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2 unusual facts about Jesse H. Jones High School


Jesse H. Jones High School

Jones, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston School District.

Margaret Downing of the Houston Press said that many people, including Jones principal Lawrence Allen, had portrayed the school as being majority White when it was majority minority.


Jesse H. Ausubel

Ausubel serves as Director and Senior Research Associate of the Program for the Human Environment of Rockefeller University.

Mr Ausubel has in recent years been involved with the establishment of the international Deep Carbon Observatory.

With William Massy, Trevor Chan, and Ben Sawyer he developed and released in 2000 the first interactive simulation model of the US university, Virtual U.

Jesse H. Jones

In 1937, he transferred ownership of the paper to the newly established Houston Endowment Inc.

In 1937, Jesse Jones and his wife, Mary Gibbs Jones, who was the established Houston Endowment Inc., which eventually became the largest private foundation in Texas.

The University of Texas at Austin's College of Communication is named after Jones, where there is also the Jesse H. Jones Chair in the Liberal Arts, held by the renowned philosopher T. K. Seung.

He then razed the original buildings and constructed the present 17-story building, now formally named as the Post Rice Lofts.

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

The Economist in 2009 ranks the Jones School 22nd among U.S. business schools – the highest ranked business school in Texas and the Southwest.

The full-time program is consistently ranked among the top tier of business schools by multiple publications including Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times and the Economist.

Jesse H. Metcalf

Metcalf's father, Jesse Metcalf, was a textile manufacturer, and his mother, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, was the co-founder of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Joseph Skibell

His work has been translated into a half-dozen languages, and he has won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction and the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction from Texas Institute of Letters.


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