by angie | Mar 30, 2023 | Press Releases
“Diamond Jubilee” was the theme of the 60th Annual Meeting of Members for Tri-County Telephone Association, Inc. (TCT). The meeting was held Tuesday, March 28th, 2023, at the Herington Community Building. Two Hundred and twenty people attended the event. A meal,...
by angie | Mar 17, 2023 | Press Releases
Dale Jones had been hired as the General Manager of Tri-county Telephone Association, Inc., with a start date of July 1st, 1999. Jones came to TCT from S&T Telephone Company in Brewster, Kansas, where he started as a technician. In his 13 years at S&T, he’d...
by angie | Mar 17, 2023 | Press Releases
By 1968, TCT’s service area had grown to include many rural communities and the founder’s ambitions of building a fully buried communications network was starting to materialize. On February 5th, 1968, the 5th Annual Meeting was held. Updates were given to attendees...
by angie | Jan 9, 2023 | Press Releases
By early March of 1964, TCT had two employees, Office Manager and Secretary, Mary K. Campbell and General Manager, Carroll Schraeder. Mr. Schraeder’s actual first day of work was to be May 1st. Ms. Campbell was busy getting the office in order, and the Board continued...
by angie | Dec 14, 2022 | Press Releases
On May 5th, 1961, the steering committee was ready to present their recommendations. They suggested that the local exchanges merge into one larger cooperative. By merging the smaller exchanges would be protected from being swallowed up by a larger company and they...
by angie | Nov 2, 2022 | Press Releases
Service Before TCT: The post war boom took place in the years prior to the formation of Tri-County Telephone Association. America was growing and modes of communications were changing quickly. At the time, rural Americans had limited access to telephone service and...
