This is a portrait of Renato William Jones (class of 1928), an alumnus of the International YMCA School of Physical Education in Geneva, which was run by Springfield College. He was born on October 5, 1905 in Rome, Italy. After graduating from Springfield College, he spent a year working as a playground director at a YMCA in Adana, Turkey. From 1929 to 1932, he returned to the International YMCA School of Physical Education in Geneva, where he worked as an assistant for Dr. Elmer Berry. From 1932 to 1957, he remained in Switzerland and continued working with the YMCA in a variety of capacities. From 1956 to 1968, he moved to Germany to work at the UNESCO Institute for Youth. Jones has likely done more to spread the game of basketball across the world than any one person. He served as Executive General of FIBA, an organization dedicated to organizing and promoting Olympic Basketball. Jones was also a long-time trustee of Springfield College, and in 1968 the school awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Humanics in 1968. He passed away on April 22, 1981. Photograph is damaged from paperclip.
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