Memories – Page 2 – In Memory of Sherman Woo

Remembrances

We would be grateful if you would share your Sherman memories, recipes, poems, etc with us!

September 15, 2021

Sherman Woo memories

I met Sherman when I moved into the Balustrade condos in Denver — he was one floor up from me. We bonded almost immediately over the English major thing. Periodically he would cook dinner and make martinis and we would talk about literature. I remember one rousing conversation about Catch […]

September 15, 2021

Sherm Loved a Challenge

My favorite Sherman story: In the early 80’s at US West, the IT Accounting group was in the process of “Closing the Books” for the year. The Comptroller was waiting for the numbers, AT&T was waiting for US West’s numbers, shareholder dividends needed to be calculated. And the system hung. […]

September 15, 2021

Quick thinking, Sherman

I loved working with him at Pacific Northwest Bell on the Office Automation project, maybe 1982. Sherman was keenly promoting the purchase of a few PCs, bleeding edge technology back then. When presenting our plan to then company president Andy Smith, Andy objected, saying that PCs would only be used […]

September 15, 2021

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Several Pictures

September 14, 2021

Orbiting with Sherman

Sherman shared his wit and wisdom with anyone that came close to his planet. Surely he had his own planet, this beaming bright, thought provoking man. He welcomed us all into his spirit filled home, where we could spend hours arcing around his philosophical orbits, and sipping from his generous spirit […]

September 14, 2021

My tv watching partner

What can I say about Sherman, he was a lover of Music and Books. I saw a different side of him, he introduced me to ( Bling Empire and Crazy Rich Asians) . We used to watch all kinds of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon shows, and the reality Housewives. We […]

September 14, 2021

An IT leader With Great Impact

As the CIO of US West’s large IT organization, I enjoyed having many excellent IT leaders as part of the team. But Sherman always stood out as one of the most innovative and impactful. Time after time he introduced innovations that changed the way the company did business. Older IT […]

September 8, 2021

The Best of the Best…

I loved Sherman. Here’s a few quick stories focused on my interactions with Sherman. He had us over to dinner on December 31, 1999 and we talked about Y2k. He hired me the first time I was quitting USWEST, someone else vetoed it. A year later, I was quitting again […]

September 7, 2021

One of our Leadership retreats – Keystone house Jan 1997

One of our leadership retreats for GV Labs at my friends house at Keystone Ranch. We cooked, ate, smoked, soaked in hot tub – and yeah strategized about the next year for GV Labs! All the while being pushed by Sherman to think differently….. – Daya Haddock