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C. Herbert Jones (1889-1987) oral history

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Track 11, Transcript p. 25-28: Track 11, Transcript p. 25-28
Transcription: A: I am in touch. But you mentioned Methodists. Have you always been a Methodist here? CHJ: Well, I was a Methodist and this was a Methodist college but when we came to Wilmette, my wife had always been a Baptist, so we shopped around at all these different churches and we went to this Baptist church and there was a Mr. Stifler there and he was, oh. So enthusiastic in his whole group were such a nice enthusiastic bunch that we joined the Baptist church. Well, she had become a Methodist for me so, I thought I could be a Baptist for her. (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p26) So now every Sunday I tape the sermons. I tape five cassettes of the sermons every Sunday and then these people that are shut in and can't go, they hear them. Now there is a Mrs. dark who's down at the Baptist Home in Maywood. And so we often get a cassette down there and there are several of our people down there who listen to the cassettes of the sermon. A: Bob Hall does that at the Christian Science Church. CHJ: I didn't realize that. A: Yes, for people that are shut in. CHJ: Bob Hall bought this Mr. Maxwell's house, didn't he? On Forest Avenue? A: No, Bob Hall, Alice Hall's husband, this is---- CHJ: Oh, this Hall was the fellow in the Recreation Department. A: No, Bob Hall married Alice Freeman. CHJ: I see. A: And Alice Hall taught up at New Trier in Hone EC. And now is out at New Trier West. CHJ: I see. A: She has red hair. CHJ: I see. Well, it's a different Hall. A: Yes. CHJ: Did you know Mrs. Maxwell? A: Oh, Mrs. Maxwell was a neighbor of mine. We lived at 1501 Elmwood -- 1601 Elmwood and she lived -- 1601 Elmwood. CHJ: See, we lived at 1514 Forest Avenue. (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p27) A: Yes, I know you did. Right--" CHJ: Well, my wife was quite active -- I'm very proud of my wife. A: You should be because everyone -- she did a great deal in the community. CHJ: I remember one year. Dr. Siefert and my wife with Dr. Cornog and Somebody else, I don't know whether it was Cornog. Well, at any rate, they were all given a Bible by the Village, so I have that Bible. I treasure that Bible. A: Oh, yes. CHJ: But she was quite active in starting the Senior Center with Mrs. Maxwell and Mrs. Miller and some of these people. A: Mrs. Maxwell was such an unusual person. There were a number of people in that neighborhood in which we all were at that time -- were outstanding, but CHJ: Let's see. Well, we were talking about the family. My oldest boy is in Pasadena, Maryland. He's an electronics engineer, and he's been doing research work on underwater photography using sonar. So they put a cable down a couple of miles below the surface and they can send out sound waves. So it hits a submarine a mile away and bounces back and they can get the outline of that submarine. And he's an expert on antennas, but he hasn't got his five words a minute cold, so that he can (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p28) get a license and so we can talk together. But my daughter in Maryland and her husband both have their licenses and my son up in Ann Arbor has his license. A: And you have it? CHJ: And I have a cousin, his wife's cousin is out in LaGrange and so we get on the air and talk. I talked to my daughter yesterday morning. But this is another sidelight. I say my daughter was here a week ago just for three days because her husband had to go to a meeting on electronics out near the airport, so we took him out every morning and got him al; night. But when I was gone one time the phone rang, and they said, "Well, is Mr. Jones there? We wanted to give him an award. And I want to find out something about him." When I, this Ellen went back home, she wrote a little letter and I got it and Bob Mays and so I mailed it to him. This is this transcendental meditation affair and they had a big meeting last Wednesday at the Library here in Wilmette and I was given this award. They had 10 candles and five of the candles were five different people given an award there. So that was one of the events of this last week.
Creators: Jones, C. Herbert, 1889-1987, Interviewee; Rhea Adler
, Interviewer
Media Type: Audio; Image; Text
Item Type: Audiocassettes
Description: Interview with C. Herbert Jones by Rhea Adler in Wilmette, Illinois, on June 25, 1977.
ABSTRACT: Early life in Philadelphia Move to Evanston High school and college years Graduate school Half century of engineering school Northwestern University Chattaqua Romance Miami Military Institute World War I years Marriage Homesteading in Montana 1917-1922 Northwestern Tech building Return to Illinois Teaching in Joliet New Trier - Faculty Jones family Church and community Work with Hadley School's ham operators
Notes: This interview was conducted as part of the Wilmette Public Library District's Oral History program, started in 1975 by a committee of the Friends of the Wilmette Public Library chaired by Rhea Adler, a resident of the Village of Wilmette since 1932.
Date of Original: 15 June 1977
Subject(s): Baptist churches
Oral histories
Wilmette (Ill.) -- Residents
Personal Name(s): Jones, C. Herbert
Local identifier: R977.31 JO
Language of Item: English
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Copyright Date: 1977
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