SIGUCCS Hall of Fame 2001

The 2001 inductees into the Hall of Fame were honored at the 2001 SIGUCCS Fall Conference in Portland, Oregon. Inductees are:

John H. "Jack" Esbin
jesbin@acm.org

	Newsletter Editor 1971-1973
	Proceedings - Symposium of Admin & Mgmt of College Computer Centers 1972
	Proceedings - User Services Conference 1973
	Editor -Symposium on Computing and Colleges 1973
	SIGUCCS Board 1973-1981
	Program Chair - CCMS 1980
	Chair, User Services Conference 1985

Jack has been a member of ACM and SIGUCCS since 1968. He enthusiastically supports SIGUCCS and ACM and is devoted to making these organizations successful. His extensive involvement with these organizations includes serving for many years on the ACM SIG Board as Chair, Vice-Chair and Council Member; ACM Treasurer; SIGUCCS Newsletter Editor; SIGUCCS Treasurer; Chair of both the SIGUCCS User Services Conference and the Computer Center Management Symposium; Chair of the SIGUCCS Peer Review Committee; and twice Chair of SIGUCCS.

Priscilla Jane Huston
pjh@rice.edu

	SIGUCCS Board 1983-1985
	SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1985-1987

Involved in academic computing since 1964, Priscilla Huston's work has spanned many changes in information technology. It has involved proposing and installing new technologies and organizational approaches; proposing, designing and building computing service facilities; serving on and chairing committees; supporting staff professional development and collaborative skills; and interfacing with a wide variety of individuals and organizations on and off campuses.

Nationally she has been involved with a number of organizations, vendor related advisory committees, panels and other activities. She served as a Board Member in SIGUCCS (ACM Special Interest Group for University and College Computing) from 1982 to 1986 and was Vice President from 1987 to 1989. She has served on the EDUCOM Board of Trustees and served as Chair in 1991 and 1992. From 1996 to 2000, she co-chaired the Seminars for Academic Computing's Executive Seminar.

Ms. Huston was on loan from Rice University to the National Science Foundation where she was Program Director for the NSFNET program from March 1993 until July 1996. During this time she was also Director of Outreach for Information Systems at Rice University.

From July 1996 until January 2000, Priscilla Huston was Assistant to the Provost for Special Projects at Rice University, where primary responsibilities involved faculty support for curriculum review, the creation of a faculty handbook, support for Environmental Programs and other special projects such as the preparation of grant proposals, educational outreach, etc.

Since retiring in January 2000 to care for her mother, she continues to be involved. She serves on panels for the NSF and other agencies. She is secretary for the Rice Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She took one of the leadership roles in the preparation of the HU-LINC proposal for the Houston Independent School District and continues to serve on the HU-LINC Advisory Board.

Recently she has taken a role in the Cain Project at Rice University that supports integration of the teaching of communication within the curriculum. She is currently involved in assessment activities and in support of a national conference in March 2002 on Writing Across the Curriculum.

Elizabeth R. Little

	SIGUCCS Board 1977-1979
	SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1979-1981
	SIGUCCSVice Chair 1981-1982

Polley Ann McClure
Polley.McClure@cornell.edu

	Program Chair CCMS 1991
	SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1991-1993
	SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1993-1995

Polley McClure is Vice President for Information Technologies, and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University.

Before assuming her current position at Cornell University, she was Vice President and CIO, and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Virginia. Prior to that, she was Associate Vice President for Information Resources, and Professor of Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

McClure characterizes her professional experience in terms of two careers. The first was a more traditional academic faculty career at Indiana University, teaching Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and conducting research into the evolution of animal life history traits. Her second career as a university leader and manager of information technologies began in the early eighties and has now spanned three major academic institutions.

She has served on and chaired the Boards of Directors of CAUSE, EDUCOM, and EDUCAUSE.

McClure received a bachelor's degree in Zoology from the University of Texas, Austin, an MA degree in Zoology (with a concentration in Ecology) from the University of Montana, and a PhD in Zoology (with a concentration in Ecology) from the University of Texas, Austin.

James L. Moss

	SIGUCCS Newsletter Editor 1974-1975
	SIGUCCS Board 1981-1983
	Program Chair CCMS 1982

Jerry Niebaum
niebaum@ku.edu

	Program Co-chair CCMS 1987
	SIGUCCS Board 1987-1989
	SIGUCCS Board 1989-1991

Jerry Niebaum has led seminars and workshops for national conferences of EDUCOM, CAUSE, Association for Computing Machinery - SIGUCCS, and Snowmass Seminars on Academic Computing. Jerry began his work in computing in 1960 and in higher education computing in 1966. He was Director of Academic Computing Services at the University of Kansas from 1981 to 1999.

At the October, 2000 EDUCAUSE conference in Nashville Jerry received an "Excellence in Leadership in the Profession" award.

Jerry is currently Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Services at the University of Kansas - Lawrence. He also acts as an IT liaison to state government for the Council of Chief Academic Officers (password required) of the six regents universities. For FY2002 Jerry is on special assignment to the Kansas Board of Regents Office as Planning Coordinator for the KAN-ED project. KAN-ED is a broadband statewide network to support schools, libraries, and hospitals.

Russell S. Vaught
rsv@psu.edu

	SIGUCCS Board 1983-1985
	SIGUCCS Board 1985-1987
	SIGUCCS Board 1987-1989
	SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1989-1991
	SIGUCCS Vice Chair 1991-1993
	SIGUCCS Chair Board 1993-1995

Russell S. Vaught is Associate Vice Provost for Information Technology at Penn State. Before working full time in computing, Russ was a researcher at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC, and the Oregon Research Institute in Eugene, OR. For the last twenty-four years, he has held full time computing positions at SUNY-Binghamton, Cornell, and Penn State.

At SUNY-Binghamton, he was Director of the Computer Center. As such he was responsible for Academic and Administrative Computing on the campus. Through his leadership, SUNY-Binghamton was an early member of BITNET. At Cornell, he was Director of Administrative Computing. He had responsibility for most central administrative systems. He is proud to have created an environment where the Mandarin Project could be envisioned.

At Penn State since July 1989, he administered the Center for Academic Computing. The Center provided support for the instruction and research computing needs of the academic community at all 24 campuses. Under his leadership, the Center provided a broad range of resources to all of Penn State�s 70,000 plus students.

He became Associate Vice Provost and Deputy Chief Information Officer in January 2001. He also serves as an Affiliate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Technology.

He served on the Board of the ACM/SIGUCCS group from 1983 to 1999 and was Chair of that organization from 1991-1995. He served as Program Chair of the Snowmass Meeting and was Chair of the Snowmass Board. He has served as Penn State's representative to the Common Solutions Group and serves on the executive committee. He has served on the Board of Trustees for the Corporation for Research and Education Networking since 1996 and as Secretary since 1997.

He has made numerous presentations on information technology related issues. He wrote a chapter in the Educom publication, Organizing and Supporting Administrative Computing. He has consulted with a number of institutions on their use of technology. He has also taught courses in statistics and management of information systems. He has over fifty publications in areas ranging from quantitative methods and organizational behavior to traffic safety and parasites in fish. He holds a patent on simulator technology. He received a Ph.D. in Psychology (Quantitative Methods) from Iowa State University in 1971.

Lawrence W. Westermeyer
larry_westermeyer@UMSL.EDU

	Chair CCMS 1985-1995
	SIGUCCS Board 1995-1997

Larry Westermeyer has been a member of SIGUCCS since 1978. He served as chair of the Computing Services Management Symposium from 1985 through 1997. He was Local Arrangements Chair for the 1987 Computer Science Conference. He served a Peer Reviewer from 1988 to 1998. He was a member of the SIGUCCS Board of Directors from 1995 through 1997.

Larry is currently Director of Institutional Research at the University of Missouri - St. Louis where he has been employed since 1974. He was previously Director of Telephone Services and Director of Computing and Networking Services. He also held a number of managerial and technical positions.

Barbara Wolfe

SIGUCCS Board 1979-1981
SIGUCCS Chair 1981-1983

James R. Wruck
james.r.wruck.1@nd.edu

	SIGUCCS Board 1985-1987
	Assistant Chair CCMS 1985-1994
	SIGUCCS Secretary/Treasurer 1985-1987
	SIGUCCS Secretary/Treasurer 1989-1991

James (Jim) Wruck spent his entire career in computing at the University of Notre Dame from 1970 to 2000. After graduating with a BSEE and MSEE from Notre Dame, he left the PhD program to become the Assistant Director of Systems in 1970. The first time-sharing system at the university was installed that year.

He took on several roles after that including Director of Systems and Networking, Associate Director, Director of Computing and Deputy Assistant Provost for Computing. He finished his career in the University Library as Assistant Director for Systems. It was an exciting time in which he saw the technology of computing change from heavy batch to time-sharing to personal computing to networked computing. Notre Dame was fortunate to be one of the founding members of CICNet, the NSF regional that brought the Internet to this part of the country.

In SIGUCCS Jim served as a board member and two terms as Secretary/Treasurer when Penny Crane was the Chair. He ran for Chair in 1991 and lost a close election to his good friend Russ Vaught. Jim, along with Larry Westermeyer, was the Co-chair of the Computing Services Management Symposium (CSMS). Among other things, changed the name of the conference from Computing Center Management Symposium to Computing Services Management Symposium. He was on several program committees and gave a few talks at the conference.

Jim received much advice over his career from the many colleagues of SIGUCCS, but two that were most influential to him (besides the ever-direct Penny Crane) were Fred Harris, then of the University of Chicago, and Grey Freeman of Yale. "It was a pleasure to be around at a time of so many great computing leaders."