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At SPS, Mr. Jones sang in the Choir, par-
ticipated in the Science Society, worked
on the Yearbook, and served as an editor
of the Hockey Program. He also enjoyed
playing football and hockey for Old Hun-
dred. Mr. Jones went on to Princeton
University, settling in the college town for
more than 50 years after his graduation.
Mr. Jones was a lover of classical music
and an active outdoorsman who enjoyed
hiking, canoeing, fly fishing, and gardening.
He is survived by his wife of nearly
62 years, Sonia Zuback Jones; his son,
C. Maury Jones III; his daughter, Stasia
Lowe; two granddaughters; and numerous
other relatives.
1948
Archibald Douglas III
of Narragansett,
R.I., died on
March 19, 2013,
after a long illness.
Born July 18,
1929 in New York
City, he was the
son of Archibald
Douglas Jr. ’22
and the former
Constance Miller. He attended the Buckley
School prior to entering St. Paul’s as a
Second Former in 1943.
Mr. Douglas was the first Fifth Former
to win the Gordon Medal as the School’s
top male athlete. He had vivid memories
of fishing on the Lower School Pond on
Sunday afternoons between Chapel serv-
ices, playing for Cal Chapin’s great hockey
teams, singing in the School Choir, and
traveling to war-torn Britain in 1948
with the Winant Volunteers. He also very
much valued his close relationship with
former SPS master Ronnie Clark. At a
critical time in his development, St. Paul’s
was there for him, he recalled, and he
never forgot it.
After graduation, Mr. Douglas attended
Yale, where his proudest affiliation was
his three-year participation on the ice
hockey team. The 1951-52 team was one
of the finest in Yale’s history, ascending to
the semifinals of the NCAA tournament.
Mr. Douglas served proudly as a Marine
lieutenant in the Korean War. In 1956, he
married Wayne Goss. Together they raised
four children, primarily in Louisville, Ky.,
and Princeton, N.J. A business executive
who worked for many different companies,
he found his greatest success at Kingsford
and Wite-Out, Inc.
Many of the elements of Mr. Douglas’s
success at SPS continued. He won the
national junior squash championships at
18 and excelled in racquet sports through-
out his life. His love of music was sustained
by singing with the O’s & B’s at Yale, as a
passionate extra for the Louisville Opera,
as a participant in amateur musical revues,
and by great skill at the piano.
Mr. Douglas enjoyed a lifelong love of
fishing and hunting, nurtured by boyhood
summers spent at the Adirondack League
Club in Old Forge, N.Y. He introduced each
of his children and grandchildren to fly
fishing, a world that possessed almost
mystical significance for him. Later in
life, he developed a passion for salmon
fishing, traveling several times to Russia
and frequently to northeastern Canada.
Mr. Douglas was a founding board mem-
ber of St. Francis School in Louisville. He
led the fundraising campaign for the SPS
Form of 1948’s 50th anniversary, result-
ing in a new record for contributions. In
his 70s, he served on the board of gover-
nors of the Yeamans Hall Club in Charles-
ton, S.C., where he and Wayne made their
winter home.
Mr. Douglas is survived by his wife,
Wayne. He is also deeply missed by his
daughters, Daisy Savage ’76, Eliza Mc-
Erlean ’79, and Deirdre Carey; his son,
Archibald Douglas IV ’75; eight grand-
children; his brother, Geoffrey Douglas ’62,
and sister, Eleanor Douglas; and numer-
ous cousins, nieces, and nephews. He
was predeceased by his brother, James
A.M. Douglas ’52.
1948
Joseph Denny Sargent
a businessman who developed several
well-known ski resorts, died on Novem-
ber 7, 2012, surrounded by family. He was
83 and a resident of West Hartford, Conn.
Born September 9, 1929, he was the
son of Thomas Denny Sargent ’21 and
Elizabeth Owen Sargent. He entered
St. Paul’s as a Second Former in the fall of
1943. At SPS, Mr. Sargent was a diligent
student, who was actively involved in the
School community as a member of the
Glee Club, Missionary Society, Outing
Club, Acolyte’s Guild, Chapel Wardens, and
Scientific Association. He participated in
alpine skiing, football, hockey, and tennis.
Mr. Sargent went on to earn a B.A. in
economics and geology from Yale. Shortly
after his 1952 graduation, Mr. Sargent met
a businessman with an idea to develop a
ski area in rural Vermont. While others
found the idea risky, Mr. Sargent jumped
at the opportunity. Along with his wife,
Mary Tennant Sargent, and several others,
Mr. Sargent formed Sherburne Corp.,
which developed the Killington Ski area.
The group invested capital, cut the trails,
built the lifts, and constructed a base lodge
from a repurposed Civilian Conservation
Corps. hut and a ticket booth made out of
a chicken coop. In 1958, Killington opened
with two lifts and fewer than 10 trails. Mr.
Sargent served as chairman of Sherburne
Corp. (later known as S-K-I), the one-
time owner of Killington, Mt. Snow, Bear
Mountain (Calif.), Waterville Valley (N.H.),
and Sugarloaf (Maine).
Mr. Sargent was an early adopter of
private equity insurance and was instru-
mental in initiating and cultivating a num-
ber of insurance companies, including
Executive Risk and MMI. He served as
managing partner and chairman of Con-
ning & Co., an investment firm specializing
in the insurance business, before co-
founding Bradley, Foster & Sargent in
1992. He continued to serve as chairman
of BFS until his passing. In addition, he
served as non-executive chairman of
Beazley Group, a United Kingdom-based
public insurance organization with oper-
ations at Lloyds of London. He was also
director of Beekley Corporation, a medical-
products manufacturer.
Mr. Sargent was a community partici-
pant, who served on the Hartford Hospital
board for more than 35 years, including a
term as chairman. He was a trustee of the
YMCA of Greater Hartford, McLean, Wads-
worth Atheneum, the Village for Families
and Children, and the Hartford Art School.
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