Jim Poirot





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Up Close and Personal
Comment from Dave Moursund. I have known Jim for a very long time, going clear back to when we both served on the Apple education Foundation. There, we helped make decisions on projects that would receive free Apple microcomputers to carry out a variety of projects in education.

I have many fond memories of Jim, his wife Peggy, my wife Sharon, and I getting together for conversations and a meal at the annual National Educational Computing Conference.

Jim served as President of NECC during a time when ISTE was attempting to gain increased representation on the Board and to play a more significant role in NECC activities and its income. Sometime the Board discussions became rather heated, a I argued ISTE's case and Jim attempted to moderate. I have a clear memory of when Jim called for a break, talked to me briefly in the restroom, and nicely suggested that I should "cool down" a little.

I have long been amused by Jim's cattle ranch in Texas. Of course, when he began to talk about the possibility that there might be oil under that land, I became jealous, to say the least. I think it finally turned out that they did not discover oil, but for awhile I thought maybe I would actually know an oilman.