I am sure that your Mom is very proud and that your dad, Grandpa Max and Grandma Estelle (My Aunt and Uncle,  I adored them. When I would stay with my Grandpa Solly and Grandma Becky ( Jon’s Corsover Gandparents) for a weekend, I would sleep in Aunt Estelle’s empty bedroom and loved going through her desk/college materials, post cards, fun stuff…she already was married)

When My first cousin Jon was born we would go out and visit them In Levittown Long Island (just to put things in context, I was born in 1943). I was a bit older than Stan and Bob but we all played and fooled around. Anyway, as Jon got older I can recall his somewhat impish grin along with his great smile. He was a bit of a child prodigy on the Piano and many in the family thought he was somewhat of a genius as he was just SO, SO BRIGHT! He was able to master everything he set out to do, really, a kid of many talents! He was often teased by his older brothers and I can remember many a tantrum. Poor Jon!

He had lots of children’s books, toys/games, as I recall he was drawn to the creative and the challenging ones. We would get together for family BBQs a couple times/year in Levittown…he had a great appetite as did I, and most of the family! Jon was a good looking boy and a handsome young man, ( I see Dane is too!) very nice, good natured, with a good sense of humor! Because of his talents and interests being so diverse, sometimes I thought he listened to the sounds of a “different drummer”…he just had so many interests! There was too much of an age difference between us, so I was not close to him, just sharing observations from a much older first cousin, from our growing up years.

I was pleased when he went to work for PM in Richmond. They were a great company. I worked for them at their World HQ, where I was on the President’s Staff/ Office of the President, then at 100 Park Ave, NYC. I always let it be known, when interacting with the Richmond Operations/Engineering people, that Jon was my first cousin. People all had a good impression of Jon, he was well liked and respected from what I could find out.

Jon was one of 7 first cousins on my side, out of 9 ( Corsover) who had Engineering degrees, IE, EE, ChE…mine is a ChE/MBA. There were so many directions Jon could have taken. I am thinking he and his parents were very influenced that 6 older cousins were doing very well with their Engineering Degrees, some moving into Mgmt./Admin in many cases (kinda new for Jews who in the previous generations, once colleges started accepting Jews, went into the Arts, Medicine/Law) as Big Corporate America didn’t hire Jews, our generation really broke that wide open and paved the way.

Unfortunately, other than family events and Simchas, I lost track of Jon for many years, as my career involved living in many states as a young engineer. Jon’s parents would visit us wherever we were and I would hear about Stan, Bob and Jon but didn’t see him. I was a VP Corporate Marketing at GO JO Industries, Akron OH and helped Bob get a job there when he was in Toronto and things changed in his career. We got to see Max and Estelle often then, as your Uncle Bob relocated to Akron and I would hear about Jon. The one exception was some Family Life Cycle events and while it was great to see him, it was very rare. When I did see him he was the same, happy, jovial, fun, good sense of humor, quick thinker, JON! He was always fun seeing and being around as I grew up and that never changed! (I must add that Estelle and Max were ALWAYS very proud of Jon!!!) I always enjoyed being in Jon’s presence.

Arlene and I can remember being at your parents wedding, what a great day that was!!!