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We also thought that it would be of interest to learn what we could of those first 8-10 years of life on the new Alapocas campus. We interviewed Rue’s sister Lee Hargadon ’48, who has lived most of her adult life in Maine, not far from the greater Jones family compound at South China, which goes back to the early 19th century. Rufus Joness account of the visit he, Robert Yarnall, and George Walton made to the German Gestapo in November of 1938 to request permission for the AFSC. The Alumni/Development office staff, which is housed in the Jones House, thought it would be interesting to capture, if we could, Rue’s time at Friends School in the 1940s and early 1950s. Thurman eventually studied with Jones, and described.

Rufus’s son Stephen has beautifully recounted his father’s journey through many homes, many business positions, many manufacturing innovations and an ever-expanding family. At Oberlin, he encountered the work of Rufus Jones, a Quaker mystic and leader of the pacifist Interracial Fellowship of Reconciliation. His sister Lee, 3 1/2 years older, began kindergarten that year at WFS, and Rufus entered kindergarten three years later. Little Rufus was not even three years old when the family moved from an apartment near Brandywine Park to what was called the Farm House and is now known as the Jones House (pictured above), a house that was first built even before Friends School began in 1748. Wilmot presided over the last two years of the old school at Fourth and West, opposite the Wilmington Monthly Meeting House that still stands in 1937, the school moved into the Alapocas campus and building, its first new location in 189 years. He was the second child of Wilmot Jones, Head of School at Wilmington Friends from 1935 to 1962, the longest-tenured head of school in our history. They have also been exceptionally faithful alumni of Wilmington Friends, and Rue (as he was called by his friends and kin) was among the most successful and loyal. Billed as Dr.Wilmot Rufus Jones III ’52 passed away on Januand was a member of a class which produced a raft of jurists, scientists, and very successful businessmen and bankers. Woody Herman, Woody Herman live at Newport Recorded Sunday 3 July 1966.Lionel Hampton, Lionel Hampton (Amiga, 1976).Lionel Hampton, Lionel Hampton Big Band (Clef, 1955).Al Grey, Shades of Grey (Tangerine, 1965).The New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson (Cameo, 1963).'Straightaway' Jazz Themes (Roulette, 1961).Two's Company with Chris Connor (Roulette, 1961).

Double Exposure with Chris Connor (Atlantic, 1961).

Let's Face the Music and Dance (Roulette, 1960).

The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (Fantasy, 1975).

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The London Concert (United Artists, 1972) Set in the ruthless, excessive world of independent television in 1986, it chronicles the rivalry of two powerful men the rakish ex-Olympic rider and Tory MP Rupert Campbell-Black and his ambitious TV station controller Lord Tony Baddingham.

70th Birthday Concert (Solid State, 1970).

Arthur Prysock/Count Basie (Verve, 1966).

He was released on parole on Novemafter significant doubts were raised about his guilt. Rufus' son, Lebrew, was sentenced in 1989 to 22 years to life for the murder of Michaelanne Hall, a prostitute in New York City. Jones worked with Count Basie and Woody Herman in the mid-1960s and backed that up with Duke Ellington in the latter half of the decade.

He led a quintet from 1963 to 1964, producing for Cameo Records his only album as a leader. He later played with Red Allen and Maynard Ferguson's Orchestra (1959–1963).

While stationed at Fort Jackson, Jones played in a quintet every Saturday night at the black United Service Organization clubhouse in Columbia. He worked with Lionel Hampton in 1954 before being drafted. As professor of philosophy at Haverford College, the author of more than fifty books, and a speaker in enormous demand, he touched young and old an inveterate. Starting out on trumpet, Jones switched to drums at the age of 13. Rufus ' Speedy' Jones (– April 25, 1990) was an American jazz drummer from Charleston, South Carolina.

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