Dr. Gerald Morse Santoro

Boarding pass for ferry ride across Lake Michigan coming back from Sturgis. Dad and Frankie as little kids. Donna and me attr Acacia National Park

Aikido summer camp poster. A friend from Pittsburgh. Grandma Morse, Kris and baby Cassandra.

Aikido club. Donna, Chris and I outside her house. She lived just up the hill, through woods. We met when she caught me taking wood from her property. We talked a while, saw we would be good friends, and She carried the wood down to my place! :-) Great woman!

Vacation in Maine.

The boys, my Toyota truck, and Donna.

Me at shore in Maine. Water was COLD!

More of Maine, Portland in this case.

Me outside my house, about 2000 or so.

Grandma Santoro. Tara. Chris on my Suzuki. It had a yin-yang, my Toyota pickup had a yin-yang. now my mustang has a yin-yang.

Mom with Max. She loved german shepards. Probably why I love them.

Top - House on Clifford St on Montrose Hill. me in back yard. Donna helping with the gardens. We grew enough for both families and donated a lot to the food bank. Me in playpen. Thor, about to go for a walk in the woods. The rad shirt was to make sure nobody shot him.

At an Aikido winter camp we saw this sign outside our motel room. The house I grew up in on Freeport Rd in Blawnox. Billy as a baby.

No idea whose house that is. me as a kid. Me and the boys when they were little. Uncle Frank. My favorite uncle. He was world-class with a rifle or shotgun yet would not kill anything. I got that from him, I think.

My old college roommate Sam Hess and two of his kids. Uncle Bobby. He had a zillion video tapes yet did nothing with them. I think that is sad, a life gone with little to remember them. Me and Travis in my state College front yard. One of The boys clearing the driveway.

Satan, Mom and Dad, Grandpap, me in 9th grade.

Pix on right are Chi and Travis. Pix on left are of Brian Corbet. He was a close friend in the early 70s. He became a youth minister in Florida and married Suzi and me. Unfortunately we had a falling out over politics. i hope he is doing well. BL is Uncle Frank in his favorite chair. BR is Mary Totten, a HS friend. She passed years ago but I am friends with her son Dave on FB.

Top pix are either Tarkus or Max. Then me and chi. Then Christmas tree at Grandma Santoros. Last pic is a group of us from my Comp Center team. I recognize Bill, John, our secretary Jean, and Mike. A few people are missing. I do not remember the name of the guy with the mustache. He was made manager of the computer store after I decided to leave management (on my way to a faculty position). Apparently he was arrested for theft. (!) I knew nothing about it but I am sure I was investigated also. I was always really careful because my lab had a lot of donated equipment. I kept an inventory to account for every computer and software package.

Grandpap outside his business. He sold custom mirrors, shower doors and sliding glass doors for north suburban Pittsburgh home builders. Dad and Frank worked for him and bought out the business when Grandpap retired. They then started home building and finally retired from all of it in the 90s. Then a pic of me right around HS graduation. The pic of me in the background is my graduation bic, taken in sep of my senior year.

Dad, Grandpap Santoro, Mom, me

Grandpap Santoro. Me in Grandpap and Grandma's bed. Uncle Frank. Grandma and Grandpap Santoro. Grandpap, Mom, Grandma. Grandpap Santoro's home in Fox Chapel.

Dad, the burger king. A snowman I made outside my College apartment. Mom teaching the kids poker. me. Dad and me in Canada with fish Dad caught.

Mom and an airplane. Me in Canada.

Chi outside our Ford City farmette. It actually belonged to Billy. Travis was a baby but I am grateful That Chi experienced part of his childhood here. The Keeler 31" reflecting telescope at Allegheny Observatory. This is the only one of the 3 telescopes that I did not work with. Bottom pic is my Aikido Sensei, Cecelia Riccioti. She is a wonderful person, a superior teacher, and a good friend.

A pet I had for a short while. I love critters. The Ford City farm. I built a solar powered greenhouse that actually helped heat the house on sunny days. Bottom pic is Travis ready for his Sr. Prom.

Me at Aikido

The boys, and I am not sure what the bottom pic is.

Brian Corbett. Our Christmas tree. Chi. Mom's Christmas tree and me.

One of my living rooms. Tarkus #1. A sweet pup, part border collie and something else. Me at farm kitchen. I liked the simple life. Me at MS graduation. Me.

Comet Hayukataki. Me and the boys. Me and Sam play sparring.

TL a friend from HS. ML and BL - Sharon Bish, a friend from College. Me and the various MA weapons I had at the time. I built many wooden weapons, and was fairly proficient at nunchaku.

More of me and Sam

Chi and Dad. Grandma Santoro. I think this was Brian. Dad in WW2. Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpap Santoro. both immigrants in the early 1900's.

Tussey Mtn home with snow. View from Mom and Dad's Blawnox house. The river was 2 blocks away.

Travis, Mom, Dad, Chris, Chi, Max and me. Another view from front porch of Blawnox home. They night before they left for Texas I got a moving van and the boys and I sat on the porch and drank Jack. My goodbye to a great childhood home. Me when I was little, Max.

Another Blawnox pic. Chi and Travis. The Penn state Aikido club. Not sure about the bottom pic.

Aikido club, and Tara. I put this pic on My first web page and got an inquiry where I got the assault rifle. On the wall behind the cat is a Lee-Enfield 303, a ww1 and ww2 rifle. Billy gave it to me. I gave him a luger years later in return.

Some concert tix. Rusted root, first concert at The Jordan Center. Steve Miller Band.Page/plant, BB King. Some friends held a concert at my Laurel Glen apartment. House on Clifford Ave.

Nittany Outing Club. The name chosen for The group that would do memorial day weekend parties. Went to them for alost 30 years. They ended when Bad died. The kids and cousins when Grandma Santoro was buried. Last 2 are (i think) Billy, then me.

The kids - top left is with Tarkus 2, our giant long-haired GSD.

Satan at TL. Chi and Tarkus 1. rest is Chi.

Me, then nittany outing club.

Nittany outing Club