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Those who saw the broken woman splayed on the pavement along I-10 near Jacksonville, Fla., thought she wouldn’t live to see another Christmas. They doubted she would still be breathing when the ambulance, only seconds away, arrived with its cruel lights and menacing siren on Dec. 26, 2002. Former Auburn University All-American track star Beverly Kearney’s spine was shattered; two other women, friends of Kearney’s, lay dead on the freeway. A few months later, the 1981 AU alumna steered her wheelchair into the 2003 Texas Relays and coached The University of Texas women’s track team to the Big 12 Conference championship. By 2005, Kearney had taught herself how to walk again—and helped her Longhorns claim the No. 1 spot in the nation for the fifth time.
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Starting block Kearney grew up in southern California and Florida, at times homeless and standing in for her absent parents to help raise seven siblings. She frequently stole books from libraries and was kicked out of junior high school for inciting a riot after losing a student election. Eventually, Kearney enrolled at a Florida community college, became a star athlete there and was recruited to AU by former track coach Billy Katz. On the Plains, she was a two-time All-American, earning a berth on the 1980 Olympics team and a bachelor’s degree in social work.
Coaching philosophy After coaching stints at three other universities, Kearney led the University of Florida to a national track-and-field title. She was recruited to The University
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of Texas in 1993 and has since led her teams to six national championships. “I’m there to assist in the journey—I’m not there to create the journey. I ask (athletes), ‘Do you want to win or not? Just let me know. If you do, this is what you have to do to get there. I’m not going to become part of the reason you fail. I’m going to hold myself and everybody around accountable, but most important, I’m going to hold you accountable and help you hold yourself accountable.’”
I’m there to assist in the journey—I’m not there to create the journey.
Going for the goal “Sports is simply life magnified. It is not any different from life except that what we do is measured and ranked. What if everything you did was ranked? Are you leveling the same expectations on yourselves in your daily lives that you’re leveling at these athletes? Are you creating a championship environment in your workplace? That’s what we need to look at.”
On winning “I never saw myself as disfigured or crippled or paralyzed. It was just a part of my life, a transition. Sometimes out of horrific events comes great triumph. Hopefully my life has been an example of that.”
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How golf is staking its claim as Auburn’s top sport
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No one who knows Auburn University would dispute that, when it comes to athletics, football hogs the spotlight. So get ready for a shock: This college town also ranks as one of the nation’s best places to play golf.
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s Celeste Troche ’03 lopes down the hill to the driving range, the clank of golf clubs keeps time with the pace of her steps. She tees up, her easy smile dissolving into eagle-eyed intensity; her dark eyes squint toward a target hundreds of yards away. In a fl uid motion as natural as inhale and exhale, her 5-foot-9-inch frame twists back, pauses, then unleashes its velocity with fervor and grace. It’s the drive of a champion: Troche (pictured right) and teammate Julieta Granada won the Women’s World Cup of Golf this year. A native of Paraguay, Troche enrolled at AU because of golf, and she returned to Auburn after graduation because of golf. As an international business major, she was the AU golf program’s fi rst four-time All-American. This year she’ll play on some of the world’s most daunting courses during the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. For a young pro, the opportunity to practice on challenging courses can mean the difference between making the cut and going home. This morning, Troche hones her swing at Auburn’s Moore’s Mill Golf Club, a course she says emulates the variety of grass and sloping greens on the LPGA circuit.
Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. Woodrow Wilson
“With the courses here you can target every part of your game and be ready for any tournament that comes,” she says. Outsiders have lent that statement an air of legitimacy. Golf Digest ranks AU as one of the 20 best golf schools in the country and the Auburn/Opelika area as the best place in the United States for golfers to live based on the number of public courses in the area, the temperate weather and other factors. Golf-obsessed alumni often pack clubs when they travel back to their alma mater, and meetings have been known to arrange themselves around available tee times at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail’s Grand National, Saugahatchee Country Club and Indian Pines. Although the AU men’s and women’s golf teams have never brought home a national championship, they’re recruiting players from as far away as Spain and Sweden, and making impressive showings at intercollegiate tournaments. Faculty, students and alumni are involved in SUMMER 2007
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfi ng. If people know you are working at home, they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you on the golf course. Harper Lee
course design: Richard Guthrie, dean of the AU College of Agriculture, sees the development of turfgrass as a growth industry even though the number of golf courses created annually has slowed in the last seven years. About 150 to 160 new golf courses have opened each year since 2000, when the number peaked at 400 annually, according to the National Golf Foundation and the Golf Course Builders Association of America. Much of the U.S. market has been driven by the 78 million baby boomers approaching retirement age. For four years, former AU admissions director Charles Reeder ’75 and colleague Charlie Griffi n ’62 supported their daily golf habit by working part-time on the maintenance staff at the Grand National course northeast of Auburn. The pair would rise before the sun to mow fairways and greens, then
play at a discounted rate after work. Now the men are regulars at Indian Pines, where “the people are good,” Reeder says, “and they keep the courses in good shape.”
It worked. After 23 years and four SEC Coach of the Year honors, Griffi n has watched Auburn transform from a “onecourse” town to a national golf powerhouse. “All of a sudden, without even asking, all the courses fell into our laps,” he muses.
The up-and-comers Raised by University of Alabama fans, Mike Griffi n claims to have worn red-and-white Crimson Tide underwear as a child. But in 1984, the successful then-Troy State University golf coach appealed for help from on high: Each night before falling asleep, Griffi n prayed Auburn coach Sonny Dragoin would retire before a similar position opened in Tuscaloosa, paving the way for a coaching position with the Tigers.
Griffi n’s AU men’s team notched the 2002 SEC championship and itches for another. “We’re planning on being a contender for the SEC and the NCAA championships,” he says. “Our top players have solidifi ed themselves, and we need them all to play well if we want to continue.” Ditto for the AU women’s team, which is currently defending back-to-back SEC championships. Assistant coach Courtney Trimble ’02, an AU All-American and Curtis Cup champion, returned to coach at Auburn after
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two and a half years on the Duramed Futures Tour, which prepares female golfers to enter the professional ranks. She’s optimistic that the story of AU’s golfi ng greatness has yet to be written. “You just have to constantly keep working, because everyone else is working just as hard,” she says. “If you let up, you may get passed.” If current investment is any indication, AU athletics offi cials are clearly expecting big returns from their golfers. A privately funded $2 million, 8,300-square-foot golf facility, which will serve as the teams’ home base, is scheduled to be completed this fall. Located two miles north of campus off Donahue Drive, the building will include locker rooms, trophy displays and indoor hitting bays.
Behind the greens
Although turf expert Dave Han rarely sinks a putt, he’s one of few duffers who can name the type of grass used on every green, fairway and teebox in Auburn. That’s because he teaches turfgrass management, the most popular academic track in the AU College of Agriculture’s Department of Agronomy and Soils. Once concerned primarily with developing grazing fodder for horses and cows, the discipline now embraces the evolution and maintenance of various types of lawns, from those of baseball diamonds and football fi elds to residences. And golf courses, of course: Most of Han’s students aspire to careers as golf course superintendents. The allure is working outside, meeting people, experimenting with plants and, yes, the occasional game. Senior agronomy and soils major Josh Cantrell worked on golf courses as a high school student in Franklin, N.C., and enrolled at AU specifi cally to study in the turfgrass program. After dropping out for a few years to do construction work, the 27-year-old now works part time as an irrigation specialist at Grand National. “I like the specialty in turfgrass because there are a lot of variables, particularly in the golf community—weather, insects, disease, people,” he says. It’s a rich market for the program’s top graduates, many of whom are getting multiple job offers, Han says. Professional superintendents at private clubs often make six fi gures, but even recent graduates with little or no experience can make good money on the fi rst rung of the career ladder as irrigation specialists, spray (insecticide and fungicide/ weed control) technicians or managers of groundskeeping crews. Local course superintendents allow faculty to conduct on-site research projects, sometimes even on greens in play. The results benefi t everyone, Han says. “They often take what they see us do and incorporate it into their own maintenance plans,” he says. “We help them fi gure out how to do things better.”
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It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron
The course of business Bill Bergin ’81 majored in business at AU. He also golfed. The four-time All–SEC champion later played professionally for six years, competing in more than 250 tournaments, including three U.S. Opens, two British Opens and about 50 PGA tour events. The one-time Georgia amateur champion then gave up his nomadic ways to teach the sport at Atlanta’s prestigious Cherokee Town and Country Club. He began fi nding beauty in the elegant shifts of course elevation and terrain, and the way course design affects game play. After apprenticing with award-winning architect Bob Cupp, Bergin established his own course design company and later created the private greens of Auburn University
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Club at Yarbrough Farms. Located off Shug Jordan Parkway, the course covers some 200 acres of rolling wooded terrain around a 25-acre lake. “For a city its size, Auburn has an amazing variety (of courses), a lot to choose from,” he says. “This doesn’t happen in a lot of places.” For now, Auburn’s golf courses—and the town itself—are where LPGA pro Celeste Troche has planted her feet, a continent away from her home country. “It’s such a great town, from every perspective, not just golf,” she says. “It’s friendly and easygoing, and you’ve got everything you need.”
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(And yes, this grade counts. No cheating!)
Which former professor is credited both for coaching AU’s first football team in 1892 and writing the Auburn Creed in 1945?
Auburn is the only U.S. university that offers an undergraduate degree in: A. Numismatics
B. Biosystems engineering C. Wireless engineering
D. Agriscience education
A. George Petrie
B. Ralph “Shug” Jordan
In the 1960s, fans began lining Donahue Drive as AU football players walked from Sewell Hall to the stadium prior to home games, asking for autographs and wishing the team luck. The tradition, which continues today, is known as: A. Rolling Toomer’s Corner
C. William Broun
D. Cliff Hare
B. Tiger Walk
C. Tiger Greetings
D. War Eagle Call-outs
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4. One of AU’s most cherished traditions is the rolling of Toomer’s Corner after athletic victories. What invention is said to have influenced the creation of this toiletpaper-intensive custom?
A. The telegraph B. The porcelain commode C. The telephone D. The television
5 6 8 7 What crisis caused Auburn University, then known as East Alabama Male College, to shut down between the years 1861 and 1866—the longest period of closure in campus history?
AU’s beloved mascot Aubie has won this many national collegiate mascot championships: A. Zero B. Four
A. The Great Depression
C. Six
B. Bankruptcy
D. Ten
C. The burning of Old Main D. The Civil War
Which of the following is not one of Auburn University’s former names? A. East Alabama Male College
B. Alabama Polytechnic Institute
C. Agricultural and Mechanical College D. Alabama Normal School
The large cannon lathe displayed on the Samford Hall lawn was formerly used in the manufacture of military supplies for the Confederate army. Today this historical piece is rumored to bring bad luck to anyone who: A. Climbs on top of it B. Proposes marriage near it C. Touches it D. Walks within 3 feet of it
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Built in 1851, the oldest AU building still located in its original spot is:
A. University Chapel
B. Samford Hall
C. Katherine Cooper Cater Hall
Auburn University was the first institution of higher education in Alabama to accept female students. The year was: A. 1945 B. 1917 C. 1892 D. 1865
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The city of Auburn takes its name from a line written by Irishman Oliver Goldsmith: “Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.” In which poem does the line appear? A. The Vicar of Wakefield B. The Deserted Village C. How Do I Love Thee? D. She Stoops to Conquer
12. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 1957 AU graduate Millard Fuller for his role in forming an organization described as “the most successful continuous community service project in the history of the United States.” Which nonprofit group did Fuller originate?
A. AmeriCorps C. Habitat for B. Boys & Girls Humanity Clubs of America D. United Way Auburn Magazine
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13. On Jan. 29, 1985, Auburn reinstated this tradition of the ’50s and ’60s to illustrate that Auburn University has the friendliest campus around:
A. Good Morning Auburn Day B. Hospitality Day C. Hey Day D. Tiger Day
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Mischievous AU students pulled a prank on Georgia Tech in 1896 that later helped coin the phrase “Wreck Tech.” What was it?
A. They unhinged the horses from a surrey carrying four key Georgia Tech football players, leaving them stranded on a deserted road in Opelika 15 minutes before kickoff.
B. They siphoned fuel from a bus carrying Georgia Tech alumni, causing them to become stuck in Auburn for 24 hours after a brutal basketball loss.
C. They greased the railroad tracks leading into Auburn, sending a train carrying Georgia Tech football players skidding into the next town.
D. They flipped the jalopies of visiting Georgia Tech students upside down and left them in the center of the parking lot after the first Georgia Tech vs. AU football game.
Who was Sheldon Toomer, for whom downtown Auburn’s Toomer’s Corner is named? A. An entrepreneur who helped form the First Bank of Auburn B. A pharmacist famous for prescribing locally produced moonshine as a sedative C. A dirt farmer who once owned two acres of land at the intersection of Magnolia Avenue and College Street D. A forestry professor who planted the first “Toomer’s Oak” to memorialize soldiers who died in World War I
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This former nurse spent seven and a half years as a fraternity housemother at AU and birthed a U.S. president: A. Virginia Kelley
B. Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt C. Lillian Gordy Carter D. Nancy Hanks Lincoln
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AU’s 23-22 football victory over the University of Alabama in 1982 broke the Tigers’ nine-year losing streak to the Crimson Tide. Which former player’s 1-yard leap over the Alabama goal line took AU’s score over the top? A. Bo Jackson B. Pat Dye C. Pat Sullivan D. Carnell “Cadillac” Williams
19. Just three days prior to launch and due to his suspected exposure to the German measles, AU alumnus Ken Mattingly ’58 was barred from serving as command module pilot on which infamous 1970 space flight?
A. Skylab 1
C. Apollo 11
B. Columbia
D. Apollo 13
Each year, students gather on the steps of Cater Hall to find out whether they’ve been chosen for membership in various campus organizations. The rituals are known as: A. Scream-outs B. Call-outs C. Shout-outs D. Speak-outs
The Model A shown in the archival photo on the cover of this issue of Auburn Magazine is significant because:
A. It was the first car registered by an AU student for parking on campus.
B. It was the personal vehicle of former AU President Luther N. Duncan.
C. It was absconded from a group of UGA football players in an infamous 1938 prank.
D. It transported former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Warm Springs, Ga., to the AU campus for a lecture on revolutionary polio treatments. Auburn Magazine
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Harold Franklin of Talladega made campus history in 1963 when his enrollment at AU made him the university’s first: A. Graduate student
Retired Vodafone chairman and AU trustee Samuel Ginn ’59, for whom Auburn’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering is named, in 2001 donated the largest financial gift in the university’s history. The amount was:
B. African-American student
A. $1 million
C. $10 million
C. Out-of-state student
B. $2 million
D. $25 million
D. Aerospace engineering major
A large Auburn seal was ensconced in the sidewalk in front of Langdon Hall in 1999. Since then, students have been sidestepping the spirited marker due to this superstition: A. Those who step on the seal are punished with bad luck for a year. B. Those who step on the seal will never graduate, and their children won’t attend AU. C. Those who step on the seal will marry a University of Alabama graduate.
D. Those who step on the seal lose a point off their grade-point average.
Which street intersecting AU’s campus is named for the first Auburn alumnus to serve as president of the university? A. Mell Street B. Thach Avenue C. Donahue Drive D. Samford Avenue
26. During the Rosen-Hutsell-Omicron Delta Kappa Cake Race, an annual AU Homecoming tradition, the winners of a 2.7-mile run across campus receive a kiss and a homemade cake. Track coach Wilbur Hutsell originally created the event in the 1920s because he wanted to:
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B. Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly
C. Bald eagle D. Tiger
AU’s beloved golden eagle, known formally as War Eagle VI and informally as “Tiger,” retired last fall after six seasons of circling JordanHare Stadium prior to home football games. At which other major event did Tiger appear as a special guest? A. The 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City B. The 2001 inauguration of U.S. President George W. Bush C. The 2007 Super Bowl XLI D. The 2005 White House Easter Egg Roll
Each day at noon, the Samford Hall carillon plays a song familiar to AU students and alumni alike. Name that tune:
A. The university alma mater, “On the rolling plains of Dixie … ”
B. The university fight song, “War Eagle” C. “Glory Glory to Ole Auburn”
Which of the following entertainers did not attend Auburn University? A. Jimmy Buffett B. Taylor Hicks C. Nell Carter D. Toni Tennille
D. “Eye of the Tiger”
Answers: 1. A, 2. C, 3. B, 4. A, 5. D, 6. C, 7. D, 8. B, 9. A, 10. C, 11. B, 12. C, 13. C, 14. D, 15. C, 16. A, 17. C, 18. A, 19. D, 20. B, 21. A, 22. B, 23. D, 24. B, 25. B, 26. C, 27. D, 28. A, 29. B, 30. C
SCORECARD Add the number of questions you answered correctly, then consult our handy grading scale:
26-30: You’re all orange and all blue, through and through. A+! 20-25: A solid B. Nice job. 16-19: C+. Average … Hit the books next time, why don’t ya? 11-15: C-. Perhaps we should get you a tutor, dear. 6-10: D. Barely passing. Were you on the six-year plan? 0-5: F is for failure. Bad Tiger.
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Jimmy Wales ’89 doesn’t have much time to talk—he’s busy constructing an empire, which requires a lot of globetrotting. He’s a 40-year-old revolutionist, a guru of sorts, and because of this people are constantly demanding his attention, debating his ideas, analyzing his plans and applauding his moxie. This is a man who is regularly quoted in magazines and newspapers—the good ones and the obscure. If it seems slightly amazing that you never heard of him, it’s probably because Jimmy D. “Jimbo” Wales would rather read theencyclopedia than have his photograph taken. Literally.
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Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia composed of articles on just about everything, from the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to classic rock band ZZ Top. Created by Wales and a colleague in 2001, Wikipedia recently made the list of top 10 most-visited Web sites in the world, generating 7 billion page views a month. Wikipedia’s key
feature—and the one that generates the most controversy among scholarly types—is that anyone can contribute to it. Know a lot about the Ming dynasty, Victorian architecture or the properties of cloud formations? You, too, can be an encyclopedia author. Wales, who was named one of Time magazine’s 100 “People Who Shape Our
money or become famous, you might end up doing uninteresting things, which seems awful to me.
Q: Which Wikipedia entry did you view most recently and why? A: I view so many Wikipedia entries, it is impossible to remember. (For the record, Wikipedia’s most-viewed entries include: Battle of Thermopylae; Naruto; United States; “Heroes” TV series; World War II; World War I; and List of Pokémon.)
Q: Your commercial flight just crash landed on a deserted island with no Internet connection. Which one of the following books will serve as your survival manual and why: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged; Lynette Porter’s Unlocking the Meaning of ‘Lost’: An Unauthorized Guide; the Oxford English Dictionary; or the Bible?
Q: You’ve identified “the child in Africa” as the ultimate beneficiary of Web-based knowledge. Do you relate to that child on some gut level and, if so, why?
A: The Oxford English Dictionary. This is
the full version, right? My second choice would be Atlas Shrugged, but I have already read it, more than once, and I’d get bored of rereading it. But the Oxford English Dictionary could provide nearly endless stimulation and amusement.
A: Well, the point is, the only thing that
can make progress in the world is the individual human mind operating rationally. It is a tragedy that so many people do not receive the tools to enable them to learn how to do that. … The human mind is our greatest asset. If we think about how much of that goes to waste in the world, it’s truly a global problem.”
Q: Name all Facebook groups to which you belong.
World” last year, is a former options trader who quit the finance industry to pursue the use of the Web to expand his own mind as well as the minds of others. The entrepreneurial wizard of odds, who grew up in Huntsville and now lives in St. Petersburg, Fla., recently pulled back the curtain to answer a few questions for Auburn Magazine.
Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia composed of articles on just about everything, from the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to classic rock band ZZ Top .
A: “Hey Baby, I’m a Scientist…Isn’t that Cool? No? OK, I’ll Go Over There” “If Wikipedia Says It, It Must be True” “Access to Research Now!” “Researchers Researching Researchers” “Glorious Union of Peoples Named Wales” “Wikipedia Lovers!”
Q: Which is more attractive, making money or becoming famous? A: Neither strikes me as particularly attractive, as compared to doing interesting things. If you do interesting things, you might make money or become famous. But if your goal is to make
Q: You also run Wikia Inc., a forprofit company that develops various Web sites to which lay people can contribute. What are some of your other projects?
A: Campaigns Wikia (www.campaigns.wikia.com) aims to
serve as a central meeting ground for people on all sides of the political spectrum who think that it is time for politics to become more participatory and more intelligent. Television tends to focus on the quick sound bites and “Cross.re”-style talking heads screaming at each other. … [Community-based Web sites] tend to generate calm and reasoned discussions. (Wales also recently announced plans to build a wiki-based search engine to rival Google and Yahoo.)
Q: “Wookieepedia.” Explain. A:
It’s a “Star Wars” wiki. It rocks. (www.wookieepedia.com)
Q: If you wrote your own epitaph, how would it read? A: “He set knowledge free.”
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