John Erik Jonsson

Married Margaret Fonde (1902-84) February 8, 1923 (3 children) 1922 - M.E. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 1922-23 Aluminum Company of America, (ALCOA) Tennessee Rolling Mill Apprentice 1923-27 Aluminum Index Company, New Jersey, an ALCOA subsidiary Manufacturing Superintendent 1927-29 Dumont Motor Car Company, Inc., NJ Vice President and the President of Oakland Pontiac Automobile Distributorship 1929-30 Aluminum Company of America, NJ Sales Engineer 1930-41 Geophysical Service, Dallas TX (Predecessor company of Texas Instruments Incorporated) 1930-34 Superintendent of the Laboratory, Newark, NJ 1934-39 Secretary 1939-42 Secretary and Treasurer 1941-51 Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI), Dallas TX 1942-51 Vice President and Treasurer 1951-82 Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX 1951-58 President 1958-66 Chairman of the Board 1966-77 Honorary Chairman 30 April 1981-85 Member, Advisory Council to Board of Directors 1977-82 Honorary Director Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Member and Honorary Chairman, Board of Trustees Lamplighter School, Dallas, TX Chairman 1967-84 Honorary Chairman of the Board Academy for Educational Development, New York, NY Former Director, (and former Chairman of its Educational Facilities Laboratories Division) University of Dallas, Irving, TX (1971-79) Former Member, Board of Trustees Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (1960-77) Former Member, Board of Trustees Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (1962-77) Former Member, Board of Visitors (formerly Chairman) Austin College, Sherman, TX (1966-77) Former Member, Board of Trustees The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX Honorary Member, Board of Trustees (Chairman, 1954-64) Foundation for the Callier Center and Communication Disorders, Dallas, TX Trustee Emeritus Governor's Committee (Texas) on Education Beyond the High School (1963-64) Member Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (1972) Member, Board of Trustees