When I came to Penn State in 1979, Raniero Corbelletti, head of the Department of Architecture, told me that it was difficult to make friends in State College. Fortunately Gene and Jackie stepped up to the challenge. Jackie and I, acting as the good cop, bad cop members of the Design Review Board and Gene as my valued mentor, colleague, neighbor and friend who was always up for a spirited conversation. Whether it was having lunch at the Waffle Shop to critique Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander or bumping into Gene in aisle five at Wegmans, you could count on a quick one liner or, more likely, a conversation about Cape Cod, politics, education, music, the theater or his beloved family. It is clear that all of these shared stories about Gene will insure that his first run will live on without missing a note.