Jerry Smyth, our monocoque mentor, is in bad health.
He fought a bout of cancer and won but his medication made him sick. He had what appeared to be a stroke but nothing was found with the MRI so it was thought to be a reaction with his meds.
His latest battle is with Bells Palsy. He was doing pretty well but I was told today that he is in bad shape. They don’t no if it’s the palsy or what.
So if the FIRST community could take a moment and pray for him, I think it will help.
To Mr. Smyth:
Say the word. I’ll go to war for you. The FIRST World has your back.
To my bretheren on team THRUST, in the immortal words of Thomas Paine…
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
May he live to see these days renewed, and to know no more despair. (King Theoden.)
My heart goes out to Jerry, his family and friends, as well as team members of 1501.
Hope he gets better.
Wayne:
It must be difficult for you to bring this news to us but it is good that you did. Thank you for allowing us to help.
My thoughts and prayers are with Jerry and with all of you.
Jane
Mr. Smyth, I am praying for your health, as well as your family and friends.
My thoughts will be with your mentor and his family.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you…
We need you in the FIRST community… the designs that Team Thrust has come up the past few years are phenomenal…
Here’s praying for him. Haven’t met him, but any member of FIRST, especially mentors, is a friend of mine.
My prayers go out to Jerry, his family, and his team.
Tell Jerry are thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. I hope he gets well soon. He is an amazing man and a tough fighter. I hope he can come to IRI.
Tell Mr. Smyth that PantherTech’s thoughts are with him, and I can personally say that my prayers are with him. I will be praying.
Here is Jerry teaching Team 1720 this past year.
http://muncierobots.iweb.bsu.edu/gallery/2006/Monocoque.html
Note only did he teach our own kids, but started to reach out to other teams as well.
Thank you all for your guys support. Jerry has been a fantastic mentor and I’m just so proud that how much he has taught me and the other students of 1501 and that we can show other teams about are designs. And be a great FIRST team for his abilties and a mentor and a friend and a just plan great person.
Goober!!!
Jerry is teaching us all. I didn’t know that riveting could be so much … um… fun.
My prayers and my family’s prayers are with Jerry. Let’s all hope he gets better soon!
Andy B.
Thoughts and prayers are with Jerry.
Hope all goes well.
May the good Lord be with Jerry and bring him back to good health. I offer my thoughts, best wishes, and prayers.
-Joe
All of Waiakea High’s thoughts and prayers are with you. We pray that he has a safe recovery. To the team members of 1501, we are with you too. This is a hard time for you guys and we are with you all the way.
I didn’t get the chance to know him all that well, but he has taught me much when we started working on the robot. I have learned as much from him on a few specific skills that I hope to master and use to benefit the team. As far as I’m concerned, Jerry is still teaching me through what he has taught the rest of our mentors, and I hope that I can do the same to spread what Jerry has taught us all.
Thank you Jerry, for all of what you have done.
Seth Cook
EDIT:Thank you all very much for your support.
Team 744 is praying for you guys!
Jerry Smyth update.
I just got this from Al Thorn:
I just wanted to let you know that they moved Jerry to the hospice unit at
Huntington Hospital last night. He is apparently starting to not make
sense with his communication.
Also we have set up a Blog on our website. It’s under the ‘General’ forum tab.
If you have ever met him and have an anecdote, please enter it here. We will compile them and give them to him.
Website is: http://www.huntingtonrobotics.org/
Thanks to all that have responded so far.