Jerome Butler "Jerry" White Jr. (October 31, 1938 – legal death February 5, 1994)[1] was the second American Cryonics Society (ACS) president, from 1971 to 1982.[2] He was one of the founding members of ACS (then the Bay Area Cryonics Society) and Trans Time.[3] Born in Texas,[4] he worked as a software designer on many NASA projects.[3]

Jerry White

White received a B.A. in Philosophy in 1966 from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.[1] He continued his education at the University of California at Berkeley where he studied computer science and education.[1] White was especially interested in the psychology of learning, programmed learning, and computer-aided learning.[1]

He was neuropreserved[5] for ACS by BioPreservation in 1994 at the age of 55 after many months of suffering from complications of the AIDS virus.[1][3] He was one of the ten ACS patients transferred from CryoSpan in California to the Cryonics Institute in April 2004.[3] He is CI's patient number 61.[6]

White's mother was cryopreserved in January 1992.[7]

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