Jerry was a key part of my and my brother's lives both at Clarkson and then at IBM. We not only received scholarships named after his late wife but he would meet with us each year (he was a Clarkson trustee at the time) and facilitated introductions that helped us early in our careers when we went to work at IBM. It helped that we also had a common Lebanese heritage. He was a key part of IBM's history and may he rest in peace. Geoffrey Akiki