Tom Rettig's Death
Clayton Neff
To: ALL Thursday, 15 February, 1996 20:44:24
From: Leonard Zerman, 73340,55 #881103
Dear friends of Tom Rettig,
We wanted to post a message so that people would not here about this
second hand. Last night, our father passed away. We are not certain of
the cause, but it happened in his home as he was getting ready for bed.
There is no indication of foul play or of suicide. He had experienced a
somewhat serious problem with his kidney back in December which required
him to go to the hospital. While we are not sure what the cause of his
death may have been, we suspect there is a relationship to this kidney
problem.
We know that our father had many friends in the computer industry and
that you share our sadness with his death. He was a beautiful man who
greatly valued his family, friends and colleagues. He has left behind a
wonderful collection of movies, TV shows, software and memories for all
of us to remember him by. He will be sadly missed by so many of us.
Needless to say the sudden and unexpected nature of his death is deeply
saddening and disorienting. Your kind thoughts and prayers for him are
greatly appreciated at this time. We would ask that you give us a
couple of weeks to sort through his life and our emotions before trying
to contact us. We will send additional messages during that time as we
find out more.
Love and peace,
Tom and Deane Rettig
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I know Tom felt this life was just one of his many lives. Tom always
said that he would continue to cycle back in life, again and again until
he "got it right!"
I miss my old buddy, and I hope that he was right. With Tom's luck,
he'll come back as a teen.
See ya buddy,
Jeff Miller
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If you want to pass the word on, we request that you repost this
message.
Thank you.
Tom was a montor to me, I will miss him.
Leonard Zerman
Clayton Neff Software Design Engineer
cn...@primnet.com SAVID International, Inc.
Shawnee, Kansas, USA Ramsey, New Jersey, USA
Telecommuting my way into the 21st century!
Phil Barnett
>If you want to pass the word on, we request that you repost this
>message.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Tom was a mentor to me, I will miss him.
I found this article on FIDO.
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(1005) Mon 19 Feb 96 3:33p
By: Frank Wang
To: Raymond Pesek
Re: TOM RETTIG HAS PASSED AWA
St:
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Hello Raymond,
On 17 Feb. 96 21:27 Raymond Pesek wrote to All...
RP> Subject: Tom Rettig Has Passed Away
Couldn't believe this! Although did not see his name for quite a long
time, but still remember his "Dedication" in the book "Advanced
programmer's guide" he co-authored 11 years ago,
To Wayne Ratliff and Jeb Long, who gave it life; in memory of
George Tate, who gave it to the world; and to dBASE programmers
everywhere, who continue to give it meaning, purpose, and direction.
dBase has evolved into different powerful dialects, but I still
remember his program coded in the pure dBASE, remember.prg:
* REMEMBER.PRG
* Sometimes we forget...
* USE Yourself
SET TALK OFF
CLEAR
*
DO WHILE ALIVE
STORE "Love" TO Heart
STORE "Health" TO Body
STORE "Peace" TO Mind
STORE "Compassion" TO Others
STORE "Esteem" TO Self
STORE "Trust" TO Humanity
STORE "faith" TO God
REPLACE Negative WITH Positive,;
Judgment WITH Acceptance,;
Resentment WITH Forgiveness
REPLACE Hopelessness WITH Choice,;
Confusion WITH Clarity,;
Procrastination WITH Participation
REPLACE Separation WITH Connection,;
Lack WITH Abundance,;
Sorrow WITH Celebration
@ all, times SAY your_truth
IF its_time
EXIT
ENDIF
ENDDO
*
SAVE TO Always
CLEAR ALL
RETURN
*
* EOF: remember.prg
Now, He finally exited the loop.
My condolence to his family.
-Frank-
wa...@durian.usc.edu.ph
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We will surely miss Tom Rettig in our world of Clipper.
Phil
Allen Wilson
>Subj: Tom Rettig's Passed On! Section: Info(non-technical)
> To: ALL Thursday, 15 February, 1996 20:44:24
>From: Leonard Zerman, 73340,55 #881103
>Dear friends of Tom Rettig,
>We wanted to post a message so that people would not here about this
>second hand. Last night, our father passed away. We are not certain of
>the cause, but it happened in his home as he was getting ready for bed.
>There is no indication of foul play or of suicide. He had experienced a
>somewhat serious problem with his kidney back in December which required
>him to go to the hospital. While we are not sure what the cause of his
>death may have been, we suspect there is a relationship to this kidney
>problem.
My condolences to the famialy. Tom will be missed by all.
Allen Wilson
David B. Ferguson
I didn't now Mr. Rettig, only of him, but the news of
his sudden death has saddened me none the less.
My condolences to his family, friends, and the entire
Clipper community for their very unfortunate lose.
Sincerely,
David B. Ferguson
Jonathan Danylko
DO WHILE oTomRettig:lRemembered
ENDDO
We'll all miss you, Tom.
-Jonathan Danylko
wjco...@netshop.net
I used some of his UDF's: they were a great help. I never knew him, but I'm
truly sorry he's gone.
Chris Raisin
cn...@primenet.com (Clayton Neff) wrote:
>Subj: Tom Rettig's Passed On! Section: Info(non-technical)
> To: ALL Thursday, 15 February, 1996 20:44:24
>From: Leonard Zerman, 73340,55 #881103
>
>Dear friends of Tom Rettig,
>
>We wanted to post a message so that people would not here about this
>second hand. Last night, our father passed away. We are not certain of
>the cause, but it happened in his home as he was getting ready for bed.
>There is no indication of foul play or of suicide. He had experienced a
>somewhat serious problem with his kidney back in December which required
>him to go to the hospital. While we are not sure what the cause of his
>death may have been, we suspect there is a relationship to this kidney
>problem.
>
>
will be missed by all the Clipper community down-under.
Alan Popow
>Subj: Tom Rettig's Passed On! Section: Info(non-technical)
>I miss my old buddy, and I hope that he was right. With Tom's luck,
>he'll come back as a teen.
>
>Jeff Miller
>
>Tom was a montor to me, I will miss him.
>
>Leonard Zerman
>
Even those of us who didn't know him personally will miss him and his
contributions.
The Toronto Star had a small bio on his passing, but true to the type of
investigative reporting we seem to get these days, they knew about Lassie,
and had a small list of personal problems, but they were apparently
completely unaware of his huge contributions to the software industry.
Alan
DBasics Software Company
>Subj: Tom Rettig's Passed On!
Is this the same Tom Rettig that produced the Advanced Extended
Version library for Clipper 5.0x and distributed as public domain
under TR4CL.EXE
The writeup for the public domain is as follows:
This software was the first third-party library developed for
Clipper, FoxBASE+, and dBASE III PLUS. In 1988, it won Data
Based Advisor magazine's award for "Best Dbase Add-on Library."
In 1990, it won DBMS magazine's "Readers' Choice Award" in the
Libraries category.
If so, this man was my mentor and I am greatly saddened by his loss.
Much of what he gave became a building block to my own success and
will be an integral part of my work for years to come. I wonder if he
realized the impact he played within the Clipper community was so far
reaching.
Craig David Horton
DBasics Software Company
Mark W. Schumann
DBasics Software Company <dba...@pacificnet.net> wrote:
>Is this the same Tom Rettig that produced the Advanced Extended
>Version library for Clipper 5.0x and distributed as public domain
>under TR4CL.EXE
>
That would be the one.
--
Mark W. Schumann | ObCDA: Rep. Martin Hoke is a poopy-head.