Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
One of the founding professors at Wright State University has died at the age of 88.
Gary Barlow, an art education professor at Wright State, was hired in the 1960s as a member of Miami University’s extension program into Dayton. He oversaw the school’s art education program and supervised Miami’s student art teachers in the Dayton area.
In the 1960s, Miami University and Ohio State University worked together on the project to bring a public university to the Dayton area.
In interviews with Wright State staff, Barlow recalled coming to the area that would become Wright State and seeing a cornfield and cow pastures.
He remembered teaching his first class at Allyn Hall while the construction workers were still hammering away.
“So I would be teaching and we’d stop and wait for them, and they’d click in all of these things, and I’d signal and they’d stop, and I’d be lecturing and asking some questions,” Barlow said in a 2006 interview with professor Lewis Shupe.
Services for Barlow will be held Saturday at Conner & Koch Funeral Home in Bellbrook from 1 to 2 p.m.
