Jack Stand

Jack is a man who from time to time has been called upon to speak, while he is virtually unknown for his many unpublicized other deeds. Jack's first speaking engagement was to read a tale of mystery before his fifth grade class. His reading was well received. In subsequent years he was often called upon to recite jokes and humorous jingles to his circle of friends, some of which were of his own invention. In the sixth and eleventh grades he was known as a "class clown", for that he elicited mirth and laughter from the members of the class by his droll doings and sayings. Following are some of the comments from his high school's yearbook: "What would Alg/Trig be without a little humor added from your corner of the room?" -- Susan D. "To the only guy who can bounce in Alg/Trig class with a SAT score of 720? Many times the class sat spell-bound following one of your big-word sprees. As long as you know what those big words mean it's OK." -- Robbie B. "It was a pleasure sitting by you in Algebra-Trig -- if I fail this six weeks you know whom I can blame, right!" -- Amy B. "You're really pretty funny." -- Peggy S. "Thanks for entertaining me in the first period art class." -- Jean S. "Without you in trig. I certainly would have fallen asleep." -- Julie P. In the early 1970s Jack appeared in a fundraising show for the Pittsburgh Free Clinic, playing the role of a rockabilly singer doing a rockabilly version of "Puff the Magic Dragon", and as a professor giving a lecture about the etymology and history of the expression "Nyah nyanyah nyaaah nyah", two bits that he originated himself. In the later seventies he made the acquaintance of unknown genius comic director Jonathan Eastman, and played a role in a hilarious skit directed by Jonathan for the benefit of the Washington DC (Bethesda Maryland) premie community. In the twenty-teens, filmmaker Truman Keesey, upon learning of the untapped talent that lay at his disposal in the person of Jack Stand, hastened to employ him in his forward-looking documentaries.