ASSIGNMENT: Inform, entertain and, every once in a while, enlighten. If that fails, grab the check and run.

BACKGROUND: Was broke and out of work in 1967 on a beach near Fort Pierce. My three job opportunities were selling shoes, pumping gas or being the second man in a two-man sports department. I wasn't smart enough for the first two but got the third job in a close battle with a guy who had just got out of reform school. The rest, they say, has been history.

HEROES: Any person I know who has the strength to survive without sacrificing decency. Mulder and Scully.

LOVES: "The X-Files", science fiction, Chinese food, foot rubs, hot chocolate, most other foods, card games,"Buffy the Vampire Slayer", jai-alai, horse racing, old rock 'n' roll, family, friends.

BIGGEST HATE: Lines, All lines. And all folks at the front of the line who are not doing everything humanly possible to get out of myway.

SECOND BIGGEST HATE: Meatloaf. The food, not the singer

IF I WEREN'T A JOURNALIST: First of all, the jury is still out about whether I AM a journalist. But the job I'd really like is being "A Consultant." I like the idea of walking around a factory for a week,then saying: "You should paint everything red. That will be $10,000 please."

Sample of Jerry's writing on the "PREDS": Jerry'sArticles (After reading the article, use the "back" key of your browser to get back to this page.)

On a very sad note: Judi, Jerry's wife of 42 years died from complications from cancer at the age of 69 on August 3, 2007. Jerry memorialized her in an article he wrote on his Orlando Sentenal colum it can be found at: Judi
If the article is not available there a copy can be found on our Memorial page.