From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Mon Apr 23 15:47:58 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 532D9903D4; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:47:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org X-Greylist: delayed 2698 seconds by postgrey-1.18 at pingo.cv.ihk.dk; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:47:57 UTC Received: from smtp3.global.net.uk (smtp3.global.net.uk [80.189.92.91]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65537866E0 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 50.204.adsl.brightview.com ([80.189.204.50] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by smtp3.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Hg045-0004xh-2l for sc22wg5@open-std.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:02:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5ACD4A16-B67F-405C-98DF-5D9ECF685800@cantab.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Miles Ellis Subject: Re: (j3.2006) Jeanne Adams Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:03:17 +0100 To: WG5 list X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Authenticated-Sender: Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk I was greatly saddened to receive the news of Jeanne Adams' death. I first met Jeanne in 1986 when I joined X3J3 (as it then was) and got to know her well over the next 15 years before I withdrew from active Fortran standardisation at the same time as I resigned from the Convenorship of WG5. Throughout that period it was always a joy to work with Jeanne - even if we did not always see eye-to-eye! She will be best remembered, of course, as chairman of J3 during the often fractious development of F90 - a task which she carried out with good humour, albeit mixed occasionally with considerable frustration. Trying to control around 50 people, often with strongly held, yet diametrically opposing, views, was not easy and the fact that we all remained on good terms with each other is a considerable tribute to the way in which she organised things. She also made us work hard! In those days meetings started at 8 and closed at 6 with 45 minutes for lunch (if we were lucky! ) and sometimes a further session after dinner. But the 6 o'clock FIDS was what kept us all going! Of course, Jeanne's contribution to standards went back to before the creation of WG5, when she was involved in the early ISO activities in programming language standardisation which led to today's SC22 and its many working groups. And she always continued to play a part in international standards even after leaving J3. She will be sadly missed. Miles Ellis