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View of Boisfeuillet Jones (second from right), the chairman of the Board of Directors of Economic Opportunity Atlanta (EOA) and his wife Anne Jones (right) greeting unidentified individuals at an appreciation dinner in honor of Jones's retirement from EOA, in Atlanta, Georgia.Boisfeuillet Jones (1913-2001) was an educator, federal official and administrator of several philanthropic foundations. He worked at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia from 1946 to 1960 as an assistant professor of political science, dean of administration and a vice president. Jones served as the president of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation and the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation. He served as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Economic Opportunity Atlanta for eleven years. He also served as special assistant to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia