About Me

Where's my Private Mars Rocket? The Personal Web Pages of Chris Gerrib
	Shameless Self Promotion
	My name is Chris Gerrib, and as you probably guessed, I would love to go to Mars. Always have. When I was a little boy, growing up in a small and (at the time) terribly boring little town in Illinois, one of my favorite escapes was riding my bike to the local library and devouring all their books on space. I memorized one, a Werner Von Braun / Disney collaboration, which was full of cool pictures of cigar-shaped rockets. To this day I can still see the pictures. But all small boys grow up, and I finally decided that going to Mars wasn't in the cards. In my case, that was when I went off to the University of Illinois, and ended up graduating with a degree in history. I had (somehow) landed a scholarship via Navy ROTC, and so they shipped me off to the USS Jack Williams (FFG-24) in Mayport, Florida. This was 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, and when the military started shrinking. I spent the First Gulf War diligently guarding north Florida (not one Iraqi MiG dared attack us!) and watching the fighting on CNN. I did my bit, including a deployment to the Mediterranean and Red Seas and a couple of stints of "chasin' Haitians" and finally mustered out in 1992. Not wanting to sell used cars, I attended Southern Illinois University, got an MBA, and got a job for a small and now defunct computer and network consulting company. Just as that company was entering its final death spiral, I took a position as Director of Information Technology at Republic Bank of Chicago. This was early 2001. I'm still there, now a Senior Vice President of Technology (same job, different business card). I'm not married, and currently live in Villa Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago. When I'm not writing or working, I'm active in the Darien Rotary Club. WAY BACK WHEN - Greece 1991 (Acropolis)	Today - A face for radio! (Official Author's photo)
		Back in my salad days! (don't ask me about that stupid smile!)