The Rochester Review, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
Over six generations, the family of Jonathan Hovey '96 counts six University alumni, reaching from the University's first graduating class to its most recent.
Hovey's great-great-great-grandfather was Robert Telford, Class of 1851, which was the first class to graduate from the brand-new University of Rochester. As with so many of the University's early graduates, Telford became a minister, working as a missionary in Siam and later serving as pastor for a number of churches in the United States and Canada.
Telford's great-granddaughter--and Hovey's grandmother--was Jane Katherine Telford Hovey '27. (Her husband, J. Allan Hovey '12, spent his freshman year at the University and transferred to Harvard, graduating with Joseph Kennedy, Sr.) Jane Hovey's three sisters also graduated from the University--Frances Telford Comstock '27, Phyllis Telford '29, and Edythe Telford Levitsky '35 --in an era when very few women went to college.
Which brings us to Jonathan Hovey, who just earned a B.A. English, with a minor in Spanish, from the University. As an undergraduate, he showed a wide range of interests, working as business manager and then editor-in-chief of the literary magazine, Logos, and spending the fall semester of his senior year studying in the Dominican Republic. He also worked for WRUR--and lived on the special-interest housing floor known as "Health and Home." This alternative-housing group includes a diverse array of people and emphasizes a healthy lifestyle that avoids drugs, alcohol, and tobacco--a practice that great-great-great-grandfather Telford would heartily endorse!
Copyright 1996, University of Rochester