Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!agate!patterso@hardees.rutgers.edu From: patterso@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ross Patterson) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Women Wizards? Message-ID: <12002@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 12 Jul 88 03:50:07 GMT References: <11843@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11874@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu Strangely, in the IBM side of the business (where I hail from), women figure quite prominently. The Vice President of SHARE (the largest IBM user group) is Cecilia Cowles, of Cornell. The SHARE VM Group has long been led on a number of issues by Sandra Hassenplugh (Tower, Perrins, Forster and Crosby) and Melinda Varian (Princeton). All three have titles in a whimsical group known as the "Knights of VM" (nomination and designation by public acclaim), have international reputations, and are at the center of what would otherwise be called an Old Boy network. While I can't say for certain, I expect that their recognition influence stem to soem degree from their constant participation in a computer conference known as VMSHARE, run by and for the members of the SHARE VM Group. VMSRE has been in existence for over 15 years, and women have always played an equal-or-better role in its discussions. I and many other Systems Programmers of both sexes are indebted to them, and VM would be a much worse off place without their efforts, knowledge, and willingness to help others. Ross Patton Rutgers University Center for Computer and Information Services