While on temporary duty in Uganda, I was eating at an outside restaurant on the shore of Lake Victoria in the city of Entebbe, when I noticed a person with an Auburn t-shirt. I was wearing my tiger eyes base ball cap and said a friendly “War Eagle”. We talked for a few minutes and both lamented that “Who would have thought on in the middle of Africa, two Auburn Tigers would meet”. I personally think it was as impressive as Stanley saying Livingstone “Doctor Livingston I presume” in East Africa over 130 years ago.

Attached is the picture of two proud War Eagles at the restaurant in Entebbe, Uganda on the shore of Lake Victoria.

War Eagle,

Stanley J. Koryta Jr,
Class of 1990

While I was at Auburn as a student I was very involved with the Auburn Wesley Foundation (a Methodist Campus Ministry). As a senior with the Wesley Foundation, I went on a mission trip to Tanzania, Africa to build houses with Habitat for Humanity. Since our entire team was Auburn students we wore t-shirts, brought hats, and other apparel so people would know where we were from. One afternoon we went for ice cream and saw a local with an orange Auburn t-shirt on! We immediately yelled, “War Eagle!” and he gave us a really funny look. We befriended him and told him what his t-shirt meant to us - he didn’t know where it came from and he had never heard of Auburn. We made a new friend and as he left he yelled back to us “War Eagle!” Even people in Tanzania, Africa know who Auburn is!
War Eagle!
Jack