Pat Sommers
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Pat Sommers
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After graduation I managed to get into the Army Reserves and went to St. Louis
to find a job and wait for my call up. I thought I’d take my Marketing degree and get a job
in marketing but I then discovered the Catch 22 of your first job, they wanted marketing
experience – so I got a job selling marketing information with Dun & Bradstreet.
That’s when my nomadic life began. I was in St. Louis for six months before active
duty and a year after. Used to see a lot of Terry Maxwell, Roy Spiekermann, Mike Sabo
and Ray Overmann – even shared an apartment with Ray for awhile – that was an experience!
Then D&B started moving me – five times in the next five years. Spent ten years with
them internationally and eventually ended up in New Jersey as President of their
Information Service Division.
After 21 years I was seduced away by promises of building a billion dollar Information
Company for GTE and the enticement of living in Tampa, Fl. while I was doing it. Well,
what I ended up with was a mismatch of 12 unrelated companies all over the country
that were all a mess. I even had a company that published the Alaskan MILEPOST
book – Kelly should be familiar with that – it tracks sights at each mile marker along
the entire length of the Alaskan Highway starting at Dawson Creek, Mile 0 and ending
at mile 1520 at Fairbanks. After a few years managing this mess I moved to Minneapolis
[that was shock to the system] to run Ceridian (Control Data/SBC) Employer Service
a payroll/hr company. After that I ran a couple of public companies in the medical &
information fields{Medicus & Dialog] in Chicago and ended up selling both of them.
The past 5 years I have been Huntsville, Alabama running a technology company that
provides software & services to 23,000 libraries worldwide, which provides a lot of
opportunity for travel. I bought a company in St. Louis a couple of years and get there
occasionally. And my parents still live in Cape – celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary
a couple of years ago. My wife, Barbara and I enjoy the warmer weather here and the
chance to play golf year round but we do miss Evanston, IL – after all, this is Alabama
where the state slogan is “At least we’re not Mississippi”. I have a daughter, Whitney
who lives in Minneapolis and works in the travel incentive business – she likes the
cold weather.
Patrick C. Sommers
Chief Executive Officer
101 Washington Street, S.E.
Huntsville, AL 35801-4827
Phone: 256-704-7014 Fax: 256-704-7008
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Randal Hill
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Randal Hill
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I have been retired and in Festus for about 1 1/2 years.
After graduating from Cape I went to work for PPG Industries, and they suggested that I
join the National Guard. I did and my unit was activated for 19 months in 1968. Half the unit
went to Viet Nam. I spent the entire 19 months at Ft, Benning. I got out in 1970 and married
a local girl and have remained married. I was transferred to Decatur, Il. for 20 years
and retired in July 2005. I was Manager of Information Systems, and worked in computing
my entire career.
I now play golf at least twice a week and ping pong a couple times a week.
Don't laugh there are five of us who play and are very competitive and get a very good workout.
We have one son who is now 35, married and lives in St. Charles, Mo.
Randal Hill
319 Meadow Chase Drive
Festus, Mo. 63028
636-937-9464
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