Blogerata: 2016-17 Glom Review

It's finally time again to pick up the new yearbook. Did it sneak up on you? It sure did for me. That's partially because the Auburn Glomerata team once again did a poor job marketing the distribution dates. I didn't even know about it until the final day and I collect these things! Finally having the new volume in my hands, I wanted to write down some thoughts I have on it. I love to browse through these, and now having 55 volumes in my collection dating back to 1934, I think we have a good bit of material to base the current volume off of.

Blogerata - Coat of Arms

This is the first of a series of pieces regarding the Glomerata, the Auburn University yearbook.

Recently, I purchased many old Gloms at a local thrift store. My girlfriend and I (she was very proud of the "Blogerata" name. It was too good not to use) thoroughly enjoyed looking through each volume and all the old photos of campus, and comparing it to how Auburn looks today. One volume was more memorable than others for me - the 1934 edition. Through all the black and white photos, it was still easy to grasp the nature of pre-World War II Auburn University.

Out of the nearly 300 pages, one in particular stood out to me. Just a few pages in to the publication, we came across what was titled the "Official Coat-of-Arms of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute." Take a look below: