Some Reflections

I was at the UNC Comp Center for 5 years before going to TUCC, from about 1962 to mid 1967.  Bill Hanson was Director and Web Evans was the Business Officer.  I shared an office with Pat Cusick.  My prime task was to be in charge of what they called the Data Prep area (Mgr. Data Preparation).  That was the room full of Friden Flex-O-Writers for punching paper tape.  Later we had a card punch or two.  Web also gave me a liaison role with the Nielson TV survey folks who were using Census data to draw sampling profiles.

In 1962 when I got the UNC Comp Center job John Carr was director.  Bill Hanson was there and  later became director.  There was a period after I was at TUCC when Carr would be visiting his mother in Durham.   He would drop by TUCC for a visit with me and Harold Jackson.  Where he was the elusive absent minded prof at UNC he was a most warm, sociable and chatty person at these later visits.  QUITE A CONTRAST.

Joe Ragland