greg “gerg” gilbert
February 27th, 2008yesterday my friend greg gilbert passed away at the young age of 26.
i have worked with greg for the past 9 years, the majority of my career.
for some odd reason i still remember the very first conversation i had with him.
i received a phone call from this high school kid who was starting as a freshman after the summer.
he wanted to know if the TCP/IP chat client that he had written in C++ with some friends would work on our network.
i told him that he was hired and to come and find me when he arrived at westmont 
he was 17.
after passing his microsoft certification exam his certificate arrived “signed” by bill gates and addressed to “gergory gilbert.”
from that day on we called him gerg.
i took this photo of greg in 2006. i was surprised that he liked it and asked for a copy to send to a friend.
that was cool.
i wish i’d taken more.
the coroner has established that greg died from complications arising from uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension.
greg was unaware of his diabetes or that it was treatable.