| i. | Deane Whitney Merrill , Jr., born May 9, 1938 in Orange, New Jersey4; married (1) Colette Marie Yvonne Bruvry June 20, 1964 in Mill Valley, California5; married (2) Jane Elizabeth Brockmeyer December 6, 1975 in Berkeley, California6; married (3) Anna Christine Morben July 2, 1995 in Reno, Nevada7. |
| ii. | Charles Ray Merrill, born September 25, 1940 in Orange, New Jersey8; married Wendy Gay Buchanan October 29, 1966 in Summit, New Jersey9. |
| iii. | Jonathan Alden Merrill, born May 25, 1945 in Washington, D.C.10. |
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Notes for Jonathan Alden Merrill: (JAM 1997) JONATHAN ALDEN MERRILL - Born May 25, 1945 in Columbia Hospital, Washington, D. C. Attended local public schools in South Orange, New Jersey through 10th grade, then two years at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts. He sang for many years in the boys' choir at the Church of the Holy Communion, South Orange, as did his brothers before him (at one time all three of the brothers were in the choir simultaneously). At Deerfield he played trombone in the band and sang in the Glee Club. After graduation from Deerfield in 1963, he went to the University of California at Berkeley for three years, then transferred to Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, from which he graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a certification to teach vocal and instrumental music in public schools. He taught music for several years in various New Jersey schools while serving in the U.S. Army Reserve. He moved to Vermont in 1973 and taught there for several more years until school budget cuts decimated Vermont's school music programs, and he decided to pursue a new career. In order to obtain computer training, he began a 4-year enlistment in the U.S. Army starting in 1978. For all of 1980 and 1981 he was stationed at the Headquarters for U.S. Army Europe at Heidelberg, (West) Germany, where he was an administrative specialist at the War Plans Division for the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations. He earned several commendations and awards there, including the Army Achievement Medal. Upon his discharge in 1982, he began working as a word processing operator at AT&T in Morristown, New Jersey, and later moved up to being a clerical administrator. In 1990 he bought a townhouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania and still commutes by commuter van to AT&T in New Jersey, where he is in his 15th year. After having left the teaching profession, he has remained active in youth activities, having been a Girl Scout leader, a Save the Children sponsor to three Appalachian children over a dozen years, and he is presently the president of the national fan club for the Broadway musical ANNIE. He has been editor and publisher of the club's newsletter ANNIE PEOPLE for twelve years and has traveled extensively and done publicity on numerous modern-day famous child stars who have been in the show and the film version. He and his co-editor Tricia Trozzi have earned much recognition around the country for their coverage and perpetuation of the popularity of the ANNIE musical and have been interviewed on television several times. In recent years he has helped out at and been a loyal supporter of a children's repertory company and theater group in western New Jersey. He is also a lifelong pop music enthusiast and chart historian and was a part-time disc jockey on a local radio station in Vermont during his teaching years. He also collects stamps, comic books, and children's series books; and he has given speeches to book club conventions on his children's book collecting specialty, the popular Baby-sitters Club series. He has created a collectors' guide called MERRILL'S COMPANION TO THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB. He edited and published the Little Lulu fanzine THE STANLEY STEAMER for ten years. He also is the proud owner of one of the most extensive collections of Little Orphan Annie memorabilia in the country. He enjoys writing at his home computer in his spare time and has had numerous articles published in collectors' publications, and has written an unpublished novel-length manuscript about the beginnings of his work with children called SITTIN' ON A FENCE (WE CAN'T GO ON THIS WAY). He is an enthusiastic Frisbee disc golf player and competed in numerous professional meets in the late '70s, placing fourth in the 1977 Vermont State Frisbee tournament. He is currently the curator, along with his brother Deane, of the family genealogy and memorabilia. He so far has remained a bachelor but had a six-year long-distance romance beginning in 1986 with Cynthia Moser, a genealogical researcher from Salt Lake City, Utah. It was she who unearthed the elusive data concerning Moses Merrill's siblings and Lucinda Whitney's Barnard connection. E-mail: JonMerrill@aol.com Personal Web Site: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jamerrill More About Jonathan Alden Merrill: Fact 1: autobiographical info on Notes page11 |
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