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Community Service


WILLIAM PATRICK Principle Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation


Community Service


ERIC GARVIN Global Hawk Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation


Eric Garvin had every excuse not to succeed. His father was in jail for kill- ing his grandma, and his mother survived six gun shootings only to succumb to alcoholism before abandoning her family, which included two brothers slowly los- ing their lives to illegal drugs. But the hardships wouldn’t break the young man’s spirit. By the time he finished high school, young Eric Garvin had served as class president for three years and as president of the Honor Society. Given the opportunity to attend the Air Force Academy, he seized the day and made the most of his chance to live his own dream. After 26 years of service, he retired as a colonel and joined Northrop Grumman Corp. In addition to his responsibilities as representative for a Northrop Grumman flagship program valued up to $13 billion, Mr. Garvin serves as a board member for an after- school program which provides a safe haven and academic support for children aged 6-12. A few years ago he was the lead administrator for his church’s College Family Ministries. There, his responsibilities involved mentoring students from Howard University, Morgan State and Bowie State, driving them to and from church and dining with them. Over the past three years, he has hosted hundreds of students from Hylton High School in Woodbridge, VA, Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C., and the Flying School, to attend the annual Black Pioneers in Aviation event at the National Air and Space Museum.


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William Patrick, a computer/net- working systems expert, promotes the vision that each individual is unique. Building on successive achievements, he has been responsible, since 2007, for the testing of products such as F16, F22 and EA-18 radars, and hardening computer systems with classified data against cyber attacks. Early in his work-life, Mr. Patrick donated computers and repaired computer equipment to his sons' schools. He saw the need to offer more. And he did. He served first as a member, then as the chair of the Robert W. Coleman El- ementary School's improvement team— helping lead them through 1993-1995 to become the first year-round school in Baltimore. He spearheaded the African American Task Group that helped rebuild the computer lab at the Robinwood Community Center in 1997, and as a result Northrop Grumman received the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Martin Luther King Drum Major award. From 1998 to the present, he has been active in the company's Christmas Proj- ect, participating in the fundraising and delivery of presents to schools and nurs- ing homes in the Metropolitan area and following up computer networking tasks for disadvantaged students and senior residents. In 2010, he won a Congres- sional Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding service to BCPS, Balti- more's Sandtown/Winchester community, and the field of engineering.


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