From: Ralph Sayle Date: Fri, Sep 3, 1993 at 4:38 PM Subject: another farewell... To: icsstaff, community In about 2 weeks, it'll be 25 years since someone said to me, "Okay, you start work this afternoon." So now might be an appropriate time to announce I'll be spending part of the next 25 years at UBC's Faculty of Applied Science, right next door to John Hogg. My new job description includes the words "Systems Analyst -- Educational Software". Holidays will intrude from now until the new job starts, October 18. Since our new offices are being built, I'll probably continue working out of my UCS office till December. I told someone recently that there were many intense exhausting weeks, months and years in that quarter decade but when I look back I recall the sheer brilliance and dedication of the folks I worked closely with. I am eternally grateful to those brilliant people who made work easier, perhaps even a joy: Mark DuMont, Jeff Berryman and Alan Ballard to name just 3 of them. The camaraderie of the Systems Group has been a long sustaining relationship. I too have met "friends for life" here; my friends are remarkable and numerous. I have had a outstanding relationship with dozens of people out there in the old MTS Community. I can never ever explain to an outsider what an incredible thing came out of the work done by Don Boettner and Mike Alexander starting in 1966. Elizabeth, Denis, Lynn, Ron, Malcolm, Roger, Brian, Garance, Mike, Gavin, Scott, Liz, Steve, Garry, Maureen, Deb, Eric, Margaret, Peter, Frances, Peter, and all the names in between, made work better. Thanks, folks...! And here's to those I met along the way who never made it this far: Milt Nelson, Gord Miller and Bob Husak. They remind me there's more to life than work. I often think of them...! |
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