Categories newsmakers | 1960sPosted on 2013/11/13Jerry Berka ’63 Jerry Berka ’63, of Bay Shore, N.Y., was honored, as a man of service in his community with an administration building named in his honor. Berka, a member of the board of education for 37 years, has served as chairman of the student aid fund. He comments on his long service: When I returned home after the Navy JAG, I wanted to do something for the community. After you stay around and see a lot of good things happening, you want to keep contributing. A geology major at Wesleyan, he received his law degree from Cornell.