Earnest

I never actually met Jeff. He was a friend of a lot of my friends, so I heard a lot of stories about him. He was funny. He was articulate. He was smart. He didn't suffer fools lightly. He was held in the highest regard by his friends.

In high school he was legendary among those of us that did plays for his performance in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST. It was still talked about when I was a senior, four years later.

After he died, I found out he taught at Winchester Thurston, a prep school two blocks from where I work. I wish I'd known.