Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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€ M a A native of Queen Anne ' s County, a well known Washington College athlete and semi-pro baseball player, Jimmy Johns was known and loved by all generations of Washingtonians for more than thirty years. Graduating in the Ciass of 1909, he remained for several years in the Department of Education of the College, proceeding then to Columbia University where he took the A.M. degree in Teachers College. Returning to the Eastern Shore as a High School principal, he served in that capacity for some time before rejoining the College staff. He became Business Manager of the College in 1926, and later added the duties of Treasurer of the College, and Record- ing Secretary to the Board of Visitors and Governors, in all of which positions he was serving at the time of his death James William Johns 1887-1944

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3 J. S. William Jones 1866-1944 No other person in the century and three quarters of Washington College ' s history had as e xtensive or as intimate contact with the College as did Dr. J. S. W. Jones. As student, teacher, alumni secretary, Dean, and for one year Acting President, his close contact covered 62 years of a long and active life. A native of Somerset County, where he graduated from an Academy and be- came a school teacher, he entered the Sophomore Class here in 1886, graduating in 1889. After three years as High School principal in Harrington, Delaware, he returned in 1892 and began the teaching of Mathematics here, in which Depart- ment he spent the next 52 years. In 1918 he served as Acting President, and in 1922 became the College ' s first Dean, serving until 1940. His Alma Mater gave him the honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1918, and Franklin and Marshall made him a Litt.D. in 1928. Active in the formation of the College ' s Alumni Association, he was its Sec- retary-Treasurer from 1916 until his death.

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Dr. Gilbert Wilcox Mead PRESIDENT 10