{"id":573880631,"date":"2010-10-09T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880631"},"modified":"2010-10-10T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T04:37:06","slug":"dean-foy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/10\/09\/dean-foy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Foy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dean<\/center><\/p>\n

We woke up this morning to learn the sad news that a great Auburn man died last night. Dean James Edgar Foy was a graduate of Alabama, a World War II naval pilot, holder of a PhD from Michigan State (this picture, from the 1970 Glomerata<\/a>, was just after he’d returned to Auburn from MSU) and a man who’d given the better part of his life to Auburn University. <\/p>\n

He has a building named in his honor (should be two buildings, many have argued<\/a>). The trophy shared between Auburn and Alabama for the fabled football rivalry also borrows Foy’s name. The famous Foy desk is named in his honor.<\/p>\n

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My personal memories with the dean are, sadly few, and center around the briefest and most cordial conversations at sporting events. While he was, in many respects, a man of another era, he was a timeless gentleman. <\/p>\n

A friend of mine from undergrad remembers being honored at a Naval ROTC event with the dean. The two of them cut a cake together, my friend as the youngest attendee, Foy as the oldest. A lot of Auburn men and women have a great Foy story, there will no doubt be more in the coming days. Here’s a good one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Dean<\/center><\/p>\n

This picture was from the 1976 Glomerata<\/a>. It is from the Florida game, a particular miserable experience from the yearbook’s recounting. But, apparently, the students always had fun with Dean Foy, who retired in 1978, still full of life.<\/p>\n

Dean James Edgar Foy was 93. He is survived by the entire Auburn family, all of whom are grateful for either knowing him or benefiting from a legacy he helped establish. Dean Foy is an Auburn man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We woke up this morning to learn the sad news that a great Auburn man died last night. Dean James Edgar Foy was a graduate of Alabama, a World War II naval pilot, holder of a PhD from Michigan State (this picture, from the 1970 Glomerata, was just after he’d returned to Auburn from MSU) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573880631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-memories","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573880631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573880635,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880631\/revisions\/573880635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573880631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573880631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573880631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}