Bob Newson - Director, Chair, Membership

Bob Newson - Bob was born in Saskatchewan, finished high school and worked for one year as a machinist rebuilding engines. After graduating from Radio College of Canada, he worked one year repairing consumer electronics. He married in 1956 after a very short stint in the RCAF and then started his own construction business. He moved to Ontario after eight years in construction and went back to Radio College of Canada to take Electronic Engineering Technology.

Bob joined Air Canada in September 1964 as an electrician, doing electrical/electronic work on buildings and ground support equipment. After four years, he was selected to take programming training for the Reservec-II project in Toronto. He progressed from application programmer to software specialist/performance analyst in the operating system software on the ResII and Flight Movement computers. On April 1st, 1989, Bob took early retirement when the computers were moved from Toronto.

Bob has lived in Brampton since 1963.  He has four children and thirteen grandchildren.
He lost his wife to Alzheimer's in 2006.

In 1990 he joined the Central Ontario Pionairs Executive and published the newsletter until 2008. Bob has attended all but one or two AGMs since joining and has taken two "Train the Trainer" sessions.

Bob has been a Director of the Airline Credit Union for over 25 years and has been on the Audit Committee for six years.