Dear Vorpahl Family, I am so saddened to hear about Jerry's death. I have been thinking of him for years, in fact every class reunion I have gone to I would ask if anyone knew the whereabouts of Jerry and no one knew where he was or what he was doing. I am not much of a face book person but was looking up different people from OFHS and stumbled across Jerry and that was just a few months ago. Let me tell you about my first meeting with Jerry. I needed a new trap set drummer, because Dave Witt was graduating and Daryl said my brother is very good. Jerry was in 8th grade at this point in time, so I told Daryl to have him come up to the high school so I could hear him, thinking, yeah sure I will humor Daryl. I digress, there are many, many people who play percussion BUT one in a million are ever very good playing trap set number one. Number two, most good trap set players, in my opinion are the most obnoxious people on the planet and are very intelligent...well does that fit Jerry??? He came up to the high school and I put some music on and he did an OK job for an 8th grader BUT I knew he had great talent. I told him, if you do what I tell you to do, listen to what I tell you and practice I will make you a great trap set drummer, you will be a star. Was he ever good, by the time he was a senior he was a monster player, I would have put him up against any high school trap set player in the United States...I am not just saying this because of his death. Listen to the recordings, they speak for themselves. I could take that jazz ensemble out today and play in contests and still win, it WAS that good. Just listen to the recordings. If you don't have a recording, I do. I put it on a CD format. Another story, one time we were in the band room and I must have been recording something on video. Jerry of course was funny as hell and he decided to do an imitation of Adolph Hitler. He had that long, straight dark brown hair and parted it like Adolph and put his