From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Mon Apr 23 08:54:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dmo6 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dmo6@open-std.org Received: by open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 0FBCB903D4; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:54:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from oin.rl.ac.uk (oin.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.200]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1FD1AD7C for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:54:26 +0000 (UTC) X-RAL-MFrom: X-RAL-Connect: Received: from jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk [130.246.9.202]) by oin.rl.ac.uk (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l3N8sKra015419 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:54:21 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l3N8sKwF022305; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:54:20 +0100 Message-ID: <462C743C.8090603@rl.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:54:20 +0100 From: John Reid Reply-To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060209 Fedora/1.7.12-1.1.2.legacy X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 CC: ukfortran@accu.org Subject: Jeanne Adams Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CCLRC-SPAM-report: -4.9 : BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk WG5, I was very sorry to hear that from Jeanne Martin that Jeanne Adams died on Saturday. The Fortran community and I personally have benefited greatly from her leadership. She was Chair of X3J3 for the whole period of the development of Fortran 90. There was a lot of controversy, during which she was determined to ensure that all points of view were heard that there was a friendly personal atmosphere outside the committee meetings, particularly at FIDS. I learned a lot from her about how to run meetings and maximize consensus, ideas that I applied as Chair of Governors of my local secondary school and have tried to follow as Convener of WG5. She was hugely disappointed by the delays in completing Fortran 90 and made strenous efforts to speed things up, but the difficulties were severe. Better late than never! It has been very sad to see her declining health since that time. She worked hard to overcome these problems, just as she did for the Fortran Standard. Thank you, Jeanne. John Reid.