Aubie, as you'll later see, is a ladies man.

Here he's hanging out at Hey Day, as you can tell by Kelly Samford's nametag.

Hey Day, 10 years old in 1995, was the annual fall day when nametags prevailed. The campus, friendly as they come anyway, becomes another thing altogether on with everyone walking around with name tags and no one is a stranger.

This photo was taken at the small and charming Bibb Graves Ampitheater. Graves was the son of Alabama's first governor, the state's first two-term governor and a reformer. He was a veteran of the first World War and helped organize the American Legion back home. We named a little underused outdoor facility (and a road) after him. He's justifiably honored throughout the state, but the use of this ampitheater has diminished, as has Graves' name through the passage of history.

Anyway, Hey Day. Bands performed, cheerleaders cheered, free pizza was scarfed. You made an awful lot of friends on Hey Day.

These days it is probably even more ridiculous, with little armies of college kids roaming around with laptops and smart phones, befriending on Facebook all of the friends they've just made in relief life. "OMG! Message me!" as you stand four feet away from one another.

Hey Day's roots actually extend back to the World War II era students, but was an especially important part of the 1950s and '60s, before being reborn in 1985.

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