Stanley B. Jones ’60

Stanley B. Jones ’60 died of natural causes on December 23, 2016, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Born on July 27, 1938, in Baltimore, he grew up in Catonsville, Maryland, before matriculating to Dartmouth, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in philosophy. Following Dartmouth Stan studied at Yale Divinity School before going to Washington, D.C., and his first, distinguished career in government. He was hired as an aide to Sen. Edward Kennedy, eventually becoming staff director of the U.S. Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee’s health subcommittee, where his interest and expertise in health policy developed. Stan fought for community health centers and improvements in healthcare, especially mental health. In 1981 Stan remarried Judy, an associate health policy associate. After serving in government and various health agencies, Stan cofounded Health Policy Alternatives, a health-policy consulting firm. Stan then returned to his early vocational aspiration. In 1991 he was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal church, serving with distinction in several Episcopal churches in the Diocese of West Virginia. In his second retirement, Stan and Judy remained in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where Stan pursued long-held interests in philosophy, astronomy, music and art. Stan is survived by Judy; four children from his first marriage, Andy, Jeff, Lisa and Julia, and their spouses; eight grandchildren; brothers Art and Ben; and Judy’s siblings, Louise and Alan. A memorial service was held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Shepherdstown on January 7.