Deceased March 8, 2002
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In Memory
David graduated from Weston High School in Weston, Mass., in 1963. From an early age, he displayed musical talent and was the first cellist of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Marvin Rabin, performing at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy White House in 1962. (David is in the upper right corner in the photo.) After graduating from Amherst in 1967 with a degree in English literature, David served in the Peace Corps in Pusan, Korea, teaching English to secondary school students. Upon return, he was employed at IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he met and married Jacqueline Kinsley in 1971. The couple subsequently lived in Cambridge and then Charlestown, Mass., where they bought and renovated a 1790’s house on Bunker Hill. David was employed in the IT department at Harvard University and obtained a law degree from Suffolk University Law School in 1981. For a time, he immersed himself in Puerto Rico, staying there for five years.
David died on March 8, 2002. He is fondly remembered by his family and his close circle of friends who enjoyed good food, good company and a libation or two.
Throughout his life, he enjoyed cooking and reading prose and poetry from his extensive library. A friend passed this along as one of David’s favorite verses:
Let dreamers dream
What worlds they please
Those Edens can’t be found.
The sweetest flowers,
The fairest trees
Are grown in solid ground.
Robin Greenlie Jenkins (sister)