Awards & Recognition
2011
Along with wife Carroll Robbins Jones, inducted into the E. L. White Society, an organization of UNC Wilmington which honors donors of $25,000 or more through planned giving.
Named a Rotary Paul Harriss Fellow for donations supporting the Rotary Foundation.
2010
National Defense Medal, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
2009
WWIIWHFHC awarded Society Cup of the Historical Society of the Lower Cape Fear for outstanding history preservation accomplishments.
2008
Bronze Good Citizenship Medal from Lower Cape Fear Chapter, The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Wilmington, N. C.
2007
Production of the 2010 Steven Spielberg-Tom Hanks HBO mini-series “The Pacific” used the book Gyrene: The World War II United States Marine, as a “technical reference manual” to train actors. Spielberg wrote Jones a thank-you letter for writing the book.
2006
National Award of Merit for Leadership in History, American Association for State and Local History, 2006 – for books on World War II North Carolina and history preservation accomplishments
Clarendon Award, Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, Wilmington – for best regional history book, The Journey Continues: The World War II Home Front
Senior Service Award, Elderhaus, Wilmington
2005
North Carolina Historian of the Year (East), North Carolina Society of Historians
Three other NCSH awards for the book, The Journey Continues; newspaper op-ed pieces and other articles in Wilmington Star-News; and to the World War II Wilmington Home Front Heritage Coalition (chairman)
WWIIWHFH Coalition statewide award, Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies – for history preservation
2003
Statewide book award for A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown, NCSH
2000
Society Cup to Wartime Wilmington Commemoration 1999, Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, 2000 (served as chairman for preservation organization)
Two statewide awards to WWC 1999, NCSH – for history preservation
