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Annual DFW Auburn Club Meeting 2008

Coach Hugh Nall Will Join Us

The DFW Auburn Club is pleased to announce that Coach Hugh Nall, offensive line coach, Auburn University, will join us for our special annual DFW Auburn Club meeting Thursday, July 24, 2008, 6:00 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Outdoor World located 2401 Bass Drive Pro Drive in Grapevine, Texas.

We are excited about Coach Nall's visit and hope you will come and help give a "big" Texas War Eagle welcome.

The cost will be $20/club member, $30/non-club member, $10/children under 18. Hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar will be available.

For reservations send your check to:

Tracey Ward
8300 Westwind Ln
North Richland Hills TX 76180

The deadline for reservations is July 19, so son't delay.

We look forward to a great response and ask that you respond immediately. Should you have any questions or wish to assist with this event please call Christina Million at 972-501-0523.

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DFW Auburn Club

Fly With The Eagle

As you join us here at the DFW Auburn Club, you can feel our deep and abiding love for Auburn University. This unifying spirit will carryover into the Dallas / Ft. Worth Texas community here as we share our Auburn Heritage. Working together we can set awesome goals, enrich lives, and support future scholars.

See What's In Store For You

We think that David Housel said it best

"It is a spirit. It is an attitude. It is a way of looking at life and at one another. It is, almost, a way of living. Unless you have experienced it, you will never know what it is; you will never understand it. Once you have experienced it, you will never be the same. A part of you will, forevermore, be an Auburn man or an Auburn woman."-David Housel

• Who are we?

  Texas members of the Auburn University Alumni Association in the DFW Metroplex, and friends from around the world and across the country who have come together to share their love for Auburn, work to better their communities, and work with our Alumni Association to raise money for scholarships and welcome new students on their way to Auburn.

• What Are We Doing?

  Securing our lifelong connection to Auburn University here in the Dallas Fort Worth Texas Metroplex by bringing together Auburn Alums, Auburn fans, friends of both, and supporting Auburn University. Together we can create a community that can make a difference.

• How Many Are We?

  The Auburn University Alumni Association says we Alumni are 47,000 strong and growing, with over 2,000 in the DFW Texas Metroplex. Wow! With over 250 clubs Nationwide, our DFW Club Alumni programs and services will speak for themselves. Our DFW members represent the heart of the Dallas Ft. Worth Texas Metroplex area, so look no further than right here to get involved.

• When Can I Join?

  Now is the Time....Take advantage of the programs and services offered by the DFW Auburn Club. Whether you are a graduate of AU or a friend or fan, we believe your membership will enrich our lives, the lives of others, help to give back to the community, meet other like-minded friends, and have fun in that process.

To learn more about membership Click Here

Auburn Alumni Association

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Football Watch New Venue

Cowboys Sports Cafe Bar & Grill

We invite you to join us and watch all the Season Football Games at our new Football Watch location. Not all games will be televised, so please consult the calender on this page to the right for details. If you have questions, please call the Sports Bar at the number below or consult your newsletter which is sent out the Friday before the games.

Cowboys Sports Cafe Bar & Grill
9454 N Macarthur Blvd
Irving, TX 75063
(972) 506-8088

Traveling West on I-635, take Exit 31 to MacArthur. Take a right on

MacArthur, and travel 1.5 miles. Cowboys is on the right in a strip

mall.

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Auburn's Toomer's Corner Live Oaks To Get Spruced Up

Tree experts giving makeover to Auburn's historic Toomer's oaks

On Saturday, specialists in the care of live oaks from the regional office of Bartlett Tree Experts in Tucker, Ga., will perform a horticultural version of "Extreme Makeover" on the historic trees at the southwest corner of College Street and Magnolia Avenue, where Auburn University meets downtown Auburn. For much of the day, curbside traffic lanes at that corner will be closed and traffic through the intersection will be constricted while the Bartlett crew works on the trees.

Bartlett personnel will evaluate the structural integrity of the trees, remove dead or damaged limbs, install cables to brace weak branches, break up compacted soil around the roots, add organic matter and fertilizer around the base and treat for insects.

"We hope to improve the condition of the Toomer's oaks through this work," said Auburn horticulture professor Gary Keever, who is helping the AU Facilities Division develop a long-term care plan for the iconic trees. "These are not old live oaks; if we can provide better growing conditions, they could live much longer."

The trees have been a fixture at the junction of the campus and town for more than a century, and live oaks often live for 400 years or more. In addition to the stresses common to urban trees, the Toomer's oaks are further endangered by their most dedicated advocates -- tens of thousands of football fans who celebrate victories by tossing rolls of toilet paper over the trees after every victory in Jordan-Hare Stadium. Several times in recent years, celebrants have set fire to the paper, causing further damage to the trees.

The morning after each celebration, cleanup crews wash away the toilet paper with high-pressure hoses. This knocks many leaves and buds off the trees, putting additional stress on them.

In an unintended but beneficial side effect of the post-celebration cleanups in 2007, the damage was partially offset by water reaching the roots of the trees during some of the driest conditions on record. Keever said the inadvertent watering paid dividends this spring, when the trees put out substantial new growth.

However, the horticulture professor noted that high-pressure hosing is not the best way to water trees, even during a drought. If football fans could find an alternative to draping the trees in toilet paper, the Toomer's oaks could rapidly be restored to good health and a long life, he said.

Despite signs of decline over the past decade, Keever said the trees are far from being candidates for the chipper, as evidenced by a flush of dark green foliage. The larger tree has even shown signs of recovery from a gaping wound incurred a few years ago, when a vehicle crashed into it.

AU foresters are growing young trees from acorns harvested from the two oaks, but Cathy Love of AU Campus Planning and Space Management said replacement trees would probably not last long in that vicinity unless conditions change. "If there were no change in the tradition of rolling Toomer's Corner, we would have many of the same problems with new trees," she said.

Love and Keever said various groups and individuals are looking for a long-term solution that would preserve both the trees and the tradition. In the meantime, they said, the university is taking steps, such as the current treatment, to improve growing conditions for the trees.

Contact: Roy Summerford, (334) 844-9999, (summero@auburn.edu), or
Mike Clardy, (334) 844-9999, (clardch@auburn.edu)