[SIGCIS-Members] Retirement announcement

[Julie Cohn]

Sheldon -

Congratulations on launching your next adventure. You will be missed in your role at AT&T. Here’s to paths crossing nonetheless!

Julie Cohn, Ph.D.

Non-Resident Scholar, Center for Energy Studies
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, and
Research Historian, Center for Public History
University of Houston

https://www.bakerinstitute.org/expert/julie-cohn
email: cohnconnor at gmail.com
cell: 713.516.0849

Author: The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (MIT Press, 2017)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/grid


> On Aug 21, 2025, at 11:28 AM, Dag Spicer via Members <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
> 
> Sheldon: You helped me on my Master’s thesis in 1995!
> 
> May I just say to the community that Sheldon has been an incredible resource for so many of us historians of technology, providing access to and interpretation of rare and important Bell System materials for decades... and in such a friendly, generous way. This isn’t just me speaking: I’ve heard the same thing from multiple other historians as well.
> 
> So THANK YOU Sheldon for being such a vital part of our ecosystem for so long… as the Labs went through changing ownership regimes, you were a steady presence for all of us and we are truly grateful.
> 
> I leave you with a fun quote...
> 
> “If we don’t tell the truth about ourselves, someone else will.” 
> — Theodore Newton Vail, President of AT&T and the Bell System, 1878-1919.
> 
> All the best!
> 
> Dag
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>> On Aug 21, 2025, at 11:01 AM, HOCHHEISER, SHELDON H via Members <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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>> I am retiring from my position as AT&T Corporate Historian and Manager of the AT&T Archives and History Center Warren NJ facility, which holds all of he records of Bell Labs through 1995.
>> Tomorrow,  August 22 is my last day at AT&T.  My att.com <http://att.com/> email address will not work after tomorrow.   I can be reached at my personal email shochh at optonline.net <mailto:shochh at optonline.net>
>> I need help from the SIGCIS list administrator.   I can not figure out how to update my listserv subscription to my personal email account.
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>> Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D.
>> Corporate Historian
>> AT&T Archives and History Center
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>> AT&T
>> 5 Reinman Road, Warren NJ 07059
>> p  908-546-5247 
>> c   732-507-3587
>> sh3710 at att.com <mailto:sh3710 at att.com>
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