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Dr. Thomas F. Jones Jr.
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Dr. Thomas F. Jones Jr., president of USC from 1962 to 1974
and more recently vice president of research at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died July 14, after a
ba*tle with cancer. He was 65.
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received his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, resigned from USC in 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 that 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 process at USC, while
universities in Mississippi and Alabama were crippled by
racial rioting.
jones also was responsioie lor innovations at UMJ, including
independent study courses and the General Studies
program (which withstood this year an attempt by the
Commission on Higher Education to eliminate its two-year
programs). He also began laying 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 ground-work for much of what the university
regularly is praised for today was laid by Dr. Jones during
his highly distinguished term as USC president, and I continue
to feel his presence every day as I walk in his footsteps."
Holderman's statement echoes a tribute written by the 1967
Garnet and Black staff, which dedicated the 1967 yearbook to
jones.
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talent for leadership has brought unparalleled changes to the
university in the past year.''
The tribute edited among his accomplishments "over $24
million in construction and expansion, a progressive administrative
reorganization, a tremendous increase in
enrollment, new emphasis and expansion of the graduate
degree program, expansion of the honors program and a
record high in gifts from private sources."
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 large
physique, dress bow ties and famous cigar, increasingly won
favor among students and faculty during those 12 years.
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."
When Jones retired in May 1974, it was believed that he
buckled to political pressure from the USC Board of Trustees
and the state Legislature, although Jones denied those
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allegations.
He returned to MIT to take the position of vice president for
research and 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 "whose influence on generations of students
and teachers will be felt for all time.''
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