[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5025-5026]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PROFESSOR ANTHONY JONES

 Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I rise today to recognize 
Professor Anthony Jones, president of the School of the Art Institute 
of Chicago. Professor Jones has been awarded the honor of Commander of 
the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for services in the 
promotion of British art in the United States. King George V created 
the Commander of the British Empire honor in 1917 to reward services to 
the World War effort by civilians at home and service personnel in 
support positions. The orders are now awarded in both military and 
civil divisions for public service or other distinctions.
  Originally from Wales, Tony Jones is an internationally-known arts 
administrator, broadcaster, writer and historian of art design. 
Professor Jones studied at the University of London and the Newport 
College of Art, and came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar. 
He earned his graduate

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degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.
  Before coming to Chicago, Tony Jones had been Director of the Glasgow 
School of Art. He created the ``Welsh Chapels'' exhibition of the 
National Museum of Wales, and is the author of ``Chapel Architecture in 
the Merthyr Valley'' and ``Welsh Chapels.'' In 1999, his research on 
the architectural parallels of Glasgow and Chicago was examined in the 
BBC documentary ``A Tale of Two Cities: Glasgow and Chicago.'' 
Professor Jones is a recognized authority on the development of art, 
design and architecture in the Modern Age, especially the work of the 
architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Celtic Revival 
movement designer Archibald Knox.
  Professor Jones's accomplishments have earned him international 
recognition. In addition to his positions as Senior Fellow of the Royal 
College of Arts in London, where he also served as Director, and as 
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he was appointed Honorary Director 
of Japan's Osaka University of the Arts in 2001 and was conferred the 
Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and the Arts in 2002. Here in the 
United States, Professor Jones was elected Honorary Member of the 
American Institute of Architects and has won the National Council of 
Arts Administrators Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts. He 
currently serves as the president of the School of the Art Institute of 
Chicago and as president of the Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art 
and Design.
  Professor Jones was granted the honor of Commander of the British 
Empire in recognition of his long years of distinguished service to the 
arts and culture, international education, and the promotion of British 
arts in the United States. The honor will be awarded by Her Majesty 
Queen Elizabeth at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace later 
in the Spring.
  It is my privilege to congratulate Professor Jones on the occasion of 
this prestigious award and to acknowledge his extensive contributions 
to the arts. He is an asset to the arts and education communities in 
Illinois and across the globe.

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