There probably has been no one more determined to walk the full 58.9-mile length of the Delaware Canal than Jeff Connell. On Jeff’s first try at the Friends’ annual Canal Walk in 2009, the group had to turn around and head back to Easton because the Delaware River was flowing over the towpath. He persisted in 2010 and participated in four of the five Canal Walks. In 2011 and 2012, he prevailed and walked on each of the Saturdays detouring around damage and climbing over fallen trees with his fellow Canal Walkers. He now knows the route and routine so well that he served as a tour leader for the Lunch and Walk last March.
Jeff and his wife Robin live in Newtown, PA and have a second home in Lanoka Harbor, NJ. A graduate of Rider University, Jeff majored in finance and accounting. He has been a licensed real estate broker in New Jersey since 1978,and was President of the Ocean County Board of Realtors in 2001. Jeff has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Board of the Jersey Shore Council of the Boy Scouts of America since 1992. Both he and Robin are very involved in their communities and have participated in a variety of Friends’ activities and events since they became members in 2010. Jeff is ready and willing to move the Friends’ mission forward.
