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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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14 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 |
