Diplomatic historian Robert L. Jones died May 30. He was 106 years-old. He earned his BA from Southern Methodist University in 1917, the MA degree from the University of Texas in 1920 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1923. A Texas native, Jones taught at Trinity University and East Texas State Teacher's College/EastTexas State College, which is now known as Texas A & M University--Commerce. He was chairman of his department at both institutions. He wrote two books of diplomatic history that he designed with the general public and undergraduates in mind as the main audience, The Eighteenth Amendment and Our Foreign Relations (1933) and History of the Foreign Policy of the United States (1933). In the 1940s he turned his attention towards local history and compiled several cemetery registers that were significant sources about the past in Hunt County, Texas.

After his retirement in 1965, he and his wife moved to Arlington, Texas where they were quite active in the Presbyterian Church. Faculty that knew him described him and his wife as being generous with their hospitality. Jones was recently recognized as the oldest living Rotarian, a distinction of which he was quite proud. He is survived by two children, four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes (Texas A & M-Commerce)