TORONTO USERS GROUP
for Midrange Systems
Evelyn Porter had worked with IBM's mid-range systems since 1980. She was a Senior I/T Specialist at the Canadian Open Systems Centre, one of approximately 50 such centers around the world. Later she was part of a cross-platform team dedicated to providing marketing and consulting support to customers installing client/server and networked computing solutions. Evelyn helped many customers set up AS/400 servers on private Intranets as well as the public Internet. She taught IBM Business Partners how to use the new Internet Connection for OS/400 and was a frequent speaker at user groups.
Very early one Sunday morning in December 1998, Evelyn and her husband Bob were in a car accident in
which she was instantly killed and Bob severely injured.
No words can express her tragic loss to their two children, Larry and Amy, who
were 10 and 13 at the time, nor her parents. The folks at IBM who were her co-workers and friends
will also feel her absence acutely. She was a wonderful role model ... full of energy, great ideas, good humour, voraciously learning new concepts and technologies, and always thinking and acting in such a positive
way. No project was too big, no problem too tough, and no situation too
complex. There isn't a customer with whom she worked who didn't love her, and
her work. All whom she touched will miss her deeply.