2000 Hall of Fame Inductees Page updated: May 27, 2004
SIGUCCS About Us Awards Hall of Fame Penny Crane Committee Competitions Conferences Information of Interest Join SIGUCCS Membership Services Officers & Committees		The SIGUCCS Hall of Fame Awards for 2000 The first ten inductees to the Hall of Fame were honored at the 2000 SIGUCCS Fall User Services Conference, Richmond, Virginia. Inductees are: Jean Bonney Jane Shearin Caviness William Heinbecker Ralph E. Lee Robert Lutz Rita Seplowitz Saltz Gordon R. Sherman John E. Skelton Frank A. Thomas Alicia Ewing Towster   Inductees for 2000 Note:  The accomplishments listed on this page are current as of Fall, 2000. Jean Bonney jbonney@nsf.gov SIGUCCS Past Chair 1983-1985 CSMS Program Chair 1981 SIGUCCS Chair 1979-1981 SIGUCCS Board 1977-1979 Chair, User Services Conference 1975 Jane Shearin Caviness SIGUCCS Past Chair 1987-1991 SIGUCCS Chair 1985-1987 SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1982-1985   William Heinbecker Adcpc@archstl.org CSMS Program Chair 1982-1984 SIGUCCS Board 1979-1981 CSMS Local Arrangement Chair 1974-1981   Ralph E. Lee SIGUCCS Chair 1973-1975 CSMS Conference Chair 1974-1981 Ralph served as (the fifth) SIGUCCS Chair from 1973-75, during which time he organized and chaired the first SIGUCCS Computer Center Management Symposium in St. Louis (CCMS - now known as the annual Computer Services Management Symposium, or CSMS) in 1974. He chaired the next seven CCMS's in the same location as well, firmly establishing this conference as an annual event in "The Gateway City". Ralph spent many years as both a faculty member and Director of Computing at The University of Missouri - Rolla, from which he retired several years ago. Robert W. Lutz robert.lutz@drake.edu SIGUCCS Chair 1983-1985 SIGUCCS Board 1981-1983   Rita Seplowitz Saltz SIGUCCS Secretary/Treasurer 1991-1993 Chair, User Services Conference 1980 Newsletter Editor 1977-1981   Gordon R. Sherman SIGUCCS Board 1973-1975 SIGUCCS Chair 1971-1973 SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1968-1971 Gordon was Vice Chair of SIGUCCS, 1968-71 and went on to become the fourth Chair of SIGUCCS, serving from 1971 until 1973. He formed the committee which organized the first ACM-SIGUCCS User Services Conference in Chicago in April, 1973, and also appointed the first SIGUCCS Newsletter Editor. He served on the Board from 1973 until 1975. Most of his professional career was spent at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, where he was responsible for all aspects of computing over many years before his retirement. John E. Skelton SIGUCCS Board 1987-1991 CSMS Program Chair 1986 John served on the SIGUCCS board and was chair of the EDUCOM membership committee. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics and began his academic career as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Denver. He served as Computer Center Director at the University of Minnesota in Duluth and Oregon State University. In both cases his successor was someone whom John had mentored. John published professionally including a text on BASIC. He was active in the Phi Kappa Phi honor society and Rotary. He retired in 1994 and died in 1996.   Frank A. Thomas fbthomas@akron.infi.net SIGUCCS Secretary/Treasurer 1993-1995 SIGUCCS Board 1989-1991 CSMS Program Chair 1988 CSMS Program Co-Chair 1987 Alicia Ewing Towster aet@louisiana.edu Program Co-Chair User Services Conference 1983 Newsletter Editor 1981-1991
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