by Jeff H.
My first year with the Legacy Martin Marietta Company was in
Orlando in 1983. Not long after I started, a long-time employee, a supervisor
in the area that used the mainframe systems I supported, announced his
retirement. In the conversation he told me that he had nearly 40 years with the
company. He started at Middle River building airplanes. Yes, he had known Glenn
L. Martin. He also said then that if we still built airplanes, he would not
retire. Now nearly 30 years later, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the
company, it seems remarkable that I and many others have only one degree of
separation from the man at that founding moment 100 years ago. And my
colleague, long since passed, might be right at home again. Since the merger
with Lockheed, we have been back in the airplane business.
