Born Feb. 2, 1943 ,the same day the glorious red army defeated the Nazis at Stalingrad. Uncle Gerry claims to have been involved in that battle in a previous life based on intense emotional feelings he experiences while viewing newsreel footage of the battle.

Fighting and pleading with his mother not to enroll him in elementary school in 1949, he argued that he already could read and do basic math ( count to 100 ) but , primarily , because if forced to go to school, which he surmised to be a total waste of time , he would miss all of his favorite radio programs such as " The Breakfast Club " and  " The Shadow " .

She won..... while in the 6th grade he suffered his first humility while trying to impress the prettiest girl in his class by wearing his full dress scout uniform with many merit badges. Uncle Gerry had no merit badges....... earned.... and was thus dishonorably discharged from the Cub Scouts for not attending " Blue and Gold " dinners and never making a Tom-Tom !

The High School years were slightly better years for our hero . He learned that he could make people laugh and thus had himself suspended from school several times for various charges of classroom anarchy.

He then graduated with  a solid C average and proceeded to matriculate embalming school in NYC

Uncle Gerry arrived in NYC at about the same time as Bob Dylan did but unfortunately got off the subway at 17th st and 1st ave while Dylan continued further down to the village. Uncle Gerry laments to this day that he should have stayed on the subway to the village where he might eventually have the chance to get it on with Joan Baez. Instead he spent his time dealing with NY's indigent dead !

The 60's provided nirvana for Uncle Gerry with his complete absorption of much LSD and Marijuana along with the writings of Dr. Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg et al !

The latter days of the 60's and early seventies offered ample time to indulge in more religion. This resulted in his election as "First Reader" at his local Christian Science Church, not to be confused with Hubbard's Church of Scientology.

As the years rolled by, Uncle Gerry got involved with a married woman with 4 children. Her husband was later discovered to be the town prosecutor. After her stormy divorce from the lawyer, Uncle Gerry married her and remained so for 5 long years before she finally realized her mistake. She promptly threw him out and divorced him much to his relief. Following this liberation he began meandering about the country winding up hungry and penniless sleeping in a ditch on Rt 68 in Salinas, CA.  While in the ditch, sleeping on a discarded mattress, cold and clutching a claw hammer for protection, he had an epiphany that during these latter days of great social unrest and moral decay the practice and promotion of Good Manners was to be his next panacea for mankind. Thus the foundation was established.

Uncle Gerry currently resides............................... where the mayor was just arrested for drunk driving !