Rochelle Jones
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Rochelle P. Jones was a South Florida author and journalist, and former press secretary to Congressman Claude Pepper. Jones’ books and articles are widely referenced in the Social Science and Policy Analysis fields.
Rochelle Peabody Jones (writing as Rochelle Jones) was an acclaimed author of four books of non-fiction, award-winning journalist, and former Press Secretary and Spokesperson to the late Congressman Claude Pepper
, (D) Florida, died at her home in Fort Lauderdale on November 22, 2006, of yet undetermined causes. She was 61.
Rochelle Jones was the author of:
The Supermeds: How the Big Business of Medicine is Endangering our Health Care (Scribner - 1988)
The Big Switch: New Careers, New Lives, After 35 (McGraw-Hill - 1980)
The Private World of Congress, with co-author Peter Woll (Free Press - 1979)
The Other Generation: The New Power of Older People (Prentice Hall - 1977)
Jones wrote for many publications, including the Washington Post, The Nation, The Congressional Quarterly, and was a longtime reporter for People Magazine and contributed articles on health and medicine to CNN.com, WebMD, The New York Daily News, The St. Petersburg Times, and had reporting duties for Knight-Ridder/Tribune syndicated paper The Bradenton Herald. She also taught courses on writing.
Jones was born August 1945 and grew up in Fort Lauderdale but spent most of her professional career in the 80s through early 2002 based in Bethesda, MD, before moving back home to South Florida.
In the 1970s and early 1980s she was legislative aide to Senator Sam Nunn
, (D) Georgia and Senator Lloyd Bentsen, (D) Texas. Peter Woll, a professor at Brandeis University and Jones’ co-author of The Private World of Congress, worked with Jones on Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
's 1980 presidential campaign—an unsuccessful bid in a crowded Democratic field where Gov. Jimmy Carter won the nomination and the presidency.
Graduating from Duke University in the 1960s, Jones began her career at The Palm Beach Post where she won awards for journalism, one for a series of articles on women in prison. She was awarded a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association in the early 1970s. Jones served on the board of the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company
, in Washington DC.
While an aide to Congressman Claude Pepper, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and Long-term Care, in the mid 1980s, Jones was tasked with preparing high-profile speeches, letters, position statements, and legislative hearing documents in what became her hot-button field of expertise: health, Medicare/Medicaid and geriatric issues.
Jones was at Pepper’s bedside at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when on May 26, 1989 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H.W. Bush, for service on behalf of the elderly, recognizing his long public service and his many contributions such as landmark "non-mandatory retirement" legislation. Up until his death, Jones was the Congressman's constant and tireless contact with The Miami Herald and The New York Times and served as his indispensable liaison to many notable South Florida politicos including influential Cuban American National Foundation founder and late-president, Jorge Mas Canosa
.
"She knew the main players and her writing talents earned her tantalizing access and association to the important politicians and policies of her day," said long-time friend, artist and writer, Arch Angelus Sturaitis.
Her strong ties to colleagues, neighbors and those she affectionately called "my dear childhood friends," included many who are now leaders in their respective fields and industries. "We do have an unusually close set of high school friends," said friend Rick Gore, National Geographic Magazine science writer and scion of prominent family that owned the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel
. Rick Gore and his late brother Chris, authored the hit musical play Nefertiti http://www.nefertitithemusical.com/.
Rochelle Jones Obit appeared in The Miami Herald on Friday, February 9, 2007 and at EON:Enhanced Online News at http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20070124105930/en.
Rochelle Peabody Jones (writing as Rochelle Jones) was an acclaimed author of four books of non-fiction, award-winning journalist, and former Press Secretary and Spokesperson to the late Congressman Claude Pepper
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s...
, (D) Florida, died at her home in Fort Lauderdale on November 22, 2006, of yet undetermined causes. She was 61.
Rochelle Jones was the author of:
The Supermeds: How the Big Business of Medicine is Endangering our Health Care (Scribner - 1988)
The Big Switch: New Careers, New Lives, After 35 (McGraw-Hill - 1980)
The Private World of Congress, with co-author Peter Woll (Free Press - 1979)
The Other Generation: The New Power of Older People (Prentice Hall - 1977)
Jones wrote for many publications, including the Washington Post, The Nation, The Congressional Quarterly, and was a longtime reporter for People Magazine and contributed articles on health and medicine to CNN.com, WebMD, The New York Daily News, The St. Petersburg Times, and had reporting duties for Knight-Ridder/Tribune syndicated paper The Bradenton Herald. She also taught courses on writing.
Jones was born August 1945 and grew up in Fort Lauderdale but spent most of her professional career in the 80s through early 2002 based in Bethesda, MD, before moving back home to South Florida.
In the 1970s and early 1980s she was legislative aide to Senator Sam Nunn
Sam Nunn
Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a...
, (D) Georgia and Senator Lloyd Bentsen, (D) Texas. Peter Woll, a professor at Brandeis University and Jones’ co-author of The Private World of Congress, worked with Jones on Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. was a four-term United States senator from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate...
's 1980 presidential campaign—an unsuccessful bid in a crowded Democratic field where Gov. Jimmy Carter won the nomination and the presidency.
Graduating from Duke University in the 1960s, Jones began her career at The Palm Beach Post where she won awards for journalism, one for a series of articles on women in prison. She was awarded a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association in the early 1970s. Jones served on the board of the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...
, in Washington DC.
While an aide to Congressman Claude Pepper, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and Long-term Care, in the mid 1980s, Jones was tasked with preparing high-profile speeches, letters, position statements, and legislative hearing documents in what became her hot-button field of expertise: health, Medicare/Medicaid and geriatric issues.
Jones was at Pepper’s bedside at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when on May 26, 1989 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H.W. Bush, for service on behalf of the elderly, recognizing his long public service and his many contributions such as landmark "non-mandatory retirement" legislation. Up until his death, Jones was the Congressman's constant and tireless contact with The Miami Herald and The New York Times and served as his indispensable liaison to many notable South Florida politicos including influential Cuban American National Foundation founder and late-president, Jorge Mas Canosa
Jorge Mas Canosa
Jorge Mass Canosa was a Cuban-American activist best known for his strong opposition to Fidel Castro and his leadership of the Cuban American National Foundation. He was considered by some to be the leading figure in the Cuban exile community in Miami, Florida...
.
"She knew the main players and her writing talents earned her tantalizing access and association to the important politicians and policies of her day," said long-time friend, artist and writer, Arch Angelus Sturaitis.
Her strong ties to colleagues, neighbors and those she affectionately called "my dear childhood friends," included many who are now leaders in their respective fields and industries. "We do have an unusually close set of high school friends," said friend Rick Gore, National Geographic Magazine science writer and scion of prominent family that owned the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel
Sun-Sentinel
The Sun Sentinel, owned by the Tribune Company, is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., and all of Broward County, but circulates throughout all of South Florida.-Overview:...
. Rick Gore and his late brother Chris, authored the hit musical play Nefertiti http://www.nefertitithemusical.com/.
Rochelle Jones Obit appeared in The Miami Herald on Friday, February 9, 2007 and at EON:Enhanced Online News at http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20070124105930/en.