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From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Whatever Happened to the Telephone Pioneers?
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In article <13612@accuvax.nwu.edu> Jim Haynes <haynes@ucscc.ucsc.
edu.uucp> writes:

>I got to wondering what happened to the Telephone Pioneers
>organization after the great Bell System breakup.

>[Moderator's Note: They are still around in the local operating
>companies, and at AT&T. There was some question back in the early

	My aunt, who was a career operator with Indiana Bell and
retired when their operator services were consolidated at South Bend,
is quite active in the Fort Wayne chapter of the Telephone Pioneers.

	Since Fort Wayne is in GTE-land, many other members of the
chapter are GTE people, and some work for United Telephone and some of
the small local telcos. I'm not aware that the Pioneers were ever
exclusively Bell System people.


Jeff Carroll
carroll@atc.boeing.com