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A few days past his 90th birthday, Jon Mendes (MBA ’47) was featured right alongside a lot of younger, bigger, and more famous athletes in the sports pages of the New York Times (November 7, 2010). That’s because Mendes was about to run his twelfth New York Marathon, another milestone for a man who has led “a life heartily lived,” the Times reported. “You’ve got to have goals in life or you wither away,” Mendes said. “It’s no disgrace to fail, only not to try.”
Before his career in investment banking, Mendes was a Marine Corps pilot who trained, and flew missions with, Ted Williams and John Glenn. Of his latest adventure, Mendes, the oldest entrant in the marathon, said it was “a piece of cake… a walk in the sun ending in moonlight,” in a time of 9 hours, 55 minutes.
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