This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Sandra Slaughter. We will remember her forever.
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Leave a tributeIt will take me a long time to get over this void. May her soul rest in peace!
Sandra was a person to be admired. I spent the entire day of October 23 with her, from greeting her at the train station, breakfast in town, visit of the historic city, presentations with our MBA students and professors on MOOCs and business analytics. I took her back to the train station around 5:00 pm. What struck me most was her simplicity, her calming quality, on the one hand, and the remarkable command of the field and her achievements. I have had it on my mind often these past days and I feel a sense of injustice at her passing mixed in with regret for the loss of this extraordinarily talented person who could be so simple in daily living.
Sandy, you were such a great mentor, I hope I learn from the example you set and from your graciousness, enthusiasm and your positive energy. My thoughts and prayers are with her family!
Uncounted papers published in JMIS make a greater contribution to our discipline thanks to her insightful and giving work on them. We will always have her own work, which will last, and we will always remember Sandy with warmth and respect.
Thank you for being such an open, friendly and supporting human being. I am very glad to have met you and your spirit will always be alive. May your soul rest in peace. My deepest condolences to your family. You will be missed.
Chiara
I recall the time we walked around the lake in Germany at the outsourcing conference and talked about life outside of what we do every day."
To Sandy's family - please know how valued and loved she was in the field. RIP.
Wow! Thank you for this great news! I am very honored. And, I will mark the date.
Many thanks,
Sandy"
It's tragic that she is no longer around. RIP.
It was a pleasure to work with you while you were at Carnegie Mellon: as an undergraduate academic advisor during your time at CMU, I know how much your undergraduate students learned from you and valued what you taught them, as such an important part of their preparations for professional work in business. You were also a wonderful colleague. It is too soon to lose you.
I first met Sandy when I was a doctoral student and she conducted a research seminar at Texas A&M. I asked her a few questions and a year later she greeted me as if we had known each other for years. Her work in Software Evolution was a guiding light to my own research. She proved to be a great mentor at each step of my career. This is not just a loss of a great scholar; it's the loss of a great human being. We love you Sandy and may you RIP.
You are one of the best colleagues and friends I have in my life. You have always been so nice to everyone. You never hesitate to offer help to others. I have been so grateful to know you. We shared so much wonderful time together while at Carnegie Mellon. I remembered your amazing biking-around-the-whole-world journey. There was also one time, I locked myself out while teaching an evening class, and you helped me call school police and waited with me even though it was quite late already....that is you, always so thoughtful and sweet. The loss of you really broke me, and I still find it hard to take.... Sandy, you will always hold a special place in my heart and memory. Love you, Pei-yu
I wish her family, friends, and colleagues strength and courage in the time to come. Sandra will be dearly missed.
Sandy, you are a model for the rest of us who work in your discipline. An inspiration! What a loss for Georgia Tech, its students, staff and faculty colleagues.
I'd like to send my condolences to Sandy's family especially. I wish you well in these difficult days, and hope that time will heal your wounds from losing Sandy. We all loved her, but it must be that you loved her even more -- if that's possible.
When you first moved into your new office at Georgia Tech as my neighbor, you kindly asked me if I mind your singing in your office. I said absolutely not.
I guess I finally got your sense of humor. Perhaps what you meant by singing was actually laughing. I was right – it turns out that that was the best music I have ever had – you laugh loud and a lot when you made con-calls! Wait a minute … I used to be the loudest laughter in the ITM group of Georgia Tech (if not in the entire SCOB!). :-)
She was the best advisor one could ask for, and a wonderful mentor.
She was a doyen of the field and her academic contributions are there for the world to see. However, our community has lost more than a brilliant academic, we have lost an amazingly positive human being who touched so many lives.
Her warmth, her laugh, her enthusiasm for any new research project we would embark on, her vivid mind, all of these would remain in my memory forever.
I will miss you so much Sandy. May you rest in peace.
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This year, ICIS and WITS/WISE are in India. I remember when we went to Bangalore and took you around in an autorickshaw. You'd have loved it.
Thanks so much for being there for me!
Nishtha
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So charming and mindful person
I met Sandra two weeks ago in Paris on Oct. 24th. I fetched her at her hotel and accompanied her to Telecom Ecole de Management in Paris suburbs for a research seminar. I had such a nice discussion with her on the train, and I remember her so well laughing when we mentioned some incredible small things that can happen by hazard in life ... Her talk at the seminar was so interesting and enthusiastic and all attendees were delighted meeting her.
My colleagues at Telecom Ecole de Management and myself will keep remembrance of her as a delightful person dear to our hearts.