U.S. Rep. Jay Rhodes

To the Rhodes family:

It was a privilege to be "represented" by Jay, not only when he was my Congressman, but while I was on the CAP Board. During that time, we had, as Sid Wilson and others have pointed out, a fair number of thorny issues with the federal government. Jay helped navigate those waters with grace, good humor, deep insight and wonderful counsel. He was a joy to work with and to be around. I greatly valued him as a friend, mentor and advocate.

Arizona...

To Betty, Tom, Buff and all the young ones. This is a shocker. Just found out. Molly and I send you all our love and prayers and wish we had known so could have attended the memorial service. This is what comes of putting off keeping in touch. I was preveledged to grow up in the proximity of the Rhodes family. To know John Rhodes and to respect his integrity and service to this country. I just completed another reading of The Futile System. It's as timely today, as ever. And to know...

Well Jay, it's Saturday morning. I'm slouched in a favorite arm chair, pulled close to the fireplace on a cold Arizona morning. Now don't laugh. It is cold by desert standards. I find myself reflecting on events of yesterday. You know the event...it was a service in memory of you and your life. Some three hundred friends and family gathered at the Mesa Country Club...fitting since MCC played such an important role in your life and that of your family. So many folks that I knew were...

Well Jay, it's Saturday morning. I'm slouched in a favorite arm chair, pulled close to the fireplace on a cold Arizona morning. Now don't laugh. It is cold by desert standards. I find myself reflecting on events of yesterday. You know the event....it was a service in memory of you and your life. Some three hundred friends and family gathered at the Mesa Country Club....fitting since MCC played such an important role in your life and the lives of your family. So many folks that I knew...

I so appreciated the memorial service in DC. It was wonderful to hear about the Jay everyone knew from his professional life. I met him soon after he met Jane, and was unaware of what a good mentor he was, and how courageous (volunteering for service, going to Vietnam, going to Afghanistan when it was not safe to do so but when they needed people), and what a good and loyal public servant. What I admired was the good humor in which he accepted the late-in-life adventure of moving to Adams...

Dear Jane,

My deepest sympathy to you. I enjoyed meeting Jay and you at one of our NYC class dinners. Jay's outlook, knowledge and willingness to share was a true blessing to all who knew him.

Chip Marshall, Yale '65

To the Rhodes family:
I was saddened to hear of the passing of Congressman Rhodes. I was a Phoenix adviser in Go Cong and An Xuyen Provinces in 1969. He and I must have passed by each other several times in the 1968 - 1970 era. I suspected many times he was in Phoenix but since there were only 434 of us in 1969 could never prove it as few of us knew the others. I knew his father also as a student at ASU. Best regards
Larry J O'Daniel [email protected]