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Dr. Carolyn Jones, assistant dean for the undergraduate division, was co-winner of the 2003 Outstanding Freshman Advocate Award. She received the honor, along with Dr. Gene Luna, director of Student Development and Housing in the Division of Student Affairs, for her "extraordinary and profound" influence on the experiences of first-year students at USC.
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Carolyn Jones is a lifelong Bible student, brought up and educated in church and religious schools. From childhood she loved Bible study, and has taught Bible to adults and children in a variety of settings. Through careers in teaching, missions, and business, she has been active in local church and community activities.
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Born Carolyn Baker in Amarillo, Texas in April 1929, glamorous Carolyn Jones had a difficult life before finding fame in films and television. Abandoned by her father during the depths of the Depression, Jones was a sickly child who was raised by her grandparents. From an early age she harbored a great desire to be an actress; soon after graduating from high school, Jones made her way to Hollywood and studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. After toiling in small stage productions for a few years, she was spotted by a talent scout and soon signed with Paramount. However, after a few small roles in such films as Road to Bali and Off Limits (both 1953), Paramount declined her option. However, after leaving Paramount Jones landed a breakthrough role as Vincent Price's victim-turned-wax-figure Cathy Gray in the Warner Bros.
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Carolyn Jones has the distinction of giving the shortest film performance ever nominated for an Academy Award, for her six-minute role in Bachelor Party (1957). She ... appeared in The Tender Trap with Frank Sinatra, and The Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe.
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Following the cancellation of The Addams Family, Carolyn Jones' career began to slide. With few film roles in sight, Jones made a number of television appearances, including a memorable turn on Batman as Marsha, Queen of Diamonds. She ... went back to stage work, acting in The Homecoming on Broadway for a period in 1967. She remarried the following year, this time to director Herbert Green; during this marriage Jones worked very little, yet the marriage didn't last. Upon her divorce in the mid 1970s, she went back to work with a vengeance, acting in the horror film Eaten Alive (1977) and in several made-for-television films and miniseries. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1980, and although she went through chemotherapy, the cancer came back around the time that she was cast in the CBS daytime drama Capitol.
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Carolyn Jones had appeared in more than a hundred movies and television episodes30 by her death at age fifty-three, though all are overshadowed by the iconic "Morticia" in The Addams Family. Bette Moriarty says the dark-humored role was closest to her sister’s offbeat sense of humor. "It was made for her!" she says.31
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