ROGER and JANE (LIND) GERAKIN

Building Homes and Images in Lake County

Thanks to Danny's personal letter it has been fun and so interesting to reconnect with high school classmates. Soon it will be face to face. I am looking forward to this reunion in the midst of many emotions.

Just a few lines about my life ... My husband, Roger Gerakin, and I have been married 32 years and live in Northern California just northeast of the Napa Valley. We have two children, Harp Ties (30) and Zeno (22). Harp and I both work at Best Image Marketing. She is the Product Manager for the Internet Division and I manage the Expertorial Dept.

Best Image Marketing began in 1983 with their Expertoria advertising service, building the professional images of leading real estate agents in newspapers nationwide. These services have now expanded to online newspapers and other community websites where a real estate agent can define themselves as the local "expert" of real estate in their market. Best Image released the first generation of the NUMBER1EXPERT online advertising service, designed exclusively for agents who outsell others. NUMBER1EXPERT went on to fuel record company growth that continues to this day. If you are interested you can see what we do at www.bestimage.com.

Zeno is in his last semester at UC Santa Cruz and also works for BIM part-time. Roger has invested in real estate for years, built and remodeled homes and created some beautiful woodworking. Right now Roger is building a house for Harp just down the road from us on a very steep slope that we call Mt. Kilimanjaro. Zeno helped with the framing this summer and Harp is planting deer-proof landscape. We love to travel and go to the tropics at least once a year spending much of our time hiking and bird-watching. Roger loves to sail, so some of our trips have been on a bare boat.Roger and I just spent the weekend on the coast in Elk for his birthday with Zeno and his girlfriend Aria who were also celebrating their third anniversary.

Harp made this hat out of ribbons and bows from my mother's presents for her 92nd birthday!

I wish everyone a safe trip and will see you soon in the Valley.

Jane (Lind) Gerakin
Middleton, CA