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By DONALD B.
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Dr. Thomas F. Jones Jr.,
president of USC from 1962
to 1974 and more recently
vice president of research at
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July 14, after a battle with
cancer. He was 65.
Jones, a Tennessee-born
engineer and physicist who
received his doctorate from
MIT. resigned from USC in
1 1974, denying the accusation
that he was forced from
office by political pressure.
He returned to MIT, and
planned to retire this year.
In South Carolina, he was
best known for guiding the
university through times of
turbulent progression which
left scars on other Southern
institutions facing the same
challenges.
His leadership was tested
and proved as early as 1963
when he headed a peaceful
integration nrorp?<; at iisp
while universities in
Mississippi and Alabama
were crippled by racial
rioting.
'SINCE HIS arrival in
1962, Dr. Jones has come to
personify the emerging
growth of USC," the tribute
reads. "His talent for
leadership has brought
unparalleled changes to the
university in the past year.
Over $24 million in construction
and expansion, a
progressive administrative
! reorganization, a tremendous
increase in enrollment,
new emphasis and expansion
I of the graduate degree
program, expansion of the
honors program and a
j record high in gifts from
J private sources."
| Jones was also responsible
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Education to eliminate its
two-year programs), and
Jones in 1971 began to lay the
ground work for the USC
School Of Medicine, which
graduated its first class in
May.
Jones helped the
university weather the
early 60s and prepared it for
a continuing climate of
growth which began late in
that decade.
USC President James B.
Holderman lauded Jones'
work saying, "The groundwork
for much of what the
university regularly is
praised for today was laid by
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president, and I continue to
feel his presence every day
as I walk in his footsteps."
Holderman's statemert
echoes a tribute written by
the 1967 Garnet and Black
staff, which dedicated the
1967yearbook to Jones.
DURING JONES' 12 years
as president, student
enrollment mushroomed
from 7,000 in 1962 to 26,000 in
1974, and the number of
faculty increased to 1,200.
Jones, a highly visible
man, distinguished by his
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ties and famous cigar, increasingly
won favor among
students and faculty during
this time.
Jones expressed his
educational philosophy by
writing that good teachers
have three things in common.
"They care about the
subject they are teaching,
they care about the people
they are teaching, and they
transmit, an awareness of |
their concern to their
students." I
Jones was not one to !
confine his personality and j
knowledge to academics ;
only. Former USC basket- I
ball coach Frank McGuire i
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man, and once he understood
me we goi aiong line.
McGuire remembered
calling Jones out of a
meeting one day to introduce
him to James Michener, a
famous sports writer and
novelist.
44We played a little trick on
him," McGuire said. "I said
"Tom I want you to meet a
new scout 1 hired, this is Jim
Michener." As soon as the
introduction was ever
McGuire said Jones turned
to walk back to his meeting
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the author's name.
ACCORDING TO McGuire,
after a half-hour conversation,
Jones went back
to his meeting and Michener
said,"You know Frank, that
is a very brilliant man."
When Jones retired in May
of 1974, it was believed that
he buckled to political
pressure from the USC
Board of Trustees and the
state Legislature, although
Jones continued to deny this.
He returned to MIT to take
the position of vice president
ior researcn ana remained
there until his illness in 1979.
Jones was buried in his
wife's hometown of
Somerset, Mass.
Paul E. Grey, MIT
president and one of Jones'
former students, was a
pallbearer at the funeral.
Grey recalled Jones as a
man "u/hosp inflnen^o rui
generations of students and
teachers will be felt for all
time."
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