AUBURN - A full weekend of activities will begin on Thursday for the annual aviation management reunion in the Auburn University College of Business.

Jack Pelton, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Cessna Aircraft Company, will address students and faculty at a public forum on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in room 125 of the Lowder Business Building. Pelton is the 2009 Aviation Management Advisory Board Distinguished Visitor.

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AUBURN - Auburn University's 30th Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture will take place on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 9 a.m. to noon at Ag Heritage Park. Festivities precede the Auburn vs. Furman homecoming game.

Ag Roundup began as a reunion for alumni and friends of Auburn's College of Agriculture and an opportunity to spotlight the bounty of delicious foods Alabama farmers produce and to increase awareness of agriculture's significant impact on the state's economy.

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AUBURN - Auburn University's Donald E. Davis Arboretum will host a class about choosing plants that are good for our native landscape and avoiding ones that threaten it. The hour-long program, "What's So Great About Native Plants," will be offered Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 4:30 p.m. at the Davis Arboretum Pavilion.

A representative from the Alabama Invasive Plant Council will present information on which plants pose the most severe threat to our native landscape and how to identify them. The arboretum staff will discuss the best native plants to grow in this area, as well as the connection between the wild creatures we enjoy, their food and their habitat.

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AUBURN - The Women's Philanthropy Board, in Auburn University's College of Human Sciences, will host "Caregiving 101," a seminar and luncheon on Friday, Nov. 13, from 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. at The Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa at the Convention Center. Topics will include the legal, financial and managed care aspects of caregiving.

Irene Collins, the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Senior Services, will serve as keynote speaker. Other featured speakers will include Leah Dubberly of the Dubberly Group/Merrill Lynch; Cheri Rudgers, a licensed certified social worker; and Debby Spain of J.D. Capell and Howard.

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AUBURN - Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Leslie F. Kenne will deliver the inaugural Extraordinary Women Lecture in Auburn University's Telfair Peet Theater Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 11 a.m. to noon. This public event is sponsored by the Women's Leadership Institute in Auburn's College of Liberal Arts. A reception will follow.

Kenne is a graduate of Auburn's ROTC program with 32 years of active military service. She is the first woman to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force and one of three women in history to achieve a three-star rank in the U.S. military.

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AUBURN - "The House Detectives” will discuss their ongoing quest for photographs of Auburn's past as the Discover Auburn series continues Thursday, Oct. 29, at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library. A reception will follow.

The trio that has dubbed themselves "The House Detectives” includes Ralph Draughon Jr., Delos Hughes and Ann Pearson. They are Auburn natives collecting photographs of houses, schools and other structures in town and on campus that no longer exist.

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AUBURN - Students from Auburn University's College of Architecture, Design and Construction will light up the courtyard of Dudley Hall with the glow of more than 400 jack-o-lanterns at the 21st annual Pumpkin Carve on Friday, Oct. 30.

The event, sponsored by the Auburn chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students, will begin at 9 a.m. as pumpkins go on sale for $4 for festival visitors and as students begin to create their jack-o-lanterns for the evening's competition.

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AUBURN - Auburn University will hold its fourth annual Faculty Awards Celebrating Excellence Ceremony Oct. 27 at 5 p.m. at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. A provost's reception will follow.

The awards presented at this ceremony are the highest honors the university gives to faculty and this year will honor the outstanding academic achievements of 16 faculty members.

Auburn University Provost Mary Ellen Mazey will host the event and Lawrence Wit, associate dean and professor of biological sciences in the College of Sciences and Mathematics, will be master of ceremonies. Robert Lowder, Auburn University Board of Trustees member, will give congratulations and special remarks.

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AUBURN - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will exhibit a selection of some of the museum's most treasured pieces from its "Advancing American Art" collection Oct. 24 through Jan. 23 in the Chi Omega-Hargis Gallery.

The 36 paintings and works on paper in this collection constitute one of the most significant components of the museum's permanent collection. Acquired by Auburn University in 1948, when Auburn was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute, they were originally part of a group of 117 oil paintings and watercolors assembled by the U.S. State Department in 1946 to demonstrate the ascendancy of American modern art at the mid-century.

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AUBURN - Auburn University will host teams from East Alabama middle schools in the inaugural History and Current Event Scholars Tournament on Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Auburn University Student Center ballroom. Registration for the tournament is under way with an Oct. 30 deadline.

The purpose of the competition, hosted by Access and Community Initiatives, a unit of Auburn University's Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, is to promote teamwork and study skills, to encourage a broader sense of social awareness and to give students an opportunity to showcase school pride.

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