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New members Jeannine and Harris Jones were introduced by their son, Rotarian Will Jones. Harris was raised from the third grade in Hudson, New Hampshire and graduated from lrvine High School in 1962 in a class of 70 students. He continued onto Dartmouth College and majored in Physics and Mathematics, then earned his Masters of Science at the University of Missouri School of Science and Technology on an Atomic Energy Scholarship. In Missouri, Harris met Jeannine. She grew up on farms in Springfield, Missouri and Mincy, Missouri tending orchards, a 3000-hen chicken house, and beef cattle. Harris was her first date and boyfriend and they got engaged 7 months after meeting and married 8 months after that. In August, 1968 they left for Geneva, Switzerland where both became fluent in French and Harris earned his PhD. studying superconductors in high magnetic fields. From the time that they married Jeannine typed Harris’ papers and both his Masters and Doctoral thesis. Marc Jones, their eldest son, was born in Nyon, Switzerland shortly before they returned to the United States. After a Short stint in Bloomington, Indiana, where Harris taught at the University of Indiana and where their youngest son William was born, they moved to Stormville, New York. Both took up careers at IBM. Jeannine spent the majority of her career as a Supervisory Manufacturing Technician and Harris as an Engineer and Senior Scientist in the Advanced Semiconductor Technical Center. In New York, both were active leaders in the Boy Scouts and Elks Lodge. After Will and Marc graduated high school and left home, Harris and Jeanine took up the tuba and baritone horn and eventually joined the New York State Guard 89th Army Band. Just a month after joining they were activated into the New York State National Guard on September 11, 2001 and served on active duty for three months. Harris and Jeannine held Amateur Radio licenses were tasked with running communications at Camp Smith, the Army’s staging area for responders moving into and out of New York City. In retirement, the pair added motorcycling to their numerous hobbies and regularly put more than 15,000 miles on their bikes touring the United States and Canada. In 2019, they moved to Wyoming to be near family; Marc and wife Jess are in Denver and Will, Kristen and grandkids James and Thomas live just a few blocks away in Cheyenne. On January 20th, Harris and Jeannine will celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary. |
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