Oral history interview with Dr. Frank Brown, 2008 Feb. 6 / conducted by Morgan Carraway.

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Oral history interview with Dr. Frank Brown, 2008 Feb. 6 / conducted by Morgan Carraway.

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Dr. Frank Brown discusses his early life, his education, his early career in data processing, and the sequence of events that led to his career in higher education to eventually become President of Columbus College/Columbus State University. He discusses the early mission of the college and how that mission has expanded and been fulfilled over the first fifty years, and relates many anecdotes and events during his tenure at CSU.

Typescript: 22 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette : analog.

Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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Brown, Frank H., 1950-

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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 we...