I got to know him a little through Rotary in the last years of his life because I had an off and on honor of chauffeuring him to and from meetings in the Grand Caravan. Even got to bring my boy along on the days he didn’t have school.
He was an Auburn University legend — the Foy Information Desk was created when they remodeled Foy Hall. [1]
Anyway, ironically Jim graduated from Tuscaloosa despite his Auburn being his familial allegiance. The Boll Weevil drove his parents out of Eufala and to Tuscaloosa for work and so he went to college there.
During the war he flew Corsairs and told me and the boy about bailing out and hanging from a tree as we drove home from a meeting.
He’d been Club president in 1953 and had 100% attendance for about 60 years. And always led the Club in a War Eagle before home football games until he couldn’t.
I am truly blessed to have spent time with Jim and more blessed that my boy now man did.
[1] At the time, the plan was to rename the building, but Google streetview shows that didn’t happen and now even the street is named for Jim. Yeah he was that big a deal.
Jim “Dean Foy” Foy was a wonderful human being.
I got to know him a little through Rotary in the last years of his life because I had an off and on honor of chauffeuring him to and from meetings in the Grand Caravan. Even got to bring my boy along on the days he didn’t have school.
He was an Auburn University legend — the Foy Information Desk was created when they remodeled Foy Hall. [1]
Anyway, ironically Jim graduated from Tuscaloosa despite his Auburn being his familial allegiance. The Boll Weevil drove his parents out of Eufala and to Tuscaloosa for work and so he went to college there.
During the war he flew Corsairs and told me and the boy about bailing out and hanging from a tree as we drove home from a meeting.
He’d been Club president in 1953 and had 100% attendance for about 60 years. And always led the Club in a War Eagle before home football games until he couldn’t.
I am truly blessed to have spent time with Jim and more blessed that my boy now man did.
[1] At the time, the plan was to rename the building, but Google streetview shows that didn’t happen and now even the street is named for Jim. Yeah he was that big a deal.