AUBURN - Minority alumni of Auburn University are invited to a special tailgate event hosted by the Auburn Alumni Association prior to the annual A-Day game on Saturday, March 29. The Minority Alumni Involvement Now, or MAIN, A-Day Tailgate is a spring event held each year to help reconnect minority alumni with Auburn and with each other.
The tailgate event will begin at 11 a.m., two hours before the A-Day Game kickoff, and will take place at the corner of Roosevelt Drive and Duncan Drive at the usual location of the alumni hospitality tent. To register, visit the Auburn Alumni Web site at http://www.aualum.org/main/main-tailgate.html. Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door. There is no charge for children under 12.
AUBURN - With the Iron Bowl moving back to its traditional Thanksgiving week, Auburn University has modified its game day plan in the interest of campus security and safety. The university will close the core of campus - the area bounded by Samford Avenue, Wire Road, Magnolia Avenue, and College Street - from 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 20, through 6 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 23.
Auburn and Alabama will kick off at Jordan-Hare Stadium at 7 p.m. (CT) on Saturday, Nov. 24.
The City of Auburn and Auburn University dedicated the new Yarbrough Tennis Center on Friday, Nov. 2. with a ceremony and tours of the complex.
The tennis center, which broke ground in August 2006 and was completed in June of 2007, is a shared facility between the City of Auburn and Auburn University. Home to the Auburn men's and women's tennis teams, the facility features six indoor courts, 12 outdoor courts with stadium seating and 16 clay courts. The Yarbrough Tennis Center also houses a pro shop, men's and women's locker rooms, concessions and a meeting area.
AUBURN - The Auburn Football Lettermen Club Scholarship Endowment for scholarships now stands at $980,000, thanks to a recent gift of $263,000 to the club from the estate of Florence Hawkins Brooks of Columbus, Ga. A check was presented to Auburn University President Jay Gogue by AFLC leaders Tom Bryan, Rusty Deen and Sam Oates. The endowment combines funds from four of the club’s existing scholarship funds, named for Ralph “Shug” and Evelyn Jordan, Pat Dye, Robert A. Sammons and Eddie Welch, and will provide scholarships for the children of club members.
“We began working to build our endowments in the mid 1980s,” said Rusty Deen, executive secretary of the AFLC, “and were building it with nickels and dimes as fast as we could. Mrs. Brooks’ generous gift has put us well beyond where we thought we’d be at this time and will help our club assist generations of deserving young men and women in achieving an Auburn education.”
AUBURN - Auburn University alumni and fans will have their first opportunity of the season to participate in the “All Auburn All Orange” program this Friday.
Established in 2004 to celebrate the unity and spirit of the Auburn family, the “All Auburn All Orange” program encourages fans to purchase and wear an official “All Auburn All Orange” T-shirt to designated events.
The first “All Auburn All Orange” event will be this Friday night’s pep rally at 6 p.m. at Toomer’s Corner. Also, the AU vs. Kansas State football game on Saturday, Sept. 1, has been designated an “All Auburn All Orange” event.
AUBURN - Award-winning basketball coach and Alabama native Bill Elder will discuss his new book, “All Guts and No Glory: An Alabama Coach’s Memoir of Desegregating College Athletics,” on Thursday, June 28, at 4 p.m. at Auburn University’s Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. A reception will follow.
Elder was head coach for men’s basketball for 28 years at Northeast State Junior College, the University of Montevallo and the University of Mobile. He was athletic director at five colleges including Auburn University Montgomery. In his memoir, Elder describes the difficulties of integrating Northeast State’s basketball team in the early 1970s.
Alabama historian Wayne Flynt said that Elder’s memoir combines the three most powerful and sacred elements of Alabama folk culture: sports, religion and race. “Memoirs like Elder’s open entirely new vistas into the civil rights struggles after laws were changed but hearts stayed pretty much the same,” said Flynt.
AUBURN - L. Nick Davis, of Thomasville, Ga., has established a scholarship endowment in the Auburn University College of Business through an initial gift and pledge of $25,000 in addition to a deferred gift of $1 million related to a life insurance policy. The donor requested that preference be given to undergraduate students in the Entrepreneurship and Family Business curriculum with a GPA of 3.5 or higher.
Davis also has pledged a $300,000 unrestricted cash gift to AU athletics. The gift will count towards the Legend Campaign and will go to the areas of greatest need.
AUBURN - Fans of Auburn University football are invited to share their 2006 game day experiences with university officials at a fan forum on Tuesday, Jan. 23.
The forum, to be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Lettermen’s Lounge of Jordan-Hare Stadium, will precede the basketball game against the University of Alabama, which tips off at 8 p.m. at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum. Free parking is available in the deck adjacent to the stadium.
A research project by Auburn University and Ford Motor Company shows that global positioning system satellites that can "talk" to cars could help prevent serious accidents.
As part of the university’s conservation and sustainability efforts, Jess Roberts and Eve Brantley of the College of Agriculture’s Department of Agronomy and Soils and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, search for small aquatic insects that help indicate a stream’s health. The stream is an important part of the ecosystem of the Auburn area. Parkerson Mill Creek flows through the Auburn campus and through the south side of the City of Auburn before eventually emptying into Chewacla Creek.
