The End of an Era II

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor; Photos by Sandy Burke, Manager, Support Services Help Desk

It was noted in the April, 2005 Campus Computing News article concerning the retirement of Richard Harris as Associate Vice President for Computing and Chief Technology Officer for the Computing and Information Technology Center that "in 1963, Harris was appointed Acting Director of Academic Computing, replacing Gene Milner, who left to work for IBM. In 1964 an IBM 1440 was purchased to perform administrative data processing and Richard Harris was appointed Director of Computer Systems. Jerry Waldon (who retired in 1999 from his position as a Systems Programmer/Analyst in IBM Operating Systems Software Support after 34+ years with the UNT Computing Center) was appointed Associate Director of Academic Computing and Coy Hoggard (currently Executive Director of Administrative Information Systems) was hired to be Associate Director of Data Processing. Harris, Hoggard and the IBM 1440 were housed in the basement of the Administration Building." Hoggard has now, officially, ended the era began by Harris in 1963. Below are some highlights from his retirement reception on July 29th.

Coy Hoggard, Jerry Waldon, and Richard Harris above. Coy with Ginny Anderson, Associate VP for Finance and Business Affairs, and  Jean Bush, Budget Director below.