Recollections - January 2005,
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My friend Lois Van Ewijk and I met in the Summer of 1973. We were new hires onto a four-person team that led Imperial Corporation of America into the computer age. I had just arrived in town and knew absolutely NOTHING of San Diego. Lois seemed to know EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING!! Luckily for me, she generously filled me in on what I needed to know. Ours blossomed into a beautiful, if interrupted, friendship. We shared an office five days a week. She and Rudy invited me to their beautiful Mission Bay home with its breathtaking garden and pathways and cuckoo clock (I was so envious!). She persuaded me to join her neighborhood bridge game. She even gave me a Mix-master so I could bake pound cake as good as Rudy's!! Lois, with the delicate porcelain face that disguised her strength of steel. Lois brooded. She contemplated. She thought deep, intricate, convoluted thoughts. She seemed to worship the Goddess LOGIC. LOIS KNEW THINGS!! On the rare occasions she forgot something, Lois cursed herself (NEVER anybody else!!!) by muttering "I HAVE A MIND LIKE A SIEVE". If Lois said you had "A MIND LIKE A STEEL TRAP", you had just been paid a mighty high compliment. I can still hear her laughter. That cross between a devilish cackle and a bubbly giggle. She LOVED to laugh - it was here standard response to just about everything. It never seemed worth Lois' time to argue about anything mundane. If people had differing opinions, she simply proclaimed "THAT'S WHAT MAKES HORSE RACES"! Lois was fiercely LOYAL. She was loyal to her family. She was loyal to her friends. And she was loyal to her favorite drink - COCA-COLA. Did you ever see Lois drink anything else? I was SO EXCITED to hear a voice-mail message from Lois a year ago! We had LOTS to catch up on after being out of touch for quite some time. She had not changed by even an eyelash! She was still that girl with the porcelain face and the will of steel. Somehow she seemed to revel in the LIBERATION of being a gypsy! She reached deep into those incredible resources of hers and found GOLD! Always with her humor intact, Lois found ways to exploit her every predicament. Here's to you, Lois, my true friend. Until we meet again. Current page: www.timelycomputerstuff.com/remembrance/lynn.html 
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