Jim Geletzke
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Jim "Griz" Geletzke, is an African American who is a part owner ("shareholder") and a supervisor at Lambdatron (1997), the company where his fellow employees include Jennlynn Swift, Jon Chladek and Tanisha Blythe all of which start as interns and later become employees/part owners.
Jim was a football star at Georgia Tech on an athletic scholarship, known as Grizzly Geletske. He stands 6 feet, 4 inches or so and was an all-conference defensive back. Griz speaks with a deep rumble and sounds reminiscent of Darth Vader. He left a poor and gang-ridden background to earn his athletic scholarship, but he is described as brilliant, not an adjective usually applied to football players. So "breaking the paradigm" is natural to him.
we first meet Jim in Chapter 7 of Alone Together; he is wearing a T-shirt that reads "1986 Southern 500 -- Darlington SC -- the track too tough to tame". It wasn't so much the stock car racing that shocked Jon and Tanisha as it was the prominently displayed Confederate flag.
He was hired as an intern at the same time as Jennlynn Swift for the summer of 1991. In Chapter 13 of Magic Carpet we find out that his wife is named Mona.
In Chapter 8 of Alone Together it is mentioned that his wife is Caucasian, and with her permission Tanisha Blythe mails a photo of herself and Jim (the implication is boyfriend-girlfriend) to her parents to help lay a false trail.
