Lucy Dyke
I knew Jay through his brother, Mark. Jay was an incredibly creative and productive. person. Although growing up in Watertown, Wisconsin he had the privilege of broad-thinking parents and a great public education, he did not use those to make an easy life. He was a master stonemason, a successful businessman in clothing and jewelry, an accomplished musician and singer. He wrote a book, Cheer. He travelled and studied on his own in India, and held degrees from Wisconsin and Edinburgh. In his eighties, he carried on a conversation with me in full clear Italian, though he had learned the Italian in college and never been in that country in in intervening 60 years. In my experience he was extremely personally warm and generous. My heart goes out to his family, Winogrond Thurman and Robinson. Jay, you were a fireball, and you are missed.