Jay Molony, longtime director of Valencia club for teenagers, dies at 89

Jay Lippincott Molony, who ran Valencia, an Uptown New Orleans social club for teenagers, for 32 years, died Nov. 9 at his New Orleans home of complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 89.

A native of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and a New Orleans resident since the early 1940s, Mr. Molony was hired to run Valencia in 1947 by parents who were organizing the club and looking for a director who could work with young people.