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Helping some friends with the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer

Way back in the ancient days, circa 1990, a co-op was slated to join the Information Development group at IBM's Myers Corners Lab (oh god, he's going to tell IBM stories again). The co-op was nicknamed The Boy Named Sue in order to fit into the gang of Sues who made up the core of the RACF I/D team (Sue, Susan, and Susie). He put up with the nickname (and much more) as his brain went retrograde in learning how to use BookMaster and XEDIT to write books (from Microsoft Word and PageMaker).

Along the way he amde great friends in Eileen (his first officemate, 2P31 MCL represent!), Anne (who took hiim in under her wings on the infamous Case/390 internal library) and Mary (who to his recollection never had to put up with either his loud music or Diet Coke shenanigans).

Eileen, Mary, and Anne are walking in the Washington, DC Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and are trying to raise funds (they each need to raise US$1800 or they have to walk barefoot, backwards, carrying the MVS 4.3 Library).

Eileen has reached her goal, but Mary and Anne could use some help. If you support this cause, please consider donating through their Avon pages:

• Anne (Hellems) Russell
• Mary O'Donnell

And if you want you can also donate through Eileen's page.