1922: Four years after the Friends Schools in Ramallah reopen after their closure during World War I, Christina and Willard Jones begin their work at the Schools in the early years of the British Mandate. They will remain in Palestine for nearly forty years.

Christina and Willard land at the Palestinian port of Jaffa on September 30, 1922. In her book, The Untempered Wind, Christina describes the hope they feel on that day. “Some of the passengers,” she writes, on the coal-burning cargo ship, Braga, that brought them over the seas twenty-eight days from New York

were from that starry-eyed generation which was to help build a Brave New World now that the ‘war to end war’ was over, my husband and I among them. When the peace treaty was signed at Versailles in 1919, a League of Nations was set up to prevent aggression…and to institute a forum where international problems could be discussed in an atmosphere of peace and reason. We were entering an era of world brotherhood and our generation was to help bring it about.