Ray Jones

Ray Jones was not close with many of our GHS classmates.  However there was one group he was reasonably close with and that was our informal Friday night Chess Group composed of Wolf Mathiesen, Derrill Tuttle, Ron Teeter, Ray Jones and myself.   Ray was a very good chess player.  He had a great intellect and could analyze the chess strategy very well.

His family was relatively poor so college was not an option for Ray.   Instead he choose the military and ended up in Army Intelligence where he could put his analytic abilities to use.  The military had a good effect on Ray and he spruced up quite a bit from the Ray we all remembered.  Had it been today with the invention of email, we would have probably stayed in touch.  Unfortunately we did not. Ray showed up at one of our reunions and was living at the time in Heidelberg Germany, still in the intelligence field at the time.  ----Ed DeChant

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Ray was a prolific reader reader.  I remember that he put his initials in each book in the GHS library that he read.  You know that nearly nearly every book in the library had Ray's initials in it.  I heard that a great deal of his military intelligence work involved reading novels like in the 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" with  Robert Redford ----Ron Robinson  

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