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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>From:</b> Nathalie Smith <<a href="mailto:Nsmith@esri.com">Nsmith@esri.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> February 11, 2014 at 13:36:32 PST<br><b>To:</b> nwro <<a href="mailto:nwro@esri.com">nwro@esri.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>In memory of Roger Tomlinson</b><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Roger Tomlinson meant a lot to many of us – a wonderful tribute in the email below from Jack and Dale Honeycutt and a great video to remember Roger by (singing with Dale & Clint Brown on the guitar). Roger was 80 years old. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjTMWgKQ-E4&sns=em">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjTMWgKQ-E4&sns=em</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One of my favorite Roger quote…. At the UC SAG award presentation: “Some call me the father of GIS…. And I think of Jack as my son… that makes all of you in the audience today, my grandchildren….” – or something like that…. I will remember him as a kind, gentle, funny and very sharp man and always an inspiration.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nathalie</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nathalie Smith | Regional Manager</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>Esri<b> </b>| 606 Columbia St. NW, Suite 300 | Olympia, WA 98501 | USA </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>T 360-754-4727 ext 8958 | M 360-485-2371</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="mailto:nsmith@esri.com">nsmith@esri.com</a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:gray'>| <a href="http://www.esri.com/">esri.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Marty Balikov <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> Nathalie Smith<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Sad news</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>there's so much to say but Jack And Dale have said it so well. Dale's comments are close to my heart as it was my first project in Redlands that brought us all together. I thought you should see these testimonials.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>marty<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>Dale Honeycutt <<a href="mailto:dhoneycutt@esri.com">dhoneycutt@esri.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My good friend and hero died this weekend. I first met Roger Tomlinson 28 years ago when I first started at Esri. He was hired by Jack as a consultant on the largest project Esri had ever done to that point (and, in fact, the largest most expensive GIS project attempted by anyone) – figuring out how to run MinuteMan missiles stuck on the back of trucks around White Sands missile range like a herd of cattle, except the probability that the herd could be found at a given location at a given time was equal over a 10 year span. Reagan was president and perestroika was a couple of years away. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I was hired as the lead analyst for the project and I worked off-site at a beltway bandit’s satellite office on Hospitality Lane in San Bernardino. We were using Arc/Info version 2.0. The project was make-or-break for Esri and funded the development of version 3.0 (double precision coordinates!) and the seminal version 3.2 which introduced AML. I told Jack I’d stay for a year tops – there was no way I was going to live in Southern California. That worked out well, huh?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The first meeting I had with Roger and some other consultant guy named Mike Goodchild did not go well. I was obviously overwhelmed and unsure exactly how to proceed, but I had some not-terrible ideas. We met every couple of weeks – Roger and Mike flying down from Canada to forage for fresh vegetables at Sizzler’s salad bar. Within a couple of months, we were a well-oiled team. I was able to bring in another consultant, Gary Smith, who I worked with at Woodward-Clyde, a brilliant decision analyst, and Esri hired Fritz Maher, a physicist, to be my wingman, drinking buddy, and career saver. (Marty Balikov joined us after a couple of years and helped clean up our – that is, Fritz and my – act. The bottles of fine ironic Russian vodka disappeared from the plotter supply cabinet).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It was a hard project for everyone, made more difficult by the motley cast of contractors who thought their worth was measured by how many spitballs they could throw at Esri. Roger and Mike stood up for me and our team time and time and time again. They had my back, our back, Esri’s back. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Roger figured we had compiled the largest known GIS database at the time (more than a gigabyte of data!) and had brought (or invented) cutting-edge geographic decision analysis techniques to bear on difficult problems.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We completed the project and we were rewarded (penalized?) with more work – this time running missiles around the country on railcars. We built a nationwide population density surface and mapped every known rail line in the U.S. We then routed trains (carrying real or fake missiles) around the U.S. to minimize impact on population centers (as if a nuclear war wouldn’t be detrimental to our national health) and to randomize locational probabilities. Fritz always wondered what would happen if a missile ignited accidently – would the missile explode or would the train go down the track really really fast? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sometime after the contract was over, I got to go to Australia to help our distributor with some big national geocoding project. Roger happened to be there and we went out for a fabulous dinner which he convinced me I could put on my expense report. I’m still paying for it. The evening went late, we were well-lubricated, and we closed the bar with a rousing rendition of Waltzing Matilda.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Roger would always make a point to find me when he visited Redlands, and I would hunt him down at the User Conference. The bonds we established those many years ago were strong and I always felt pride and amazement that Roger considered me a geographer of worth. Sitting here now, I couldn’t agree less. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>He was a brilliant man, a kind man, he drove himself and others to do their best, and he was always the first to stand up in a fight. He was a geographer. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I miss him. I’ve missed him for years. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjTMWgKQ-E4&sns=em">And his ghost may be heard…</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>From:</b> Jack Dangermond <<a href="mailto:JDangermond@esri.com">JDangermond@esri.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> February 11, 2014 at 12:10:01 AM EST<br><b>Cc:</b> Laura Dangermond <<a href="mailto:ldangermond@esri.com">ldangermond@esri.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's with great sadness that I am letting you know of the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Roger Tomlinson. This happened suddenly over the weekend during his and Lila's annual pilgrimage to Mexico.<br>Roger was above all else a Geographer and always proud to say that. He loved the field he invented and was so pleased to come to Esri and help us in thinking through difficult problems. He had a passion for staying current with the most recent technology and always had insights that none of the rest of us had. He also loved the user conference and the opportunity to both see and acknowledge the great work of GIS professionals from around the world. He always said giving the SAG (special achievements in GIS) awards was his favorite day of the year.<br>Roger both created and dignified our field with his strong yet graceful spirit and insight. He invariably knew about what was important. His vision of first thinking about and then designing and building practical systems that created meaningful information products will be part of his legacy. <br>With his passing a beautiful and bright light has gone out in the world. Nevertheless I suspect his spirt and passion will live on in all of us.<br><br>He was my friend. I will miss him greatly.<br>Jack<br><br>His spirit will be missed by all of us.<br><br><br>Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>