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4 Feb 2012 |
Graeme Alexander Downie:
Graeme passed away on the 4th
of February at the age of 75. He had a long fight with cancer in the
later part of 2011, and appeared to be on a good recovery when he
contracted pneumonia while on holiday with family in Pambula and
required an air ambulance back to Melbourne. He had been in an
induced coma for some weeks while attempts were made to stabilise
his condition. |
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21 Jan 2012 |
Bill Main: Bill
served in the Royal Navy as a communications and Signals Officer
from 1943 to 1958 when he took early retirement as a Lt/Commander to
join IBM UK in September 1958. He transferred to IBM Australia in
late 1963. He had a long association with WTAAS, which included an
assignment from Australia to the international development centre at
Respond, Havant, UK. |
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28 Dec 2011 |
George Stevens: passed
away early on 28th. Although he was not a QCC member, many of
us knew George, a wonderful person who brought real humanity to the
'Personnel' department long before it was called 'Human Resources'. |
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28 Dec 2011 |
Mike Freeman: Michael
(Mike) Freeman passed away after a long illness on Wednesday. He was
a long-time member of the IBM QCC - having joined IBM in February
1962 and retired from IBM in 1990. |
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26 Dec 2011 |
Geoff Bonham: |
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28 Oct 2011 |
Jim Smith:
Jim joined IBM on 5 January
1944, and the IBM QCC in January 1969. He was therefore the
most senior member of the IBM QCC.
Jim and QCC Member Adriaan Tent were close friends. Adriaan
wrote:
"I have known Jim since I became Plant Manager of the Lidcombe plant
in January 1957. At that time Jim was appointed Production
Manager, reporting directly to me. We have been close friends
ever since. I retired in 1983 and Jim in 1987. We met
regularly and we both lived in Saratoga and we always had many
stories to tell about the good old days in IBM." |
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Oct 2011 |
Ian Johnston: |
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11 Sept 2011 |
Bob Seers:
He joined IBM in 1963 and has been a
member of the QCC since 1988 |
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8 Sept 2011 |
Max Lamond:
Although not a member of the QCC, he
worked for IBM for 23 years and will be remembered by many. |
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Aug 2011 |
John Perrottet: |
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30 July 2011 |
Doug Batson:
Doug was known to many in IBM. He
joined IBM in 1948, retired in 1982 and has been a QCC member for
over 37 years. Although
blind, he had refused to move to a nursing home and was living at
home with his wife. Early last week he fell and broke his hip.
During surgery to repair his hip, he did not recover from the
anaesthetic and passed away yesterday after life support was
switched off. He was 90 years old. |
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15 July 2011 |
Robin Oaten: He was at IBM for many
years, mainly in Sydney, although did not quite make the QCC.
Robin was well known to many QCC members and other IBMers with whom
he worked. |
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6 July 2011 |
Leslie Baird:
After a long battle with Cancer, Leslie
Baird passed away on the 6th of July.
Leslie lived in Broome, WA for many years, and was very involved in
Wildlife Conservation, particularly the Green Sea Turtle. She will
be sadly missed by the Broome Community, who recognised her efforts,
plus all who knew her. She was the founder of Chelonia, a wildlife
facility in Broome. A Foundation has been set up in her name. For
those interested, the Web Address is :
http://www.chelonia.org.au/
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16 June 2011 |
David Rubenstein:
Sadly David
passed away in New York on Thursday,16th June 2011. David joined IBM
in the USA and qualified in the USA to the QCC, later joining IBM
Australia in the 1980's. David returned to the USA after retiring,
where he resided in NYC.
A service was held for David in NYC on
the 21st June. |
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3 May 2011 |
Ken Mo: Ken joined the QCC in November 2000. |
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25 Jan 2011 |
Ian Logan: Ian, aka Maurice, passed away after a 12 year battle
with cancer. He joined the QCC in May 1984. |
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Nov 2010 |
Graham Williams: |
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18 Oct 2010 |
Jim Nielsen: Jim had been retired from IBM for more than 20
years. |
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Sept-Oct 2010 |
Barry Davies: Unfortunately we don't know exactly when but
probably in Sept or Oct 2010. If anyone knows, could you
please inform the QCC
Secretary. |
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31 Aug 2010 |
Jerry Kay: He started at
IBM in 1968, and was still working with IBM as a contractor in Sales
Education.
Jerry was an active, cheerful, and enthusiastic member of the
Sydney Chapter committee.
Recently he had been disappointed that his health had limited his
participation in our meetings and social events - but always
remained optimistic. |
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7 May 2010 |
Kees Lindeman: He was a
long time member of the Sydney Customer Engineering Team,
having started at IBM in 1962 - and was a regular attendee at Sydney
Chapter QCC functions. |
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16 Mar 2010 |
Mike Bradley |
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9 Mar 2010 |
Graham Kerrison: Although he did not qualify
for the QCC, he worked for many years at IBM and would be well
known by many of our members.
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2 Mar 2010 |
Bill O'Hara passed away peacefully on Tuesday, 2 March.
Bill was a retired Customer Engineer and QCC member - who joined IBM
over 50 years ago in January 1959. He was a key member of the CE
force in Brisbane and Sydney until his retirement. He will be
missed by his colleagues. |
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1 Mar 2010 |
Mike Jones
joined IBM in October 1970 -
just under 40 years ago - and was still working in the Finance
Department as an Internal Audit Investigator. Many of us have worked
and socialised with Mike over the years. His business insight and
sense of humour will be greatly missed.
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23 Feb 2010 |
Cesar Teixeira lost his battle with cancer after
many months of treatment, where he maintained a positive and
productive attitude to both life and work. He was moved to the
Greenwich hospital on Monday where he passed away.
After 36 years with IBM, working throughout the world, he will be
missed, not only for his determination to provide support of the
highest standard, but for his passionate approach to life, and
enthusiastic interest in the issues of the world.
Cesar is survived by his wife
Maria and daughter Joanna. |
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20 Feb 2010 |
Lachhman Nankany who died in hospital tis day. Our
thoughts are with his wife, Meenakshi, his sons and family. |
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24 Oct 2009 |
Bruce Elliott of Perth died this week, after a
long period with Alzheimers. There was a private cremation. Bruce
was one of our top Salesmen, 25+ 100% Clubs, QCC member and very
popular with WA clients. |
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23 Sept 2009 |
Howard Gwynne: Sadly, in today's West newspaper
- a death notice for J. Howard Gwynne. He passed way on Sept 21st at
the Mount Hospital Perth, aged 62, after a courageous battle with
bowel cancer. Howard was a member of the Perth QCC and will be
greatly missed by his former colleagues. |
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17 Sept 2009 |
Egbert Albuquerque: |
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3 Aug 2009 |
Mike Meek: He joined IBM 50
years ago this month. |
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31 July 2009 |
Malcolm Bryant: Malcolm joined
IBM 31 years ago last week, and was still working at IBM Global
Finance. He has been a member of the QCC since 2003.
Malcolm provided amazing IT
capability and leadership during his tenure in IGF, and before that
to the A/NZ Finance Systems team. Some may remember his skills and
leadership were instrumental in deploying HRACCESS as the new
payroll system in ANZ, which was a massive undertaking. |
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24 Apr 2009 |
Trevor Bleach: Trevor has had a tremendous impact on the
professional and personal lives of many IBMers and this sudden and
tragic news will come as a great shock.
Trevor worked for IBM for over 35 years, a QCC member since 1998,
but had only retired from IBM at the end of March this year. He was
57. |
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10 Apr 2009 |
Evan Serls: He joined IBM in 1962 and became a member of
the IBM Quarter Century club in 1987 - and was a life member of the
Sydney Chapter. |
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9 Apr 2009 |
Paul Stockdale: He joined IBM in 1969 and became a member
of the IBM Quarter Century club in 1994. |
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27 March 2009 |
Ray McDermott: He joined IBM in 1961, retired in 1991 and was
a member of the Quarter Century Club for over 20 years. |
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27 Dec 2008 |
Ted Markland: He joined IBM in 1962, retired in 1991 and was
a member of the Quarter Century Club. |
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17 Dec 2008 |
Alec Malikoff: Alec was a
pioneer of IBM Customer Engineering having joined in 1951 when the
fledgling EAM Division was starting with just one customer,
AC Nielsen. He subsequently became an instructor and mentor to the
many who joined the ranks of Customer Engineering.
He was a man of no compromise in
terms of dedication to the job and set the standard for many to
follow. |
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Oct 2008 |
Russ Mannell: Unfortunately we have only just heard of Russ'
death which occurred prior to October 17, 2008 |
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19 Aug 2008 |
Dick Faulkner: Dick retired from IBM on 30 September 1984 after
26 years and 8 months service |
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12 July 2008 |
Jim Cunneen |
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June 2008 |
Eric Sharp |
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3 June 2008 |
Frank Havas
who retired in 1992 with 28 years of service died on June 3 2008. He
is survived by his wife of 44 years Mahdi. |
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May 2008 |
 Andy
Kichno: One of Andy Kichno's old
friends recently returned to Perth and contacted me, looking for
Andy. I had lost contact with him a few years ago, but I offered to
help.
After Norm Dey gave me the idea to search for his property, I
contacted the real estate agent when I found Andy's address in the
on-line Real Estate listings.
His house is being sold by Linda Kichno, Andy's sister, so I
contacted her in NSW.
Sorry to pass on the bad news, I have found out that Andy passed
away on the 9th May 2008 after suffering a heart attack. He was 64,
had given up his software business and was back on the road working
as a taxi driver in Perth. (He used to drive taxis in Brisbane
before his IBM job).
According to Linda, Andy had a minor stroke and was being treated
for this when he had the heart attack, some days after a session of
stress testing. I will miss Andy and I am sorry that I was not there
for him at the end.
Sadly, Linda could not find any personal contacts in his phone and
Maz & I were in Sydney for a memorial service at that time in any
case.
There was no funeral, so this email is my effort to farewell him.
Please pass the news on to anyone I may have missed.
Apologies to anyone who did not know Andy in the IBM Sydney Call
group. (I know some of you are too young).
[ If you are unsure, look at the photo from 1975.]
Les Gunn |
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12 Feb 2008 |
Mike Spruyt passed away after
a long illness. He joined
IBM in 1971. |
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20 Dec 2007 |
Maurie Sievers passed away at
5 pm yesterday.
Maurie was much loved by all who knew him, & will be sadly missed. |
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30 Nov 2007 |
Maurice Bevington OAM. Maurice
was our longest-serving QCC member, joining IBM just over 67 years
ago (having been interviewed in the morning, and starting work the
same afternoon), and
qualified to the QCC in 1965.
He has been an active and
enthusiastic member of the QCC committee for the last 41 years since
it was founded. As our QCC president, Ian Miller, mentioned at the
recent Sydney Annual Induction Dinner, Maurice had attended every
one except this year due to deteriorating health. |
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29 Oct 2007 |
Jock Fincke after along battle with cancer. Jock worked in Melbourne for many years before
moving to Tasmania |
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28 Sept 2007 |
Dennis Finn |
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26 Sept 2007 |
Mike Muslic |
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12 Sept 2007 |
Bill Roem |
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12 Aug 2007 |
Frank Mooney. Frank worked for IBM for 43 Years and Qualified for the
Quarter Century
Club in July 1972, so he was one of our longest serving Members. |
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15 July 2007 |
Alf Lang |
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13 May 2007 |
Jim Waltho Jim was a
very senior Sydney Chapter member - who qualified for the QCC over
30 years ago in 1976 having worked at IBM since 1951. |
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18 Apr 2007 |
Phil Singleton |
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Mar 2007 |
Bill Pitkeathly reported in Sydney Morning Herald 30 March 2007 |
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18 Mar 2007 |
Tony Britton after a long illness. He joined IBM in 1959,
retiring in 1988. |
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31 Dec 2006 |
Bryn Burton |
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13 Dec 2006 |
John Clutterbuck |
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19 Nov 2006 |
Peter Holmes a'Court |
