Education and Personal Life
Palmisano grew up in a large Italian-American middle class family in Baltimore, Maryland. His father owned a body shop.
As an offensive lineman at Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore, Maryland he prepared earnestly, studying pregame scouting reports and seldom missed a blocking assignment. He was also a union musician, and once played backup saxophone for The Temptations.
He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Johns Hopkins University where he was member of Beta Theta Pi. He did well in football (center, offensive tackle, team co-captain) there, and turned down an opportunity to try out with the Oakland Raiders.
He met his wife, Gaier Notman, a 1969 alumna of Miss Porter's School, at an IBM training school.
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