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Thomas ’21 and Charles Gillespie ’25, and
his brother, Gillespie ’32, to the School.
At St. Paul’s, he competed in football
with Isthmian and rowed with Halcyon,
captaining the first boat as a Sixth Former.
Mr. Jones went on to Princeton, where he
studied philosophy and was a member of
the Ivy Club. He joined the Marine Corps
in 1942 and served in the central Pacific.
He graduated from Princeton in 1947,
married Janet “Janny” Wallace in 1949,
and they settled in Bedford, N.Y., to raise
three children amid a menagerie of animals
in a converted barn. Mr. Jones earned his
M.F.A. from Yale in 1953.
After a short period with Field and
Stream magazine, Mr. Jones joined Reader’s
Digest in 1954 as a senior editor. He spent
32 years at the magazine and continued
to write articles for the publication in
retirement.
In 1981, Mr. Jones and his wife moved
their winter lives to Santa Fe, N.M., where
they enjoyed the Southwestern climate
and pursued their interests in bird watch-
ing and skiing. For 21 years, the couple
continued their annual cross-country
pilgrimage with an assortment of parrots
and dogs.
Mr. Jones led many adventures with
family and friends, including ever-grow-
ing parties to ski the headwall of Mount
Washington and fishing off his beautiful
lobster boat Halcyon, a name tied to his
SPS years. He wrote constantly, infusing
his work with observations of his limit-
less interest in the natural world.
He published three books, including
The Corsair Years (1995), which focused
on how he and two other members of the
Form of 1940 flew a Marine fighter plane
– the Chance Vought F4U Corsair – in
the Pacific during World War II. Mr. Jones
also wrote the short story “Land of the
Owl” for Reader’s Digest in 1981, detailing
his experience of finding a baby owl, who
had fallen out of its nest in the woods
around St. Paul’s. Mr. Jones rescued the
bird and nurtured it in his SPS dormitory
until it was healthy enough to go back
into the wild. Several years after the
story was published, at the urging of
his agent to do a contemporary fictional
treatment of it, Mr. Jones spent time on
the SPS campus in the mid-1980s to
familiarize himself with the day-to-day
life of the School.
Mr. Jones is survived by his wife, Janny;
his daughters, Brooke and Audrey; his
son, Seaver; and a granddaughter, Lauren.
1940
Eliot Brown Payson
of Falmouth,
Maine, died
peacefully in
his sleep on
September 2,
2012, at the age
of 90.
Born April 16,
1922, in Portland,
Maine, he was the
son of Phillips M. Payson of the Form of
1911 and Marion (Brown) Payson.
Mr. Payson entered St. Paul’s School
in the Fourth Form and quickly engaged
himself in athletics. He played second
football and first hockey for Delphian.
He also served as a member of the
Library Association.
Mr. Payson set his sights on Williams
College early in his high school career.
Described by a faculty member in a col-
lege recommendation as a “likeable and,
despite some shyness, friendly” young
man, Mr. Payson entered Williams with
the Class of 1944; however, after two
years, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force,
serving as a first lieutenant P51 Mustang
pilot during World War II. Despite his early
departure from Williams, Mr. Payson
always attended his reunions and con-
sidered himself a part of his class.
Following his time overseas, Mr. Payson
settled on the North Shore of Massa-
chusetts and, in 1947, married his first
wife, Harriett Neff, with whom he had
two daughters, Wendy and Susan. He
thoroughly enjoyed his career in adver-
tising for SD Warren Paper Company in
Boston and also served on the board of
Consumers Water Company. A lifelong
lover of the ocean and an exceptionally
kind-spirited gentleman, Mr. Payson spent
time volunteering for the New England
Aquarium and Habitat for Humanity. In
1991, he married Janet Pingree, also a
lover of nature, known for her vibrant
watercolors and her work as a volunteer
in her community.
Mr. Donald earned his engineering
degree from Princeton in 1943 and his
master’s in mining engineering from
Columbia in 1946. He served for two
years as a Naval officer in the South
Pacific during World War II.
He worked for Scudder Stevens and
Clark in New York City from 1962 to
1996, serving as president and manager
of Scudder’s Gold Fund, from its incep-
tion in 1988 until his retirement. He
became a private consultant for prec-
ious metals stock in his retirement and
served on the boards of Piedmont Min-
ing, Repadre Capital, Stillwater Mining,
and Dayton Mining. He was also active
with the Society of Mining Engineers, the
Association for Investment Management
and Research, the Mining and Metallurgi-
cal Society of America, and the New York
Society of Security Analysts.
Mr. Donald served his community in
various capacities, including as a trustee
of Staten Island Richmond Town Restora-
tion and director of the board of the Staten
Island Historical Society. He was also a
member of the Squadron A. Sons of the
Revolution and the Saint Nicholas Society
and Church Club.
Mr. Donald leaves behind his wife of
66 years, Grace R. Donald; his daughter,
Wendy D. Schaumberg; his son, Peter
Gordon Donald; two grandchildren; and
one great-grandchild. He was predeceased
by his brother, Norman H. Donald ’32.
1940
Andrew Bartlett Jones
a journalist who loved animals and adven-
tures with his family, died peacefully on
May 9, 2012, surrounded by loved ones at
his home on the banks of the Connecticut
River in Haddam, Conn. He was 91.
Born June 20, 1921, to Mr. and Mrs. H.
Seaver Jones, he grew up in South Orange,
N.J., enrolling at St. Paul’s as a Second
Former in 1935. He followed his uncles,