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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

First let me introduce myself. My name is Mike Plunkett and I am the Fine Arts Administrator at the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association.  After 21 years of teaching high school music, I took a job overseeing the music contests in Oklahoma.  The OSSAA was using a very cumbersome way to enter […]

I am an old bridge buddy of Sherms’s and live in Seattle. I would drive him to/from our Monday Nite Football bridge games. Those car rides were very educational for me – lists of books for me to read, perspectives on politics, bridge, of course! On night someone brought an […]

Sherman was an ageless creative spirit and special human being: a “mensch”! His passion to transform our One (Global Village) World inspired everyone he encountered, coached and collaborated with. Sherman got us all thinkin’ about how to wisely purpose telecommunication systems–using this technology to help improve human communication for the common […]