Jack is one of those people you run across in life that make life....well.... the wonderfully unique experience that it is. Jack is a bright guy with a very good wit and sensibility toward creative solutions. He doesn't take logical paths toward conclusions and this is what I like about him the most. I've never met anyone quite like him before, though I've met several people who he reminds me of because of his uniqueness---its a little like that maple leaf idea I wrote about awhile back---there are no two maple leafs that are exactly the same, yet nothing looks more like a maple leaf than a the leaf of a maple.... Jack is like all the oddly great people I know and call my friends. (This portrait even resembles one I took of one such friend--Ray that I took over 20 years ago---and when Jack saw that picture he busted my chops saying I haven't come up with any new udeas in 25 years!!!!) I am quite often impressed with Jack's ability to problem solve and his memory is possibly photographic. I made this sort of impromptu portrait of Jack last night as we talked about photography and college. He showed me his senior portraits done for Allegheny by Herff-Jones. It was a riot. I told him he looked like an upside down boat and he told me that his dad was disappointed that he had his picture taken with a Mohawk. I offered to take his portrait next semester without the Mohawk, though I think this portrait, taken in the computer lab shows a little bit of his personality and might be a more telling portrayal than the funny mohawk picture or the portrait we'll take next semester for his family. Photograph by Richard Sayer.