These are the two guys -- and dozens more who helped -- that put the 1953 Glomerata together. They're doing a nice job, with the staff writing in the typical florid style that you would encounter for a yearbook. Everything is a positive memory, and if it isn't a memory then it is a synonym for some word they used in the previous sentence.

Let's see what they wanted to say on their own two page spread. They deserve it:

"The past year has been a high point in Auburn's record as a Southern educational center. The Glomerata, realizing this, has brought it before the student body in pictorial form so that they might remember it in later years.

"This was the year of tremendous increase in enrollment, an extension of the faculty, the offering of the first doctorate degrees, the completion of a multi-million dollar building program, and many more equally important marks in Auburn history. All of these events we have presented, but with the thought that no matter how much some things have changed, traditions never change.

"The final production of this yearbook has climaxed a long, but satisfying year of hard work for the staff."

And a job well done guys. They knew they were recording the present, while they were staring into the future of the school and the past of the students. These students were in the middle of a decade or so of tremendous growth, and they had a glimpse of what was to come. But just a glimpse.

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