I'm quite sad to hear that Mary has passed.  Like most of you, I got lots
of help from her and also learned a lot from her.  First, I was a student
helper to Mr. Buffum in the early 1960s, and then later, I arrived at UCLA
to supervise the supercomputing consultants and to plan and develop the
OAC's shared Visualization Laboratory in the early 1990s and she stepped
right up to the plate.

One of the things about that I really appreciated was her ability to see
the use of new technology in places that, historically at least, had no
apparent use for computing.  Having spent 19 years at the University of
Florida working exactly on that issue, I'd found somebody else with some
interesting ideas that we discussed and followed up on.  Especially, both
of us found  ways to tackle recalcitrant faculty and other researchers.
Some of these we were able to persuade to see the correctness of our views
and get some really significant research going.  It wouldn't have been
possible without her efforts.

Thank you, Jon, for letting us know about Mary.  I presume that you'll let
us know the details of her service as the date gets closer.

virginia
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Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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"There is always hope."
My fave:  http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.jpg
There's no place like:  34N 8' 25.38", 117W 58' 5.16"
if you can't be at:  48N 7' 4.54" 122W 45' 50.95"
The US Naval Academy is back to teaching celestial
navigation, again!  "Why?" you ask.  Because hackers
can't foul it up like they can GPS.
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