Back to the Glomerata section, where I share the covers of all of the yearbooks from Auburn, my alma mater. We’re shaking things up and featuring the most recent installment of my collection. The one I’m showing you here is the 2012 edition. If you click the cover you can see the 2011 Glom.
History doesn’t tell us much about those ancient days in 2011. Barack Obama was president, Bob Riley was the governor. As students made their way back to campus the previous fall the H1N1 influenza pandemic was declared over by the WHO. The International Space Station broke a record for the longest continually inhabited structure in space. An earthquake in New Zealand was the first in a series of temblors over the next two years that baffled seismologists into saying such a thing is unlikely to ever happen again in precisely that sort of circumstances. The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 took place.
And then there were the holidays and the bowl games and Auburn won a national championship in football. That’s all in this book. This is the inside back cover, which is a happy and bittersweet thing now:
In the spring of 2011 more than 324 people lost their lives in tornados in Alabama, Mississippi and elsewhere. It was one of the largest and one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded.
