Acquired from her estate, offering this WWII grouping and photo archive of Constance “Connie” Jones-Cruise, daughter of Thomas
Griffith Jones and Miriam Jauchler Jones. The 47 original photos and two photo
postcards in this lot illuminate her life in the Navy; includes several studio
portraits. From 1 7/8 to 2 3/4” to 7 ¾ x 9 ¾.” Born in 1922, Connie grew up in
San Antonio, Texas. From a newspaper article: She graduated from Incarnate Word
College in 1943 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics. After
graduation, she joined the U.S. Navy WAVES as an electronics engineer. When I
[Connie] received my bachelor’s degree in mathematics and chemistry in 1943, I
had a strong foundation in science, and a love for learning and the scientific
method which sustained me in my advanced engineering studies at Harvard and MIT
so that I could work as a naval officer in the Boston Navy Yard Radar Laboratories
during World War II. Jones was one of a small number of women who became a
Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was also an Honorary Admiral in the
Texas Navy. After the war, she was an analytical chemist with the Texas
Pharmacal Company (now DFB Pharmaceuticals) where she was the only industrial
chemist in San Antonio in the early 1950s. Thereafter, Jones devoted her life
to the education of young people teaching high school and college mathematics
for many years.
Includes the following from Constance Jones:
3 Garrison caps.
1 service hat
11 patches
ribbon bar
dog tag
10 pins
15 Navy Waves Buttons
1 Eagle Hat Badge
46 Navy Waves Photographs
3 larger portraits
Framed U.S. Naval School, C.E.C. Officers Photo (She's the only female in the group)
Framed Officers Training Course - Cruft Labratory Harvard University April 1944 (she's 6th from the left, front row)
Photo Booklet Yearbook - Activities of the Waves, Spars and the MCWR at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School Northampton, Mass, 1943-1944