Marshall West Jenney ’63

Marshall Jenney, several times honored as Pennsylvania's leading breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, died Nov. 26, 2000, at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, of complications of a rare virus and heart disease. As operator of Derry Meeting Farm near Cochranville, Pa., he bred Danzig, which won all three of his races and then sired 156 stakes winners.

Born in Wilmington, Del., Marshall went from Hun School to Princeton, where he studied American civilization, wrote a history thesis on William F. Buckley, played squash, ate at Ivy, and rode as an amateur steeplechase jockey. He worked briefly in Wall Street before settling in Chester County and creating his farm. Among his other great horses was Mrs. Penny, a champion in England and Ireland and the winner of the Prix Diane (French Oaks) at Chantilly.

Forever possessed by an infectious enthusiasm for living, Marshall was a noted amateur steeplechase rider, an accomplished whip (driving four-in-hand), a fly fisherman, and a marksman.

The class sends condolences to his wife, Bettina; his two daughters, Anne West Jenney Darrow and Laura Symington Roe; his father, John Lord King Jenney '25; his stepdaughters, Lindsay S. Scott and Sally Jenney Scott; a brother, Jay; and eight grandchildren.

The Class of 1963