Chuck Myers

Chuck Myers recently joined the Board of Trustees of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation as the representative of the museum volunteers. He has been a docent for more than 10 years and three-time chair of the Docent Council.

Chuck graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1960, attended Navy officers candidate school in Newport, RI and first served aboard USS Yorktown, Hornet’s sister ship, after attending US Naval Justice School. He also served at the Naval Training Center in San Diego. Following his time in the Navy, he joined what was then Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in 1966 and spent more than 25 years with that company, principally in information systems. He retired as an Executive Director in 1992 and spent the next 10 years consulting on telecommunication systems, most of that in Europe while living in The Hague. During his years in Europe, Chuck consulted with companies in The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Poland, the UK, Norway, Hong Kong, Australia and Austria. He retired as a senior consultant from KPMG in 2003.

Now an Alameda resident, Chuck was born in rural Nebraska and grew up all over the Midwest. He attended schools in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois and his parents lived in Michigan while he was in college in Minneapolis. He discovered that “Winter” meant something different and new to him while Yorktown was in Long Beach and stayed in California.