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Gerald I. Kerley

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Personal Comments 

This web site is dedicated to John F. (Jack) Barnes, who was my mentor and friend during my fifteen years at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He helped me, advised me, encouraged me, opened doors of opportunity to me, and was a fine example of what a person can and should be. I will always think of him with love and respect.

Special thanks are due to my son, Captain James G. Kerley, who gave me this web site as a Father’s Day present and then helped me to put it together.

I also thank my wonderful wife, Donna, for coming up with the idea for this web site and for supporting me in everything else I do.

I am grateful to Phil Gapinski for telling me about Camtasia Studio and for suggesting that I include a blog on the website.

I am grateful to P. K. Swaminathan, for being my friend for the last two years and for encouraging me to continue doing scientific work.

I also want to pay tribute to two of my professors—Bill Paudler, my undergraduate thesis adviser at Ohio University, and Bill Flygare, my Ph.D. thesis advisor at the University of Illinois. I still cherish the memories of the time I spent working with them and under them.

Many thanks to Gene Hertel for supporting and helping me in so many ways, not only while I was at Sandia but also in my consulting business.

As I look back on my 40-year career, in the military, at Los Alamos, at Sandia, and as a consultant, I realize that there have been many other people who have helped me, to whom I owe appreciation. I won't try to mention them all by name, to make sure that I don't leave anybody out. I offer this web site in appreciation of all that others have done for me, in the hope that it will be a help to others.

For those who are interested in spiritual matters: I am a born-again, spirit-filled Christian. I turned my life over to God in 1974, and He has been working on me ever since. I am ready and pleased to share my beliefs—with those who really want to know them. I don't like to force my beliefs on others because I think that people need to come to the Lord on their own, of their own free choice. I try to respect the beliefs of others—just as I ask them to respect mine.

                                                                                                               - Gerald I. Kerley