George David Kerlick Chronology

Ancestors

??? Settlement of Scythians in the Hungarian plain?

898 Hungarians displace Slavs, who head for the hills

965 Traditional date for Methodian mission to Ruthenia

Bela IV [1206 to 1270-05-03] of Hungary stations settlers at the mountain borders  [During the Mongol invasion?]

1581 Smerekova established by migration from from Galicia?

1595-12-23 Union of Brest, Ukrainian Catholic Church under Pope Clement VIII

1646 Union of Uzhgorod returns most of Ruthenia to allegiance to the Pope

c1600 Plague in Smerekova, three women survive (Maria Kirlik)

1773 Smerekova "Possessio" Census shows 'Kirlik'

1828 Smerekova Census shows 'Kirlik'

~1840 ?. Kovach, Hussar, Fr. of John Kovach Franz-Josef palace guard, Budapest?

~1860 John Kovach MMFF

~1860 Anna Yavorchak MMFM

~1860 Anna Sura MMMM

~1860 George? Zbur MMMF

1863 Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary established

~1865 Vasil Kirlik FFF b. Smerekova, Austria-Hungary

~1870 Anna Plavayko, FFM Lumshory/Ranosfured A-H

1881 Mary Zbur MMM b. C^ukalovce, Zemplin Co. A-H, now Slovakia

1881 Andrew Kovach MMF b. Serednye, Ung Co., A-H (Roman Cath? Hungarian?)

1890 Feb 15 Fedyor Kirlik FF b. Smerekova, A-H

1894 ? Veronica Hamnik FM b. Cihanivci? A-H

1898 Mary Zbur emigration, age 14 "Christopher Columbus" (statue of Liberty) This is before Ellis Island 1904 building (Ellis Island manifest)

1900 Mary Zbur works at Harvey's Lake Resort near Wilks-Barre, PA

1901 Mihaly Kirlik of Smerekova emigration, to NYC *half-brother?)

1902 Andras Kovacs Ellis Island record

1902 Wedding Andrew Kovach & Mary Zbur, Windber PA Mr Seech is a sponsor

1904 Sept 4 Mary Kovach MM b. Wehrum PA (now a ghost town, GDK visited in 1998)

1910 census Ernest PA Kovaches

1910 Fedyor Kirlik emigration Ellis Is. w/ Alex Kurtanich?

1916? Ann Kerlick, older sister of George, died infancy, others?

1918 April 18 George Kerlick F b. Perth Amboy NJ

1920 census Kovaches, Ernest PA

1923 July 23 Evelyn Kovach M b. Ernest PA

1925 Kovaches move to Sharpsville PA

1930 census ?

1941 Mother graduates from Sharpsville High School

1942-45 Father serves in US Army Engineers

1947 June 7 George & Evelyn Kerlick wedding, St. Michael's, Farrell PA Tornado strikes and causes wedding reception by candlelight. Noted in NY Times.

Early Years

1949 June 24 Friday 11:22 A.M. birth in Sharon PA

Christian H. Buhl hospital, later Sharon General

1949 July 10 baptism

St. Michael's Gr. Cath Cath Church, Farrell PA

Fr. Aurelius A. Petrick (c 1890-1966)

Godparents MM Stephen Dunchak of  Sharpsville, Mercer Co., PA

1951 Dec. 21 11:25 AM Sister Evelyn Lorraine b. Sharon PA

TV arrives the same month. A diversionary tactic?

1953?

"Ding Dong School" Dr. Frances Horwich

 Learn the Alphabet Backwards from Paul Winchell & his dummy Jerry Mahoney

1954 Sacred Heart Kindergarten

Sharon PA Stevenson Mansion, Mrs. Treffs, Mrs. Knapp.

Davy Crockett outfit for graduation

1955-60 Emma Deeter School, Mercer Ave. built 1869, coal furnace

1955-56 Grade 1, Miss Rebecca Miles

First floor in back

1956 audition for skip to 3rd w/ McWhirter, principal

1956 Grade 2

Miss Susan(?) Gergeley, later Mrs. Spadin.

First Floor, Left Front room

Mel-O-Dee Bells (to keep me from being bored

Mass discipline; I object

1957 Spring, Onstage w/ Pinky Lee, Stoneboro Fair

1957 June 9 1st Holy Communion, St. Michael's. Newly ordained asst Fr. Judson Procyk, later Metropolitan Archbishop (1995-2001).

1957 Grade 3, Miss Frieda Lang

Sputnik launched

Cub Scouts, Pack 39 George Mathewson (?) Dorothy Jennings Den Mother

"Spankin' Collekshun"

Miss Lang argues for my double promotion up to the Supt.

1958 summer study of 4th grade material

1958 Grade 5, Mr. John Stutzman

meet Patrick O'Connell & O.K. Rocket Builders

Brother Mark born 1959 March 21 4:55 PM

after school outing that day to Pittsburgh Planetarium

1959 Grade 6, Mrs. Elizabeth Grimes, who later sells us World Book encyclopedia

Adolescence

1960-63 Junior High School

1960 Old `920 High School

David Chestnut, Stanley Schubel, Tom Leonard, Lombardi, Jim Stewart, Scarvell, Marcolivio

1961 Split Sessions at new HS 7-noon, noon to 5

Watch Video Village with Monty Hall and Eileen Barton w/ Lori

1962 New "William P. Snyder" JSH.

As far as I know, Snyder never set foot in a school; he was a mill owner.

English w/ John Tallarico

Penn History w/ Scott Lewis

Alg I John Racosi

Chorus w. James R. Stewart

1963 Sharpsville High School, Soph

Biology Cyril Quarterson

Geom w/ Mrs. Robins.

English w/ Mrs. Natalie Muia

JFK Assassinated, announced in study hall, classes dismissed

1964 SHS Jr.

Alg II Krotenak

Physics w/ Orvis Anderson. Career Day, 1st Physicist: Paul Narbut

Speech w/ Jean Louden

Junior Class Play "Onions in the Stew" by Betty MacDonald (1908-1958) about life on Vashon Island, Washington

1965 SHS Sr.

Chem w/ Christ Hodges. Math Trig w/ Alex Krotenak

1966 HS Graduation. Valedictory address

Summer job, Boats @ Buhl Park, $.90 an hour, Gordon W. "Cap" Esterline

Undergraduate RPI

1966-7 Frosh, 303 Nason Hall w/ Bernie Blick

9 Sept 1966 Move in during Miss America

RPI Players "Threepenny Opera"

Glee Club, Joel Dolven

Russian w/ Bross

Physics w/ Eppenstein

Calc Honors w/ Campbell

Frosh Chem wit various, West Hall lectures

Language and Experience / Doherty

Frosh Honors w/ Henry Hollinger (chem). Watch Super Bowl I.

1966 18 Mov 11th. The movement of its name at the Inside Out Coffee House

6 Dec 1966 Voices in the Wind on People's Ave.

1967-8 Sophomore

197 Tenth St. w/ Michael Current & Richard Albagli

Tongue of Wood

Summer job Westinghouse. Nick Blavos, Dr. van Nice

1968-9 Jr. Tenth St.

Vonnegut, Simon & Garfunkel,

Chapel & Cultural Center

RPI Players West Side Story

Summer job Westinghouse

Riots at Democratic Convention, Chicago Seven.

1969 Sr, Tenth St.

Sara Katz, Grafton House.

RPI  Players My Fair Lady, The Physicists

1970 R.P.I. Graduation, watch Kubrick's 2001

Back to Buhl Farm boatman summer  job

RPI Players outing to Long Island

1970 August Dad's Heart Attack, Powerful Hourly Novena

Grad School Princeton

Year I: 183 Princeton Old Grad College, rmmt John Cunninghum

Relativity (MTW manuscript) Kuchar

Mechanics (Simon) 

E&M (Jackson)

Quantum (Messiah) 

Experiment w/ George Reynolds photobacterium phosphoreum Image Intensifier tubes

ElectricTequila Party and Trout Qunitet

fail preliminary exams

Crush on Russ White (longhair, not gay, sigh)

Grateful Dead play Princeton Country Club

Debasement Bar

1971 PUGC (W L Nollner) Tour South America
Venezuela, Columbia,Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil

Year II 1971-2, 16 Dickinson St.

Anne & Nels, Rob Patch, Joe Falconi

1972 General Exams, passed (Dave Wilkinson gives the news)

What's the point of a general examination without revolutionary copulation?

Year III 1972-3

1973 Jan PUGC Tour Mexico

April 25 ? PUGC at Carnegie Hall

1973 Jul-Aug North America Road Trip to Chicago, Madison, Yellowstone, Calgary, Banff, Jasper, Vancouver(Wreck Beach), Seattle, Portland, Oregon and Cal Coast, Berkeley (Hardcastle, almost made it), SF (Fern St.), LA (Mary Whitney in Upland), San Diego (Frank MAngo), Sonoran Desert, Organ Pipe AZ, New Mexico, Colorado, I-70

1973 Sept. Come out to Parents, extreme negative reaction

1974 May 8th, first sex contact "Rivendell" Ted Ehemann, anticlimax

1974 October (20?)

Drive to Danbury CT with Paul Julien for Charles Ives 100th Anniv Concert

1975, January 21, Ph.D., Princeton

1975, January 22, Ls.D., Princeton

1975, January 24, Jamaica Tour w/ PUGC

Postdocs

1975 Bozeman MT, room with Alan G. Baker

1975 Feb COLD trip via Chicago (Jeff Evans) Minneapolis -25 F (Jim Kelley), Dickinson SD (motel)

share house with Al Baker before he gets hitched.

1975-6 Cologne, Germany

Braunstr 34 5th floor walkup

1976 Passepartout, Die Filmdose gay bar in Cologne, first contacts.

1976-77 Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany

Record w/ Munich Bach Choir Cantata Nr. 80

1977-78, Oregon State, Math Dept. Francis Flaherty

California

1978 USF and SF City College, eployment ends in January 1979

Unemployment in San Francisco in the days "before AIDS"

1979 24 June Acid Trip on Gay Day on XXX Birthday

Integrative ego loss via "the Psychedelic Experience" of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner

1979 Munich Reprise

1979-83 Nielsen Engineering and Researh

1980 live in Menlo Park w/ Ciuls

1980 Sunnyvale Condo 771 N Fair Oaks Ave #1

1980 First encounter w/ Faeries, Hal Hershey's House, Harper Av, Berkeley, Oct-Nov.

1980-12-21 Dec fateful trip to Harbin Hot Springs Winter Solstice, first faerie gathering, Acid encounter with Terry C. (Tristano, John Glavis "I found mu lover on this acid", Dave Dibbern)

1981-03-02 Romantic Love Dies in Flames, Takes Decades to Mend

1983-05-01 Lovely multiway sexual encounter with Todd H., chez TT,

1983-89 NASA Ames Applied CFD Branch

1984-01-01 Sexual encounter w/ Steve Collins at Jason Serinus' house.
Last unprotected sex. Jason rolls the chaise out of neighbors' view.

1984 Breitenbush Gathering, meet Kent Asmussen in "sauna", sing Schubert

1985 Southeast Alaska

1986 China (CFD conference, tour) w/ Kent Asmussen

1986 Move to SF, part time then full

1989 26 Sept Gary Compton dies.

1989 Oct Earthquake!

1989 Oct-Nov Slavyanka tour to USSR

Oregon

Job at Tektronix Labs

Home at 5627 SW 45th, Portland.

8 Dec 1989 Move In

1990 Feb Meet Scott B.

1990 Aug Laid Off

1991 July 5 Boeing Job Offer

1991 July 11 Eclipse Baja

Seattle

Job at Boeing Computer Services

1991-1995 Capitol Hill 1201 E. John #6

1992 Sept join Seattle Pro Musica

1993 Holden Village, dramatic hike. O.G. (cat) passes.

1993 new kittens Akbar and Jeff

1995 May 17, W Seattle Home, to present

Crooked seller, claims, repairs.

1995 June 19, mail from Read S.-W. evolves to relationship 2 years.

1996 Wolf Creek, retire the Persimmon name and game.

1997? Feb Gay Men's Spiritual Retreat Camp Long

1998 Feb Curacao Eclipse

1998 Mar Rachmaninoff All-Night Service w/ Pro Musica

1999 50th birthday party on deck at home

1999 July-Aug: London, Ukraine, Slovakia, Prague, Turkey 8/11 eclipse in Osmanjik, Med. coast, Rhodos, Crete.

2000 Greet year at Samadhi Yoga w/ David Hykes

2000 October 2nd Pro Musica CD "Alnight by the Rose"

2000 Bush STEALS the Presidency; initiates Corporate Fascist Empire

2001 June 21-29 Hells Canyon vacation, break toe

2001-09-11 Terrorist attack whilst I am at Portmeirion, Wales

2003-03 Bush launches Unprovoked War of Aggression against Iraq

Retirement and Travel

2004-06-30 Retire from Boeing

2004-2005 Travel to Italy, SE Asia, Australia, US Road Trip, Southern Africa

Verified Voting Fuundation volunteer

2006-05 London, Spain, Morocco, Portugal

2006-08 Whitewater Lower Salmon River

2007-01 Malaysia, Singapore, So. Thailand, Java, Bali

2007-06 Aaska Midnight sun, Copper River

2007-0x London, Eire, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen

2008-01 Pattaya, Nepal, Bali, Bangkok