Photo by Mike Brothers
Sullivan High School Alumni Who’s Who Award winner Norma Piper (Class of ’57) emotionally accepts the honor from Cindy Bruce (Class of ’65) at the annual banquet October 8.

•October 12, 2016•

J. Harold Jones helped Sullivan High School students understand math for 26 years.

Sullivan High School alumni honored Jones with the first Most Memorable Teacher award.

Before presenting daughters Nancy Davis and Kathy Kelly with certificates, alumni Ralph Kirk shared an understanding of how the man with an initial as a first name did more than help students with math problems.

Kirk explained that Jones touched and cared for students while staying involved with family, church, county government and various volunteer organizations. Named Illinois teacher of the year in 1964, James Harold Jones graduated from Eastern in 1937 and received his masters from U of I in 1941.

“He had a way of making complicated things simple,” Kirk recalled of the math teacher who was selected overwhelmingly for the first Most Memorable Teacher honor.

Cindy Bruce, SHS class of 1965, presented the Who’s Who Award to 1957 graduate Norma Piper. 

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