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But the cow produced more milk than they needed, so Dr. After moving to Nova Scotia, the couple purchased farmland in Lunenburg and invested in Daisy to make milk for their family. The Harvard graduate, who had previously lived in New York with her husband Gordon, a successful entrepreneur, found a solution in Daisy. When I became chair of the department, I decided to find some way of raising money so they could do that.” “I knew from my own experience how it benefitted me, but recognized most students couldn’t afford to travel abroad for a year. Sonia Jones helped turn yogurt into a scholarship fund, sending about 150 students abroad to study Spanish.
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“I was very eager to ensure that the best students at the university had a chance to study in a Spanish-speaking country at some point before graduating so they could become fluent in the language,” says the former Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies professor (1972-1990). Sonia Jones Scholarship in Spanish-began with a cow named Daisy. Of all the scholarships available to support Dalhousie students in their studies, it’s safe to say only one-the Dr. With our yogurt business, we`ve proven to the world that we can compete with the behemoths.Former Dal Spanish Department head Sonia Jones turned milk into yogurt into a scholarship that has helped students sharpen their language skills and expand their horizons. People need to realize that there is a quality of life and of what you produce that can be achieved quite well away from the big cities, and it makes a lot of economic sense. But if the Eastern cities are any indication of what life is going to become, then I think it`s important to start a trend toward people moving to the country. We go to New York to drink in the things you can do there. We enjoy travel quite a bit for that and other business reasons. But it can get lonely, in a way, at times. The people where we live are wonderful in a way different from the friends we have in other places. Some kids don`t ever see what their parents do for a living. There is a wonderful quote that says to love another is not to look each other in the eyes but to look down the road in the same direction. Some people would say, ''How can you stand it?'' but that`s never been an issue for us. I think our work has made our marriage even stronger. All they ever want to do is talk about the ill-treatment women receive, but there`s no show of support for a woman like myself who doesn`t ''fit in.'' And I`m afraid the women there are rather narrow-minded doctrinaire feminists. The men didn`t really like to have a woman charging ahead of them. We were proud of what we were doing.Īt the university, however, there was always this inference that because I was doing something in addition to my academic work, I couldn`t be doing my best academically, which wasn`t true at all. What kept us going all along were the compliments people gave us on the yogurt. But we came to the point where we had to decide whether we were going to let ourselves be limited or do this thing right. As long as I was in the kitchen making yogurt, it didn`t take any more equipment our overhead was nil. Our biggest business decision was early on, deciding whether to expand from our kitchen operation. The children were never the hard part at all. He would put the baby in the backpack and hold the other by the hand when they had to go to the barn and do chores. I don`t think he ever felt he was doing nothing but changing diapers. And my husband has always been so actively involved with them and responsible for them. Too, we felt the country would be a safer place to raise the children. I didn`t want them to go to a day-care center. Raising them in the country has been a wonderful thing for all of us. I don`t talk about raising the two girls much in the book, juggling the business and parenting, I suppose because they were just always along as part of what was going on. And she is quite an achiever: She`s about to start university at age 15. But it`s amazing I see him in my oldest daughter in many ways.
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I didn`t treat my own children that way I felt it was too much of a responsibility for a child to have to grow up thinking like that. He died when I was fairly young, 21, and I suppose I`m either like him naturally or he inspired me.