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> [!WARNING] INCOMPLETE RESEARCH
> This page is a placeholder and requires extensive additions. Difficulties have arisen from how common the name Robert Whitaker is.
Worked on the team developing the original 1969 [[PROMIS]] under [[Joan E. Jacoby]], [[Charles R. Work]], and [[Bill Hamilton]].
There are a huge amounts of Robert Whitakers working in the government, but we can assume that in 1969, Robert was an Executive Officer[^4] of the DC Department of Corrections and in 1970, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Department of Corrections DC[^1]. He seems to have represented the Metropolitan Police Department’s interests in an on-line records management system[^4].
Further records of Robert Whitakers can be found working in the secret service (1982)[^3] and Office of Personnel Management (1985)[^2]. It’s not at all clear if these are related to the Whitaker who worked on PROMIS.
There was an issue of Corrections Magazine in 1974 that mentions a Robert Whitaker, who runs a correction center, used to be a marine[^5]. It’s possible this is the same Whitaker as the Corrections field is fairly small even with a relatively common name.
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#### Footnotes
[^1]: [District of Columbia Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970](https://www.google.com/books/edition/District_of_Columbia_Appropriations_for/4g1EAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22robert+whitaker%22&pg=PA605&printsec=frontcover)
[^2]: [United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (1985)](https://www.google.com/books/edition/United_States_Government_Policy_and_Supp/DWli9TlXliQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22robert+whitaker%22+DC&pg=PA224&printsec=frontcover)
[^3]: [Government direction and support (1982)](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Government_direction_and_support/D6mWWTvqugMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22robert+whitaker%22+DC&pg=PA1182&printsec=frontcover)
[^4]: [Crime in the National Capital (1969)](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Crime_in_the_National_Capital/gcFFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1)
[^5]: [Corrections Magazine Vol 1 1974](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corrections_Magazine/67lQAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22robert+whitaker%22+DC&dq=%22robert+whitaker%22+DC&printsec=frontcover)