[NPMUG] My Macintosh mentor Mim Bizic, featured in the Post Gazette by Ann Rogers

[Dave Sevick]

Mim Bizic was the one pivotal person who helped me get started in Mac consulting back in 1987-88.


photo by  Robin Rombach/Post-Gazette

Gracious, humble, and fully loaded with more energy than most ..... Mim has been at the forefront of Macs in schools and continues to be on a first name basis with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer.

This is a shout out to everyone on the listserve to know who she is and what she has meant to me and my family.

Mim also is a historian on Serbian culture with her website at http://www.babamim.com/

We talked about this tonight at the COWMUG meeting in Monroeville.

She is loved and respected by many people who worked with her in the Quaker Valley School District in Sewickley.  She was my girls' librarian at the Edgeworth Elementary School.  This is where I began doing Mac support as a parent/helper on my days off from work at Sewickley Valley Hospital.

Currently she is working on getting Macs shipped over to Serbia  .... to a town called Pranjani .... a great town that is famous for saving 530 American soldiers during WW2.

More on this story at her website above.

If anyone is more a Mac fan than her  ..... please let me know  !

Congratulations Mim !

Love,

Dave

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See this from May 2004:

Photo by: Bob Donaldson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (5/19/2004)

http://www.post-gazette.com/journal/photos_display.asp?ID=12832


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And now today she is featured in the P-G  by Ann Rogers.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm

Moon woman keeps Serbian Orthodox Christmas customs alive
Thursday, January 07, 2010
By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm#ixzz0bzYPXvLt

Perched in a sunny spot on Mim Bizic's kitchen counter is a glass bowl that, at first glance, appears to be green grass growing from a bed of pebbles.

But the pebbles are grains of wheat that have broken open to release the shoots of new life -- a biblical metaphor for Jesus' death and resurrection taken from the Gospel of John. This tiny garden of wheat is a psenica (SHEN-it-za), a Christmas tradition in the Serbian Orthodox Church, which keeps to the Old Calendar date of Jan. 7
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Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm#ixzz0bzXGsxNf


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