Anthony Evans:  

After graduating from Malverne HS I attended Nassau Community College (NCC) on Long Island for two years majoring in accounting. Due to a schedule change with my part-time, after school job at A&S (remember them?) I dropped Accounting II and took a data processing class (one of my best decisions). After two years at NCC I transferred to Central State University in Ohio where Estill Covington ( Malverne '67) was attending. Going away to college and staying on campus was great. Several of my dormitory buddies and I started a group called F Troop. We studied hard and partied hard. I and my roommate Dave Hubbard spent many extra hours in the school's computer room in the evenings playing around with an IBM 1401 computer (imagine only have 16k of memory!) with punched cards and a tape drive. We loved programming and honed our skills. I was blessed to get a programmer trainee position with Chemical Bank on Wall Street six months before my June 1970 graduation. What a big difference it was from programming in college! In the business world if you made programming mistakes you impacted customers' checking and savings ...Expand for more