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C. Herbert Jones (1889-1987) oral history

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Track 13, Transcript p. 30-32: Track 13, Transcript p. 30-32
Transcription: ...there was a summer festival and the award winners were Natural Law and Order Award, and Anita Lukas of the Community Service of the Wilmette Police Department an award for Cultural Integrity, Invincibility and Responsibility and World Harmony Award. Mrs. Catherine F. Rogers, real estate broker associated with Quintan and Tyson, who is blind and has done a lot of wonderful work in the real estate field. Information and Inspiration Award, Mr. Kay Fred Schultz, Managing Editor, Wilmette Life. All Possibilities Research and Development Award, Dr. Israel Zivin, Neurologist. (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p31) Health and Immortality Award, Dr. Herbert Jones, teacher and humanitarian. A: What was your award for? CHJ: Well, it's Health and Immortality, (laughter) I think that way just because I'm 88 years old and still alive. A: Well, and so active, Mr. Jones. I know of few people who at your age are so alert and alive and "with it," so to speak, as the young say today, because people somehow or other sit back and let the world go by, but that will never happen to you. CHJ: Well, I'll tell you. I lost my wife and that was quite a blow. A: Yes, because you were always so close. CHJ: Keeping active and not worrying about -- the thing was - I just feel that we had some wonderful times together and she had a stroke. She was never going to get better, and her whole left hand side was paralyzed, her brain was damaged. She had been going to see Mrs. Brooks. A: Was that Betty Brown Brooks? CHJ: No, that was another Mrs. Brooks. Gale Brooks' wife. This Mrs. Brooks had been paralyzed. She would go and visit her several times a week and she never knew whether she understood -- her face would light up when she'd see her. But this idea of just living doesn't appeal (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p32) to me. Anyway---- A: How long did Fern ... CHJ: Well, she died back in '73. Four years ago. A: How long did she have to linger? CHJ: She had a stroke and then she -was getting better and then she had another stroke and she Wasn't-- and I don't know/ no more than a couple of weeks. A: So she didn't have to suffer ... CHJ: No, she didn't suffer too much. I saw her and her son was here. By the way, we were talking about my family back there. My oldest boy is with Westinghouse Electric and my daughter married an electronics engineer who is with Westinghouse Electric in Baltimore and then my daughter married Lee, her cousin, really, and he was a Lt., J.G., in the service and his ship was shipwrecked, but he's now in real estate near Washington, D.C. and his wife was just recently -- gotten into real estate and she sold her first house a week or so ago. A; I have a daughter in real estate. And her husband. Recently ... CHJ: Way back when I was in real estate and, in the summer at odd times. North Shore Realty and I -- it was right down here. Fourth and Linden. And Vince Roy was the head of that.
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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