
Oxford American | E McCrary
I spent the better part of two days and nights listening to students answer questions at the Foy desk (above), where phones have been ringing since 1953, when James E. Foy, Auburn’s then dean of students, opened the line as a resource for students and then as a service to the public. For just as long, students who sit there have been answering any question asked of them—or at least tried their best.