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From: scj@yaccman.com
To: Efton Collins <efton.collins@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Bell Labs recruiter
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:36:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b890c4424729ecec8ea26e14e5766e78@yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGkfwVJ2Duycy+C0ZL4+3x50MtkvJrt_Xb0+0H08_stRR1FKhg@mail.gmail.com>

I don't know the recruiter, but I remember Ken's wife mock-complaining 
"I went clear across the country to get away from home, married Ken, and 
he brought me back here two miles from my mother..."

Ask Rob Pike about his recruitment (I was the technical contact, but 
it's his story to tell...)

Steve

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On 2020-04-14 23:46, Efton Collins wrote:
> I was lucky enough to be in the room last year at VCF East when Ken
> told the story of how the move from Berkeley to Bell Labs happened.
> Ken's description of his interactions with the Bell recruiter was
> entertaining and made clear that persistent effort was needed to get
> him to come out to New Jersey and meet some of the people there.
> 
> Does anyone know who the recruiter was?

      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-11  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-15  6:46 Efton Collins
2020-05-11  0:36 ` scj [this message]

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