Catching up with . . . Jay Holman

For someone who “retired” in 2005, Jay Holman, Class of 1971, sure has worked for a lot of companies in the past 10 years.

Jay Holman

The “retirement,” Jay said, lasted two years. Since 2007 he’s been involved in digital conversions for cable and telephone firms.

His next is for Cox’s Plus 1 Communications in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He spent a month in St. Joseph, Missouri working for SuddenLink.

Jay, also a professional photographer,  “retired” as a sales and leasing consultant for an auto business in Durham, North Carolina.

Jay, one of the most active alumni in the Class of 1971, married a Fairmont West girl, Margaret, in 1998. He has three sons: Jay Holman III, a Chicago banker; Robert Holman, who works for the federal government out of Clarksburg; and Fairmont State grad Michael Holman, a North Carolina teacher among the finalists for national Teacher of the Year (he’s North Carolina’s Family and Consumer Science Teacher of the Year).

Michael came to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in 2011 as a teacher at East Chapel High School after four years in Granville County Schools.

Jay lives in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. He lived in Carolina during his Monongah High days.

Jay was a ground mechanic for the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

For Class of 1971 members who don’t have Jay’s phone number, it’s (919) 724-9522.