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LETTER

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THIS PUBLICATION IS SOLELY FOR THE USE OF THE PRA MEMBERSHIP POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION, INC.

P.O. BOX 541395, WALTHAM, MA 02454-1395

NEWS

W. J. Rosen, Editor M. Hall, Assistant Editor

pranewsletter@comcast.net

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OCT– DEC 2013

Board of Directors

Officers

Eric Thorgerson President

George Murray 1st Vice

President

Touie Jackson 2nd Vice President

Scott Osler Treasurer

E. Richard Rosenblatt Secretary

Directors

Robert Bacon

Joanne Bellofatto

Walter Byron

Elizabeth Foote

Dick Gellis

James Grunst

John Alden Hall

Edyie Johnson

Eva Karger

Lucille Kelley

Susan McCusker

William J. Rosen

Robert Ruckstuhl

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Dear PRA Members,

I hope this letter finds you relaxed and rested after this summer season. I hope, too, that I will see you at the Fall Meeting on Wednesday, October 16, at Lan-tana’s in Randolph. The first thing I’d like to do is to share with you the recent changes in your Board membership and leadership.

At our last PRA Annual Meeting held on May 22, several changes to Board mem-bership were announced and a Board membership election was held. Jim Grunst acknowledged retiring Board Members Steve Berry and Doris Harri-man for their three-term service to the PRA. Both will be leaving the Board as our constitution limits Board service to three terms. Jim acknowledged the service of Beverly Carruthers who is also retiring from the Board. Two new candidates for Board membership were also announced: Joanne Bella-fatto and Elizabeth Foote. An election was held for Board Membership. Elected by acclamation were: Joanne Bellafatto, Elizabeth Foote, Lucille Kelly, George Murray, Richard Rosen-blatt and Scott Osler. Incumbent Members not requiring reelection at this point in their terms are: Robert Bacon, Walter Byron, Dick Gellis, Jim Grunst, John Alden Hall, Touie Jackson, Edyie Johnson, Eva Karger, Susan McCusker, Bill Rosen, Bob Ruckstuhl and Eric Thorgerson. Later, at the June 11 Board meeting, an election for officers was held. The results were: President: Eric Thorgerson First Vice President: George Murray Second Vice President: Touie Jackson Treasurer: Scott Osler Secretary: Richard Rosenblatt Once again I want to acknowledge the great job that Jim Grunst has done for us as President; I’m very glad that he will stay as a Director.

I am making an appeal to the membership: we have some 1600 members of the PRA and there are a lot of our friends from our Polaroid working days that have chosen not to join. I would ask each member to encourage your non-member friends to become part of the PRA. What a great way to reconnect. See you at the autumn PRA meeting. Eric Thorgerson PRA President

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Polaroid News, Information, Notices & Articles

Fall Luncheon Speaker

Marty Maffeo, a Polaroid Alumnus, is now retired and serves as a volunteer Medicare counselor for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, in an organization known as SHINE.

We’ve asked Marty to speak at our fall luncheon. It’s particularly good timing, since Medicare’s an-nual open enrollment period is from October 15 through December 7. During this time, it’s possible to make changes to your Medicare plans, and we hope you’ll find the information Marty provides to be informative and actionable.

Marty will explain how individuals can get help from SHINE counselors, outline the basic Medicare components, and describe the changes coming to Massachusetts Medicare plans in 2014. He’ll show cost and coverage information, and offer examples of why it’s so important to check the cost of your prescription drug coverage each year . . . there’s quite a bit of variation from year to year.

Lastly, Marty will provide a brief overview of public benefits and how SHINE counselors can help you and your families determine eligibility. Scott Osler PRA Board

Additional Information for Understanding your Retirement Benefits and What Resources are available to Retirees

During my retirement years, I have come to realize that Polaroid provided excellent resources and a great support system for its employees. Celebrating what I envisioned to be my golden years came with the hurdle of navigating Medicare on my own. Getting answers about Medicare and prescription drug coverage plans was an uphill battle. During my research and communication with other retirees and organizations, I realized that many retirees were encountering similar issues and needed support. Through AARP I learned about the Massachusetts Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) Program.

The Massachusetts SMP Program empowers Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, family members, and caregivers on understanding their health benefits eligibility and preventing healthcare errors, fraud and abuse which plague our healthcare system and cost American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

The Massachusetts SMP Program Staff and our highly trained cadre of volunteers conduct outreach and education to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, family members, caregivers and professionals across the state. We do this through group educational sessions, presentations, exhibiting at community events, and providing telephone and one-on-one counseling. Our goal is to encourage seniors to become en-gaged healthcare consumers in order to prevent Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

We accomplish this by educating consumers to take an active role in their healthcare by keeping an ongoing personal healthcare journal and always comparing it to their Medicare Summary Notices (MSNs), Explanation of Benefits (EoBs) and medical bills.

When consumers become vigilant of the health care they receive, they are able to advocate for them-selves and protect against improper billing and other deceptive marketing tactics.

We look forward to hearing from you and sharing information about the SMP Program. We also en-courage you to visit our website at www.masmp.org or contact us at 800-892-0890.

Dan Dajie, Senior Medicare Patrol Counselor DDajie@esmv.org

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The story goes that Dr. Land wanted Polaroid to become independent of Eastman Kodak for its source of instant color negative. New product introductions and improvements could not be kept secret so long as the competition had a piece of the business. At first a site in Water-town was considered, but then an attractive par-cel of over 400 acres of prime land, with abun-dant water supply and tax incentives, became available in the industrial park being proposed for New Bedford.

The two state of the art coating plants in New Bedford were unique in design and purpose. Construction of Building NB1, originally Project Alpha Senior, began in 1969. The plant itself was literally the coating machine, which was called the X-500. It operated in total darkness, could coat up to 19 layers of film in a single pass, and was connected to a chemical emul-sion preparation system consisting of over 300 individual tanks of all sizes. There was also a small pilot coater, the TC-205, that was used to test and qualify raw materials before they went into production. The site eventually encom-passed over half a million square feet of manu-facturing space in eight buildings, including a central utilities building and a wastewater treat-ment plant. After the SX-70 negative was suc-cessfully introduced, Polacolor and Black & White negatives were also manufactured in NB1.

Building NB6 was constructed in the 1990’s and was designed to manufacture Helios, a new type

of dry transparency film for medical and graphic imaging. This coater, called the 11X, could pro-duce six layers of coatings on two different webs of film simultaneously, then laminate the two webs together and wind them up as one prod-uct. Before it was even completed, the supplier of the coating line filed for bankruptcy protection and went out of business. Little did anyone real-ize that 11X was a harbinger of more Chapter 11’s to come.

Around 2004 NB6 was used to scale-up the manufacturing process for an early generation of Zink, a digital color film that needed “zero ink”. When Zink was spun off as a separate com-pany, Polaroid relocated the Waltham color sheet coating processes to NB6, and moved the Black & White sheet coating to the Land Line in Norwood.

Polaroid sold the entire New Bedford site to a venture capital firm, Watermill Associates, in 2006. They reorganized it into Multilayer Coat-ing Technologies to manufacture the terminal supply of color sheet and negative for Polaroid. Production of several other types of coated products, including medical films and ink jet pa-pers, also took place, but none of them proved to be economically feasible due to the high fixed cost of running the plants. Multilayer stopped production at the end of 2007, and all of the ma-chinery in NB1 was sold at auction and removed

in 2008.

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New Bedford – Crown Jewels of the Enterprise

Polaroid Memories

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Konarka Technologies purchased the machinery and equipment in Building NB6 in 2008 to scale-up a new manufacturing process for solar pan-els. They sub-divided the property and pur-chased the building a couple of years later. The coater and associated machinery was converted to make flexible thin-film organics called “Power Plastic”, but after a valiant effort Konarka filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012 and closed the plant.

Currently NB1 is undergoing demolition. The Chem. Mix and Coating buildings are being torn

down, while the offices and warehouse will re-main and are for sale. The machinery and equipment in NB6 was sold at auction in 2013 and is in the process of being removed. The building and land are also for sale.

Alas, the crown jewels shine no longer, and the coating gods have gone digital. Matt Cohen Formerly Senior Manager, Engineering & Facili-ties Polaroid, MultiLayer, and Konarka

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Polaroid Memories

This old Polaroid camera was owned and used by iconic artist Andy Warhol. Pop Photo recently stumbled upon something on

eBay that might be of interest to you: an old Po-

laroid SX-70 Land Camera that once belonged

to famed artist Andy Warhol. If you want to see

through the same lens Warhol did, then this in-

stant camera can be yours for just $50,000.

The 1986 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera is being

sold by Revolver gallery in California, likely to

coincide with the deceased artist's birthday,

which was back on August 6th.

Here's the official description from the eBay

page: "A Polaroid SX-70 Land camera and flash

owned by Andy Warhol and last used at the

Limelight nightclub in Manhattan in 1986.

Warhol gifted this camera to longtime friend, as-

sociate and collector of celebrity art, Baird Jones

(1953-2006).

Warhol met Jones in the 1970’s NYC party cir-

cuit, where Jones was a renowned nightlife pro-

moter. Warhol wrote in his diaries of Jones, not-

ing the lavish parties he threw for “all the rich

preppies” at Studio 54 and Jones’ privileged po-

sition as the son of

PEOPLE magazine

founder, Cranston

Jones.

Warhol and Jones

began working to-

gether promoting

events and gallery

shows during the

1980’s in the up-

and-coming East Village arts scene.

Included in this lot are reproduction flyers for

events collaborated on as well as reprint period

photographs of Warhol and Jones. Accompa-

nied by a letter signed by Baird Jones stating

this camera was owned by Warhol and subse-

quently gifted to Jones.

The auction doesn't seem to include that fancy

protective box, but the camera itself probably

still works. Many of those old SX-70s do. Be-

cause having Andy Warhol's camera sitting on

your shelf is pretty cool, but taking pictures with

Andy Warhol's camera is infinitely cooler.

Pop photo.com Stan Horaczek August 9, 2013

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ATTN: W J. Rosen &/or M. Hall

I enjoyed reading the birthday notice about Dr. Land in the current issue of the PRA Newsletter, which just reached me yesterday.

That LIFE magazine cover story rings a bell be-cause I'm the one who placed it. At the time, I was Director of Corporate, Product and Em-ployee Communications, based at 549 Tech Square. About a year before we were sched-uled to announce SX-70, which we did at the 1972 Stockholders' Meeting, my boss -- Peter Wensberg, Executive Vice President of Market-ing -- gave me my marching orders for the prod-uct intro in two words: "Make history!"

I began by arranging a cover story in an April 1972 issue of BUSINESS WEEK, with a photo of Dr. Land on the cover. This was followed by a cover story in TIME, which ran in June, one month after the Stockholers' Meeting. It featured another cover shot of Dr. Land with an SX-70 standing on the steps in front of 549. That pho-tograph was taken by Alfred Eisenstadt, who is famous for having shot the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of World War II.

That story triggered editorial interest by TIME's sister publication, LIFE, and I spent the summer of 1972 working with the LIFE editors, photogra-pher Co Renmeester, and the science photogra-pher who produced all of the laser images of the light path through an SX-70, for which he con-vinced the ninth floor product development guys to cut an SX-70 in half, longitudinally, so he could fire three different color lasers through it. We subsequently bought those laser images

and used them on the Company's 1972 annual report. Co shot the cover photo of Dr. Land photographing two small children with an SX-70 in the park which surrounds the Bunker Hill Monument! The LIFE issue reached news-stands the same weekend as our commercial introduction in Florida.

The TIME and LIFE articles ultimately resulted in a FORTUNE cover story on Polaroid's suc-cess in manufacturing its own color negative at our new plant in New Bedford.

All-in-all, it was a heady time to be engaged at Polaroid. I joined the firm in 1958, spent most of the 1960s working in Europe, and left the Com-pany in 1982 to join a major advertising agency in New York. I'm now retired and living in New-port, RI.

All the best, Don

Donald A. Dery 41 Washington Street Newport, RI 02840, USA

Edwin H. Land would have turned 104 today and Life magazine has marked the

occasion with a look back at his legacy including revisiting a memorable 1972 cover story on the inventor of the Polaroid

Happy Birthday

A follow up letter with additional background information relative to the article on Dr. Land that was printed in the last Newsletter..

Polaroid Memories

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'The Polaroid Years' Book Explores The Retro Camera's Influence On Photography

Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera, spoke in front of one of his factories in 1970 and dreamt up the camera of the future: "A camera which you would use not on the occasion of parties only, or of trips only, or when your grandchildren came to see you, but a camera that you would use as often as your pencil or your eye-glasses." As Christopher Bonanos at the Wall Street Journal points out, Land predicted unbelievable techno-logical advancements --the Polaroid camera was just the first step. In a new book from Prestel, "The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation," curator Mary-Kay Lombino takes a look at the freedom ush-

ered in by Land's camera and how some of the most famous contemporary artists played with Polaroids.

"The Polaroid Years" is a survey of photos by big names like Robert Mapplethorpe, Chuck Close, and Andy Warhol, just to name a few. Starting in 1972 when Polaroid released the popular SX-70, the book ends in 2011 after the company closed and for-mer Polaroid employees attempted to preserve their brand of instant photography in an effort called The Impossible Project.

In the book's introduction, Lombino argues that the Polaroid camera was photography's ticket into the avant-garde move-ment, the medium's answer to painting's conceptual art. Whereas 1960s photography was "deeply mired in aesthetic conservatism," writes Lombino, in the 1970s, "many artist began to break with convention and look beyond the gelatin silver print to [other] forms of mechanical reproduction."

Land even developed an "Artist Support System" in the 1960s, in which artists would receive free equipment in return for artworks donated to Polaroid. "As a result, a tradition of experimentation with Polaroid took hold, and artists... turned to instant photogra-phy to create a remarkably diverse and innovative body of work that as Land predicted collectively left an indelible mark on the history of the photograph," writes Lombino in her introduction.

"The Polaroid Years" was released by Prestel May 5th. www.huffingtonpost.com

Polaroid News, Information, Notices & Articles

David Levinthal's untitled Polaroid from American Beauties series (1990)

Suddenly, Instant Photos Are Everywhere

By David LaGesse USNews

It seemed that instant cameras were dying—yet an-other analog victim in a digital world. When Polaroid announced in 2008 that it would quit making the film that fueled its iconic instant cameras, it appeared to be the final nail in the coffin. The company instead seemed bent on plastering the valued Polaroid name on all sorts of cheap electronics.

Then—in what seems an instant—instant printing has roared back. Revived after a bankruptcy, Polar-oid is, er, focused on instant imaging. "What makes Polaroid special is this incredible tactile experience of sharing your pictures in real time," says company executive Jon Pollock. People like holding and pass-ing around instant images of whatever event they're

sharing, he says. "We joke that Polaroids really were the first social medium before YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter."

The company, armed with instant cameras and small printers, is now trying to sell the concept to a new generation. Polaroid recruited pop singer Lady Gaga, herself a seeming instant hit, to market the new in-stant imaging to young buyers. She's also a fan of the old, analog Polaroid cameras and film, popular among artists for their unique, sometimes quirky re-sults. "Each photo was one of a kind, nothing else like it and not doctored," Pollock says. "It was almost like a crapshoot—you didn't know exactly how it was going to come out."

Most of Polaroid's new products depend less on that unpredictability. The printers connect to digital cam-

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Life After Polaroid

eras and camera phones, where images can be ed-ited, and Polaroid's other instant cameras are digital. They also depend on new instant film from a com-pany called ZINK Imaging, which is using technology that Polaroid developed but chose not to commercial-ize itself.

It's almost as if Polaroid had to first die before the new "Zero Ink" technology could spring to life at ZINK, whose prints couldn't compete with the quality of the original Polaroid film. And neither could com-pete with the quality of prints that can be made pretty darn quickly from inkjet printers. But as an independ-ent company, ZINK decided its clean process—no messy ink cartridges—and portability could make up for lesser quality. "We knew we weren't the best of best, but we thought the quality was good enough," says ZINK executive Scott Wicker. "It was really about entertainment in the moment."

Now, second-generation ZINK film is producing bet-ter-quality prints, if not still the best. And more gen-erations are coming as Polaroid reports that its print-ers and cameras are hot sellers, and other compa-nies adopt the technology.

Even the original Polaroid film isn't dead. A group calling itself the "Impossible Project" leased an old Polaroid factory in Europe and is developing a new, cheaper version of instant film that will work in Polar-oid cameras, and maybe others. Polaroid has em-braced the effort and plans to introduce a new analog

camera to use the film.

Fujifilm, meanwhile, has brought America its own line of Instax instant cameras. The company has sold similar models overseas, but waited for the old Polar-oid to die before bringing them to the United States.

More conventional printer companies aren't ceding the "instant" market. Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, and others have compact printers—some which can even run off batteries. We've included one example in our guide to the new choices for consum-ers wanting instant prints:

Polaroid PIC 1000. As part of a return to its roots, Polaroid later this year will release an updated ver-sion of its old, analog OneStep camera called the PIC 1000. It will produce the classic Polaroid prints with their white border. Film will come from the Neth-erlands, where the Impossible Project has been working on a new way to produce instant Polaroid film that's cheap enough to serve what's now a much smaller market. More details on the film should be available next month.

Polaroid PoGo printer. Meanwhile, Polaroid forged ahead with portable printers that can run off batteries and produce clean, simple prints using the Zero Ink technology from ZINK. A current PoGo printer sells for about $40 and produces 2-by-3-inch prints that cost about 40 cents each. A new model coming this year will produce 3-by-4-inch prints that are also of better quality.

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IN MEMORIAM

Chandler, Robert C. - Robert, 76, July 12, 2013, is survived by his wife Helen, children Dana, Linda Scott, Gary, Karen, William, Robert and Michael and four grandchildren. He was a Hospital Corpsman in the US Navy from 1955-1959 and then went to work for the Polaroid Corporation for 34 years. Bob was a Technical Specialist in W4 helping to develop Emulsion test equipment. Later Bob ran the water treatment and Silver collection system. Cook, Yvonne Clay - Yvonne, 69, June 12, 2013, was an early pio-neer in computer programming and data management working for com-panies such as IBM, Honeywell, Polaroid, Kodak, Hughes Aircraft and Federal Express. She is sur-vived by her sister, Patricia Clay Shirley (husband Edwin), two nieces, Erica Lorraine and Yvonne Michelle Shirley, cousins and close friends. Crowley, John J. “Jack”, Jr, - Jack, 78, June 11, 2013, served in the U.S. Army in South Korea, dur-ing the Korean conflict, then ac-cepted employment with the Polar-oid Corporation. He is survived by his wife Abina “Bina” Crowley, chil-dren Jack, Mark, Marianne, Tim, Joe Crowley, a brother Robert and sisters Julie McDonaugh and Carol Doherty, and 10 grandchildren. Edwards, Linda - Linda, 58, Au-gust 22, 2013, worked as a radar technician for the Polaroid Corpora-tion for 25 years. Left to rejoice in her blessed memory are: a daugh-ter, Capricia Bouler; a son-in-law, Tyrell Bouler; a grandson, Sivaad Bouler; a sister, Cynthia Carson; a niece, La'Nika Carson and a host of relatives and dear friends. Eger, Lawrence J. Jr. - Lawrence “Larry”, 70, June 29, 2013 was the husband of Patricia, father to Brian, Donna and Kevin, proud papa to 8 grandchildren. A former Polaroid employee for 33 years, he then worked for the U.S. Postal Service before retiring in 2006.

Harvey, Paul - Paul, 74, June 13, 2013, was a mechanic who worked at the R2 reservoir, 3rd floor repair shop till he retired. Paul is survived by his wife Kathleen, children Paul, Kimberly, Lisa, Anthony and seven grandchildren. Judkins, Clara A. Ellingwood - Clara, 91, August 6, 2013, was em-ployed by Polaroid Corporation working as an administrative secre-tary for 15 years retiring in 1981. She is predeceased by her husband Winston, and is survived by her son Robert Judkins (wife Jacquelyn), daughter Louise, granddaughter Cari Inkenbrandt (husband Robert), grandsons, Scott and Mark Lacy, Christopher and Kevin Judkins, granddaughter Karen Judkins, great granddaughter Daniele Thompson (husband Michael). Kalaghan, Hilda P. - Hilda, June 28, 2013, was em-ployed by the Polaroid Corporation of Cambridge, MA and was an accomplished artist. She volunteered extensively and was a well-know as a consummate and popular Washingtonian Hostess. She is prede-ceased by her husband Joseph, son Mark and grand-daughter Beth as well as all her siblings. She is sur-vived by a son Robert, grandson Kevin and a grand-daughter Laurie Kalaghan. Keefe Paul G. - Paul, 92, July 12, 2013, husband of the late Norma C. beloved companion of Ann Libby, father of Norma, Paul, Susan Andrew, Michael, Ber-nadette and the late Nancy Edwards, grandfather of 17 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. He served in the US Army during WWII and worked for Polaroid Company as a sheet metal mechanic. Lonergan, James E. “Jim” - James, 59, August 2, 2013, worked in research as an electronic techni-cian for Polaroid for roughly 20 years. He was the beloved hus-band to Irene Lonergan, son of the late John and Mary Lonergan, brother of Pat Cady (wife Ann Marie), Mike Lonergan and John Lonergan (wife Erin)and survived by many nieces and nephews. In his early years he enjoyed horse-back riding and his love for animals has continued throughout his life, especially his 2 most recent Bas-set Hounds Allie and Hailey.

McDonald, Barbara M. - Barbara, 94, July 6, 2013 was the wife of the late James L. McDonald, mother of James, Mariann, Elaine and Barbara and grand-

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mother to six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Barbara worked for many years at Polaroid in Kendall Square, Cambridge.

McLaughlin, Robert W. - Robert, 57, July 15, 2013, was employed as an evaluation technician for Polar-oid Corp. He is survived by his siblings Joseph, Stephen, Daniel, Susan, and the late Kathleen E. Sayce.

Modica, Stephen C. - Stephen, July 10, 2013, brother of Susan Gallant, Ellen Boyle and the late James Modica was a retired Polar-oid employee. He was a long time lab Tech in W4, B Tower. He was a member of the PRA.

Morrison, Annie M. - Annie, 95, June 25, 2013, wife of the late Lauchlin Jolly Morrison, is survived by her children Joseph (wife Mau-reen), Mary Louise, Patrick, and Veronica, and was a grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a retired inspector for the Polaroid Corporation.

Murphy, Robert Kirrane - Robert, 74, July 4, 2013, husband of Edith, spent most of his life as a sales executive in the optical industry. While travelling as a salesman for Polaroid, he once met Red Sox great Ted Williams on a plane, gave him free sunglasses and was invited by the grateful Williams to come fish-ing with him in Florida. He is also survived by his wife’s daughters Edie, Sara and Ann, his son Timo-thy and daughter Michaela.

Pelletier, Louis E. - Louis, 82, July 8, 2013, was a member of the US Naval Reserves. He was employed for many years by Polaroid Corpo-ration in their Engineering Depart-ment and then became an entre-preneur and real estate developer. He is survived by his long-time companion Rita Ferullo, son David, daughters, Denise, Janice, and Debra, five grandchil-dren and one great-grandson.

Perilli, Elvira “Vera” - Elvira, 82, August 16, 2013, was a 1948 graduate of Cathedral High School and continued her education during her many years of employment with the Polaroid Corporation and retired in 1993. She is survived by her hus-band Richard, children Mary Beth Perilli (husband Terry Horan), James Perilli (wife Ann), Barbara Palmer (husband Jerry), Karen Eustis (husband Ralph) and William A. Perilli, six grandchildren and three sisters and many

nieces and nephews. She was a member of the PRA.

Rhodes, Judith - Judith, 72, July 24, 2013, began her working life at Polaroid Corporation. She is prede-ceased by her husband Warren, is survived by her children John, Heidi, Joseph and Timothy and 8 grand-children and her ex-husband George. She owned and operated the Winterwood Bed and Breakfast (Wellfleet) in her 18th century restored barn for 20 years.

Roehrig, Caleb - Caleb, 95, July 31, 2013, served in the Asiatic Pa-cific Theater in World War II, be-came commanding Officer of sub-chaser U.S.S. SC539 and rose to rank of Lieutenant and worked as a manufacturing manager for the Po-laroid Corporation in Cambridge, MA. He left the corporate world to serve in the Peace Corps in Ecuador, Dominican Re-public and finally Washington, DC, where he served as Director of the Latin American Region. He started a direct mail marketing company, Stockton Inc. He is predeceased his wife Frances, and survived by his daughters and their husbands, Nancy and Larry Bai-ley, Elizabeth and John Abernathy, Andy Lee, Susan and Jay Reilly, Martha Roehrig and son Charlie Roe-hrig and wife Amy, 13 grandchildren, and 20 great grandchildren.

Smith, Donald A. - Donald, July 19, 2013, was the husband of Winifred, father of Donald, Brian, Steven and Kevin. He worked as a Chemical Engineer at Polaroid for 30 years until his retirement in 1996.

Souza, Josephine - Josephine, 90, August 1, 2013, is survived by her son Phillip Souza (wife Susan), granddaughter Alexandria Andrade, brother Alfio Fi-nocchairo and nieces and nephews. She worked as a custodian in New Bedford from 1972-1982.

Urban Paula L. - Paula, June 16, 2013, mother of Matthew C. Urban, sister of Paul DuBreuil, and Diane DuBreuil. She was a retired em-ployee of Polaroid Corporation.

Yancey, Gladys - Gladys, 93, July 13, 2013, was predeceased by her husband Raymond. She was em-ployed by Polaroid Corporation for over 15 years and then by the town of Randolph, as a Crossing Guard and as a very successful Truant Officer for the Randolph Schools. She is survived by her daughters Ramona, Pamela and her son Raymond, five grand-children and 6 great-great grandchildren.

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1:15 pm. RAFFLE DRAWINGS

Chicken Picatta with Lemon Wine Sauce and Capers, Served with Rice Pilaf

Boston Baked Cod Served with a New England Ritz Cracker Topping on a bed of Rice Pilaf

Chef’s Choice of Vegetable and Breads

Salad, Classic Caesar Salad, Dessert, Strawberry Shortcake, Coffee or Tea.

Enclose your check for $ @ $25.00 per person.

Make Check PAYABLE To POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION, INC

And SEND With Reservation Form to:

George Murray 14 Heywood Road, Westford MA 01886-2220 Phone: 978-692-2270

Please Note: We will be unable to offer refunds for reservations cancelled after OCTOBER 7, 2013

In the event of an emergency, please call George Murray Phone: 978-692-2270

YOUR TICKET(S) WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE RESERVATION TABLES NEAR THE ENTRANCE

Please Print or use address label

Name :

Address :

City : State :

Zip : Phone :

Entrée

Selections

Name Desired on Name Tag FISH CHICKEN

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Building 1 Waltham Breakfast Meetings The Polaroid W1 "Cement Heads" meet on the third Wednesday of each month at Friendly's on Lexington St. in

Waltham. The meetings are from 8am until about 10am. We meet with old friends, kibitz and have breakfast.

Come join us and keep the tradition going.

The Trades Breakfast Meetings will be at Bickfords Family Restaurant at 325 Montvale Ave, Woburn, Ma., about a block from Route 93, directly across from Spuds. The schedule for the year 2013 is as follows: Sept 10, Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec 10. Meeting time is 8.30 AM. Hope to see you there. Any questions call Bob Sheehan at 781-246-2065

New Bedford site Breakfast Meetings The first Saturday of each month former employees of the New Bedford site get together for breakfast. We meet at Percey's restaurant on Rte 18 in Middleborough at 8:30 AM. Spouses, significant others, etc of the employees are always welcome. Contact Edyie Johnson (edyiej@comcast.net) for more information or to be put on my distribution listing..

Polaroid Questions And Answers

Do you have Polaroid related questions that you'd like answered? Send them to the newsletter team and we'll try to answer some in our Newsletter, or we will post them to see if other readers can pro-vide answers.

For your convenience:

This is the backside of the membership application. When you renew your membership in the Po-laroid Retirees Association, You may wish to add a few lines here about your “Life after Polaroid” to be published in the Newsletter or any other comments that you would like to send to the Board of Directors.

Important Notice

The PRA Membership Chairman has a new mailing address.

Please start using it now for any correspondence. Mail sent to the old address will not be for-warded and will be DISCARDED.

Robert Ruckstuhl Polaroid Retirees Association

P.O. Box 522, Rowley, MA 01969

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Yearly Dues $10.00 Life Time Membership $100.00

Make check payable to: POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION INC.

Mail to: R. Ruckstuhl, Polaroid Retirees Assn, P.O. Box 522, Rowley, MA, 01969

PLEASE PRINT : NEW RENEWAL LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP CHANGE OF ADDRESS

NAME : LAST NAME FIRST NAME MI

ADDRESS :

CITY : STATE : ZIP :

SPOUSE’S NAME : PHONE : (Optional)

E-MAIL ADDRESS :

Date of Retirement Employee # Age (Optional)

——– Membership fees are due and payable the first of the year ——–

MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY CURRENT DIRECTORIES ARE FREE, UPON REQUEST, BUT A CHARGE OF $6.00 IS REQUIRED TO COVER SHIPPING & HANDLING.

PLEASE MAKE YOUR CHECK PAYABLE TO POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION AND MAIL TO : POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION, P.O. BOX 522, ROWLEY, MA 01969 ALLOW 3-4 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY.

YOUR MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY IS THE PROPERTY OF THE POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION INC. PUBLISHED FOR THE EXCLUSIVE INFORMA-TION AND USE BY AND OF ITS MEMBERS. NO MEMBER, ASSOCIATE, PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL OR COMPANY IS ALLOWED TO MAKE ANY BUSINESS OR COMMERCIAL USE OF THE MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY. ANY USE OF THIS DIRECTORY FOR REASONS OTHER THAN SOCIAL COMMUNICATION BE-TWEEN MEMBERS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

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POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION, INC. P.O. BOX 541395 WALTHAM, MA 02454-1395

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DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY MUCH OF THE INFORMATION GATHERED FOR THIS NEWS LETTER IS GLEANED FROM AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES, INCLUD-ING THE INTERNET. THEREFORE, THE POLAROID RETIREES ASSOCIATION INC. DOES NOT WARRANT OR ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RE-SPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NEWSLETTER.

PRA wants Polaroid Alums - We Need Your Help to Recruit New Members

If you know any former employees of the "Old Polaroid" who are not members of the Polaroid Retirees Association, please tell them about us and give them a copy of the application that is in this Newsletter. Urge them to join - it only costs $10 a year, and for that they get four newsletters, invitations to our luncheons twice a year, and a copy of our membership list with e-mail ad-dresses. Our major requirement is that they worked for the "Old Polaroid," which means that they had a seniority date of before July 2002.

Urge your old Polaroid friends to join! Bob Bacon New Member Recruitment

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

STAY WITH THE POLAROID EXPERIENCE AND FRIENDS!!!

MEMBERSHIP ENTITLES YOU TO: SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL GATHERINGS QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER MEMBER ROSTER

COME WEAR A DIFFERENT STYLE OF GLASSES BUT BE THE SAME OLD OWL!!!