Letter from President Donald C. Stone to R. William Jones (January 22, 1957)

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Abstract

This is a letter from Springfield College's seventh president Donald C. Stone to SC alumnus R. William Jones (January 22, 1957). The letter is in response to Jones's letter on January 14, 1957. In the letter, Stone mentioned Luther Evans, an American political scientist who served as the tenth Librarian of Congress and third Director-General of UNESCO. ; Renato William Jones, also known as R. William, or simply William Jones, is a member of Class 1928 of Springfield College (then known as International YMCA College). Jones was a British basketball executive and popularizer of basketball in Europe and in Asia. He was born on October 5, 1905 in Rome, Italy. After graduating from Springfield College, he spent a year working as a playground director at a YMCA in Adana, Turkey. From 1929 to 1932, he returned to the International YMCA School of Physical Education in Geneva, where he worked as an assistant for Dr. Elmer Berry. From 1932 to 1957, he remained in Switzerland and continued working with the YMCA in a variety of capacities. From 1956 to 1968, he moved to Germany to work at the UNESCO Institute for Youth. Jones was one of the founding fathers of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur (FIBA) in 1932 and served as the first Secretary-General from 1932 until 1976. Later, he was made secretary general of the International Council of Sport and Physical Education in 1958. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007. He was also made a patron of the Amateur Basketball Association of England in 1973. Jones was a long-time trustee of Springfield College, and in 1968 the school awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Humanics. He passed away on April 22, 1981. Donald Crawford Stone (1903-1995) was raised in Cleveland and graduated from Colgate University. He was an educator and federal planner in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Stone also served as executive director of the Public Administration Service and as assistant budget director for the White House. He next served as director of administration for the Economic Cooperation Administration and the Mutual Security Administration. Stone helped organize the Marshall Plan for Europe, United States assistance programs in Asia and Unesco. In 1953, he left government service to become president of Springfield College in Massachusetts, a position he held until 1957. Stone then became dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1975 to 1990, he taught at Carnegie-Mellon University.