They Included Me

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The third book of Jerry L. Jones </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They Included Me</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> profiles his fifty-two-year teaching career. Jones a native of Glade Spring Virginia had only three fulltime jobs in this very long time period: high school business teacher in Baltimore Maryland; a professor at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond Virginia; and a professor at Emory & Henry College in Emory Virginia. Each of these jobs were in teaching not in administration. There are many stories to be told!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An added feature of this book centers around Jerry Jones' own educational journey</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-from </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the segregated public schools of his childhood and adolescence to his bachelor's and master's degrees from the historically-black Virginia State University. There are also discussions of his experiences while earning a doctorate from Virginia Tech as well as studies seminars and workshops from several universities: Morgan State Indiana East Tennessee State Virginia Commonwealth Purdue and the University of Memphis. The book contains teaching suggestions student evaluations sample assignments words of wisdom and curriculum analyses.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There are lots of stories about the personal civic and spiritual aspects of the life of Dr. Jerry L. Jones. Even in his last book </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Go and Come Again</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> there was at least one chapter devoted to self-analysis and related discussions. Similarly in this latest book there are sufficient discussions about what makes Jerry tick</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-playing </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>church music community service public speaking local history and miscellaneous issues of the first quarter of the twenty-first century.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p>