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Jay Bell
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Email address: bell@jbassoc.com
Birthdate: 7/16/46
Family
Married? yes Married years? 24 Married times? 2
Children: 2 boy(s); 1 girl(s); grandkid(s)
Personal/family website? nope
Job
Company:
Career/Job Title: researcher
No job:
Company website: www.jbassoc.com
Hobbies: sailing, skiing, travelling, reading, listening to reggae music
Community: coach youth basketball teams, support homeless and hospice charities
How are you the same as you were at CHS? still like to procrastinate--why do it today if you can figure out a way to delay 'til tomorrow? Also, the guys riding Harleys are still older than me and I can't figure that out.
How are you different? more settled and comfortable with the semi-functional person I am and all the foolish, regrettable things I've done along the way.
What is your proudest accomplishment? Seeming to do well as a father, husband, son , brother, friend and colleague. Skiing the steeps with Normandie at Alta, Snowbird, and Whistler-Blackcomb( looking back up the slope and wondering how we made it down in one peice)
Where do you live? house in the city
Parents: Father: living, Mother: living
What have you been up to for the last 45 years?
Personal Life-Failed first marriage right after college(no kids). Married a second time 10 years later and settled down with Normandie to raise three very independent kids. Nathaniel is a junior at the University of Delaware who plays football for the Fightin' Blue Hens (who knew there could be a less exciting mascot than the "Pioneers"). Alison is a freshman at Boston's Suffolk University who opted to study abroad at the Madrid, Spain campus and plans to complete her undergrad degree without spending a single semester in the U S. Wesley is a sophomore in high school who abandoned olympic develoment soccer and national AAU basketball to devote his time almost exclusively to skateboarding.
Normandie, who teaches French, competes in triathlons and marathons and never procrastinates, keeps us all moving just like her Vermont Puritan ancestors would have liked. We live in Arlington Virginia less than 3 miles from the Pentagon and White House, so we're toast if someone nucs the Capitol. The only remains they'll find are my two new cobalt-chrome-alloy fake hip joints that were recently implanted by a guy who likes to cut, saw and hammer on live human beings.
Career-After graduating from UCLA, I completed a Masters at Cal State Northridge and then transferred to a Ph.D program in political science at the University of Maryland. In 1974, I left the program to work at The Urban Institute, a pompous Washington think-tank with a big reputation where I learned how to compete for large national studies.
In 1979, I started a private firm that does the same types of studies and focuses in the areas of public health and chld welfare. Today, we employ about 30 researchers; mostly serious-minded graduates from prestigious universities who scored two times higher than me on the SAT. I like to design studies and analyze the results, but the real payoff comes when our findings are actually used to improve the well-being of individuals, families and communities. For example, we find ways to help kids with diabetes and innocent women who contracted HIV from a drug-addicted spouse or boyfriend. When they tell you in person that their lives are better, I know all the bulls--t that goes along with research is probably worth it.