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DECEMBER/JANUARY 2010

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Small Wonders

Cupcakes for everyone

10 Garden

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Colorful Winter

Brighten up the season

12 Fashion Strong & Snazzy

Rocking the workout wardrobe

14 Brawn Toss Your Carrots

The creation of sensational motivation

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16 Momitude Where we leave our imprint

18 Smarts Job One Life lessons start at home

20 COVER STORY BIG VISION The dean that brought Auburn to the world.

28 Calendar Plenty to Do in Lee County

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For the smart, savvy Alabama woman Publisher: Beth Snipes Editor: Jenni Laidman Design and Photography: Beth Snipes Sales manager: Meg Callahan Sales reps: Betsy McLure Blake Copy Editor: Joey Harrison Web Designer: Brock Burgess Distribution: John Snipes

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Contributors Food: Fashion: Fitness: Garden: Momitude: Smarts:

Heida Olin Taylor Dungjen Lisa Gallagher Connie Cottingham Kelly Frick Janeane Barett

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onna lived a few doors from me, and when she said she was getting a pony for Christmas, I was overcome with envy.

Donna’s house ran on exotic rules. For instance, one of the sisters – I never knew which – had a giant doll, as big as any child. Sometimes her brothers would put it in the street just to see cars skid to a holt trying to avoid it. Their father sanctioned this game, but when he wasn’t home, one of the other parents in the neighborhood went over and yelled at the kids and the doll disappeared until the next warm day when there wasn’t anything interesting to do. he father was a mysterious man. He told us he carried a gun at work, and he kept unpredictable hours. His daughters often bragged about the things he would do, and that summer, I felt real yearning when I learned he was going to build a Ferris wheel in their back yard. I couldn’t believe their good fortune, and they never let me forget it. If it was my turn to jump rope, I would frequently take an extra turn on the end instead, or risk losing my place on the Ferris wheel. Long before any construction began, all neighborhood contests fell to the power of the coming Ferris wheel. When, over dinner, I revealed the plans for the Hubbard yard, my father said, “Don Hubbard is never going to build a Ferris wheel in his back yard,” and magically released me from months of servitude in anticipation of a Ferris wheel that never arrived.

But now, with only weeks before Christmas vacation, I was near slave to the Christmas pony. While my mother assured me there would be no pony, and I believed her, I also gave up my turn on the sledding hill as a kind of insurance. hen it hit me. I could have a pony, too. I would name it Shiny and he would live in the garage. The following morning, I announced Shiny’s Christmas arrival to Donna, her sister Barbara, and neighbor Cathy as we walked to school. The Hubbard girls didn’t believe me, but Cathy did, and no amount of taunting would get me to change my story. After school, Cathy and I walked to the corner store and bought some ribbon for Shiny’s hair. I got some jingle bells off a broken ornament, fixed them to the ribbon, and made a big production of producing these from my book bag on the way to school. By that afternoon, Donna had ribbon too, and announced they were buying a special blanket. “I’m sure that will be pretty,” I said, but I still took my turn on the sledding hill when it came.

The next day Cathy and I brought sugar cubes to school for Shiny, although we ate most of them. The next day it was carrots. Cathy and I got so involved in creating a life for Shiny that Donna and her sister stopped walking to school for us. f course, after Christmas, Donna never mentioned her pony again, but Cathy and I continued to build on Shiny’s life, drawing his picture, creating new friends for him, riding him whenever we pleased. He is my best Christmas gift ever and remains so.

So he, and I and all of us at Lee Magazine wish you the very best Christmas, and gifts as enduring as Shiny, and the most fabulous New Year you can imagine!

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We're from Auburn and no one could be prouder and if you don't believe us we'll yell a little louder

We're from Auburn and no one could be prouder and if you don't believe us we'll yell a little louder

We're from Auburn and no one could be prouder and if you don't believe us, we'll yell a little

louder!

CONGRATS AUBURN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT and

CAM NEWTON winner of the

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sounds weird, but wait until you taste them. Browned butter icing on pumpkin cupcakes, which also include browned butter, is heavenly, especially topped with a mixture of glazed pecans, pepitas, and crystallized ginger.

Browned butter sounds like a lot of trouble but once you’ve discovered the wonderful nutty flavor, you will change your mind. It’s also good on steamed carrots, apple sauté with raisins and walnuts.

Pull out your favorite cake recipe and make it into a cupcake. It’s easy to adapt cake recipes for cupcakes. It’s just a matter of reducing baking time. Cupcakes will take between 15 and 25 minutes to bake, depending on how moist the cake. If you’re adapting a simple vanilla or chocolate recipe, give them 15 minutes. But if there are chocolate chips, nuts or fruit added, start checking the cupcakes at about 20 minutes.

Then make butter cream icing with a touch of flavoring, such as rum or peppermint, that complements the cake. Spoon the frosting into a plastic bag, cut off a corner of the bag, and pipe the frosting onto you cupcakes.

Now tell me that doesn’t make you smile.

CRANBERRY JEWELS

A dessert revolution Let them eat CUPCAKES!

By Heida Olin Cupcakes make me smile.

I’m not alone. There an explosion of bakeries around the country selling nothing but cupcakes. Forget fussy pastries.

Cupcakes are queen.

I like to fill my freezer with baked goods for the holidays, and cupcakes are essential. They bake fast, freeze well, thaw quickly, and are ready to frost for a quick dessert.

It was hard to pick my favorite cupcake recipes to share. I baked a bunch, sent

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them to my husband’s classes, tried them on one of my choir groups, and encouraged my family to eat and rate them. All the cupcakes vanished, but no clear favorites emerged. My youngest son, Greg, did say the banana muffins were “too banana-y.” So I eliminated that one. Four hundred and ninety-nine to go.

I like to veer from the standard, chocolate, white, or yellow cupcakes. I love to make the icing unique as well. Peanut butter icing with chocolate zucchini cupcakes

This cupcake lasts beautifully in a cake stand and even tastes better the second and third day. They’re pretty good with blueberries too. Although this recipe calls for dried cranberries, you can substitute a bag of fresh cranberries and eliminate the need to rehydrate the berries in grape juice, but your cupcakes won’t be as sweet.

2 cups dried cranberries 1 ½ cups white grape juice ½ cup pecans (halves are prettier but chopped is fine) 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons brown sugar 3 eggs, room temperature 2 cups sugar 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon almond extract 3/4 cup butter, cut into chunks and softened 2 cups flour

F O O D Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 12-count muffin tin with paper baking cups. Spray bottom of cups lightly with cooking spray.

In a medium saucepan add cranberries and white grape juice. Bring to a boil, turn off the heat and let cranberries cool in the pan. Drain.

In a small skillet brown the pecans in the butter. It will produce a wonderful nutty aroma. Stir in the brown sugar. Set aside and cool.

Beat eggs and sugar together for about 6 minutes. The eggs are the leavening in these cupcakes so they should increase in volume and turn pale yellow. Add the vanilla and almond extract and drop the chunks of butter onto the batter. Beat for 2 minutes. Stir the flour in by hand until just incorporated. Fold in cranberries.

Put 1/3 cup batter into each muffin cup.

Top with a teaspoon of the pecan mixture.

Bake for 20-22 minutes or until golden on top. Cake should spring back when lightly touched.

Top with a dollop of whipped cream.

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CUPCAKES WITH PEANUT BUTTER FROSTING 1 cup flour ¼ cup cocoa powder 1 egg 1 stick butter, melted 1 cup sugar ½ teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sour cream 1 medium zucchini grated fine (1 cup) 1 teaspoon vanilla ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips

FROSTING 1 cup creamy peanut butter 6 tablespoons butter softened 1 tablespoon vanilla 2 cups powdered sugar, divided Pinch of salt 1/3 cup heavy cream Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 12-count muffin tin with paper baking cups and spray the bottom of each with cooking spray.

In a small bowl whisk together flour and cocoa powder; set aside.

Break egg into a large bowl and beat in the butter, sugar, and salt until combined.

Stir in the sour cream, zucchini, and vanilla. Add the flour mixture and chocolate chips, and stir just until the flour is incorporated. Put 1/3 cup batter into each muffin cup. These will not raise much.

Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden. Cake should spring back when lightly touched.

Cool completely.

FROSTING: Place all the ingredients into a mixer except one cup of powdered sugar. Start out slowly then increase speed to medium until the frosting becomes very fluffy. Add more powdered sugar to stiffen the frosting until you’re happy with its consistency. Pipe this onto the zucchini cupcakes. Sprinklings of chocolate nonpareils are a nice finishing touch.

PUMPKIN CUPCAKES WITH BROWNED BUTTER FROSTING This cupcake takes a little more effort, but it is worth it. The cake itself is lighter than

pumpkin bread but so moist and spicy it tastes like snack bread with a buttery sweet topping.

The topping is optional but gives a wonderful crunch to the cupcake when sprinkled on top of the frosting.

2 cups flour 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon ground ginger 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 ½ cups canned pumpkin purée 3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 large eggs 1/3 cup buttermilk *3/4 cup browned butter, melted FROSTING 6 tablespoons browned butter, softened* 2 ½ cups powdered sugar 2 teaspoon vanilla 3 tablespoons cream

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OPTIONAL TOPPING 2 tablespoon butter ¼ cup raw, hulled pepitas (pumpkin seeds) 1/3 cup chopped pecans 1 tablespoon firmly packed light brown sugar Pinch of coarse salt 1 ½ tablespoons chopped crystallized ginger Preheat oven to 350 degrees. This recipe makes 18 cupcakes so prepare a 12 count and a 6 count muffin tin with paper liners and shot of cooking spray.

Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. In a separate bowl, whisk the pumpkin with the brown sugar, granulated sugar, and eggs; stir in the buttermilk until blended.

Stir in the flour mixture until the batter thickens but you can still see the flour. Gently stir in the browned butter until completely incorporated.

Put a third of a cup batter into each muffin cup.

Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden. Cake should bounce back when lightly touched. Cool completely.

FROSTING Beat together browned butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and cream until fluffy. Spoon frosting into plastic bag and clip corner. Pipe onto cupcakes.

TOPPING Melt butter in a small skillet over medium heat.

Add the pepitas and the pecans, cooking until the pepitas begin to pop and the pecans smell toasted, about 2 minutes. Stir in the brown sugar and salt until the nuts are glazed. Stir in the ginger. Spread on a piece of foil to cool. Sprinkle onto frosting.

*BROWNED BUTTER To brown butter, place two sticks of unsalted butter in a saucepan over low heat. Melt, stirring, until the butter is a lovely golden color. There will be sediment on the bottom of the pan.

Carefully pour the butter into a container to refrigerate, leaving behind as much of the sediment as possible. Be careful not to burn the sediment. That creates a bitter taste.

I often make two pounds at a time and use it on vegetables or mix it with wine and pour it over steak.

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APPLESAUCE CUPCAKES WITH HONEY BUTTER FROSTING The whole wheat flour gives this a nutty flavor but doesn’t take away from the lightness of the cake. If you’re a fan of any kind of apple cake. you’ll love this cupcake. The honey-laced frosting is a perfect topping.

1½ cups flour 1 cup whole wheat flour ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg (fresh is best) 2 eggs ½ cup melted butter 1 ½ cups applesauce ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans 2 Granny Smith apples peeled and finely chopped

FROSTING 1 stick butter softened 3 cups powdered sugar 2 tablespoons honey 2 -3 tablespoons cream Sprinkles Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 12 count muffin tin with paper baking cups, and spray lightly with cooking spray.

Mix flour, whole wheat flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add the eggs, melted butter, and applesauce and With the mixer at slow speed, beat until mixed. Mix another 2 minutes on medium, scraping the sides of the bowl. Stir in the chopped apples and nuts.

Put a third of a cup batter into each muffin cup. Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden. Cake should spring back when touched lightly.

Cool completely.

FROSTING Beat the butter, powdered sugar, and honey until combined. Add cream a tablespoon at a time until frosting is fluffy. Spoon into plastic bag. Clip corner off bag and pipe frosting onto cupcake. Cover with sprinkles. -lm

Heida Olin is a local caterer andeducator. You can reach her at heida@lee-magazine.com.. Please visit her blog at www.lee-magazine.com

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and orange slices for the birds.

If your garden needs more life, review this list of evergreen plants (below) that work in the shade. These plants add much more than a bit of green to your garden.

Camellias A classic shrub for any Southern garden, its colorful blooms stand out against glossy green leaves in fall and winter.

Sasanqua camellias (Camellia sasanqua) bloom from fall through year’s end. Japonicas (Camellia japonica) bloom from almost Christmas until almost Easter. The japonicas do best sheltered from the wind.

They prefer morning sun with shade from noon on, and love pine shade. Winter sun can scorch the leaves of japonicas planted in deciduous shade. This doesn’t hurt the plant. It just looks bad. Sasanquas are tougher plants and can take more sun. I recommend afternoon shade for any camellias.

Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus)

Winter Wonderland Robert and Alice Crittenden's Auburn yard is a winter showplace

A season of color for your shade garden

By Connie Cottingham

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inter can be one of the best seasons for gardeners, with mild days of bright blue skies and nary and insect in sight. But it takes a little planning to make sure a garden stays interesting in winter, especially a shade garden when perennials snuggle under the mulch and trees lose their leaves.

Luckily there are many ways to add color to the shade garden. First, decide what your winter relationship to the garden will be. Will you appreciate from afar, inside the house? Then create a stage set.

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Plum yews have deep green, flat needles like the English yew, but are better suited to the South. It can be a tree or a shrub.

It is also available as beautiful sprawling groundcover, or an upright spire that can add height to a container or mark the entrance of a path.

Lungwort (Pulmonaria) These evergreen perennials not only have leaves often spotted or splashed with cream, but the very, very early spring blooms usually open pink and age to blue, which gives a colorful two-tone effect.

These plants mature at about a foot high by two feet wide and are available in many varieties.

Coral Bells (Heuchera) Redecorate! Get out there and move the furniture, bird feeders, and ornaments for the perfect view.

Look at what you have, think about your color scheme, stash some things in the garage, and trim the perennials that have died back. Then plant annuals in colors that complement your color scheme. If you’re feeling ambitious, scrub or repaint your furniture. And definitely fill the bird feeders and harvest some color on the wing.

You might add seasonal decorations, or trim a tree with popcorn/cranberry strings

These plants have been raised for evergreen foliage, with the beautiful purple leaves of ‘Palace Purple’ starting the rage.

Now the pinky caramel/toffee and bright chartreuse colors are popular. Flowers floating above the cluster of colorful leaves seem to be a bonus with foliage so beautiful.

Rohdea japonica Rohdea have thick, shiny evergreen leaves that rise upright from the base, creating an eighteen-inch-high cluster tolerant of shade. It’s drought tolerant, durable and deer resistant.

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Lenten Roses (Helleborus) Every Southern shade garden should have Lenten Roses.

These evergreen perennials can bloom from February through April, with pink, white, green, maroon, or speckled flowers. They prefer deciduous shade to pines (I think they resent the pine needle mulch).

Breeders are having a party with this plant, so expect new varieties.

Daffodils and other Spring Bulbs Spring bulbs add a joyous display of color before the dormant perennials wake up. Most bulb packaging tells you Cora Bells if a flower is early, mid or late blooming. A mix of all three ensures a long bloom display each spring. Daffodils are foolproof, deer proof and almost eternal. Hyacinths are bright, colorful, and often fragrant. Many small bulbs are charming and suited for a woodland garden. Tulips can be tricky in the South and best left for extensive gardens or experienced gardeners. -lm Connie Cottingham is licensed in three Southern states as landscape architect. You can reach her at connie@lee-magazine.com.

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F A S H I O N

Sweat chic

Exercise your right to look hot

By Taylor Dungjen

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n August, after a messy, weird breakup, I decided to start working out to make myself feel better and get my mind off the ex-boyfriend. I laced up my really old, kind of hideous tennis shoes, hopped on my roommate’s elliptical, and got into the groove.

Before I knew it, working out was part of my daily routine and I was actually excited to get up to workout. At least three times I asked myself, “Who am I?” In mid-October, I joined a gym. Now I was super-conscientious about workout wear. At home, old gym shorts splattered with lime green paint were fine. At the gym, that wouldn’t fly – you never know who you might run into.

Out shopping for new clothes, I realized I wasn’t scoping the latest fashions as frequently, but I was making my way to the “active” department (a.k.a. workout clothes). At the bookstore, I was trading Vogue and InStyle for Shape and Women’s Health.

(I did eventual-

Megan Torresgosa, Auburn, models a fashion meets function workout outfit.

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ly find a balance and now buy fashion magazines and health and fitness glossies.)

There is so much fun fitness fashion available, it almost makes me sad I didn’t start working out sooner. I traded worn T-shirts for bright tank tops in a breathable material – some with built-in bras.

I stocked up on long-sleeve, lightweight shirts in pink, blue, yellow, and green.

The bright new workout clothes reenergized my workouts, motivating me to get my money’s worth out of my new garb, and to show off my fun shirts at the gym.

Once I even worked out next to the cute firefighter.

The gear doesn’t have to be expensive, but if you’re going to drop a lot of money on something to wear to the gym – or even if you’re working out at home or running around the neighborhood – invest the most money into shoes and a good sports bra.

Wearing a normal bra is not a good idea during a workout. Without proper support, sagging and back pain await. Plus, I read an account of an unfortunate woman who was working out in her lacey bra and required special lotion for the chaffing.

Yikes.

Chose your shoes to fit your workout.

You won’t want the same shoes for running on rugged trails as you want for the gym. For all-around use, look for a shoe that will absorb impact. It should have rubber nodes on the sole for traction. If you run outdoors, look for shoes with a firmer midsole to keep your feet stable.

Being a hot, sweaty mess might not sound glamorous, but there’s no shame in trying to chic-it-up, right? -lm Taylor Dungjen is a freelance writer who often covers fashion. Write to her at taylor@lee-magazine.com

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I’m a 50-something, and over the last few years I’ve noticed these persistent, hard, whiteheads under my eyes and on my cheeks. They look terrible, and they won’t go away! I’ve tried steaming, scrubbing, squeezing, and even one of those in-home extractor tools. All I achieved was some really sore spots. Why am I getting these whiteheads at my age? Can you help me clear up my skin?

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Milia can be safely and painlessly removed by a skin care professional. To keep them from forming again, I recommend Environ Prewash, and a Retinol product to control oil production. It’s also important that your skin care routine provide adequate exfoliation.

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INSIDE OUT Finding the best source of motivation

By Lisa Gallagher

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herri and I were exercise partners. We met twice a week for six months to lift weights, never missing a session. When Sherri decided to take the Certified Public Accountant exam, the workouts ended. We both stopped lifting. Working full time and studying for that wickedly difficult exam was all Sherri could manage. But why did I stop? I thought, “Lisa, you love to lift.

You’ve been working out for two decades.

It’s part of your lifestyle. Get going!”

In his book “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,” Daniel Pink cited a 1969 study by Edward Deci to discuss the impact of reward on performance. On day one of the study, Groups A and B were asked to solve puzzles, fitting pieces together to make predetermined shapes. On day two, Group A was paid $1 (the equivalent of $6 today) for each puzzle they solved, and Group B, the

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control group, was not offered a reward. one was as expected, with not much difOn day three Group A was told that there ference between both uncompensated was only an allocation for one day Understanding what us makes of compensation, so there would be us better spouses, parents, coworkers, and no payment for In to others, it’s the differpuzzles completed that day. Group B ence between nagging and again was offered no compensation.

So Group A was not paid, paid, and then groups. Day two followed a logical path, not paid. The control group was never with the pay-for-puzzle Group A continoffered compensation. ing to work during the free period. They Deci was counting puzzles completed, were invested in getting faster at solving but also secretly watching what partici- the puzzles in order to earn more money. pants did during an eight minute break Day three uncovered a key truth about in the session. Would they continue to motivation. When Group A’s compenplay with the puzzle out of an inherent sation was removed, so was their motivatendency to seek out challenges and to tion to solve the puzzle. They spent less learn, or would they stop working and free time working puzzles than they had pick up a magazine? The result for day in either previous session. Taking away

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B R A W N the reward removed the motivation they demonstrated initially with no reward — to challenge themselves and just enjoy learning the puzzles. xternal motivation can give our efforts a short term boost, but can derail us in the long run by quashing internal motivation. To stay motivated, or to become motivated, we need to look inside, not out. I want to look good in my clothes is internal motivation; I won’t buy clothes unless I run

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three times this week is external. One helps keep us on track over the long haul; the other may set us up for failure. Meeting with my friend Sherri was fun and it helped both of us be consistent. But when it ended, I needed to bolster external motivation with internal drive.

Understanding what motivates us makes us better spouses, parents, coworkers, and friends. In relation to others, it’s the difference between nagging and helping. If you insist your spouse do something, that’s nagging. If you say, “It really is your choice,” that’s empowering because it ultimately relies on internal motivation, not on you. got back on track by reconnecting with how I see myself. Sherri passed the CPA exam on the first try, and her life is back in balance. It’s OK to stop, or to get derailed. But remember who’s in charge. Look inside for what motivates you; don’t rely on rewards or punishments.

Carrots and sticks may help for a moment, but the key to long-range change comes from within. -lm

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By Kelly Frick Emma came home from school the other day with homework – for me.

“Tell me about your child,” read the assignment sheet, and it was signed by her sixth-grade teacher. The instructions: Write a report about your child. Anything you might want the world, and in particular the teacher and class, to know about her.

Piece of cake, right?

I write about my kids all the time for this magazine, yet I found the assignment a bit daunting.

We talk about our kids every day – the

Assignment: Motherhood

The fingerprints we leave on our children funny things they do, the maddening things they do, the amazing things they do, the things we wish they would do.

But none of those things explain WHO the child is.

How do I explain that?

After contemplating Emma for two days, (OK, I was procrastinating just like Emma does with homework) my husband and I sat down at the computer. It was a lot harder than I thought.

Our children shine uniquely and yet they reflect us — our values, our foibles, our brilliance. They pick up the trait we wish we had shed, right along with the one we’re proud of. They are a mixture of both parents; your daughter may have your smile, but your husband’s off-thewall sense of humor. Your son has his father’s eye color, but your frustrating way of finding fault with others.

Our children aren’t perfect, just like their parents.

I wrote that Emma has unparalleled

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compassion for people and always finds the best in people she meets. I see that in her all the time because it’s the thing I admire most about her. And it’s what first made me fall in love with her father.

Chris wrote that Emma believes in justice and isn’t afraid to stand up for it, even when it upsets the authority figures around her. It’s what he admires in her.

That’s what he loves about both his wife and his daughter.

We also wrote about characteristics we aren’t so proud of. Emma doesn’t push herself enough. Many things come easy to her, but when something doesn’t, she quits. (It’s why she stopped playing soccer in second grade.)

Unfortunately, she learned that from me. I didn’t want her to, but if she watched my behavior she was bound to pick it up.

She doesn’t pay enough attention to details, often overlooking the sweatshirt she needs even though it’s on her desk chair.

She loses points on tests for circling the

answer when she was to underline it.

Yes, my husband admitted, that’s him.

But sprinkled in are a few things that are uniquely Emma’s: Her ability to interact with small children, the way she twirls her hair around her index finger... and oatmeal. She loves of apple-cinnamon oatmeal. (I’m sorry, that’s just gross.)

My homework made me realize that my children are far more fascinating people than I give them credit for as I force them to make beds and take out garbage and finish school work.

They also carry our imprint, for better or for worse. The responsibility of parenthood has perhaps never been so impressive as it was when we signed our names on the final draft of the assignment.

I put a copy of the homework in Emma’s baby book, with a note: “Thanks for inspiring me to be a better person.”

“Love, your Mom.” -lm Kelly Frick is a writer and mother of two.

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The gist of the article was that children have so much comfort and ease, they never learn to do ordinary household tasks.

It took me back to last school year when I assigned my third graders a “How To” paper. They were to write step-by-step instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then they worked in pairs, with one student following his partner’s directions exactly as written. The end result was to be a sandwich. That was rarely the case. Sometimes the directions never even mentioned using bread.

The students learned a lot about writing clear step-by-step directions and I learned something as well: Most of my students did not know how to use a table knife or spreader to spread peanut butter.

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Some pushed the peanut butter with the end of the knife, some tried to spread it with the flat side, and some hammered away at the peanut butter as if driving nails. If I had not sat down at the table as each pair followed the often incomplete directions, I would not have noticed how many students lacked this basic skill. I was truly astonished. I thought all third graders could make a sandwich.

I was wrong. Some told me they had never made their own sandwich.

All children should have chores or assigned tasks at home. Even preschoolers can sort laundry or help set the table. As your child gets older, add more responsibilities. Each week assign each child in your family a different chore. If your children carry lunches to school, have them take turns making lunches for everyone in the family.

Your children might complain about chores, but in the classroom I witness their pride in overheard conversations.

One student may say, “My mom forgot to pack my lunch,” and another student proudly proclaims, “I pack my own lunches.” Other students have related how each person in their family has a night to plan and cook a meal. o matter what skills we deem necessary, it is important that we foster independence in children. Having increasing responsibilities at home, in the classroom, and in the community is one necessary step in reaching this common goal. In the end, you are teaching your child responsibility and they learn that you must work for what you have. -lm

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June Henton

Bringing Auburn to the World J

une Henton, dean of the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University, is visiting a refugee camp.

This refugee camp is full of students and located on AU’s Cater Lawn, but the guards — ROTC students — are real. So are the makeshift tents and the rationed food, enough for four people for two meals. The food is distributed only to the females, as in a refugee camp, because women always make sure the children eat.

Today, the dinner menu consists solely of tortillas flavored with crumbly dried kudzu, cooked on a little energy-efficient stove. Tomorrow morning, the menu will be beans.

Henton is AU’s longest serving dean, with twenty-five years at the helm of her college. Among her accomplishments is

collaborating with the United Nations to raise awareness on college campuses about the problem of world hunger.

“Solving world hunger — that’s the quintessential complex problem,” she muses. “People think it’s a problem that can’t be solved.”

The tenure of college deans is about seven years on average, and Henton passed that mark almost two decades ago.

Nobody is lobbying for her to step down.

“As dean of the College of Human Sciences, Dr. Henton has built academic programs that have a reputation throughout the state of Alabama, the nation, and the world,” says AU provost Mary Ellen Mazey, Henton’s boss. “The university is very fortunate to have such a high caliber dean with an international reputation for her work.”

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former television host who served under four deans teaching home economics at Auburn, agrees emphatically.

“I’ve known her since the very beginning. I’m a great admirer of June’s. If I had to think of something to criticize her I would have a very hard time,” says Cannon, who taught in the College of Human Sciences before she retired. “I think Auburn is very lucky to have her.

She certainly has put this school on the map.” Cannon now serves on Henton’s college advisory board and calls the dean a friend. lthough Henton is low key, softspoken and rarely takes the spotlight, she has gained a reputation for innovative programs and thinking with a global perspective – not bad for a woman who spent her youth on her father’s ranch near tiny Hominy, Oklahoma., northwest

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ing the curricula,” she remembers. “They identified what kind of knowledge was important to have a broader perspective, and they wanted to make sure our graduates had had the opportunity to travel abroad.” ome of Henton’s best-known initiatives evolved from that drive for global awareness. One thing just seemed to lead to another.

Henton’s involvement with the World Food Programme, for example, came out of another College of Human Sciences program, the International Quality of Life

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from Auburn, so their concern was that most people don’t know where Auburn is. That is why we decided to have the awards ceremony in New York City at the United Nations building.”

Henton had friends at the U.N. The next piece fell into place because one of the college’s advisory board members was an adviser to the U.N.’s World Food Programme, which has headquarters in Rome but a marketing office in New York City.

“Someone was interested in a studentrun hunger campaign and wondered if I would take a look at what they were doing,” Henton says. “All they were thinking about was a Web site with a nineteencent campaign — at that time it took nineteen cents a day to feed a child. They were just planning on raising funds from the number of clicks on the page.” uburn University was soon on board as the World Food Programme’s first academic partner. That was in 2004. Now, more than one hundred fifty universities are involved in the Universities Fighting World Hunger coalition she created.

“I said yes, not knowing what it would entail,” Henton remembers. “But we have to get a handle on feeding people and the very real, shameful position we are in of having twenty-five thousand people a year die from hunger when there is enough food.”

As Henton enters AU’s mock refugee camp, she hardly looks like a crusader.

Although she is in her late sixties or perhaps early seventies, she is slender with an unlined face, medium-brown hair and dressed in a slim skirt, low heels and a leather jacket. She is brisk, precise and self-contained.

The refugee camp falls into the category of “consciousness raising,” because refugees often are hungry. The simulated refugee camp is a project of AU’s Committee of 19, a student group with representation from every school and college on campus that directs War on Hunger

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of Tulsa.

Yet, Henton will tell you, the key vision guiding her college for the last two decades is “globalization.” During the late 1980s, when she came to Auburn from Oregon, some Alabamians acted as though the world stopped at the Chattahoochee River. But nationwide the discussion was how college graduates could operate in a global economy, and Henton was listening. She put together an advisory board with widespread connections.

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Awards. The awards, established in 1994, honored people and partnerships making significant contributions to quality of life both locally and internationally.

Past recipients have included South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and more than one Nobel laureate.

“The college’s advisory board was focused on international programs, with members who had lived and worked overseas,” Henton recalls. “Most were not

June Henton, dean of the College of Human Sciences

efforts at AU and in the community.

Students apply for the committee, and behind every one with an official position are dozens of volunteers. Their model is to raise awareness of hunger, followed by consciousness raising, money raising, and finally advocacy. Not only have they slept in a refugee camp overnight, they have marched to Montgomery and back.

“Every discipline has a role to play, and everybody has a contribution to make,” Henton says. Involvement in the World Hunger efforts is “an absolutely lifechanging experience for a lot of our students here.” enton says the idea is for students not only to better understand the issues, but to think about long-term solutions instead of short-term crisis intervention.

“It has to be long-term, generation after generation,” she says. “We know hunger can be solved in our time, but there is a lack of political will. We just have to bring along the next generation, getting

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young people informed and committed to a cause.”

Universities have never banded together to collectively put their talents to work on global issues, Henton says. Recently, Roger Beachy, director of the National Institute on Food and Agriculture, cited Auburn’s comprehensive approach as an example of how the academic community can collaboratively address important issues facing the world.

“AU fisheries has done a phenomenal job over the years, but the rest of us have been bench players, observers more than activists,” Henton says. The AU Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture has an international presence through its International Center for Aquaculture created in the 1970s. It provides assistance to developing countries.

So how did that little girl from Hominy—her name was June Markum then—become not only a college dean but a leading figure in the War on Hun-

Dean Henton visited Guatemala to observe school feeding programs

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ger? Henton isn’t the sort of person who bubbles with anecdotes about herself, but she says that growing up she always loved school. Her brother was the first in the family to go to college.

“The options were usually, ‘Will I work or won’t I work?’” Henton remembers.

“If a women worked, she was probably a teacher or a nurse. In the late ’50s and early ’60s, making a living was a challenge, and college was an additional financial burden. People did very well without a college degree.” But Henton’s mother was her role model, and she set high standards for the family. So Henton packed her bags for Oklahoma State, a land-grant university not too far from her hometown. There, Henton studied family social science, which she describes as the study of relationships and how they develop and change over time, with one of the key relationships being the family unit. That’s where she met her husband, Richard Henton. ogether, the Hentons went to graduate school at the University of Nebraska and then pursued doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1970. Out of the six children

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in the Markum family, Henton says she’s the renegade, the only one who settled far from home. The Hentons, an academic couple, took positions first at Texas Tech, then in 1979 moved on to the University of Oregon in Corvallis. Henton was an associate dean and department chair, and her husband was a professor of interior design.

“We were a dual career couple until Oregon State,” Henton says. “My husband had a stroke a couple of years later; it affected his speech center and took him out of his teaching career.”

After that, Henton says, Richard played an essential role as their two children grew up and also “taking care of me.” Their son now works for PBS in Alexandria, Virginia., and their daughter is in Huntsville.

Both are AU graduates who married Auburn natives, which means she gets to see her two grandchildren often.

“She doesn’t neglect her family for anything,” says her friend Lee Cannon.

“That’s one thing I like about her, too.”

When Henton was recruited to come to Auburn in 1985, the college had fewer than five hundred students. Today, the College of Human Sciences has some

twelve hundred students in three departments — consumer affairs, human development and family studies and nutrition, dietetics and hospitality management. he consumer affairs department includes interior design, applied design and applied merchandising. Students in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies typically go into helping professions, and if they get a master’s degree provide marriage and family therapy. The Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Management is a hybrid, with nutrition students typically preparing for careers in medicine or physical therapy and dietetics students going on to sit for the Registered Dietitian exam.

The hotel and restaurant management program showcases another groundbreaking Henton initiative: a partnership with Atlanta-based West Paces Hotel Group, a luxury chain with hotels and resorts around the world. AU’s hotel and restaurant management students get hands-on experience in the “lab” across the street from campus — the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center. West Paces employees with stellar credentials double as instructors, and students can move on

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to internships at properties in New York City, or Telluride, or Bali, or Singapore, or….well, you get the idea. hat most local people don’t know is that West Paces got its start in Auburn, with the hotel and conference center as its beta site. They also may not know that West Paces is headed by Horst Schulze, one of the luminaries in the hospitality firmament. It just so happens that Schulze serves on Henton’s college advisory board and along the way became a friend. That’s typical, Lee Cannon says; when people work with Henton on something, they always end up as a good friend.

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University in Ithaca, New York.

“Oh, we’ll exceed Cornell,” Henton says confidently. “Their goal is to be the biggest. Our goal is to be the best.”

Another Henton initiative with a decidedly global perspective is the College of Human Sciences’ campus in Ariccia, Italy, seventeen miles south of Rome. Auburn has always offered study-abroad opportunities, but Henton, her advisory board, and the College of Human Sciences went a step further. They created a permanent campus in Ariccia, where students stay in the Palazzo Chigi, the summer home of a wealthy Roman family that was renovated

participate, and the program is open to students from any major on campus if space is available.

“I thought it was out of our reach,” Henton says. “The university was not very internationally focused at that time, and I didn’t think we could establish a permanent campus by ourselves.” enton says she expected Auburn to be a five-year stop for the family. What kept her invested and excited, she says, was the fact that she was given the autonomy to do innovative things.

And which innovative initiative makes her most proud?

“All of the above,” she says. “They came at different times. Someone opens a door for you, and you take advantage of the opportunity.”

That’s actually a little too modest, Lee Cannon maintains.

“She’s been given the freedom, but she’s also created the situations,” Cannon says. “Faculty and administration always agreed with her because she was right.

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Dean Henton and assistant, Jayne Kucera in their Spidle Hall office

And since Henton knew Schulze, she recognized an opportunity for Auburn.

“This hotel was dedicated in 1988, and I was always frustrated it was owned by the developers and had no connection with the university,” Henton says. “In 2000 I started hearing rumors that AU was buying it. Horst had left Ritz-Carlton (where he was long-time president) and was in a non-compete agreement. I went to him and asked if he was interested in managing the hotel. He was, and he brought along Ritz-Carlton’s best people.”

Schulze was satisfying a desire to mentor young restaurateurs and hoteliers, and Henton was laying the foundation for a hotel and restaurant management program that may eventually rival the industry’s best-known program at Cornell

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. he campus opened in 2002, and every fall nineteen undergraduates and one graduate student take up residence for a term. In the spring another group comes, with a third group during the summer semester. The students take excursions south to Naples and the Amalfi coast and north to Tuscany, Florence and Milan.

“Anzio Beach (where the Allies landed during World War II) is only thirty miles away,” Henton says. “I think students develop a better appreciation for American history there than here.”

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ONGOING: To celebrate that there’s nothing so nice as formal wear, the Lee County Humane Society offers Tuxedo Tuesday discounts for “tuxedo” wearing pets. All adoptions of black-and-white cats and dogs, as well as solid black cats and dogs, will cost $60.

ONGOING: Support the Lee County Humane Society by purchasing a Best Friends Calendar featuring local pets. Calendars are $10 and may be purchased at the Lee County Humane Society as well as at local businesses and veterinary offices.

ONGOING THROUGH DECEMBER 15: Donate old phonebooks to Opelika schools (kindergarten through eighth grade) as part of Project Redirectory. The school that collects the most phone books will receive $1,000 from AT&T. Phonebooks may be dropped off at any Opelika City School, Keep Opelika Beautiful, 601 Avenue A, and the City of Opelika, 204 South Seventh Street. Information: 749-4970.

artistically themed Christmas trees, on display at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center.

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DECEMBER 1: Magic Tree House Club, for children reading the Magic Tree House Club book series, 3:30 p.m., Auburn Public Library.

Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 1, 8, AND 15, JANUARY 6, 13, 20, AND 27, AND FEBRUARY 3: Preschool Story Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Public Library, for children ages three to five and their parents. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 2: Join the director and curator of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art for a 1072 Society Exhibition Lecture at 5 p.m. Each piece in this year’s 1072 Society Exhibition will be discussed, including works

by John Buck, William Wegman, Roger Shimomura, and Jim Dine. Admission: Free.

DECEMBER 2: Teen Café at the Auburn Public Library. High school students can play Wii games, read graphic novels, dance, and listen to music. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 2: Celebrate the holidays with Aubie as part of the Auburn University Holiday Celebration, 6:30 p.m., Samford Lawn.

The celebration includes carols, the lighting of a Christmas tree, cookies, and hot chocolate.

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Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

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DECEMBER 2: A Little Lunch Music from

noon to 1 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art presents an informal, free concert by cellist Laura Usiskin, cello fellow of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. The Museum Café will be open.

DECEMBER 4: The Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual Downtown Auburn Christmas Parade beginning at 10 a.m. Tim Hudson, Braves pitcher and Auburn alumnus, is this year’s grand marshal. Information: 887-7011.

DECEMBER 4 AND 5: The Auburn University Singers perform their Fall Show at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Telfair Pete Theatre. General admission is $10. Students and children admitted for $5. Information: 844-4165.

DECEMBER 6 AND ALL MONTH: Everyone is invited to the Boys and Girls Club Art Exhibit Opening at the Auburn Public Library at 5:30 p.m. The artwork will be on display at the library throughout the month of December.

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DECEMBER 6: East Alabama Arts presents Fiddler on the Roof at the Opelika Performing Arts Center, Opelika High School, 1700 Lafayette Parkway, Opelika. Performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $40 for adults, $35 for seniors, and $26 for students. Information: 749-8105.

Baby Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Public Library, a time to hear stories and make crafts for babies ages six to eighteen months and their parents.

Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

11 a.m., Ham Wilson Arena on the Auburn University campus. The workshop costs $20, and registration is required by December 10.

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DECEMBER 7: Puppet Play, a puppet performance, takes place at the Auburn Public Library, 3:30 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

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DECEMBER 11: Make your own holiday decorations at the Holiday Wreath Workshop,

DECEMBER 11 TO MARCH 12: Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn. The late Finster was a world-renown outsider artist born in northern Alabama. He said he was inspired by God to create his artworks.

DECEMBER 11: Children from kindergarten through high school learn to draw animals from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Saturday Art Club, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Instruction is tailored to each age level.

Parents are encouraged to attend.

DECEMBER 12: Join the Lee County Historical Society in Loachapoka for traditional Christmas decorations and games as part of Second Saturday: Christmas at the Homestead, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Whistle Stop Pickers perform at 1 p.m. Admission: free.

Information: 887-3007.

DECEMBER 12: The Eufala Heritage Association hosts its Fifth Annual Christmas Tour of Homes with a seated luncheon and dinner at Shorter Mansion and tours of modern and historic homes. Admission: luncheon $25, eight home-tour $40, four home-tour $20, individual home-tours $6, and dinner $42.50. Information: 1-888-383-2852 or visit www.eufalapilgrimage.com.

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Calendar continued      DECEMBER 13: Tickets go on sale for the 22nd Annual Daddy-Daughter Date Night.

The event will be February 10, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., and February 11 and 12, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Lexington Hotel in Auburn. Tickets are $30 per couple and $5 for each additional child and may be purchased at the Dean Road Recreation Center, 307 South Dean Road in Auburn between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Information: 501-2930.

DECEMBER 13: Lee County Humane Society’s No More Wasted Lives Campaign begins when Jessica Marable, the society’s director, begins her lock-up inside a kennel outside Kroger, 300 North Dean Road in Auburn, until the 2010 fundraising goal of $24,308 is reached. The amount represents $4 for each of the 6,077 animals cared for by the humane society in 2010. Information: 821-3222 DECEMBER 16: American Girls Club, for children reading the American Girls book series, 3:30 p.m., Auburn Public Library. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 16: Registration ends today for third through sixth graders who want to take a Holiday Trip to the Montgomery Zoo December 21. Pack a brown bag lunch for a picnic with the giraffes. A $15 field trip fee is due the day of the trip. Buses leave at 9 a.m. from the Dean Road Recreation Center, 307 South Dean Road in Auburn. Information: 5012946.

DECEMBER 16: Janet Sanders music class

performs a Holiday Musicale at the Auburn Public Library, 6 p.m. Information: 5013196.

DECEMBER 16: A Little Lunch Music from noon to 1 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art presents a free performance

by Mary Slaton, pianist. The Museum Café will be open.

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DECEMBER 17: Registration ends today at 5 p.m. for seniors who wish to see the January 20th presentation by “Bear Country” at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, through the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department.

Registration is $34. Buses leave from Dean Road Recreation Center, 307 South Dean Road in Auburn. Information: 501-2930

the Plain: A Photographic Survey.” The event at The Lexington Hotel, 1577 South College Street, begins with an information fair from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m., followed by the program and business meeting from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. New member orientation follows.

Cookies and coffee served at the information fair, meeting and program. Open to the public.

JANUARY 11: East Alabama Arts presents the Opole Philharmonic of Poland, 7:30 p.m. at the Opelika Performing Arts Center at Opelika High School, 1700 Lafayette Parkway, Opelika. Information: 749-8105.

DECEMBER 21: Registration ends today for third through sixth graders who want to attend Bowling and a Movie December 28. Children will bowl at Auburn Lanes, eat a brown bag lunch, and watch a movie at Carmike Wynnsong 16 Cinemas. A $15 field trip fee is due the day of the trip. Shoes and socks are required to bowl. Buses leave at 9 a.m. from the Dean Road Recreation Center, 307 South Dean Road in Auburn. Information: 501-2946.

JANUARY 7-FEBRUARY 19: Winter Invitational – “From A to Z,” an exhibit of works in a variety of media by local and regional artists, at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center.

Admission: free. Information: 501-2963 JANUARY 8: SECOND SATURDAY, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lee County Historical Society, features a scarecrow contest, folk art re-enactments, and a performance by The Whistle Stop Pickers. Admission: free. Information: 887-3007.

JANUARY 10: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn general membership meeting featuring Ann Pearson and Ralph B. Draughon, discussing, “The Vanishing Village on

JANUARY 14: The Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series presents Small Potatoes, 7:30 p.m., Auburn Unitarian Universalist Church, 450 Thach Avenue. Tickets: $10, students $8, children 12 and under, free. Information: www.sundilla.org.

JANUARY 19: East Alabama Arts presents the Opole Philharmonic of Poland at 7:30 p.m. at the Opelika Performing Arts Center at Opelika High School, 1700 Lafayette Parkway, Opelika. Admission is $40 for adults, $35 for seniors,and $26 for students. Information: 749-8105.

JANUARY 21: Registration ends today at 5 p.m. for seniors who wish to see “Steel Magnolias” at the Faulkner University Dinner Theatre through the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department. Registration is $30. Information: 501-2930 JANUARY 28: The Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series presents Eric Taylor, 7:30 p.m., Auburn Unitarian Universalist Church, 450 Thach Avenue. Tickets: $10, students $8, children 12 and under, free. Information: www. sundilla.org.

FEBRUARY 5- APRIL 30: Outsiders on the Inside: Contemporary Folk Art in the Permanent

Collection at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn.

FEBRUARY 5- APRIL 30: Prints by Edvard

Munch at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn.

FEBRUARY 8: East Alabama Arts presents From the Top at the Opelika Performing Arts Center at Opelika High School, 1700 Lafayette Parkway, Opelika. This performance will be recorded for broadcast on National Public Radio. Performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $40; $35 seniors; $26 students. Information: 749-8105.

FEBRUARY 11: The Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series presents James Lee Stanley, 7:30 p.m., Auburn Unitarian Universalist Church, 450 Thach Avenue. Tickets: $10, students $8, children 12 and under, free. Information:

www.sundilla.org.

FEBRUARY 12: The Richard Goodman Writing Workshop from 9 a.m. to noon at the Lexington Hotel, 1577 South College Street, Auburn, covers, “First Impressions: How to Craft a Good Beginning to Your Story.” Taught by the author of “The Soul of Creative Writing,” “French Dirt: The Story of A Garden in the South of France,” and “A New York Memoir,” the workshop is $25 for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute members, $35 for non-members. Register required: 844-5100, or at www.olliatauburn.org.

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FEBRUARY 9: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn Valentine Social takes place 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Auburn University Alumni Center, for OLLI members and their guests.

Members with last names beginning A-O, bring finger food for ten and those with last names P-Z, bring wine or other beverage. Parking is available in gravel lot behind Alumni Center.

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YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS! Teams of professional dancers and local stars will battle it out on the dance floor to benefit the Child Advocacy Center of East Alabama More information in our next issue

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