Re: RIP the guy who changed me for the better.
- From: "Vicki" <vwoitzel@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Nov 2006 12:11:47 -0800
What a wonderful tribute, Blupencl, to your old boss and mentor.
Lovely to read.
Here's the Washington Post article in case you haven't seen it:
http://www.legacy.com/washingtonpost/DeathNotices.asp?Page=SEARCHRESULTS
My sympathy to you on the loss of your old friend.
Vicki
(Vicki Woitzel)
Blupencl wrote:
Anybody here work at the NIH? My old friend, Dr. James W. Woods, passed
away November 20. He lived in PA and he was 83 years old, so he must
have been retired by now, but he left Little Rock to go to the NIH in
DC.
He worked at UAMS, our medical school here, as the head of Universal
Laboratories and Something Resources. I can't remember the whole name.
My husband met him while working on the seating in the brand-new
education building. Dr. Woods said he sure did need a secretary. Brian
told him "Hey, my wife does that" and Dr. Woods said for me to come in
and talk to him.
I did. He hired me, he taught me the first thing about computers I ever
knew. We had a "laptop" that I would bring home (I *adored* this man,
working on weekends was my pleasure). You hooked it into a telephone
receiver and called the Med Center. This was in 1978. Big stuff.
Our job was to schedule the classes for all 5 colleges at the
university, to check out equipment, microscopes, lab supplies, and to
basically make life a living hell for the students who wanted to use
those things. :)
I worked for him for three years. He taught me to write good letters,
he taught me much of the medical terminology I know (he was a
physiologist and his assistant was a professor in the school of
pharmacy) by explaining how it's all really small words, you just hook
'em up.
I can't even remember why I quit that job now, but I know he wore out
everybody who worked with him, so that's probably what happened to me
too.
We e-mailed each other for a while maybe 3 years ago, but that sort of
dribbled off.
If I had not met him, had not gone to work for him, I would still be
working for places like the photo lab, running invoices. My life made a
sharp right turn the day I met him, because he showed me my brain.
--
Blupencl
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