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1912 - 2007
At the 2006 ACVP meeting in Tucson, Arizona I had the opportunity to meet TC Jones for the first time. The Registry of Veterinary Pathology hosted an Alumni and Friends gathering at the conference hotel. He was gracious, warm, and really funny. He didn't seem to mind my questions about the first days of the Veterinary Pathology Section at the Army Medical Museum and the AFIP, so I asked if he would participate in a phone interview in the coming months for a residency publication the department was planning. He gladly obliged. In May of 1935, when he was a senior in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State College, TC Jones wrote a letter to LTC Raymond A. Kelser, the Corps Area Veterinarian at Harvard Medical School, asking for advise on how to obtain a commission in the Veterinary Corps. LTC Kelser wrote back with specific details relevant to gaining such a commission. The letters represent a young man at the onset of his professional career and provide a glimpse into the history of early U.S Army Veterinary Corps recruiting. The AFIP Department of Veterinary Pathology is honored to post these letters in tribute to a former chairman of the department, an American Patriot, and true visionary in the field of veterinary pathology.
Sean Hahn
Director of Communications
Department of Defense Veterinary Pathology Residency
January 3, 2008