I recently learned of Gerry's passing, reading the news in the Purdue College of Science magazine We were both graduate students at Purdue. He was in Dr. christiansen's lab and I was next door in Dr. Zinsmeister's lab. Gerry was a fun person and always had time to talk. Those great memories for me are frozen in time and I am saddened. He definitely made the world a better place. My condolences to his family.
Gerry - we are missing you every day.
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
T. S. Eliot
Mrs. Ana Morales, Former Math teacher at AIC, Mayagüez, PR
You will always be in my heart as the good student and human being you were. I'm still in shock about the news of your departing to eternal life, but you are now in better place. May God receive you in His kingdom, embrace you, and forever let you rest in peace. You will be in my prayers. You left us but will never be forgotten.
ELEGY for a GEOLOGIST/In memory of Gerry Iturrino//If I had known/it was our last beer,/I would have sipped/it slowly.//If I had known/it was the last story/I would hear/from your beard,/I would have asked more questions.//And your eyes would grow wide/beneath their bushy brows,/and your hands would open a space/for antic gesticulation/which you would punctuate/with cartoon onomatopoeia/animating a scene/in a far-away place/I will never see.//But our past unfurls behind us,/folding down into the earth/with such finality,/and all we can do/is drill down deep,/unearthing a core from the depths/layered with strata of memory.