John Slifko

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When I woke this morning, Johnny Slifko came to mind. He was drum major in my high school's marching band and his brother Eric was my prom date and good friend. His parents were lovely people. Many years have passed since I last saw them at Eric's passing. In reading the memories shared here I can see that Johnny continued his family's legacy of kindness, caring and generosity. Bless you, Johnny.

I miss John was always ready to help you and listen to even when he was in a hurry.Always in my thoughts!

So sad! I only recently moved to Reading and exchanged quite a few emails and phone calls with John. He was a caring man with much integrity. This makes me incredibly sad. My condolences to his family.

I am so saddened to learn of John's passing. He and I were suite mates at Princeton for two years. He was a person of high intelligence and an even higher moral authority and social conscience. My fondest memory of John was when shortly after graduation he came by my house in his VW microbus and we headed up to Maine. He had to teach me to drive a standard stick shift before we left. We rented a canoe up and spent several days canoeing and camping. You get to appreciate someone when you...

John and I were friends in college at Princeton and roommates, or, more accurately, suitemates (five of us shared a suite) senior year. We got to know each other because the students at Princeton who had been American Field Service students had some activities together. John had spent a year in Sweden, as I recall. AFS students feel as if they were representatives of the U.S., and it doesn't surprise me that the John who was an AFS student later became a committed government official. ...

What wonderful tributes have been written! My mom, Nancy (Rhodenizer) Jesser lived at Auntie Eth's with Eric and Johnny for a while. Some of my fondest memories of him were when I was a kid.
He and some of his buddies came to Colorado to build a garage for us. He had long curly dark hair, so different from how he looks now. Of course, somehow he saved the tree we had in the back yard and built the garage around it, which made for great tree climbing and sitting on the top of the garage....