It is with sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Al Barsa, friend of DVCUG and long-time presenter at DVCUG functions.

Al Barsa passed away in his hotel room last week while attending COMMON in Nashville.  Our condolences go out to his family, friends and associates. 

We at DVCUG always counted him as a good friend, a very likeable guy, a straight shooter (he was well known for asking IBM-ers tough questions at COMMON face-offs),  and especially as a friend of DVCUG whom we could always count on for our annual education day and our monthly meetings, and we all enjoyed the insight he included with presentations (can you spell Work With System Values?).    He will be missed.

More info is at his local user group, the Long Island group http://www.lisug.org