After graduating (EE’95), I took a job where I did a lot of traveling for a telecommunications vendor. I went around the United States and was in a different airport every week. The first time I went to the Northwest, I flew into Washington. I worked on a site there and went on to Seattle. While in Seattle, I was driving along a main road and noticed a car that seemed to be trying to flag me down. I was not sure but they were pointing to my car and yelling. I was in a rental so I assumed that it was a flat or I was breaking some law or I did not know what. A little apprehensive, I rolled down my windows as they pulled up next to me. Then I understood what they were yelling - “War Eagle!!” My orange AU baseball cap in the back window was a magnet to them across 3 lanes of traffic. Auburn was their adopted school since their local college did not have a football team and the state teams were not very good. We pulled over and I told them I was a graduate. We talked about “Nix to Sanders”, “Bo over the top”, and my experiences while a student. They said that they knew AU was a special place when they watched the Iron Bowl and saw the pre-game atmosphere in our stadium and in Auburn, Alabama. That was a truly unique experience. Our “family” is so special that it shows in everything we do and I imagine others are drawn to our Tigers not necessarily for football greatness as much as “the Auburn experience”….
Charles

In 1998, my wife (1996 BS in Forestry) and I (1993 BS in Chemical Engineering) were in Germany to visit her parents. We took a trip to Munich where Oktoberfest was going on. Now Oktoberfest is like a giant state fair on steroids. There must have been 250,000 people on the site. My wife was wearing a hat with a big AU on it, and someone in the crowd shouted “War Eagle”. We never saw who it was, but we sent them a loud “War Eagle” back.
War Eagle!!!
Eddie