Pat --
Another Scientologist bites the dust. Big loss to humanity!
Garry Betty, the president and chief executive of EarthLink Inc., has[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: How do you know he was into Scientology? Did the church ever announce him as such, or did he ever speak on the topic? PAT]
> died from complications of cancer, the Internet service provider said
> Wednesday. He was 49.
> Betty joined EarthLink in 1996 and oversaw the company's growth from a
> regional ISP with 500,000 subscribers to a national service provider
> with more than 5 million. He took a medical leave of absence in
> November. Atlanta-based EarthLink released no other information on his > death.
> "Garry was instrumental in building EarthLink into the company it is
> today," company Chairman Robert M. Kavner said in a statement.
> EarthLink said Mike Lunsford will remain interim CEO.
> Prior to joining EarthLink, Betty served as CEO of Digital
> Communications Associates Inc. -- and was at the time the youngest CEO
> of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
> Betty, a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, began his
> career at IBM Corp., and won the IBM President's Excellence Award in
> 1982 for his work on the original IBM PC.
> Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.