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C. Herbert Jones (1889-1987) oral history

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Transcription: A: Oh, well, you have had all kinds of awards. CHJ: What I'm supposed to be now, I'm not going to make it. I teach radio at The Hadley School for the Blind, and this is all correspondence work, but once a year they have (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p29) a field day and so today at noon, until noon tomorrow, we're going up with some of our blind people, up to Waukegan, to the Fair Grounds there. We'll be on the air from noon today until noon tomorrow and all through the night, and we'll be contacting people all over the world with radio and we won't use the 110 volt. They have their own generating system. For an emergency ---- for being able to contact people in an emergency. Well, last year, we didn't do that. We were in our Hadley School. So we contacted everyone of the fifty states of the Union except Alaska. We didn't get Alaska. We did get Hawaii. And we had all seven provinces of Canada. Of course we did get more than one from some states, but we did manage to contact and we had several of our blind students there that are operating. And that's a very -- I wish I'd brought a little letter I got just yesterday from one of the students. A: Tell me what it says. CHJ: But my students are all over the world. Sao Paulo, Brazil. In India. In Australia, New Zealand. Well, most of, we have this course in both Braille or on 7 inch reels or on cassette tapes, and most of our students in this country have cassette tapes so that I can write them a letter. A: Tell me, did you see in "The Press" just yesterday about the IRS employing a number of blind people in the tax (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p30) department? They have a blind man whom they gave an award to because he has learned the IRS rules and these five people they have hired are answering telephones and they memorize the law and then go home and put it on Braille machines so that they can give these answers over the telephone very fluently and well and factually CHJ: That's very interesting. One of these gals who was given an award is a real estate lady up here who was given an award. A: Oh, you know Kitty Rogers. CHJ: Yes, she was one of these who got an award. A: She's a friend of mine. CHJ: We're going to run off this tape. A: We'll run it till it stops. CHJ: Let me show you this. Wednesday, June the,12th at the Wilmette Library...
Creators: Jones, C. Herbert, 1889-1987, Interviewee; Rhea Adler
, Interviewer
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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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