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Jeff Bergart (in his Digital days) |
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Tech Talks and Corporate Talks can be delivered by any former Digital employee,
anywhere in the world. The purpose is to reconnect former
teammates, enjoy technical or professional nostalgia, and share some of
our finest Digital programs and projects with others who weren't
involved, but would love hearing about your experience.
- Tech Talk #9: October 8, 2024 - Jeff Bergart on his work in Manufacturing Process Engineering.
| UPCOMING and RECENT REUNIONS
| - June 23, 2024: WooSox Baseball Game & BBQ - 1 PM in the JetBlueHangar
- April 28, 2024 - Management Sciences Reunion in Stow, MA.
- Sept 15, 2023: South Central Area in Dallas TX
- August 25, 2023: get-together at
Kimball Farm
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June 11, 2023:
WooSox Baseball
Game &
BBQ
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June 2, 2023:
Calgary AB monthly
luncheon
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Dec 9, 2022:
Acton MA Information
Technology Reunion
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Oct 17, 2022:
Last Colorado Springs CO
Reunion
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Oct 1, 2022:
Pittsburgh PA
Reunion
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Recent Memorials
click on link above for details |
- Edward T. Barron, 84, Harvard MA, September 21, 2024
- Bill Rebinskas, 81, Glendale AZ, September 15, 2024
- Kathy Cara, 69, Colorado Springs, September 5, 2024
- Jim Hughes, Jr., 68, Holden MA, August 26, 2024
- Mike Adams, 65, Greenwich CT, August 18, 2024
- Lisa Tousek Boyette, 72, Maple Shade, NJ, August 11, 2024
- Donald
Zereski
Sr., 81, Northborough MA, July 14,
2024
- Bruce D. Kenyon, Sr., 88, Southwick MA, July 2, 2024
- George E. Hitz, Jr., 81, Sudbury MA, May 11, 2023
| MISC INFO |
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HP Connection
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Need Retirement/Pension
info?
- Fidelity Investments still handles all DEC
pension plans for HP that have not been withdrawn or started
income.
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HP Retirement Services Center at Fidelity
1-800-457-4015
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Effective April 1, 2022, Empower* acquired Prudential's retirement business. (Prudential Pension Dept. phone was 1-877-778-2100)
If you have begun to taking income from your Digital pension, the
company now managing your account for distribution is Empower which
bought Prudential's retirement business. However, although Empower
manages your account, the actual distribution is still being handled by Prudential's Tax service.
If you need to change the bank account number for your distribution, you should call 1-800-392-4643 at Prudential Tax Service. See below.
Prudential Tax Service, LLC
30
Scranton Office Park
Scranton, PA 18507-1796
Phone #:
1-800-392-4643
*Background.
Empower Annuity Insurance Company of America is a retirement plan
recordkeeping financial holding company based in Greenwood Village,
Colorado, United States. It is the second-largest retirement plan
provider in the United States.
The Empower brand represents products and services for both
Empower Annuity Insurance Company of America formally known
as Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company and Empower Life
& Annuity Insurance Company of New York, formally known as
Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York.
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Need Stock Plan info?
First try:
Morgan
Stanley,
Employee Stock Plan Service Center
at (toll-free) 1-866-722-7310.
You input your social
security number and then a person will answer. Employee StockPlan Connect tech support
for N/S America for website is available at toll-free:
+1 866-722-7310. Europe:
+1 801-617-7700.
Know someone who is leaving HP? Please pass the word to anyone leaving HP to use the HP Alumni
Association's "ASAP Checklist" immediately. It has advice and mutual
help -- developed by HPAA members -- on the many things you have to do
before you lose access to HP's internal systems. Thanks to Curt Gowan
for this info. Go to http://www.hpalumni.org/asap (HPAA membership not required.)
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