Jonathan Carriel
capsule biography
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by Margery Westin |
Born: May 10, 1947 in
Family: father, Jonathan T.
Carriel (Sr.), Ph.D. (1914-1995), research chemist for Dupont and INCO;
mother, Margaret
Kearfott Carriel (1917-2009), housewife and writer, Martinsville, Virginia;
brother, Benjamin K. Carriel, musician and teacher, Nyack, New York (and his
wife Olga and their children Benjamin Jr. and Rebecca).
Raised:
Education: B.A., M.A., in History,
Residence:
Previous
career: Local area network technician, trainer, and
administrator, for Toronto-Dominion Bank, First Boston, Chase Manhattan, and the
St. Christopher-Ottilie foster care organization.
Avocations:
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Currently serving as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Revolution Round Table–New York.
·
Sailing my Columbia 43 yacht VELUT LUNA
on the Hudson River’s beautiful Tappan Zee. Recreational sailing has taken me
all over the US East Coast and the Caribbean—including three visits to St.
Eustatius—and also on excursions in Greece, Turkey, England, and France. Crewing
for my late father, I sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1984.
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As a member of the all-volunteer Nyack
(NY) Boat Club, I am called several times a year to participate on the mooring committee, which annually sets
and retrieves seasonal moorings for the Club’s work boats and its fairways, and
lays out the extensive mooring field grid for the membership.
·
As a Life Member of the Village Light
Opera Group of New York City (which I joined in 1970), I still occasionally
do odd jobs and set construction for its musical theater productions.
Available: For public gatherings of book-lovers and history-lovers. Ready to present (among other topics) a capsule introduction to the French and Indian War and its comparability to current events.
