Paul A. "Doc" Rutter

Paul A. "Doc" Rutter was raised in the Tri-State area of West Virginia, Ohio, & Pennsylvania, mostly in the Ohio River Valley. He lived in various small towns and farms. High School was in Zanesville, Ohio, where he graduated in 1956.

After High School, Doc and his mother ran a "Jot-em-Down" gas station & grocery store ten miles North of Wheeling W. Va. in a small community called Short Creek, from 1956 through 1960.

Doc joined the U.S.A.F in 1961 and received an Honorable discharge in 1965. Due to his Air Force training & security clearance, he became an Electrical Tech.and worked in the Strategic Air Command's Underground Command Post,as a civilian for Ling-Tempco-Vought, Inc.

In 1966 he aquired another Electrical Tech job with Control Data Corporation and worked for them in several Government Organizations as a Customer Engineer. For six years he worked all over the East coast. Four of those years were spent at The National Security Ageny, (NSA) where Paul was the "Engineer-In-Charge of CDC's Medium and Small computer systems, and was a part time "Back-Up" for the "Tech Support" engineers, in that same East Coast area

After transferring back to Minneota he was promoted to Electrical Engineer, Grade 11, and did various design repairs resulting in Electrical "Field Change Orders", used to upgrade minor design flaws found in Customers actual computers, that had shown up due to their particular Operating Systems.

His last position with C. D. C. was in Systems Reliability department where Doc gave a monthly statistical report to all of the Design Vice Presidents and Engineers, that had designed the major system products and now wanted to know, how are they operating in the field.

Doc opened a Billiard supply/cue & case specialty shop in the mid part of the 1970's, as a "Hobby" business. He made & repaired personal cues, Sold pool supplies and pool tables, & taught players how to play until he left CDC to run the billiard business full time in 1980, until retirement in 2004.

Doc wrote, "The Barefoot Cue Ball", during 2011. Author House printed it in early November 2011. Semi-Pro, League, and Hobby players have been enjoying and learning from it ever since.