Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20090916 Wednesday September 16, 2009

Thanks, Johnathan!

Katy Dickinson poster Mentoring Queen, Shakespeare Fanatic, Process Empress, Change Agent photo: copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems Jonathan Schwartz signature on Katy Dickinson poster photo: copyright 2009 Katy Dickinson Jonathan Schwartz signature on Katy Dickinson poster photo: copyright 2009 Katy Dickinson


My poster story

In 2006, Sun had a Change Agent poster contest and I was lucky to be one of the winners. The posters went up in Sun buildings around the world plus each winner got a few copies of our own poster, one of which was signed by Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO and President. I was proud of my signed poster so I put it up in the hall next to my office door. Last year, someone decided to rip everything down from the walls of our building. I was very disappointed to find my poster had been thrown out but figured there was nothing to be done...

This week, I was talking with Bree Luther who works for Jonathan and told her my poster story. She very kindly offered to fix the problem. Bree took my two remaining posters to Jonathan yesterday and he signed both! Thanks, Jonathan! (and Bree!).

Images Copyright 2006-2009 by Katy Dickinson and Sun Microsystems

Posted at 06:37PM Sep 16, 2009 by katysblog in News & Reviews  |  Comments[4]

Comments:

What a nice story.

Posted by melanie gao on September 17, 2009 at 12:34 AM PDT #

Does his signature make any sense now ?

Posted by Unknown on September 18, 2009 at 07:12 AM PDT #

Good for you, Katy. I'm happy.
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To the "unknown" above who commented if his signature made sense, I'm reminded of when I became US citizen officially. The INS executive/officer was careful to point out to us that he didnt need our old country passports back. We were free to, and he encouraged us to, keep them because they were part of our history and who we were.
It was a nice gesture from a bureaucrat and we were all touched by it.
If I were you, Katy, I would put it along with all the other things we keep as part of our past.
Looks like you care about it too, since you were bothered enough to mention it to Jonathan

Posted by Vijay Tatkar on September 18, 2009 at 09:42 AM PDT #

I'm so happy there were people who cared enough to return this artifact to your life. It speaks to their generosity and willingness to act, rather than sit back and thrown potshots.

Posted by christine on September 19, 2009 at 06:54 PM PDT #

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