In this audio interview with Martica Sawin, Stanley Barrows recalls his experiences teaching at Parsons School of Design, particularly his role in leading summer trips to Europe in the 1950s and into the 1960s. He identifies and tells stories about memorable students and faculty, including Robert Castle, Glenn Boyles, Grace Fakes, Elsie Brown Barnes, Betty Carter, and Leo Steinberg. Barrows discusses the upheaval within the Interior Design Department during the late 1960s, the destruction of the school's interior design research collections, and his eventual move to the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1968. He reviews the history of Parsons School of Design based on stories handed down to him, as well as his own interactions with William M. Odom and Van Day Truex, both of whom he encountered as a student in the 1930s. Barrows relates his experiences studying at the Paris Ateliers in 1939 during the escalation of hostilities during World War Two, the eventual evacuation of students, and his return to the United States. He reminisces about his military service as a topographical engineer after being drafted in 1941. He relates how, after working for Joseph Platt, Van Day Truex invited him to teach at Parsons. He provides an assessment of Dynamic Symmetry's impact on Parsons and what the school's pedagogical aims were. There are numerous recording interruptions.