Although his family lived in Alabama, Dr. Frank Brown was born in a little community hospital in Century, Florida. His hometown was right on the Alabama-Florida line, and the closest hospital was in Florida. His father was a railroad clerk. Dr. Brown remembers walking the picket line with his father and his coworkers when the railroad men were out on strike. Dr. Brown earned a college degree in business administration and personnel management. That is the field he intended to follow, but jobs were not plentiful in that field and he ended up working six months for a local bank and then moved to the Vanity Fair Corporation in Monroeville, Alabama, about 35 miles from his hometown, as a computer programmer. Dr. Brown spent four years at Vanity Fair and then went to the University of West Alabama in Livingston as director of their data processing department. He earned a masters degree and later a doctorate and became Assistant to the Director of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. After several more positions in higher education, Dr. Brown came to Columbus College in 1981 as Vice President of Business and Finance. He was named President in January of 1988 and served in that position for 20 years.
From the description of Oral history interview with Dr. Frank Brown, 2008 Feb. 6 / conducted by Morgan Carraway. (Columbus State University). WorldCat record id: 624618323
