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Anne Jones Eaton

Anne Kinder was born in 1922 to Judge and Mrs. Kinder in Cleveland, Ohio.  She attended Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio and was known for her singing and acting talent. After she attended Vassar and married Brooks Jones, her daughter Alice (Lissy) Jones was born.  In 1945 she contacted polio and her recovery included being in an iron lung and convalescing in Warm Springs, Georgia.  Anne divorced her first husband in the late 1940s. Photographs are courtesy of Lissy Jones Gulick and the Western Reserve Historical Society.
Cyrus Eaton became courting the brilliant young woman in the 1950s. Anne helped him host the first International Conference of Scientists in July, 1957.  Her graciousness, humor, and attentiveness helped the nuclear scientists gathered from around the world to relax, trust their colleagues, and open up.  Anne married Cyrus in December, 1957. Her creation of musical skits, her fun and competitive croquet games, and her charm delighted the conference participants for many years.

Anne Eaton on the final day of the July 1957 conference wrote her father a letter describing the participants. She recorded this letter on the 25th anniversary of the conferences.  Her words help us imagine how the scientists began to trust each other as they strove to articulate and imagine a path towards peace and disarming the world of its nuclear destructive capacity.  The villagers of Pugwash, the staff at Thinkers Lodge and the Dining Hall, as well as the serenity of the scenic village certainly contributed to the peaceful exchange of ideas as the participants strolled beside the Pugwash Harbour and through the village to the high school and Masonic Lodge for their meetings.  (Recording is courtesy of Alice Gullick, Anne's daughter.)