JEFF GLENN MOORE ’06

JEFF GLENN MOORE ’06

by | Feb 23, 2023 | Auburn Magazine, Obituaries

JEFF GLENN MOORE ’06

March 15, 1966–November 29, 2022

 

CHARLES EARL HEATON SR. ’64

Jeff Moore ’06 grew up in Birmingham, Ala. and was a highly recruited basketball player coming out of Midfield High School, where he was a two-time all-state selection. In his senior year (1984), he was named Player of the Year by both The Associated Press and the BirminghamTip-off Club, was named Mr. Basketball in the state of Alabama and was a member of the Converse All-America Team. In his final two yearsat Midfield, he led the Patriots to records of 33-2 and 20-8.

A 6-foot-7, 240-pound center/forward, Moore played for the Auburn Tigers from 1984-88 before being drafted by the CharlotteHornets in the third round of the 1988 NBA Draft.

In his four seasons at Auburn, Moore was a two-time All-SEC player after taking over the starting center job following the departure of Charles Barkley to the NBA. He played in the NCAA Tournament in each of his four seasons and left the school as its second all-time leading rebounder (950) and 10th on the all-time career scoring list(1,549 points). During his senior campaign in 1987-88, he was rated the seventh-best center in the country by The Sporting News.

After playing overseas, Moore returned to Auburn to complete his degree in family and child development, graduating in 2006 at the age of 47. Moore credited former head coach Sonny Smith and assistant coach Lawrence Johnson with encouraging him to get his diploma.

“Jeff Moore was a big-time scorer,” Smith said. “He could hit the outside shot and play with his back to the basket. He always had to guard people bigger than he was. He was an outstanding player, and the better the team was, the better he played. Jeff was an integral part of the rebuilding of our program. This has been a tremendous loss for me, personally.

”Moore is survived by his sister, Valerie.

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The Big Question

The Big Question

by | Feb 15, 2023 | Auburn Magazine, Faculty

Auburn Family | Auburn Spirit | Class of 1960s | Class of 1970s | Class of 1980s | Class of 1990s | Class of 2010s

Who was your favorite professor or staff member when you were a student at Auburn?

Sorry, but I had four favorites: U.S. Army Captain (later Colonel) John Warren, Mrs. Rosemary McGhar, both in Army ROTC, Dr. Harry Philpott, Auburn’s president when I started, and most importantly, his secretary (my mother): Mary McCarty.

Bob McCarty ’82
College of Architecture, Design and Construction

Dr. Kicklighter. I loved his class. I remember one quarter during finals all of campus lost power due to a squirrel getting in the main transformer. Instead of rescheduling our final, Dr. Kicklighter marched all of us out of Haley Center and into the stadium to take our final. We took our final in the bleachers with the grounds crew mowing the field and “Brown Eyed Girl” playing somewhere on campus for all to hear.

Beth Carson Sydell ’99
Harbert College of Business

Jack Simms and Mickey Logue

Jack Simms, journalism department. Believed in me as a female sportswriter in 1978 (I graduated in March that year) and provided encouragement and constructive criticism during my rookie years at the Opelika-Auburn News. Mickey Logue is a close second as a journalism mentor.

Pat McArthur Booker ’78
College of Liberal Arts

Dr. James Brown, a.k.a. “Mr. Pop Quiz Man.” No one will ever forget sitting in Langdon Hall for his classes!

Mandy C. Speirs ’05
College of Liberal Arts

Hands down, Dr. Hardy, Ag Law! What other professor takes their students to a Braves game and to get a hotdog at The Varsity? He was amazing!!

Brandi Jones ’99
College of Agriculture

Dr. Mary Ann Potter in the College of Human Sciences. She focused on what life would be like once we were working in the field of interior design, she encouraged us to join professional societies and she kept up with us after we graduated.

Susan Bell Pendleton ’76
College of Human Sciences

Dr. Kicklighter. I loved his class. I remember one quarter during finals all of campus lost power due to a squirrel getting in the main transformer. Instead of rescheduling our final, Dr. Kicklighter marched all of us out of Haley Center and into the stadium to take our final. We took our final in the bleachers with the grounds crew mowing the field and “Brown Eyed Girl” playing somewhere on campus for all to hear.

Beth Carson Sydell ’99
Harbert College of Business

Captain Callan, aviation management courses, an ace Navy pilot and a man that cared that you understood and learned and that your life turned out well. I was also his work-study student helping him organize lectures. A good man.

Andrea Crawford ’86
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

Bodie Hinton, AU band director and head of the music department. He loved his band members and students and memorized their names. He taught more than music and marching through his encouragement for us to be our best. I always remember how he believed in me.

W. Larry Hunt ’70
Harbert College of Business

Dr. A. J. Hill in accounting and Jude Robinson in math. This was in the early ’60s. Mr. Robinson wrote on the board with his right hand and erased with his left as he wrote. Note taking was fun! Dr. Hill was just a fabulous teacher in every way. Those were the days of accounting with machines with handles.

Kitty Fairleigh Allen ’63
College of Education

Dr. Donald Graves. He absolutely loved teaching and it showed. Every day. As a first-year teacher, I tried to model my teaching persona after him.

Jeanne Lazzari ’88
College of Education

Dr. Bridgett A. King

Dr. Bridgett A. King taught each of her students to be in command of every room they enter. She reminded us that our history is also our present moment, so to live every day to make an impact.

Bre’a Felise Hilliard ’15
College of Liberal Arts

Dr. David Dyer

Dr. Dyer, he taught us that mechanical engineering could be hot, dirty and dangerous.

Scott Worley ’91
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

Dr. Frank Arant

Dr. Arant, head of the zoology department. I had worked for three years for the department when he pulled me out of class in the spring of ’72. I was petrified I had done something wrong.

Dr. Arant: Reames, why haven’t you applied to graduate school?
Me: I don’t have the money.
Dr. Arant: Today is the last day to apply to take the GRE. Take it and we’ll see about the money.
Me: But Dr. Arrant, I don’t have the $45 for the application.

Dr. Arant gave me the $45 and I left a Miss Alabama preliminary to take the test. Won the pageant and received a full fellowship for graduate school due to my scores. Thank you Dr. Arant from a snake-handling, bug-catching, mammal-loving beauty queen.

Eugenia Reames Hale ’72
College of Agriculture

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Nomads with a Purpose

Nomads with a Purpose

by | Nov 28, 2022 | Alumni Stories

Class of 1990s | Class of 2010s

In 2018, Grant ’18 and Jama ’94 Singley sold their cars, their house and their possessions to begin their RV life on the run…in a good way.

Grant Singley walked out of his final, final exam in May of 2018, joined his wife, Jama, in their RV and hit the road to travel as nomads, giving up the luxuries of home for a minimalist life on the road. That was four years and more than 110,000 miles ago with stops in the United States, Canada, Baja, Mexico and Europe–and they have no plans to slow down.

How did you meet?

Jama: Motorcycles brought us together in 2003. I grew up riding dirt bikes and 3-wheelers and I was eager to learn to ride on the streets; Grant was an excellent instructor.

What made you decide to sell everything and become “nomads with a purpose”?

Jama: Grant was offered a position on a motorcycle race team in Bergamo, Italy. We answered yes immediately. We moved just a few weeks later. We were only allowed four suitcases and we were provided a furnished apartment. “Furnished” in Italy meant a sofa, a dining table, four chairs and a bed. That’s it. No knick-knacks. No shelves or decorative items. Just the basics.

Moving into that apartment changed our lives forever. With nothing to dust, repair, organize, remodel, we were free to use that time to explore western Europe. The year and a half we lived in Italy, we didn’t have a car, but we each had a motorcycle so we spent our days riding around the Alps. We knew the minimalist lifestyle was for us and we knew the traveling lifestyle was for us. We just had to figure out how it could work when we got back to the states at the end of the race season. That’s when the concept of nomadic travel became our goal in life. Live small, live with less, live to explore. So for past the four and a half years, we have been living in a small RV and traveling full-time throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico and 17 countries in Europe. We have visited over 42 countries since 2013.

What makes for a good destination?

Wow factor.

Cheap. We love free.

Can we hike, bicycle,
kayak there?

Is it crowded
with tourists?

If we go early or late, can we avoid the crowds?

What is the significance of the hashtag #nomadswithapurpose?

Jama: We didn’t want our lives wandering the earth to just be fun. That’s not who we are so we made a commitment to have a purpose while we travel. Help people, donate, share our faith, volunteer, encourage the minimalist lifestyle, teach people how to RV full-time. Grant can fix anything so he helps people with his skill set.

Grant: We wanted to make a positive contribution to the world with our travels by sharing our experiences with others.

How do you decide where to go, what you’ll do/see and how long you’ll stay?

Jama: We hit the road for this epic adventure the afternoon Grant took his final exam at Auburn University. When we left on this great adventure, in 2018, we loaded up our RV with three dogs, a couple of bags of clothes and headed up the east coast. We traveled way too fast. We would get to a destination, wake up at 5 am., hike, bicycle, visit a historical site and visit the local towns to meet people then get up and do something adventurous the next day. Then we would move to the next destination. We started out following the “Two Rule”. Travel 200 miles, arrived by 2 pm and stay for two days. That was exhausting but we felt we needed some kind of plan. We both had “FOMO” (The Fear of Missing Out), like we must see everything. By the time we arrived in Maine we knew we were in the lifestyle for the long haul, so we decided to just choose a destination and stay until we felt it was time to move. We slowed down. We make no reservations and most days we don’t even know where we will spend that night. We wake up and say- where do you want to go today?

Grant: Jama uses Google maps, Atlas Obscura and other online resources to find interesting places for us to visit. We always say the great thing about this lifestyle is if you don’t like where you are you can just leave and if you like where you are you can stay.

 

What is it like being together in a tiny space 24/7/365?

Jama: Fortunately, we have individual hobbies to keep us busy and give us a way to take a break from each other. Grant will go for a mountain bike ride and I will randomly move things around in the bins and crates. I like shoes and I always need more shoe space. Living small means everything needs a place and it needs to be in that place. Headphones are also a lifesaver.

“Go outside, go down the street, go around the
world, because you can and you should.”

What did you do during COVID?

Jama: In January 2020, Grant and I, along with two dogs, landed in Amsterdam and bought an RV for a year-long road trip throughout Eastern Europe. As soon as we landed, we began to worry about how difficult it was going to be to find campgrounds without having reservations, waiting in long lines for tourist attractions and holiday traffic. Then the world shut down and the borders closed. We found ourselves with just a handful of other foreigners traveling in Europe. It was an amazing year as we wandered through 17 countries, most of them in the Balkans and eastern Europe. We were the only campers allowed in campgrounds that required reservations three years in advance and are normally packed. We could park at castle gates and walked right in for free and no waiting lines. We visited 12 national parks and in most of them, never saw another person. It was weird and wonderful at the same time. That type of travel freedom will likely never happen again.

Where is your favorite place you have been and why?

Grant: We are asked this question often and it becomes more difficult to answer as we explore new places. My favorite place in the US is the state of Utah, because it offers five national parks and seemingly endless land to explore on a mountain bike, motorcycle, or kayak–sometimes all in the same day. My favorite place outside of the US is Baja, Mexico. Baja offers almost endless beaches where we could camp at the water’s edge while snorkeling, diving, and kayaking.

When you travel abroad, do you sell a motor home here and buy one there, store your motor home or what?

Jama: We sold our USA travel trailer before we flew overseas and bought an RV through a European buy-back program. We bought it, lived in it for a year and sold it back to the company before flying home. When we returned to the states, we bought our current travel trailer. This is our fifth mobile, tiny home since 2018.

What made you choose this lifestyle?

Jama: This nomadic RV traveling lifestyle is NOT easy. Or cheap. Or luxurious. It is however peaceful, awe-inspiring, and truly a blessing. I need to learn to slow down, take care of my health and I had a bad case of wanderlust. Once you see a little of the world, you want to see more.

Grant: We both love exploring and experiencing new places. We chose to do it now so that we were physically able to do all the activities.

Do you plan to do it forever?

Jama: We will travel until we can’t physically do it anymore. We also have notions of living in an off-grid cabin in the woods, owning a disabled veterans only campground, living on a boat or being park rangers.

Do you miss being settled down somewhere and/or having a home?

Jama: I don’t miss being settled down or having a house, but I do miss family and friend. Video chatting is great, but nothing compares to hugging and seeing faces. We’ve missed births, birthday parties, graduation and even a couple of Christmases. We try to get back to Alabama for Thanksgiving and Christmas; it’s not always possible, but it’s always important.

Has your definition of “home” changed?

Jama: My definition of home has changed. When people ask where we live, we say “everywhere.” It opens the door to discussions about this lifestyle, reminds us of where we have been and refreshes the reason we are doing this. Go outside, go down the street, go around the world, because you can and you should.

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SEC Shorts

SEC Shorts

by | Nov 28, 2022 | Magazine Articles Archived, Young Alumni

Arts & Entertainment | Class of 2000s | Class of 2010s | Football | Media & Communications

The paramedic quickly wheels a gurney through the emergency room and into a bay. Waiting nurses frantically begin assessing the situation, starting IV fluids and other meds. A doctor rushes in to take a closer look, pulls down the sheet and is stunned when he realizes the patient isn’t who he thought it was. It isn’t the University of Texas. It’s Alabama.

This was the first scene of a segment of SEC Shorts, the hugely popular video series with more than 25 million views every season that pokes fun at football teams in the Southeastern Conference and beyond. What started as two coworkers playing around has now become a full-time job for Robert Clay ’06.

“Josh (Snead) and I worked together at a medical publishing company,” Clay said. “Our job day in and day out was editing these just very, very gross, disgusting medical lectures. Like, here’s what it looks like when someone loses all their toes and it’s a doctor giving a lecture to other doctors and we would have to edit those together. It was just a grind. We realized we both like football and we started doing little side videos. We put them out there for our friends and family just to see what happened.”

The first one Clay and Snead posted in 2014 was about a controversy with Alabama’s quarterback. Paul Finebaum’s radio show had just debuted on the then-new SEC Network and producers were scrambling for content.

“We sent that video in and they really liked it,” Clay said. “Then, when we saw it on TV, we were, like, ‘Whoa, that’s awesome!’”

From that point, SEC Shorts began to morph. The first year, the shorts were shown exclusively on the SEC Network, but when Clay made a career move to al.com, he and Snead began making the videos for the state news outlet. In 2017, Clay and Snead secured their own sponsors and SEC Shorts became an independent entity.

SEC Shorts started with videos about pretty much only Auburn and Alabama, but as it grew, every SEC team became fair game. Clay said he wants the fan base of every team to share the videos and be able to say ‘that’s funny,’ even if the video is making fun of their team.

“Making the videos really forced me to pay attention to all the various storylines happening throughout the conference,” Clay said. “Before, I would focus solely on Auburn and what was going on with them. Now I have a pretty good feel for what is happening with all the SEC teams during the season. It’s great because there are really fun and empowering stories happening all over the conference and sometimes they don’t involve your personal team. I am much more appreciative of it.”

As an Auburn graduate, Clay said at first, it was difficult to write scripts that made fun of his beloved Tigers.

“Now, it’s kind of therapeutic,” he said. “It’s a productive outlet to have some fun, make people laugh and burn off the frustration from the games. I’ve been a huge Auburn fan all my life and I used to live and die by wins and losses. It’s a good distraction when we lose, but then, when we pull off an upset over Alabama, it’s so much fun!”

Robert Clay reviews a script while juggling filming and acting.

Clay writes the week’s script ahead of time, based on the outcomes he anticipates each week, but like the production we observed, the original script had to have several last-minute changes due to the results of the games the day before.

On Saturday, Sept. 10, following the Alabama–Texas game, Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Nebraska found themselves on the losing end of games they should have easily won. Then, in the middle of filming on Sunday, Sept. 11, news came that Nebraska Coach Scott Frost had been fired. Another change had to be made to the script.

“It’s always a challenge and the Week 3 script is a great example,” Clay said. “I was so sure Alabama was just gonna crush Texas. The original idea was that Texas was going be the one in the ER and the joke was just going to be kind of how the doctors were trying to keep them alive. Then, as the game progresses I’m like, even if Texas still loses, they played well enough that the original idea wasn’t going to work. So, as soon as the game was over, I’m like, well, all right, so now Alabama’s gonna be in the ER and we’ll just do a whole video making fun of them.”

The video we observed was shot in a pain clinic owned by a friend of Clay’s. Props were things they brought or found lying around the clinic. Videographers alternated among cast members who weren’t in the scene being shot. Due to the quick turnaround, there isn’t much time to practice and memorize lines, so often, the actors were looking over the script and immediately performing the scene.

Following filming Clay spends hours on Sunday nights editing, piecing all the clips together and getting the SEC Shorts video ready to release each Monday of football season.

In April 2022, the SEC Shorts crew took their talents on the road with four nights of live shows in Athens, Ga. The performances were a huge success and plans are in the works to take the show on the road again, with the first one scheduled in Birmingham the Friday night before the Iron Bowl.

“It’s weird to say it’s your full-time job to make goofy YouTube college football videos,” Clay said. “But that’s what I do. That’s that Auburn education right there, baby!”

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Calling The Shots

Calling The Shots

by | Sep 7, 2022 | Alumni Stories, Athletics

Arts & Entertainment | Auburn Family

From polo announcer to voiceover talent to auctioneer, one happenstance after another led Steve Lewandowski ’82 to careers using his voice

It was all a fluke.

Or maybe you could call it fate. Like, how Steve Lewandowski ’82 came about attending Auburn. How he literally got tricked into actually participating in a game of polo. How he spontaneously became a polo announcer and how that first match as an announcer resulted in a career of voiceovers. And, how announcing polo resulted in becoming a professional auctioneer. All a fluke. Every bit of it.

A native of Milwaukee, Wisc., Lewandowski attended Auburn in part because of (the late) Guy L. Burns ’27, who was a family friend. At Auburn, Lewandowski enrolled in the Navy ROTC program. About two hours after earning his degree in political science in 1982, he was commissioned in the United States Navy—the third generation of his family to serve—and was assigned to the Naval Amphibious Base (NAB) on Coronado Island in California. After his military stint, he  stayed in Southern California, where he opened an insurance agency and established the Veterans Research Alliance (VRA), a nonprofit organization that raises money for veterans to fund smaller projects that would otherwise get caught up in the bureaucracy of getting approval.

A regulation polo field is 300 yards long by 160 yards wide, which is 10 acres, or nine football fields placed side by side.

In the 1930s, the United States cavalry used polo to maintain warfare skills. During that same time period, Auburn fielded a really good polo team.

A period in polo is called a chukker. Each chukker is 7.5 minutes long and a match is usually 4-6 chukkers.

“We (the VRA) are kind of like a special forces unit, getting projects funded quickly,” Lewandowski said. “There are veterans in our community who are better off—even still alive— because of the alliance, and that’s very rewarding.”

He began dating a girl, a third-generation polo player, who took Lewandowski horseback riding. Their path just happened to lead to a group of polo players who just happened to need another player.

“It was a complete set-up,” Lewandowski said. “We came up on this polo arena and she said, “oh look, they are one player short; they can’t practice unless they have another player.’ Then, you know, there was the perfect-size mallet hanging on the side of the fence and the next thing I knew, I was out there on a horse playing polo. I knew nothing about the sport and didn’t even realize what was happening.”

But that “set-up” was all it took. Lewandowski was hooked. He continued to play polo for fun as well as attend matches as a spectator and enjoyed learning more about the game. Less than a year after his introduction to the sport, the scheduled announcer for a match he was attending was also on the roster to play. So, even with his limited knowledge of the game, Lewandowski filled in as announcer. At the end of that competition, a talent agent walked up and handed her card to him.

“She asked me for a VO demo reel,” Lewandowski said. “I had no idea what a VO demo reel was.”

But he figured it out and sent the lady a voiceover demo tape, attended voiceover school and, over the past 30 years, has done more than a thousand voiceovers, both locally and nationally, for radio, television and Sony® Playstation.

Soon after that first, unexpected announcing gig, Lewandowski was contracted to serve as the voice of the San Diego Polo Club, where he announced for almost 30 years until the club closed in 2019. However, the end of the polo club was not the end of his announcing career. Lewandowski’s reputation was known internationally and has kept him very active in the business, announcing at polo events around the nation and abroad. For the past 31 years, he has called matches from coast to coast and around the world, including the Dublin Polo Club in Ireland, the World Cup in Mexico City, Mexico and for ESPN. At championship events, he can call as many as three matches per day.

“Oftentimes, younger announcers will call the early matches and I call the featured competitions at the event,” he said. “I still remember when I was one of those young announcers calling those first games.” Polo is an expensive sport to maintain. The cost of raising, training and traveling with the horses most often means the athletes who excel are from high-net-worth families. They are also traditionally very philanthropically engaged, with almost every player raising funds for a variety of charities. Since he was an announcer with a strong, clear speaking voice, Lewandowski was often asked to serve as an amateur auctioneer at their functions.

“I was just awful at first,” Lewandowski said. “But all of the big matches are tied to a charity fundraiser, so being an announcer and an auctioneer kind of fed off each other.” Lewandowski kept honing his auctioneering skills until he perfected that art as well as polo announcing. Now, more than 30 years later, his services are still very much in demand, with contracts to conduct around 35 charity auctions every year all around the country. His talent has helped raise millions of dollars for nonprofits.

Lewandowski said being a polo announcer is a relatively rare talent, but being a polo announcer who is also an auctioneer is even more unique.

“We could hold our polo announcer convention in a booth at Waffle House,” Lewandowski said. “But we could hold our polo announcer-auctioneer convention in a phonebooth.”

Veteran. Polo player. Polo announcer. Voiceover professional. Auctioneer. Auburn Man. And it all began as a fluke. Or fate.

Steve’s Top 12 polo phrases

At the halftime divot stomp: “Remember, if they’re still steaming, they’re probably not divots.”

“He’s/she’s as quick as a rattlesnake on amphetamines.”

When two players are pushing each other for the line of the ball: “It looks like they’re sharing the saddle.”

After a big shot down the field: “He/she sent the spheroid sailing skyward.”

When the ball goes far enough, but in the wrong direction: “He’s/she’s got plenty of sail, but not enough rudder.”

Hard hit: “He/she absolutely blistered that ball!”

When players are in scoring position: “Looks like he/she is on the dance floor.”

When a poor or misdirected shot is hit: “Looks like that’s not the shot he/she wanted.”

A great effort, but ultimately no good: “Son of a biscuit!”

When a player gets on the ball quickly: “He/she was on that ball like a hobo on a ham sandwich.”

“He’s/she’s tougher than a two dollar steak.”

On a shot that misses, especially an easy one: “The ball was obviously prevented from going in the goal because of the invisible electro-magnetic force field that is in effect.”

EXTRA, EXTRA, EXTRA! 

Fun Facts

Four players on horses play on each team at an outdoor arena; three players on horses play at indoor events.

To not overwork the horses, generally riders change horses at the end of every chukker.

At halftime of each match, spectators participate in the Divot Stomp. They cover the field to replace the divots that have been created by the horses’ hooves. Lewandowski reminds those “if they are still steaming, they are probably not divots.”

Lewandowski calls a match as if the spectators are first-time attenders, because many of them are.

In the 1930s, the United States cavalry utilized polo to maintain warfare skills. During that same time period, Auburn fielded a really good polo team.

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