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C. Herbert Jones (1889-1987) oral history

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Track 14, Transcript p. 32-34: Track 14, Transcript p. 32-34
Transcription: A: That wasn't the one that used to be Stone and something, was it? (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p33) CHJ: No, it was Schroeder. It was also -- I guess he owned some of these places down here. At any rate, then I have a, the, my son Lawrence who got his Ph.D. in Berkeley, California and he's a professor of physics, high energy physics at the University of Michigan. And so he had a sabbatical some years ago and was over in Geneva, Switzerland. They have a laboratory there. A bunch of the European nations get together and have a big lab contributing. Well, then, this year he has his sabbatical and he was over in London. He's over in London now and I went over there for two weeks and everything is --" with the Queen there. But I enjoyed my two weeks. I went to Gospel one night and went to their national theatre there and saw "Julius Caesar" and I went up to Stratford - Upon - Avon and saw "Mid-Summer Night's Dream." A: Isn't Stratford lovely? CHJ: And I saw the ballet and saw "The Nutcracker Suite." A; Well, you really had a whirl CHJ: Up here at the center we have a play reading group and we were reading "Arsenic and Old Lace" and so I saw that out there in London. And when I got back we finished "Arsenic and Old Lace" up there -- at New Trier. A: Now is this a new version that they are playing in London or is this a continuation of the one that is run - CHJ: Oh, no, that is A Mousetrap, and my daughter-in-law (C. Herbert Jones, Transcript cont. p34) saw it-and we saw it at the Senior Center. We had it up here. At Marriott. Yes, I saw that a couple of years ago. A: Well, you really do get around.
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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