Oral-History:Richard Snelling   From GHN  Revision as of 20:42,
23 January 2009 by Nbrewer (Talk | contribs) Jump to:
navigation, search   About Richard Snelling  Richard Snelling
studied Industrial Engineering in the University of Florida,
while serving as a reservist for the Korean War. He joined
Southern Bell after graduating, where he specialized in
transmission and special service engineering. He went back to
school and received a master's degree in electrical engineering.
His career at Southern Bell ended as Executive Vice President
for Southern Bell and Bell South. Snelling joined the AIEE in
1956; all of Bell System was in the AIEE, as were most people in
the power and telephone industries. He notes that IRE members
tended to look down on the AIEE, while AIEE members dismissed
the IRE. There were more IRE people in the space industry, so
there was IRE dominance at the first Cape Canaveral region joint
meeting after AIEE and IRE merged—an unusual occurrence.
Transformations in the telephone industry i