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College portrait, Margaret Ethel
Jones

Margaret and her beau, Louis W.
“Lou” Lynch, early 1941

In 1943 Margaret wore a long-sleeved coat to disguise her lack of arms

Margaret (center), the only woman graduate in the class of 1943, pictured with dental school Dean Frederick C. Elliott (with mustache)

Margaret needed a bachelor’s degree to continue in public health. In 1944, Baylor President Pat Morris Neff put her diploma around her neck.

Martin “Marty” Chanin-Charcoal drawing by János Bernát

Margaret Jones Chanin in her wedding dress, June 25, 1946

Marty and Margaret at a fraternity spring formal at Evansville College, April 1949

Robert Haskin Jones with grandsons Robert and Philip, early 1953