[Fwd: FW: AS/400 Champion] - Tony Troy

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just thoight I'd pass this information along for the benefit
of anyone who knew Tony Troy.

jte

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• Subject: FW: AS/400 Champion
• From: Lori Piotrowski <piotrosl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:48:54 -0700

FYI

Lori

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aisrael@us.ibm.com [SMTP:aisrael@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 9:45 AM
> To:   letters@news400.com
> Subject:      AS/400 Champion
> 
> Dear Editors:
> 
> The AS/400 lost a real champion last week, Tony Troy, of the IBM Rochester
> Advanced Technical Support team.  Tony passed-away suddenly at the age of
> 41.  He was a nationally recognized leader in AS/400 High Availability and
> a familiar speaker at  the AS/400 Technical Conferences, national Lunch &
> Learn teleconferences,  and AS/400 user's groups.   Tony was dedicated to
> the AS/400 and to making it the best computer in the world.
> 
> Tony was an avid reader of NEWS/400 and actually won a prize in your
> trivia
> contest last year.  He also had one of the largest back-issue collections.
> I don't know what your policy is for reporting this type of news, but I
> think the AS/400 community would want to know of Tony's passing.    He
> will
> be sadly missed.
> 
> For those who are interested, contributions can be made to the Troy's
> Children Fund, % First Federal Savings Bank of East Hartford, 1137 Main
> St.,  East Hartford, CT 06108.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Art Israel
> 
> AS/400 Services Specialist
> Server & Storage Enablement Solutions
> IBM Global Services
> 

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