This post is in memory of my father, Williams Owens Barrow, born in Sweetwater, Alabama, in 1901, where his father was a Methodist minister.
Daddy graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a major in English and was a principal in Brewton from 1926 until 1939. He married Lucile Self of Oneonta in 1937; she was a Latin and French teacher in Sylacauga. When we moved to Jacksonville in 1939, he taught physics and chemistry at Jacksonville High School. During WW II, he also worked at Ft. McCellan (Anniston) at night in the post office and was a photographer for Jacksonville State. With the influx of GIs coming into the college after the war, Jacksonville State hired Daddy to organize special counseling services. In 1948, Alabama Polytechnic Institute asked him to organize the new guidance center to help veterans, and we moved to Auburn. He retired from Auburn University and died in 1978.
These bare-bones sentences do little to describe the man and the influence he had on so many people. The newspaper article below is just an example of the way he is remembered. In 1992, students he touched in Brewton in the 1930s honored him.
