Jackson College Heritage Center Women's Club Program

Volunteer projects JC Heritage Center students have completed: • 2016-17 Answering The Call: A Memorial to Zenneth Arthur Pond • 2014-15 150 Years of Libraries in Jackson County • 2013-14 Adrian Michigan and Ella Sharp Museum Red Cross Oral History Projects

• 2011-12 Yeager Family Archiving Project, Jackson, MI • 2009-10 Mrs. Stocks Park Oral History Project Hillsdale, MI • 2010-11 Jackson During the Great Depression: Traveling Museum and Oral History Project • 2009-10 Cascades Sparks Museum Renovation Project • 2008-09 Cascades Oral History Project Jackson, MI • 2007-08 Library of Congress Veterans History Project Jackson College

JAC K S ON C OL L E GE H E R I TAGE C E N T E R

ANSWERING the call

How Can You Help?

Our students need scholarships. What better investment can you make than supporting these volunteer students with a gift anywhere from 10 dollars to 1,000 dollars or more. These students have won two state awards in one year for these efforts. You can rest assured that your support will have a big impact for years to come.

Please go to the Jackson College Heritage Center website and use the donation link there: https://www.jccmi.edu/heritage-center/

Bill Mah er

Zenneth Pond

2018 Governor’s Service Award Winner 2018 Michigan Historical Society Award Winner The Jackson College Heritage Center presents: Answering the Call: A Memorial to Zenneth Arthur Pond --- • --Sam R. Barnes, Chairman | John M. Crist, Vice Chairman Sheila A. Patterson, Secretary | Donna L. Lake, Treasurer Matthew R. Heins, Trustee | Philip E. Hoffman, Trustee Dr. Edward A. Mathein, Trustee | Dr. Daniel J. Phelan, President/CEO

Jackson Women’s Club Cascades Manor House Tuesday, February 5, 2019

A Memorial to Jackson’s Pond Family

What is the Jackson College heritage Center?

This film is a special tribute to the Pond family of Jackson, Michigan. Fifteen years ago, Captain William J. Maher, Jackson Junior College alumni, wanted the world to know more about his friends, Lt. Zenneth Arthur Pond and Lt. Elwood R. Bailey. Both were counted missing in action over the Solomon Islands in WWII. The JC Heritage Center promised to make his dream come true, and this film and genealogy quilt displays are part one of the project.

What is the Jackson College Heritage Center?

The Jackson College Heritage Center is a place of inspiration, dedication, and service. Volunteer students donate their time to collect and share the inspirational stories of Jacksonians whose sacrifice and courage helped shape American history. Over the past 12 years, Heritage Center students have contributed well over 20,000 service hours, working to save our unique stories. Participants in each Project learn the importance of contributing to something greater than themselves---something for the greater good.

Part One: In 2016, a group of Jackson College students pored through journals, tax records and antique photos as they researched Michigan settlers. Time after time they returned to an 1840 cobbler’s diary belonging to Josiah Pond, with the penciled command, “Remember me!” Josiah was the great-great-grandfather of Jackson Junior College student and World War II hero, Lt. Zenneth Pond. The Pond story is our story, the story of America.

Students learned about the Pond family who crossed the ocean with John Winthrop, fought alongside Washington and Lafayette, and mapped out the West decades before Lewis and Clark. They learned of his college friend, Bill Maher, whose Irish ancestors – Edward, Thomas and Hugh Turney – worked their way down the Great Erie Canal for a piece of Michigan soil and a future for their children. Like their ancestors, these young men dreamed of new frontiers.

This special afternoon will feature a screening of the documentary: “Answering the Call: A Memorial to Jackson Junior College Student Lt. Zenneth Pond.” On display are two over-sized genealogy quilts that Barbara Markowski helped the Heritage Center students make, along with artifacts that trace the history of the Pond family back 400 years.

Heritage Center students learn to dream big. They learn about the pioneer spirit that fostered the curiosity and drive that many of their ancestors had when settling the wilds of Michigan. That same go-to spirit helped a new generation of Jacksonsians help build America’s industry; they also led the way in its aviation and space programs. Students discover themselves in these stories. Many of these stories are untold and most of these people are almost forgotten.

The Jackson College Heritage Center is in the business of making the invisible---visible

Please be our guest on April 27, 2019 Please be our guest at the film debut and art display at the Jackson College, George E. Potter Center, Baughman Theater where we will show our new film: Going Home: A Story of Courage, Sacrifice, and Friendship.

We plan to share the inspirational story of three Jacksonians whose courage and friendship transcends war, death, and time This is the second part of our promise to our own alumni, William Maher.

Please contact me if you have any questions: agydianam@jccmi.edu