Bob Ondercin
Three months after Latin’s graduation, I moved into a Case dorm across East Boulevard, no longer commuting from beyond Cleveland Hopkins airport as I did to go to Latin. In June 1967, I received my engineering degree in the last graduating class from Case Institute of Technology as the next year Case merged with the school next door.
The week after Case graduation I moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to work in the electronics division of Cincinnati Milling Machine, later named Cincinnati Milacron. For seven years I did digital hardware design of machine tool numerical control systems and injection molding machine programmable controllers, receiving two patents. Then I moved to manufacturing where for the next 25 years I implemented new technologies and manufacturing concepts all aimed at increasing quality while reducing costs.
But in the late 1990’s through a series of mergers and acquisitions the electronics division became part of Aeroquip-Vickers who was then purchased by Eaton Corporation. I took an old-timer’s buyout option and ‘retired’ to plan on moving to Arizona.
But in 1964 while Case was building the new Phi Delta Theta fraternity house on Murray Hill road, a number of us were temporarily housed in the Commodore Hotel at the corner of Euclid and Mayfield. The Cleveland Academy of Professional Secretaries had a dormitory arrangement with the hotel and that’s how I met Sandy Close who lived there while working at Mt. Sinai hospital as a medical transcriber. In April of 1968 we were married in Cleveland and after honey-mooning in Florida returned to Cincinnati.
In 2000, Sandy and I relocated to Tucson, Arizona. We had a house built in Saddlebrooke, a retirement community, even though I was working and not retired. We spent 12 years living in the southwest desert but gave into the urge to be with the grandkids and moved back to Cincinnati in 2012. Our oldest daughter Sharon and her husband Larry live in greater Cincinnati with Garrett [16] and Nick [13] while our youngest daughter Julie lives with her husband Jimmy in Norwood, Ohio, with Olivia [6] and Andrew [4].
No cutting grass, no raking leaves, and no shoveling snow were the ground rules that led us to a condominium in Clermont county, eastern Cincinnati where Sandy and I enjoy the retired life style.
(posted Apr. 2, 2015)
The week after Case graduation I moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to work in the electronics division of Cincinnati Milling Machine, later named Cincinnati Milacron. For seven years I did digital hardware design of machine tool numerical control systems and injection molding machine programmable controllers, receiving two patents. Then I moved to manufacturing where for the next 25 years I implemented new technologies and manufacturing concepts all aimed at increasing quality while reducing costs.
But in the late 1990’s through a series of mergers and acquisitions the electronics division became part of Aeroquip-Vickers who was then purchased by Eaton Corporation. I took an old-timer’s buyout option and ‘retired’ to plan on moving to Arizona.
But in 1964 while Case was building the new Phi Delta Theta fraternity house on Murray Hill road, a number of us were temporarily housed in the Commodore Hotel at the corner of Euclid and Mayfield. The Cleveland Academy of Professional Secretaries had a dormitory arrangement with the hotel and that’s how I met Sandy Close who lived there while working at Mt. Sinai hospital as a medical transcriber. In April of 1968 we were married in Cleveland and after honey-mooning in Florida returned to Cincinnati.
In 2000, Sandy and I relocated to Tucson, Arizona. We had a house built in Saddlebrooke, a retirement community, even though I was working and not retired. We spent 12 years living in the southwest desert but gave into the urge to be with the grandkids and moved back to Cincinnati in 2012. Our oldest daughter Sharon and her husband Larry live in greater Cincinnati with Garrett [16] and Nick [13] while our youngest daughter Julie lives with her husband Jimmy in Norwood, Ohio, with Olivia [6] and Andrew [4].
No cutting grass, no raking leaves, and no shoveling snow were the ground rules that led us to a condominium in Clermont county, eastern Cincinnati where Sandy and I enjoy the retired life style.
(posted Apr. 2, 2015)