The Glomerata is the yearbook published by the students of Auburn University.

I stumbled across a couple of old editions from when the University was officially called Alabama Polytechnic Institute. On the inside of one of those books was a photograph of a road that no longer exists in a place that is unrecognizable to someone who'd studied there more than four decades later.

Those two books just happened to be the editions that would have been my grandparents' Gloms had they matriculated to API. An idea was born: in a town that measures generations by less than a decade, a true generational observation should take place. With my grandparents' theoretical freshmen books, my mother's and my own, one could really get a sense of the evolution of the campus in an unprecedented period of growth.

This won't be a comprehensive representation of each book, but rather shared images of things that jump out to a turn-of-the-century graduate.

The original project was conceptualized as just the freshmen books of each generation, but over time it will likely grow to other editions. The scans on this page, for example, are of the spine and a portion of the front cover of the 1997 Glomerata (Volume 100).

These books are a tribute to the University, and were created by the students, to whom all the credit belongs. To study other historical editions of the Glomerata, please visit the Auburn University Digital Library.

This page will be updated a little at a time, ideally in weekly installments, so make sure to check back often. Thanks for visiting, and War Eagle.

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