DOWELL, SPRIGHT

(1878), an American college president, 6. at Cary, Wake co., N.C., s. of George James and Trannia Yates Dowell. He was educated at Wake Forest College, N.C., the University of Tenne ee and at Columbia. He became principal of elementary school, Shelby, Ala. in 1898 and from 1900 to 1906 was principal of the high school at Columbiana. In 1908 he became supt. of schools at Hast Lake, 1909 principal of Barrett School at Birmingham, 1913 chief clerk of the Department of Education of Alabama and in 1915 director of Teacher Training and conductor of institutes of the Department of Education. He was. later state superintendent of education and was appointed president of Alabama Poly. Institute in 1920.