CHS Distinguished Alumni
Joan Booth Jones
Class of 1943
Joan Booth Jones graduated from Crescent High School in 1943 with honors. She was the recipient
of the Danforth Award and the Balfour Key, now known as the Crescent Award. She attended Phillips
University, majoring in vocal music and earning a Bachelors Degree in Education.
Joan taught
three years in Marshall and twenty-seven in Crescent, achieving renouwn in teaching vocal music and
classroom instruction in grades one through twelve. Crescent will always remember and appreciate
the beautifully staged music productions which enriched the lives of so many students. She received
great satisfaction from the musical accomplishments of her students. Some teacher you never forget...
she was one of those and students still seek her for help.
After retiring from teaching, Joan
continued to share her love of music with others in the community by encouraging them to voluntarily
become involved in musical production. She continues to teach voice privately to enable others to
provide entertainment and civic events.
Joan Jones has planned and directed many programs in the
community. Many of the musical productions through the years have been patriotic Fourth of July
extravaganzas. We remember "Sing Out America", "A Musical Travelogue Across America" and "An
American Heritage". To commemorate the hundreth anniversary of the founding of Crescent School,
"My Hometown" was a production, featuring slides and music woven together to tell the history of
Crescent over the past one hundred years. Mrs. Jones has directed productions of the "Crescent
Community Christmas Carol" to raise money for a badly burned fireman and to raise funds for the
Crescent Emergency Fund. The musical, "A Little Bit of Broadway", raised money to help pay for
the Crescent Community Center. All of her productions usually have huge casts of one hundred or
more. Her most recent production, "The Follies of 1998", featuring a cast of over 175 volunteers,
was magnificient, raising money for the Educational Foundation for grant money for Crescent teachers
and students.
Mrs. Jones directed the First Christian Church for many years and was recently
honored by a group of former students from across the state with a musical program and expressions of
gratitude for enriching their lives, developing their musical talents, teaching them the love of
music and the willingness to share their talents with others.
For many years Joan Jones has
actively participated in numerous church and civic affairs besides making generous and creative
contributions to the Retired Teacher's Association and the Crescent Educational Foundation.
Untold numbers of enriched lives join her in hoping, with God's help, that she may continue to
serve and cherish memories and joys of her hometown - Crescent.
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