Jerry Krupiczewicz:
CLASS OF 1966
Catholic Central High SchoolClass of 1966
Grand rapids, MI
Jerry's Story
Life
Hey! Been a while! In the intervening years, I've worked for the railroad, started and built an interstate trucking company, got out of that when the economy tanked, and am currently a licensed builder rehabbing old industrial buildings on the West Side. I was a neighborhood activist for over thirty years, was instrumental in starting the neighborhood organizing process in Grand Rapids, and founded the original organization that's become NEW Development Corp., a community development corporation that rehabs homes for sale to hardworking folks that wouldn't ordinarily be able to own their own home.
I see my current activities as an outgrowth of all that neighborhood organizing effort, but feel that I, myself, with my partner - a long-time West Side activist, also, am finally making a real difference in my community with what we're doing.
When I'm not amusing myself with that, I write adve...Expand for more
nture and mystery novels, and currently have four in print under the pen name G. F. Kaye, with many more to come, I hope. That took a brief hiatus, however - if just over a year can be called brief - in November of 2004 while I was recovering from several injuries sustained in an argument with some black ice - on a curve, of course - at 70 mph. What that did, though, in retrospect, was give me the chance to take a good look at my life, thus far, and what I've done.
You don't always get that chance.
The recovery was long and involved, however. In brief, I tell people I died, but got better! Fortunately I did recover - though there are some that will argue that! I consider myself lucky. I now also consider any day that I get to see at all a great one! Coming that close to the edge does give you a whole different perspective!
Trust me!
But, so much for me!
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