FHA Memorial Minute on Mary Hoxie Jones

FHA Memorial Minute on Mary Hoxie Jones The Friends Historical Association, at its regularly scheduled meeting on the seventh offourth month, 2004, minuted its appreciation forthe life ofits member, Mary Hoxie Jones, who died twenty-sixth oftwelfth month, 2003. Mary Hoxie Jones was a long time member of the Friends Historical Association, joining on February 7, 1953, and continuing until her death. She was elected as director and secretary in 1 963 and served in that position until November 1971 when she became president, a position she held until November 1973. She was again elected president in November of 1976, and continued in that position until November 1979. Thereafter she served as a member ofthe board until November 1 984, when she became an honorary member. Mary Hoxie Jones was herselfan historian, writing two books on Quaker history: Swords Into Plowshares: an Account ofAmerican Friends Service Committee, 1917-1937; The Standard ofthe LordLifted Up: A History of Friends in New England, 1656—1700, Commemorating the First Yearly MeetingHeldin 1661 . She also wroteAt thePoint ofa Lancet; OneHundred Years of the Canton Hospital, 1835-1935, with her uncle, Dr. William Warder Cadbury. In addition, she contributed chapters to many books on Quaker history, including Friends in the Delaware Valley, edited by John Moore and published by FHA in 1981, for which she wrote "Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and American Friends Service Committee." A poet, Mary Hoxie Jones also published four volumes of poetry, including Tracing the Rainbow, which was published in 1995. Born in Haverford in 1904, Mary Hoxie was educated at Haverford Friends School, the Baldwin School, and Mt. Holyoke College, from which she graduated in 1926. In 1985 she received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Haverford College. Following college graduation, she accompanied her parents on a rip around the world, while her father lectured at various international gatherings . The highlight ofthe trip, according to Mary Hoxie's briefmemoir, was a visit with Gandhi in India. From 1927 to 1939 she worked for various Quaker organizations in the Philadelphia area, and served as her father's secretary. In 1 939 shejoinedthe staffofAFSC to coordinate the Friends Centers in Europe during wartime. Later she shifted to work in the Information Services. She continued with AFSC unit 1951, when she leftto sorther father's extensivepapers, preparing them for his biographer and her close friend, Elizabeth Gray Vining. Inadditiontohervarious staffpositions in Quakerorganizations, she served on the boards ofPendle Hill, the Quaker study center in Wallingford, Pa, AFSC, andseveralcommitteesofthe PhiladelphiaYearlyMeetingof Friends. Members ofFriends Historical Association expressed great appreciation for the contributions to our association and for the life ofMary Hoxie Jones. ...