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in 1952. He then joined the Electrical Engineering faculty and began a lifetime career in education.
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tones came to Purdue at a time when the School of Electrical Engineering was in great need of a capable and understanding Head." In the brief span of four years he revised and updated the curriculum, he enlarged and upgraded the faculty, he enlisted the collaboration and cooperation of industry, and he initiated the development of an industrial park around Purdue, much like those existing near MIT and Stanford. In 1962 when he was selected to be the twenty-third President of the University of South Carolina, his staff at Purdue felt a deep sense of loss.
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THOMAS FRANKLIN JONES 143 continuing education, and in all disciplines from library science to engineering to general studies. In 1974, when he decided to step down from the presidency, he was honored by expressions of appreciation and affection by the trustees and the faculty, who awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for "having brought the University into the mainstream of educational innovation and development." He was also appointed a Distinguished Professor at the .
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144 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES a personalized prescription. It was education over the whole spectrum, for it was Tom who first urged me to read Herodotus, Whitehead and Tocqueville; it was he who told me where to look, just north of Scollay Square, for a used set of Harvard Classics.
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