Biographical Note: Charlotte Enger Jones was born February 11, 1925, in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Her family moved to What Cheer, Iowa, in April 1934. Ms. Jones attended the University of Mississippi for one year before transferring to the State University of Iowa in fall 1944, when she moved into a shared room at the Dean House cooperative dormitory. She received a B.A. in history in February 1947 and began graduate work during the summer in 1948. Her studies were interrupted when she started a family. Charlotte Jean Enger married John Paul Jones of Des Moines on February 4, 1949. After her marriage, Charlotte worked as a ward clerk in Nursing Service at University Hospitals and at the University Libraries. Mr. Jones received his B.F.A. in June 1949 and M.F.A. in printmaking in February 1951. His teaching positions included the University of Iowa, 1950-1951, as a Research Assistant in the School of Fine Arts; the University of Oklahoma; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the University of California at Irvine.

In 1963, Charlotte divorced and moved her two children back to Iowa City, where she continued her education. She received her M.A. in Special Education and Educational Psychology in August 1965. In 1970, she earned a certificate in counseling at the University of Iowa. Jones served as a counselor and taught psychology courses at Southeastern Community College in Keokuk, Iowa, for 23 years. When she retired in 1990, she moved back to Coralville. During the 1990s, she attended the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and Elderhostel courses and continued writing her genealogy, memoirs, and short stories.

Historical Note: Kellogg Elementary School was located at the current site of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Iowa City. It closed in 1926 when it became University of Iowa property. A tent city for summer school students existed near the former site of the Kellogg School from 1926 until 1931.

According to Everett Sterner's correspondence found in this collection, students were discovered living in the abandoned Kellogg School building at other times of the year without utilities. This unauthorized occupation was due to financial hardships experienced during the Great Depression.

In response, Robert E. Rienow, Dean of Men, called for the establishment of cooperative dormitories in 1931 to alleviate student housing difficulties. He first established Kellogg House for men. Adelaide Lasheck Burge, Dean of Women, soon established similar housing for women.

World War II also affected coop dorms. The Navy Pre-flight School took over Whetstone and Grover houses for use by cadets during summer 1942, requiring tenants to move into other coop dorms as a result. Housing addresses were as follows:

Bloomington House, 22 East Bloomington, Chesley House, 3 East Market, Coast House, 530 North Clinton, Dean House, 7 East Bloomington, Fairchild House, 9 East Fairchild, Folsom House, Kellogg Annex, The Gables, northeast of Quadrangle, Grover House, 30 Byington Road, Howard House, 8 East Bloomington, Jefferson House, 26 East Jefferson, Kellogg House, Kellogg Annex, The Manse, 4 East Market, Russell House, 3 East Davenport, Tudor House, 17 East Fairchild, Whetstone House, 20 Byington Road, northeast of Quadrangle, Wilson House, 323 North Capitol