<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div></div><div>photo by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Robin Rombach/Post-Gazette</span></div><div><br>Gracious, humble, and fully loaded with more energy than most ..... Mim has been at the forefront of Macs in schools and continues to be on a first name basis with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a shout out to everyone on the listserve to know who she is and what she has meant to me and my family.</div><div><br></div><div>Mim also is a historian on Serbian culture with her website at <a href="http://www.babamim.com/">http://www.babamim.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>We talked about this tonight at the COWMUG meeting in Monroeville.</div><div><br></div><div>She is loved and respected by many people who worked with her in the Quaker Valley School District in Sewickley. She was my girls' librarian at the Edgeworth Elementary School. This is where I began doing Mac support as a parent/helper on my days off from work at Sewickley Valley Hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently she is working on getting Macs shipped over to Serbia .... to a town called Pranjani .... a great town that is famous for saving 530 American soldiers during WW2.</div><div><br></div><div>More on this story at her website above.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone is more a Mac fan than her ..... please let me know !</div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations Mim !</div><div><br></div><div>Love,</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div>================<br><br>See this from May 2004:<br><br>Photo by: Bob Donaldson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (5/19/2004)<br><br><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/journal/photos_display.asp?ID=12832">http://www.post-gazette.com/journal/photos_display.asp?ID=12832</a><br><br><br>==========<br><br>And now today she is featured in the P-G by Ann Rogers.<div><br></div><div>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm<br><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><div class="story_headline" style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); clear: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; ">Moon woman keeps Serbian Orthodox Christmas customs alive</div><div class="story_lastupdate" style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Thursday, January 07, 2010</div><div class="story_byline" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; ">By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</div><span> <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm#ixzz0bzYPXvLt" style="color: rgb(8, 94, 57); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm#ixzz0bzYPXvLt</a></span></span><br></b></span></font><br>Perched in a sunny spot on Mim Bizic's kitchen counter is a glass bowl that, at first glance, appears to be green grass growing from a bed of pebbles.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">But the pebbles are grains of wheat that have broken open to release the shoots of new life -- a biblical metaphor for Jesus' death and resurrection taken from the Gospel of John. This tiny garden of wheat is a psenica (SHEN-it-za), a Christmas tradition in the Serbian Orthodox Church, which keeps to the Old Calendar date of Jan. 7</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div>(((( clipped ))))</div><br><span>Read more: <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm#ixzz0bzXGsxNf" style="color: rgb(8, 94, 57); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10007/1026404-323.stm#ixzz0bzXGsxNf</a></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>