Gerald and I spent 12 years together in the same class at John M. Clayton and then four years at the University of Delaware. We both grew up on a farm and shared a love of mechanical tinkering, which included cannibalizing lawn mowers and putting the engines on our bicycles as young teenagers. Gerald later pursued his passion and became a mechanical engineer. I got sidetracked into being a lawyer.We lost touch over the years while he was working in Virginia and Pennsylvania and I lived in Wilmington but we reestablished contact about 15 years ago after he moved back to the house he and his father built in Dagsboro. I got to visit from time to time, usually in the afternoon on trips down from Wilmington to see relatives in Frankford. Gerald had figured out by that time that there was more money to be made hourly in the stock market then there was tilling the family farm, so I usually found him in his basement sitting in front of a computer monitor day trading stocks. There was always a large iced tea glass next to the computer which he told me he filled up with Mogen David wine in the morning and sipped on it until it was finished by the time the market closed at 4 PM. He did pretty well in the market so this could be an ad for the Morgan David company someday. Wish I had taken a picture. I'm going to miss our talks Gerald.Bruce
