPARS database manger. Residing with Alma in Partlow VA. Dec 2002 reported had diagnosed with a neurological disease/condition called "essential tremors"..., it is kind of like Parkinson's... at the stage now that I can't write or sign my name… There is an experimental operation of placing a sort of pacemaker in my chest and an output device in my head behind by ear that currently has a 75% success rate I may try down the line. Alma and I still have great times visiting places and traveling....

Galvin, Patrick "Pat"

Came to NAVCOMPARS with CDSI in July 73. I believe he left after the Guam install. He and wife with a daughter and two sons were living in Bow NH in Dec 2002

Garmew, Tom

Last Word: -- 30 mar 04 Spoke with Tom, he is working for the IRS and has about four more years before he can retire. Expects to stay in area as wife has a lot of family in area.

Garrity, Diane aka Carmen Evans

Diane an “old” NAVCOSSACT’er was Carmen Evans in SPS in 72 when BH arrived. Some years later had her name changed. Survived the command name changes until 2003 when accepted transfer to SPAWAR System Center Charleston.
Last Word:
Mar 04She tells BH, Charleston is great! I live in Mt.Pleasant about 5-10 minutes away from the beach. I have all the amenities of Cheltenham.... fox, coyote, snakes, raptors, alligators.
The work's great (for work). I'm in the Multimedia Engineering Dept. We install VTC stuff on ships and shore sites. . I play trumpet in the Charleston Community Band. We practice every week at The Citadel. I'll retire when I stop having so much fun or when I get old. It's already too late to say whichever one comes first.

Ging, Earl and Terri

[Earl] Started at NAVTASC around 1979, continued with them through all the reorgs and name changes until about 1999. Now I work for a small computer company providing network support to an Air Force agency in Rosslyn, Va. Terri (also a former NAVTASCer) and I were married in 1995 and now have two daughters Kristen born in Feb 03 and Taryn born in Oct 99. Terri is a stay-at-home mother Contact:
E-mail= ejgmbox@hotmail.com
address= 102 Burning Bush Place, LaPlata, Md. 20646
work ph= 703-588-6943

Glenn, Gordon S. (Stonie)

Last Word: --24 May 04 -- What's this crap in your NCP directory about Mulvenna writing MPAS??? I wrote that start to finish along with MPVDT and MPIO. None of them ever had a bug.
And how's come I'm not listed in your NCP Directory with an "o" beside my name?
And Sonie checks in, someone reads some of my stuff. He did follow up with a history blurb and I corrected Mulvenna to MPJA.
Gordon S. (Stonie) Glenn
President & CEO
SXC Health Solutions, Inc.
www.sxc.com
Ofc: 630-559-3613
Bio-- CDSI contractor that wrote MPAS, MPVDT, and MPIO in MPS subsystem in 72. Did Norfolk installation and moved up in CDSI to be president.
Stonie says[May 2004], I left CDSI and Maryland in late 1996 in a divorce process and followed my soon to be ex and sons to Orlando. There I got into the golf resort development business for a couple of years (see www.ocngolf.com) which turned out not to be as much fun and profitable as I thought it would be. At least not with a crook for a partner (Read: I lost my shirt).
I then thought I needed to be back in the IT business (or starve) and I got recruited to be President & CEO of a start-up healthcare software company located in Toronto, Canada I lived in downtown Toronto for six months (great city if you're single) and met my current (last) wife Christine through a friend in early 1999. She lived and worked in Dallas so when we got married in November 1999 I moved to Texas. I also inherited a two year old son from Christine--Matthew--who's "first father" died of a heart attack when he was 9 months. I'm the only dad he'll ever know.
Since then I've moved most all the company's operations to the U.S., primarily Chicago, and I commute there from Dallas (actually McKinney, TX) or somewhere else every week. Yes I hate it but I still have to feed the better part of two families plus we never have to pay anything to fly, rent a car or stay in a hotel (1,000,000+ mile club). Matt's now seven, plays baseball, soccer and swims in the summer. We spend almost every summer weekend on Lake Texoma (TX/OK border). My two teenager boys are still in Florida: Chris (19) will be a sophomore at Florida State University majoring in girls, cars and partying (no idea where he gets this). Michael (17) is a senior in HS and is the more studious of the two (somewhat). They both are 6'3" (don't know where they get this either) and like to wakeboard, surf, skateboard, etc. in addition to the girls, cars, etc.
That's about it. With lifetime alimony, a seven year old and three to put through college I'll never be able to retire and plan to keel over at my desk at some time in the (hopefully distant) future.
Stonie
President & CEO
SXC Health Solutions, Inc.
www.sxc.com
Ofc: 630-559-3613

Goforth, George

Last Word: 23 Jul 05 Sent bio blurb.
Bio: Retired from Titan [purchased Validity} 1 July 2005, from Navy 9-18-83.
My involvement in NAVCOMPARS started at NTCC Crystal Plaza in the early 70s when we installed one of the first LDMX systems. As the ADP officer at NCS Washington (W1, CWO2, 3), I was responsible for the initial operation at XTAL Plaza. I worked with Johnny Norman, Joe Davis, Bill Bryson, Tom Carmany, Jerry York and Steve Sheehan among many others during this period. Following a tour on USS Independence I served as OIC NTCC Breezy Point followed by a 3-years tour as traffic officer at NCTAMS LANT where we use the 70/45. They installed the 90/60 right after I left for Puerto Rico. I retired as a LCDR in 1983 following a 3-year tour in NCS Puerto Rico and went to work for Validity Corporation where I remained until Validity was purchased by Titan

Greengrass, Ed

Last Word:  17 FEb 05 -- News flash!!!
    Our first grandchild, a girl, Yael Adina Fishman, was born on groundhog day to our older daughter Mara Greengrass and her husband Avi Fishman.
    Needless to say, her maternal grandma Gail, better known to her internet friends as Bubbe Gittel, thinks she is the most beautiful baby in the world. Pictures available.
Bio: -- Worked at RCA and several software firms starting about 1960. Wrote a word processing program before the term had been coined. Went to work for the Navy (NAVCOSSACT, NARDAC, NAVTASC). Spent about six years on the White House project before returning to NAVCOMPARS. When we moved to Cheltenham and commuting got to tiring, I moved to Fort Meade where I have been doing software engineering and research ever since. My emphasis has been on data mining and Information Retrieval. I have no plans to retire.
My wife Gail is volunteer coordinator for an interfaith charitable organization called the Coalition for Compassion. My younger daughter Naomi has joined the "family business" as Gail jokingly says; she works for NGA. My older daughter Mara is on leave from the American Psychological Association (APA) to have a baby girl. She is 8 1/2 months pregnant. It will be our first grandchild.