Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Prez," as Jones is affectionately known by staff and students alike, is jovial and easygoing-given, as he says, to "talking up a breeze." A storyteller in the Southern tradition, he splashes his tales with emphatic "Oh, Lord's" and resounding laughs. As he drives around his 380-acre...
When he first arrived in 1926 with a degree in science and men's tailoring and one homemade suit, he found Grambling to be just a few small wooden buildings lighted by oil lamps. Students often slept two to a bed, board was $10 a month, and both men...
Luckily for impoverished Grambling, Governor Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long approved the school's efforts in 1928 to become state supported, and the first funds arrived two years later. But not until 1944 was the first B.A. degree awarded, marking Grambling's ascent from a teacher and trade school...
Jones refuses to express any bitterness about Grambling's second-string status, even joking over the years-for the benefit of white legislators-that they should support Grambling "because if you take out the r, then it's a sin." Nor does he complain about the competition of...
Jones shies away from racial talk, offering instead the view that "we're all Americans, all immigrants." He speaks with pride of his own roots-a slave grandfather who bought his freedom and encouraged his children to get the best education possible-but Grambling does not put much emphasis...