Features
Auburn Magazine – Fall 2019
2019 marks the 50-year anniversary of the integration of Auburn University athletics. History-makers, then and now, tell their stories of leveling the playing field on the Plains. Always On A…
Sandi Meehan could not believe what she was hearing when New York Auburn Club President Nicole Klein ’05 told her the reason for her call. Surely, this was a joke.…
The first to graduate was Katie Basden’s paternal grandfather, Osburn Clyde Prather Sr. 1909, and her maternal grandfather Joseph Embree Jenkins Sr. ’32. Next were her parents, Deana Prather ’64…
Other Stories
IN HIS MORE THAN 16 YEARS AS A UNITED STATES MARINE, Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Venable ’19 worked as a technician and an instructor on multiple military bases. He deployed on…
IT WAS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING, April 27, 2019, when two chartered buses pulled into a church parking lot in Beauregard and close to 100 athletes and coaches from the University…
“THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME — my son went down for a nap five minutes ago.” Paul Schissler ’11 is standing in his New York City apartment, still jet-lagged from…
JUNE 23, 2016 IS THE DAY THAT CHANGED ANNE NELSON’S LIFE. June 23, 2016 is the day Anne Nelson’s life did not change at all. Nelson had returned to her…
One of the first things Beth Westmoreland Miller ’13 associated with Auburn was Rotel dip. The daughter of two Auburn alumni, the Miller football tailgates invariably featured the spicy beef-and-cheese…
