"You can be divided by your professional lives or brought together," Jane Knowles says, "and we're very fortunate that we've been brought together.

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John B. Fox, Jr. '59 and Julia G. Fox have more Harvard ties than the Coop. So many, that it's not surprising their careers have centered on the College.

The Foxes met through his Harvard roommate; John Fox's father was a dean at Harvard Business School; and the Foxes' son Thomas graduated from the college in 1995. John Fox was a Harvard undergraduate and a dean of the college; Julia Fox, a Wellesley undergraduate, was a Harvard community volunteer and well-known faculty spouse.

"[In general] you can change jobs and it doesn't affect the family," John Fox says, "But for us our jobs and our family are sometimes intertwined."

John Fox recalls one of his favorite Harvard-family memories from his time as dean of the college. His family would often pick him up from the office on Fridays en route to a weekend retreat.

"Mrs. Fox would gather the children into the car and pull up to Johnston Gate," John Fox says. "From my window then, I could see these two individuals running absolutely pell-mell across the yard...it was really quite cute."

Now, their children grown and graduated, the Foxes both work in University Hall, he as secretary of the Faculty and she as director of the College parents' association and coordinator of transfer and visiting student programs.