BACK ON THE AIR
BY JONATHAN ADOLPH
After a 15-year career pivot, Glenn Jones ’95 returns to anchor Boston television news
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hen Glenn Jones ’95 decided to return to Boston television news after a 15-year career pivot into communications and marketing, his old friends from Williston gave him plenty of goodnatured grief. Not because he was returning to the grind of the journalism profession, but because to do it he would be trading the warmth of his native Bermuda for the winters of New England. “They had visited me in Bermuda and know what I was leaving behind,” says Jones, who started as evening anchor for NBC-10 Boston in November 2021. “So they enjoy sharing clips and making comments that I can only tolerate from people who have known me that long.” As a teenager, Jones himself had doubts about leaving his home island, arriving at Williston for a postgraduate year to encounter a new school culture and the cold of Easthampton. Returning to Bermuda for Christmas break, “I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go back,” he acknowledges. But he did, and he soon thrived, making lifelong friends with students from around the world, playing baseball for (and discussing cricket with) Matt Sawyer, acting in theater, and experiencing the benefits of “coexisting in close quarters, in a place where racially, spiritually, ethnically, nationally, people are just so different, but in common we share this desire to reach a higher level of education to hopefully have a successful life.” 32 WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL
