The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Robert Whitaker.md

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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 Officer¹ of the DC Department of Corrections and in 1970, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Department of Corrections DC². He seems to have represented the Metropolitan Police Department’s interests in an on-line records management system¹.

Further records of Robert Whitakers can be found working in the secret service (1982)³ and Office of Personnel Management (1985)⁴. 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 marine⁵. It’s possible this is the same Whitaker as the Corrections field is fairly small even with a relatively common name.

Footnotes

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1. Crime in the National Capital (1969) ↩︎

2. District of Columbia Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970 ↩︎

3. Government direction and support (1982) ↩︎

4. United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (1985) ↩︎

5. Corrections Magazine Vol 1 1974 ↩︎