Kenny Smith

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. We could get a real sense of the evolution of the campus and the culture by leafing through these pages.

It made for a good excuse to try to collect each edition of the Glomerata. (On this page is the spine of the 1997 Glomerata, Volume 100.)

This isn't meant to be a comprehensive representation of each book, but rather things that jumped out to a turn-of-the-century graduate who sees these books as a tribute to the University, a Valentine created by the students, to whom all the credit belongs.

To study more in-depth versions of the Glomerata, please visit the Auburn University Digital Library.

Want more? Check out my collection of Glomerata covers.

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