We were likely working at the Naperville, IL (Indian Hill) facility at the same time and probably passed each other in the cafeteria or in the hallways... BTW, I started there in 1979 and just a few months ago, moved back to the same old building. So now it is ~30 years later and I work an aisle away on the same floor and in the same building that I started in. But it is an entirely different company now as you well know.
(Another) Bob
Bob H is Bob Hofmann retired from Bell Labs EMC group in Naperville, IL. I put myself thru college in the 1950's installing towers and antennas and vacuum tube antenna boosters in Fort PIerce, Florida. After a good summer storm, we could count on getting calls from people whose tower amplifiers had been blown apart and whose 300 ohm twin lead if intact had no conductivity because the copper had ben vaporized into the poyethelene or what poastic was used for the downleads. Nearest tv station was Miami, 125 miles away, so amplifiers on towers was the only way to get signals. When West Palm Beach went on the air, only 57 miles away, people began to get serious about buying tv's since roofotp antennas becanme somewhat practical.....