Donald Jones, mentor of young Hillary Rodham, dies

Drew University professor and Methodist minister Donald G. Jones, who was spiritual mentor for a young Hillary Rodham Clinton, has died at age 78.

University spokesman David Muha said Jones _ who taught social ethics for 36 years at the Madison school _ died Thursday at Morristown Memorial Hospital of natural causes.

Jones served in the Navy and then attended Augustana College in South Dakota and graduated in 1957. Four years later, he became an ordained minister through Drew's theological school.

His first pastorate was at First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois, where he met a young Hillary Rodham while leading the church's youth …