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Charles Nash

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Charles Nash

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CJ "Chuck" Nash, Jr., retired in 2010, after a 32 year career as a telecommunicator, supervisor, and lead with the Maryland-National Capital Park Police, in Montgomery County, Maryland, during which he served in various capacities with some illustrious peers from other Washington Metropolitan area agencies, such as Al Sines, Jim Rosenthal, Kurt Andrich, Bruce Blair, Mike Love, Austin Storey, and Steve Souder, among them. It was a humbling experience, and whether they knew it or not, they all made him a better, more well-rounded and informed telecommunicator and supervisor.

In 2007, it was his pleasure and honor to serve as the Local Flavor subcommittee chair for the 2007 Baltimore International Conference. He can attest to the fact that the APCO National staff is the best. They made a great team: the nationals and the locals. Other than a few unusual and highly interesting calls for service when he was the first first or second first responder for, assisting with the planning for that conference was one of the highlights of his professional life.

He has been a member of the Mid-Eastern Chapter since the mid-90's. It was his pleasure and honor to serve on the board of officers over a period of years. Getting to work with and know pros like the aforementioned Al Sines, Joe Belger, Sharon Lechowicz, Terry Whitham, Dee Freeman, Rich Bumgarner, and Past Intl. and Chapter President Bill Carrow, and others too numerous to mention, has also been a pleasure, an honor, and great fun.

He was proud to be selected and serve as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee (EAC) for APCO's "Public Safety Communications," from August 2007-July 2014, This was another highlight of his professional, and now post-professional, life. He is also proud and appreciative to be appointed to the ByLaws Committee for the 2014-2015 term.

His written work, consisting of articles, reviews, and poetry has been published in "Public Safety Communications," "MusicMonthly," "Chesapeake Music Guide," "Virginia Country," "The Journal of the American Medical Association," "Cairn," and "Tapestry" (the literary magazine of Methodist University--where he received a B.A. degree in English during the first part of the last quarter of the past century).

He gives all the credit for any success he had and for his first love of electronics, if not communications, to his late father, who introduced him at a young age to a second-hand Grundig stereo--his first foray into high fidelity. His father was a telephone man, a PBX installer/repairman, who worked for a precursor of Verizon, the C & P Telephone company, from the early 1940's through 1983. There was a slight interruption of his father's early telephone career called WWII. His father served as a lineman who ran cable and wired forward listening posts during the European Theatre, from D-Day plus one, through the war's end. His father was so good at his work that from the Nixon administration through Reagan's term, he was selected as one of the only three telephone techs per trip to accompany the Secret Service, White House Communications staff and various military attaches on presidential trips to Japan, Indonesia, the Phillipines, Honduras, Austria, the Soviet Union, Italy, South Korea, the Azores, Poland, Iceland, and China, among others.