With the AUMnibus’s new venture into publishing on the World Wide Web, we thought it was only logical to reflect on the very first AUMnibus article. This was the lead article in the very first AUMnibus.
Back then, AUM was in a more remote part of Montgomery, as opposed to the booming area east Montgomery is today. Take a look at the content in the article, and discuss. Were you a student here on campus in 1971? What were some of your fondest memories? How has AUM changed?
Here is the article in full. A text transcript is located below.
When a 500 acre tract, which was part of the McLemore Plantation was purchased, a dream along with careful planning formed the site of a new campus. Registered AUM student have long awaited space and comfort to accompany the institution of learning and the new Auburn University at Montgomery campus provides just that. Its open doors reveal a fresh new area in which to develop through the strong undergraduate programs offering degrees in the areas of Arts and Sciences, Business, Teacher Education. and graduate programs in Education and Business. The basics offered on Bell Street AUM now have been enlarged, though hopefully still on a personal basis: once seen only on a blue-print, now for Montgomery to enjoy.
Traveling to AUM may be considered a problem for some, for even though the open range is appreciated, it is rather distant. The pleasure is found in the scenery and serenity one may find along the way. Cotton fields on both sides of the road; forests in the background gives one a real down-to-earth feeling. No one needs to advocate communion with nature on the way to AUM. It’s unadvoidable. Putting the red mud, made muddier these days by the aftermath of summer, aside for the moment, the premises will actually be beautiful once the landscaping takes hold. Picture in 1978 around AUM, flowers, shrubs and a mass of students scurrying from the tower to the Student Center to dormitories. Quite a picture. Quite a plan!