Franklin Ross Jones

Background

Jones, Franklin Ross was born on January 3, 1920 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

Education

AB, Lenoir Rhyne College, 1941. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1951. DEd, Duke University, 1960.

Career

Teacher schools, North Carolina, 1944-1948; principal, Junior High School, Henderson, North Carolina, 1948-1954; district school principal, Wake County, North Carolina, 1954-1956; district superintendent, Roxboro (North Carolina) schools, 1956-1958; department chairman education, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1959-1964; dean, School Education Old Dominion U., 1964-1969; Eminent professor, Old Dominion U., 1974-1994; founder, Child Study Center, 1965; distinguished professor, Child Study Center, since 1969; social foundations program leader, Child Study Center, 1973-1977; doctoral program liaison representative, Child Study Center, 1974-1977; faculty chairman, Child Study Center, since 1981. Director Forest Ridge corporation, 1985. Visiting research scholar Duke U., 1967.

Consultant Department of Health, Education and Welfare, State School Sys. and Colls. Lecturer in field; member committee White house Conference Children and Youth, 1968-1971, Eastern regional chairman, 1968-1971. Member Virginia Governor's Committee Implementation, 1971-1973.

Speaker 25th International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, 1992. Symposium chairman European Congress of Psychology, Athens, Greece, 1995. Consultant to dean on test score statistics, since 1995.

Achievements

• Franklin Ross Jones has been listed as a noteworthy education educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • How to Survive Middle Age By Jones, Franklin Ross ( Author ) Paperback 2005

Membership

Member Norfolk Urban Coalition, 1969-1973. Chairman March of Dimes, Person County, North Carolina, 1956-1957. Member advisory board Tidewater Rehabilitation Center, 1967-1969.

Chairman Hull Scholarship Fund, 1983-1985. Coordinator University Joy Fund Drive, 1974-1995. University chairman United Fund, 1982, 84.

Chairman assessment committee Virginia Reading to Learn Program, 1990-1991. Consultant to school systems, ETS, Department of Health, College since 1966. Director Praxis Center, 1965-2005.

Administrator National Board for Certified Counselors Center, National Language and Music Board of Certification. Chairman scholarship fund Brewton Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia, 1999-2004. Chairman drive for low-paid faculty Old Dominion University, since 2002.

Member American Psychological Society (charter), Southeast Psychological Association, Virginia Association University Professors (director 1962-1964), South Atlantic Philosophy Education Society (president 1966-1969, director since 1969), Virginia Association Research in Education (Distinguished Research awards 1972, 73, 78), North Carolina Education Association (president North Central chapter 1951, president North Central Principals 1956), Eastern Educational Research Association, National Urban Education Association, Alpha Tau Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Gamma Mu (secretary 1962-1964), Harbor Club (Norfolk), Lions, Rotary.

Connections

Son of William Morton and Olive Ruth (Moser) J. Divorced; children: Franklin Ross, Claresen Morton, Susan Noel.

Father:

William Morton Jones

Mother:

Olive Ruth (Moser) Jones

child:

Claresen Morton Jones

child:

Susan Noel Jones

child:

Franklin Ross Jones