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Don Rose10/11/2013

Yes, I reported to Larry.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/12/2013

Actually, Tom Bullion had mentioned that there was work done prior to Larry pushing for bar codes. Some staff had looked at bar code scanners prior to 1977 but the technology wasn't around to be useful to FedEx.

Subject: Photos from TDelCoro's Flickr pages:

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/11/2013

Photos from TDelCoro's Flickr pages:

Photos from TDelCoro's Flickr pages:

Johnnie Edwards10/11/2013

awesome.......

Charlie Derrick10/11/2013

Wow

Baba Khuraafati Junction10/12/2013

g8

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/14/2013

219, great shots,,, even after all this time, the memories come back in an instant, and I’m there,,, In the early days, 1977-79… I sat on more Falcon jump seats, (somewhat padded boards), but you were right up there with the pilots. I was even requested to turn a fuel valve off once, to lower the fuel level so when we landed maintenance could more quickly fix a pump problem,, I must have asked “Are you sure this is the one,,,are you sure??” Thank you, Jim Moore

Subject: Fun Times changing merits. And who remembers the ever changing merit system. When I came in 1980, yo ...

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/11/2013

Fun Times changing merits. And who remembers the ever changing merit system. When I came in 1980, you could get up to a 10% raise every 6 months if under mid point. If over midpoint you could get the merit once a year.A couple years later when housing interest rates were at 18%, a new system was put in place. If under midpoint you could get 5% merit every six months..plus every quarter you would get the inflation rate adjustment. Inflation went sky high in that same year and was 2 or 3% every quarter....so you could get up to 22% total if under midpoint...which I was.That system didn't last a year, and they changed it again....and again.But the FedEx guys there ,in the mid 70's were just happy to get their paychecks on time....

Don Rose10/11/2013

Early on, we were happy to get a paycheck...period.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/11/2013

I read in some of the fedex history books that you all were sometimes asked to Not Cash your checks for several days also.

Jere Bledsoe10/11/2013

Our boss would keep us hanging around until the banks closed before he'd hand out the paychecks to make sure we couldn't cash them that day. That was generally okay except when payday was on Friday. It kind of made for a dull weekend sometimes.

Subject: Does anyone here know who initiated the STAR system, what it consisted of, and who all worked on it?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/11/2013

Does anyone here know who initiated the STAR system, what it consisted of, and who all worked on it?

Deby Abbott Jolley10/12/2013

Superhub Tactical Activity Reporting - to collect and analyze productivity data on hub management and hourly employees

Jere Bledsoe10/13/2013

You have stirred up some dust in the dark corners of my memory, Jimmy. Been thinking about STAR. Still holds true what I said about the pre-COSMOS plans. But I think I do remember another STAR and I was closer to it than I remembered. I'll try to verify and get back with you.

Johnnie Edwards10/13/2013

used the STAR report at the mem hub all the time back in the day........

Johnnie Edwards10/13/2013

im sure Karl asked that it be developed from a mgmt perspective since nothing else existed to capture data other than typed reports..........

Buddy Johnson10/13/2013

STAR (Superhub Time and Attendance Reporting) was designed to collect payroll data and provide management reporting for Superhub employees, much like FAMIS did for Ground Ops employees. During my stint as a manager, my group supported both these systems. There was constant pressure from the Hub management to merge STAR into FAMIS. And, there was equal resistance from Ground Ops to NOT merge the two. STAR was an operational system when I became associated with it and it was still a separate system from FAMIS when I left management. Possibly some others who were around in the 1980's may recall the origin of STAR.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

from Jere Bledsoe: Okay, now I feel like an idiot. Or at least like an Alzheimer's patient gone AWOL. Of course I remember STAR. Soon after I implemented the M&E time card system, Ken Willoughby came to me and asked if we could do the same thing for the hub. I met with Ken and a couple of his people a few times and it didn't appear like too big a job. So I cloned the M&E system, tweaked a few things and wrote a couple of report programs just for the hub. That was in 1976 or 1977. Certainly before 1978 when we began converting everything to IBM. Soon after that implementation, I moved on to other new challenges and turned the support over to others, whose names I honestly don't remember. As the system expanded somebody realized it lacked a proper acronym, thus it became STAR. I'm not sure who or when the name was assigned, but it began as mainly a time card data capturing system. I was not associated with STAR for a few years but it came back into my life as a result of one of our mini-reorganizations in Systems Development (SD, SDE, CSD, etc.) When I was a Sr. Manager the Hub STAR system was in my domain. The manager over it was Buddy Johnson for a while, as he mentioned. Later, it was Jim Solomon and eventually back to me. This FB board sure has primed my memory. I haven't thought about these things in many years. Sorry I got stuck on the first planned STAR system which was never developed. My apologies to those who took the hub time card system and made it a STAR.

Subject: Photo http://www.bchpics.com/Daily-Photos/Daily-Photos/4613827_fG9Dfk#!i=267987697&k=fnWLqH3&lb=1&s= ...

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/12/2013

Photo http://www.bchpics.com/Daily-Photos/Daily-Photos/4613827_fG9Dfk#!i=267987697&k=fnWLqH3&lb=1&s=A

Subject: Memphis SuperHub

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/12/2013

Memphis SuperHub

Johnnie Edwards10/12/2013

when you still had to key zip codes......

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/12/2013

Before the superhub was operational and volumes were almost 100K per nite, 25K of those packages were routed to the superhub for practice sorting, then sent back to the manual hub. The mis-sort rate was running 90%. Jim Barksdale sent me over there to figure out why. Took about 4 nites to figure out the issues. And for the first time I met Mike Basch and Karl Birkholz.....two entirely different personalities.

Johnnie Edwards10/12/2013

being in the middle of all of it......it wasnt pretty........but we got thru it.........like everything else.........determined to succeed......

Subject: Thanks Jimmy, when do you meet.

Peter Dangerfield10/12/2013

Thanks Jimmy, when do you meet.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/12/2013

We just meet online; like an online coffee club, although we may put together a meet & greet in the future. there are a lot of us retirees now, and more coming

Vicki Shirey Sanders10/13/2013

There is a FedEx retiree club. I'll have to ask Martha Thomas when they meet.

Vicki Shirey Sanders10/13/2013

The answer is: Go to ferc1.org. All the info is there.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/13/2013

Yes there are two upcoming meetings for the FedEx Retiree Club Nov 14, Dec 12 http://ferc1.org/luncheon.html?reloaded=true

Subject: FedEx Trivia History Question

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/14/2013

FedEx Trivia History QuestionAround 1991, Willie Herenton become the first African American elected as Mayor for the city of Memphis. His search committee needed to find someone to be the Director of IT for the City. They found a FedEx computer programmer who had helped set up computer systems for high schools & minority colleges. He was offered the job and he accepted contingent on FedEx giving him a leave of absence so he could return to the company later. His request was denied so he didn't take the Director job.Who was this FedEx computer programmer?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/14/2013

Answer: Jim Bentley!

Buddy Johnson10/15/2013

WOW!!! Didn't know that about JB.....

Jim Bentley10/15/2013

Very true, I still have the offer letter!!

Subject: History Trivia Question(I don't have this answer)

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/14/2013

History Trivia Question(I don't have this answer)Charlie Brandon was over IT when the Cook deal was done. What was the IT organization right after this happened? Was Bob Kramer over Operations before this deal, and did Cook Ops roll under him? and where did the Cook IT development staff report?

Buddy Johnson10/15/2013

Somewhere in that period, a guy named Lew Matthews was brought in as MD in Clark Tower. Don't remember if he was the first MD over the combined staffs or not. Also, Dale Brewington was made acting MD after Larry Stoltenberg left.

Jere Bledsoe10/15/2013

Buddy, that's a little off. After the "merger" with Cook, one of the Cook guys stayed on just a little while as MD. I can't remember his name right now. Most all of the other Cook staff who had been mangers or senior people became managers over all the existing FedEx IT staff. Stotlenberg was the only manager just before all that and Mike Pfaff was the MD. I'm pretty sure Pfaff and Stoltenberg left about the same time.

Subject: Jimmy do you have Tom Bullion on the roster.

Peter Dangerfield10/14/2013

Jimmy do you have Tom Bullion on the roster.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/14/2013

I have Tom's email, and interviewed him just after I retired, and Chuck Graham also. http://fedexlegends.info/earlyit/opsresearch.html#bullion Tom isn't on facebook, and doesn't spend much time on the internet. He is a wealth of knowledge.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/14/2013

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FedExLegends/conversations/topics/398

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

TOM BULLION, A MAN IN FLIGHT A Series by Jean Ward-Jones Tom Bullion spent 14 months in-Southeast Asia on Long Range Re-connaissance Patrol with the 101st Air-borne. Once back home, Tom made a vow to enjoy life to its fullest. Did he keep his vow? In 1973 he came to FedEx to fly, but didn`t have the money required for the requisite Falcon pilot training. When Art Bass offered him a chance to join the company in a different capacity, ¯I jumped at the chance to join FedEx just âcause it looked like the start of something, he recalls. ¯Way back then, times weren`t so good. You not only needed an entrepreneurial spirit, you couldn`t succeed without it. Tom explains, ¯Long hours and low pay are not everybody`s cup of tea, but the reward is building some-thingand we built the finest transportation company in the world. But back thenFred Smith was looking for a home for FedEx. When he approached an ex-ecutive in Lit-tle Rock to borrow money, he was told, ¯FedEx will never be anything. Unknown to this executive, 13 Falcon Fan Jets were in hid-ing on the airport property while being modified. They were ¯in hiding to avoid a ten-percent-of value Arkansas improvement tax. Ned Cook told Smith to come to Memphis. Here an abandoned WWII facility was waiting. The linoleum was coming off the floor and the asbestos tile was falling out of the roof. With borrowed money, Smith built a Hub with sort facilities at one end and all the offices at the other end. ¯And everybody sorted packages, Tom says with a chuckle. ¯You worked during the day and you went out at night and sorted packages. ¯The sales guys were shipping their laundry home and here we were counting their laundry as revenue packages, Tom confided. Upon receipt of the letter saying don`t cash your paycheck if you can possibly afford not to, ¯I ran to the bank as fast as I could and got in line be-hind Art Bass and Mike Fitzgerald, he admits. ¯I prayed they would give me my money. Tom was at the forefront of many of the FedEx cutting-edge, high-tech innovations. Among them was the delivery information and dispatch system. When Smith saw it in action, he said, ¯This will change the face of the transportation industry. Smith wrote ¯COSMOS on a napkin and handed it to Tom. ¯Call it this, he said. When Tom asked him what COSMOS stood for, Smith said, ¯I don`t know; make up something. The Customer Oriented Service Management Operating System was born and FedEx took another big step forward. When IBM contracted with FedEx to write the airline control program, the team of program-mers refused to be based in Memphis. Smith sent Tom to Colorado Springs to lease a build-ing and set up a computer center. When Tom was told that air bill information would be key punched in the stations, he went immediately to Pete Wilmott to explain why nothing good would come from expecting our people in the stations to become key punch op-erators. Pete asked, ¯What do you think is the right thing to do? With no budget, no prior ap-provals, considerable ingenuity and print wheels from Germany, FedEx began using air bills with 3 bar codes and a hand-held scannerin 1979. FedEx could now track packages in a way none of its competitors could match. Then came expansion to Canada, and after Canada, the rest of the worldand ZapMail. Tom traveled around the world negotiating tele-phone and telegraph communication capabili-ties with a man who knew everything about 57 kilobit servicewhich foreign countries don`t give away. ¯An enlightening experience, he calls it. In China, for instance, FedEx didn`t get a radio frequency until the mid-90`s. After 30 years at FedEx, Tom enthusiastically says, ¯I hated going to bed and loved getting up. I don`t regret one second at FedEx. Today, Tom and three other FedEx`ers own a 1964 S35 Bonanza. It has a ¯brand-spanking new continental engine which we in-stalled, new interior, all new avionicsand it`s very fastabout 165 knots per hour, compared to a Cessna at 130 knots per hour. He reports that after his honeymoon he flew back from Banff, Lake Louise, Canada, in 11 hours with only one fuel stop. He has been married seven years to Laura Lovett Bul-lion, who has been with FedEx 20 years. In another hangar at the airport in Olive Branch, sits a 1937 Beech-craft Staggerwing, the Lear Jet of the 30`s. He has eleven years of rebuilding invested in this airplane. He just brought it back from a small place in Iowa where he camped out under its wings. Over a 3-day pe-riod about 500 airplanes were there, 150 of them 1940`s or ear-lier. ¯They`re re-enacting the start of the original airmail service, he says. He`s going back to Lee Bottom Airport near Cin-cinnati to watch them come in and land. In the picture above, Tom is visiting a Civil War battle-field on the Tennessee River. (He says there`s nothing civil about war.)His mode of transporta-tion is a BMW1150 GS. Behind the Staggerwing, sits the shell of an air-planeit`s being built from scratch. This one belongs to his partner. ¯This is why I come down here, says Tom. ¯This is the real deal; this is aviation. They quit supporting my air-plane in the 50`s. If you need work, you have to invent it yourself. I love that. I`ve done all the mechanical electrical avionics work myself. ¯ He goes on proudly, ¯If you show up in an air-port in that Bonanza, they don`t even look; but if you show up in this Staggerwing, the airport empties. Tom and Laura have been to the Yangtze River, on a backpacking trip through the Himalayas, to the Dhali Lama`s Pal-ace in Tibet, and to Shanghai. He wants Laura to see Angkor Wat, a temple complex in Cambo-dia, the foundation of the Buddhist Empire. He also has a consultant business; he was re-cently asked to offer his opinion on an aircraft maintenance facility. He told them they didn`t know how to run it and should sell it. They did. 4 To another FedEx`er. The Army taught him to skydive. He has owned nine planes pri-marily for his skydiving busi-ness and that`s what helped finance his current airplanes. After 40 years and 2,000 jumps, he`s given it up. In retirement, he`s as busy as he`s ever been in his life, ¯Happy as a clam, health is good, mental attitude good, hair on fire. Just going out and doing it. He tries to ski at least fifteen days a year. But he`s concerned about his wife; she works ten to twelve hours a day. ¯I`m trying to teach her to play, he says. ¯When she calls and gives me the code ¯211, I know to pack up and get ready for New Orleans. She meets me at the airport and off we go. In two hours and eleven minutes, we`re there.

Subject: Do you remember the IVR system that Data Protection developed to reset passwords? I was concerned th ...

Ben Moore10/15/2013

Do you remember the IVR system that Data Protection developed to reset passwords? I was concerned that the bar was not high enough to confirm that the person making the call was in fact the person whose password was being reset. One day I was discussing this with Rick Morgan, Sr. Manager of Data Protection. I told him that I wanted to demonstrate my concern and told him to tell me when to stop.The system would ask for the caller to enter their employee number and then asked one additional question before resetting the password. As I recall the questions were trivial such as your last performance review score, your home zip code, your birth date, etc. There was no check that someone was trying to validate over and over.With Rick sitting in my office I began. Everybody knew that Fred Smith's employee number was "1." I thought it would be easy to find Fred's birth date. I called FedEx's Public Relations and asked for Fred's birth date. They said that they didn't release that information. So I called the Memphis Public Library Information Line who immediately gave me 8/11/44.So I began dialing into the system entering "1" as the employee number. If the challenge wasn't for the birth date, I'd just hang us and dial again.Finally the challenge question was birth date. I entered "081144" and it reset Fred Smith's password.If you recall the scene from "Back to the Future" where the DeLorean reached 88 MPH and left scorch marks on the street, Rick Morgan left scorch marks on the carpet leaving my office!

Melissa Leech Ziemer10/15/2013

Great story! Thank you.

Subject: Did anyone see Joe Hinson's obit in the paper today? So sad.

Diane Conner White10/15/2013

Did anyone see Joe Hinson's obit in the paper today? So sad.

Don Rose10/15/2013

I did. I was shocked and saddened by Joe's passing.

Subject: Buddy Johnson forwarded link to CA: Joe D. Hinson, 70, of Germantown, passed away October 11, 2013, ...

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Buddy Johnson forwarded link to CA: Joe D. Hinson, 70, of Germantown, passed away October 11, 2013, at his home. The family will gather with family and friends on Thursday, October 17, beginning at 9 a.m., until the celebration of life service begins at 10 a.m., at Memphis Funeral Home, 3700 North Germantown Road in Bartlett. Interment will be in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Born on February 11, 1943 in England, AR, Joe graduated from Dexter High School in Dexter, MO and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He later earned his Master’s Degree from Memphis State University. Mr. Hinson retired as the Vice President of Strategic Operations Planning with FedEx after more than 30 years of service. He had a passion for numbers and knowledge, and he was an avid thoroughbred racing handicapper who won numerous tournaments in Nevada and California. Most of all, Joe was a loving husband, father, brother and son. He was preceded in death by his wife, Valerie S. Hinson. Mr. Hinson is survived by three daughters, Kelly Phillips of Germantown, TN, Jennifer Hinson of Collierville, TN, and Julia Hinson of Omaha, NE; his son, Dennis D. Hinson, II of Hastings, NE; and two sisters, Jane Hinson Cole of Dyersburg, TN and Denise Hinson of Marietta, GA. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to the Joe D. Hinson Scholarship at the University of Memphis. Make check payable to U of M Foundation and mail to: Department 238, The U of M Foundation, P.O. Box 1000, Memphis, TN 38148-0001 or call 901-678-3953. Online condolences may be made at www.MemphisFuneralHome.net Memphis Funeral Home And Memorial Gardens 3700 N. Germantown Road (901)725-0100Published in The Commercial Appeal from Oct. 14 to Oct. 17, 2013

Peter Dangerfield10/15/2013

Joe was a great guy, I spent many hours with him developing the Product Cost System for Air Operations, which lead to the AIRS system to feed it. Jere Bledsoe was responsible for building Aircraft Maintenance, Engineering, Material Management, Rotable Tracking and Time Keeping.

Jere Bledsoe10/15/2013

I met Joe in the early 70's when Ops Research was across the hall from us. Brandon wanted somebody from Systems Development to build some interfaces from our various systems to feed some of their modeling programs and I got the assignment. Came to find out Joe had worked with my cousin at Lake Tahoe while in college. But that's another story. Joe was one of the easiest going guys you could ever meet. A genuinely nice fellow.

Judy Kay Fetters Hill10/15/2013

Joe Hinson was my first boss and we spend many weekend running the fleet planning model to determine the right aircraft to present at the fleet planning meetings.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

I worked with Joe only several times in my career, and he was always nice, dedicated and easy to work with. Ron Ponder was teaching at the University of Memphis. Joe Hinson was one of his graduate students. Ron came to FedEx to work on putting together and Operations Research and Modelling group. Joe worked part time at FedEx until he got his degree, then he joined FedEx full time. They built one of the strongest Operations Research groups working on everything from routes for Aircraft, which types of aircraft to purchase, pilot contract modelling, courier routing, future product types, where to place hubs/metroplexes and many more.

Johnnie Edwards10/15/2013

a good man and partner in the business.....

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

From FedExLegends Yahoo Group Page: I worked with Joe on the courier routing Dispatch Management System project in the mid 80’s. Tremendous mind and great guy to work with, he wanted to digitize city maps for the dispatch system. Scott Harris

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Joe Hinson Story For about 2 years in the late 80's I developed courses and taught for the CBU Telecommunications Institute. The coordinator was Judy Rowsey. She was friends with Joe Hinson, and frequently went on racing trips with Joe and others. One Monday, I had a meeting with her, and she was wearing a new mink coat. She wanted to explain her big purchase. She said Joe would take a group of friends to Las Vegas and they would put money into a pool. Joe had developed a model to forecast how to win these pony racing competitions. After the races were over, Joe would regulary win, and they would divide up the winnings....thus the mink coat purchase. She said on this trip, they won big. Joe's model didn't try to pick the winners, it would forecast the ponies best chance to place. The overall competion was won not by picking winners but by picking the most horses to place. At the end of the competition, while going to collect their winnings, they were huddled together and taken to the top floor of the building and sat down in front of a mobster type guy. Joe had won there before, and it was getting to be too regular. After staring them down, the head honcho said very seriously to Joe, 'Do You Have a System???' Joe responded, 'Doesn't everybody?....' Anyway they were allowed to leave with their lives and winnings, but were told they weren't welcome there anymore....

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Joe positively impacted Federal Express in so many ways as the tributes pouring in demonstrate. Joe was just out and out extremely smart. He formed and led a world class department that is still a world class department. I believe Joe was key to the formation of numerous OR teams including one at Kroger. For me personally, he taught me the value of Operations Research, and influenced me to learn both PL/I and LP. Of all the leaders I meet and the leadership styles I see, I have come to truly appreciate Joe's as one of the most effective. I often think about Joe and will miss him greatly. Brett Bonner

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Martha Ditto: I am sorry to hear about Joe, also. He is the one that hired me, first as a consultant, and then as an employee. He was a very good boss and good man.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Webpage with more Photos of Joe: http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Joe-Hinson&lc=4924&pid=167498167&mid=5697088

Buddy Johnson forwarded link to CA:
Joe D. Hinson, 70, of Germantown, passed away October 11, 2013, at his home. The family will gather with family and friends on Thursday, October 17, beginning at 9 a.m., until the celebration of life service begins at 10 a.m., at Memphis Funeral Home, 3700 North Germantown Road in Bartlett. Interment will be in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Born on February 11, 1943 in England, AR, Joe graduated from Dexter High School in Dexter, MO and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He later earned his Master’s Degree from Memphis State University. Mr. Hinson retired as the Vice President of Strategic Operations Planning with FedEx after more than 30 years of service. He had a passion for numbers and knowledge, and he was an avid thoroughbred racing handicapper who won numerous tournaments in Nevada and California. Most of all, Joe was a loving husband, father, brother and son. He was preceded in death by his wife, Valerie S. Hinson. Mr. Hinson is survived by three daughters, Kelly Phillips of Germantown, TN, Jennifer Hinson of Collierville, TN, and Julia Hinson of Omaha, NE; his son, Dennis D. Hinson, II of Hastings, NE; and two sisters, Jane Hinson Cole of Dyersburg, TN and Denise Hinson of Marietta, GA. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to the Joe D. Hinson Scholarship at the University of Memphis. Make check payable to U of M Foundation and mail to: Department 238, The U of M Foundation, P.O. Box 1000, Memphis, TN 38148-0001 or call 901-678-3953. Online condolences may be made at www.MemphisFuneralHome.net Memphis Funeral Home And Memorial Gardens 3700 N. Germantown Road (901)725-0100

Subject: Who is this? and what did he do in FedEx IT?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Who is this? and what did he do in FedEx IT?

Don Rose10/15/2013

Chuck Graham, programmer/analyst.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Correct. Chuck was about the 7th programmer hired at Federal Express.

Buddy Johnson10/15/2013

Chuck Graham. Sys Dev Programmer and System Analyst

Carl Wayne Hardeman10/15/2013

Chuck Graham

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

A few memories from Chuck: http://fedexlegends.info/earlyit/earlyithistory.html

Who is this? and what did he do in FedEx IT?

Subject: Who are these two?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Who are these two?

Don Rose10/15/2013

Harry Dalton & Tom Bullion.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Don is up early, and correct again.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Video Interview with Harry Dalton: http://www.fedexlegends.info/allvideos.html#dalton

Buddy Johnson10/15/2013

Harry Dalton and Tom 'Bullet' Bullion

Subject: Dr. Ron Ponder sent a note that he heard that Dennis Spina died a couple weeks ago.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

Dr. Ron Ponder sent a note that he heard that Dennis Spina died a couple weeks ago.

Marcie Littles Moss10/15/2013

http://www.saulsfh.com/new_view.php?id=4949197

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

story from Bob Gavin about Dennis Spina from www.fedexlegends.info : http://fedexlegends.info/stories.html#spina

Carl Wayne Hardeman10/15/2013

Another in paper last day or two name escapes me now.

Charlie Derrick10/16/2013

Wow. Dennis was a great guy. Got to know him on the TigerClaws task force.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/27/2013

from Dennis Memorial Wall: I am so sorry for your loss. I worked for Dennis in the 80's in NYC. He promoted me to Managing Director and was supportive in difficult situations for a female from the South in a very male oriented company. I owe him a lot and learned a lot from him. On a funny note, to this day I tell stories about two of his sayings: "Excuses are like assholes, everybody's got one" and "I'll ride with you". The last, evoked extreme fear from all of his direct reports because you could be sure the trip was going to be painful. Overall he was a good and supportive boss and I am very grateful to have worked for him. Lucy Conley

Subject: 2014 Retiree Health Insurance

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2013

2014 Retiree Health InsuranceI haven't received a packet yet for the 2014 FedEx Retiree Insurance plan.I did take a quick look at the 2014 employee plan. Some things for wellness, physicals etc are covered without cost. Visits to primary physician costs you 20% or 30% of whatever the visit costs. Other things you pay for it all, yourself, until you reach the deductible, I think $2400 per person, on one plan option; then the plan pays 70% or 80% or whatever it costs.

Dan Elliot10/15/2013

Yeah, I can't figure out if it's good or bad...

Connie Morgan10/15/2013

Thanks been wondering myself.

Don Rose10/16/2013

I didn't know we had retiree Health Insurance available.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

you have option up till the age of 65 when you have to go to medicare. cost is about $450/month per person or $900 for a couple

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

there is an example in the 2014 packet for employees who have a baby. it's something like for a $7500 delivery cost you pay about $4000 where it used to be about $400

Deby Abbott Jolley10/16/2013

The coverage keeps getting worse/less each year - but this sounds like a bigger drop in coverage than any I've seen.

Phil Pickens10/16/2013

The enrollment dates for Fedex Retiree's healthcare is November 6th - 19th. The enrollment guides will be mailed out shortly before that date per the Fedex Benefits Center.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

Thanks Phil.

Subject: Just for clarification:

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

Just for clarification:This facebook group page is not associated with the Official FedEx Retiree Club. Everyone is encouraged to join and support that club, I am a member.The official FedEx Retiree club is at www.ferc1.organd they have a facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/FedEx-Retiree-Club/279436328767374Jimmy

Subject: FedEx Trivia Question

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

FedEx Trivia QuestionDuring Zapmail a statistical team was put together by Don Wallace reporting to Jim Colson. They got to be pretty good at modelling & analysis. Their nickname was 'the Killer Bees'Name the 3 Killer Bees.

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/17/2013

Answer, the Killer Bee's: Billy Gee Butch Stroupe Barry Poole

Subject: FedEx trivia: Who was the SVP of Marketing in the 1980's and part of the early 90's?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

FedEx trivia: Who was the SVP of Marketing in the 1980's and part of the early 90's?

John Toscano10/16/2013

Carol Presley?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2013

Carole Presley was the person I was thinking of. Winn mentioned Tom Oliver and he was svp of mktg in early 80's but moved to svp of intl, and later exec vp to fws after Mr. Barksdale left.

Subject: Who is this person and what did he do at Federal Express?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/17/2013

Who is this person and what did he do at Federal Express?

Johnnie Edwards10/17/2013

kinda looks like Bob May for some reason.......

Subject: from Facebook: Chuck Masters is engaged to Ann Glisan. Congratulations to them both!

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/18/2013

from Facebook: Chuck Masters is engaged to Ann Glisan. Congratulations to them both!

Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/21/2013

FedEx Trivia Quiz?What is this photo? Where is this? When is this?

Rebecca Schrimper Jones10/21/2013

Hmmmm - was going to guess call center either at CTC or the old Holiday City, but I don't see headsets.

Leigh Pritchett Sawicki10/21/2013

Call center but no headsets, the hair-do's, and the chunky terminals tells me 1980's and those Keyboards! Maybe mid to late 70's

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/21/2013

close enough: Call Center, Memphis, 1979!

Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz The gentleman on the left is famous and legendary at FedEx? He was not in IT. Phot ...

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/21/2013

FedEx Trivia Quiz The gentleman on the left is famous and legendary at FedEx? He was not in IT. Photo taken in 1979, and I actually met him in the mid 80'sWho is he and what is he famous for?

Jim Bentley10/21/2013

Hmmmm, was that Jim Riedemyer?

Jimmy Glenn Burk10/21/2013

Jim,,,it is Jim....and he did what?

Jim Bentley10/21/2013

It was aircraft related, but I just dont remembe exactly

Jim Bentley10/21/2013

Aircraft maintenance??

Don Rose10/21/2013

Jim Reidmier (sp). Aircraft Maintenance.

Jere Bledsoe10/21/2013

Riedmeyer (also sp?) was Sr. VP over M&E. The other guy is Brian Pecan. I worked with both of them in the 70s getting the first M&E systems up and running.

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