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A special award was presented posthumously to Penny Crane at the 1999 SIGUCCS Fall Conference to honor her long time service and contributions to SIGUCCS and ACM. Since then the Penny Crane Award was established to recognize other individuals who have made significant contributions to SIGUCCS and computing in higher education.
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The 2000 Penny Crane Award was presented to John H. (Jack) Esbin to recognize his significant service to higher education, the computing profession, and to ACM SIGUCCS. |
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Jack Esbin has been a force in university environments, supporting the computing profession for many years. He began his university career at Illinois State University in 1965, moved to the University of Iowa, and then to the University of Toledo. He then held positions at the J. Preston Levis Regional Computer Center and the City of Toledo, Ohio. He returned to the University of Toledo in 1995 serving as their Director of Administrative Computing and then as the Director of the Year 2000 Project. He retired in 2000.
Jack
has received several awards including two NSF Fellowships and the ACM
Outstanding Contribution Award, and was elected an ACM Fellow in 1993.
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.
Information about this award is available at http://www.acm.org/siguccs/awards/pc_award.htm.
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