Share Your Story
The following stories were provided by past and current staff, clients and the public.
| Al Cruze Retired RTI staff Huntsville, Alabama |
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| “We were staying in a motel near the VA hospital in Durham, and on my first day driving to work, I missed the turn on Cornwallis Road. I arrived at the Ragland Building at 8:30--15 minutes late!! Only two staff members were there--Edna Smith and Bob Titchen. I just knew I was going to be fired, but luckily they covered for me and I was allowed to stay. (note: Al Cruze went on to become an Executive Vice President at RTI)” | |
| Chito Padilla Academy for Educational Development Washington, DC |
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| “I was struck by the cover photo in Chapter 6 of the book “RTI at 50” of the children harvesting mushrooms that grew from a small-scale after-school life skills program of the Cambodia Basic Education project. As part of Cambodia's new Curriculum Policy 2005-2009, it focused on life skills improvement that included agricultural management, fish farming, garment design, or civic awareness.” |  |
| Catherine J Price |
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| “In 1980, Monroe Wall hired me to work in the Chemistry and Life Sciences Unit. Our lab group, which later became the Center for Life Sciences and Toxicology, was young and energetic. We survived many competitive renewals and celebrated our wins together as a team. While calculating multimillion dollar budgets with pencil and paper back then, we could have hardly imagined the changes in technology, breadth, size and overall success that would unfold under RTI's visionary leadership.” | |
| Maurice Gerald |
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| “During my first winter here, I was scraping the ice from my windows with a spatula and noticed the person next to me needed their windows done. I went to help and when I turned I saw a lady scraping my windows (I don't know her name, but she still works here). That let me know this place is where I want to stay and grow with these people.” | |
| Carol Place eBay.com |
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| “In April 2003, RCD’s Carol Place made a presentation to RTI's first commercialization workshop describing the benefits to RTI of disposing of surplus equipment using eBay.com. RTI management approved the implementation of the eBay idea. Pilot tests determined that this means for selling surplus equipment was viable. The Field Technical Support Department currently coordinates regularly with ITS, other Divisions and Projects to dispose of hundreds of units of surplus electronic equipment through wholesale buyers and eBay.com. Sales from these activities from October 2005 to June 2008 totaled approximately $175,000. ” | |
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