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From: smk@attunix.att.com (S M Krieger)
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Subject: Re: Whatever Happened to the Telephone Pioneers?
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Date: 21 Oct 90 19:11:28 GMT
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> [Moderator's Note: You say you could 'never be a member since those
> working for them are not eligible', but I think the rule is you have
> to be employed by a telco for twenty years to be eligible. At least
> under the old consolidated Bell System, twenty years continuous
> employment was the required minimum for Illinois Bell people.

The last I heard, employment was dropped to 15 years.  About 6 years
ago, the drop from 20 to 15 was phased in one year at a time, so the
first year of the phase-in, 19 years employment was required, then 18
the second year, etc.  I was offered the chance to join when I had
completed 17 years employment with AT&T.


Stan Krieger
Summit, NJ
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[Moderator's Note: I hope you took them up on the invitation to join.
Telephone Pioneers is a wonderful, worthwhile organization.   PAT]