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Greetings!
Metro Atlanta are you ready?!! We've been working on it for months... and now it's almost here!
Just wanted to let everyone know that there is still time to RSVP for the AAC's annual Scholarship Fundraising Kickoff Event with Coach Tuberville! Details are below. And a BIG thanks and a "War Eagle!" to everyone who has already registered through PayPal and email -- you are AUsome!
This is going to be a BIG night -- and we look forward to seeing everyone there!
War Eagle!
The Atlanta Auburn Club
Contact us at: communications@atlantaauburnclub.org
Member of the AAC? Download an application from our website or send us an email.
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Don't Miss It! "Game Day in Atlanta" - Next Tuesday, July 15
Reserve or Use PayPal Now for AAC's Scholarship Fundraising Event & Freshmen Sendoff
 Three days from today --- that's when the Atlanta Auburn Club officially kicks off the start of the Fall Football Season with our big game day event at the Cobb Galleria. Since we can't tailgate in Auburn for a few months -- we thought, why not bring the game day fun here?!!
We
are creating our own Tiger Town in a 36,000 square foot exhibition hall
at the Cobb/Galleria Convention Center -- and we are setting it up with
a game day/fan fest/tailgate theme! There will also be stadium style concession stands, plus cash bars.
There is still time to register --- through PayPal --- or send us an email and pay at the door.
We have invited all the metro area incoming Freshmen this year --- the first 150
new Freshmen to stop by our club tailgate tent location that night
and say "War Eagle!" will even get a special Auburn t-shirt, courtesy of Coca-Cola!.
The AAC will be selling club T-Shirts, AAC koozies, and lots of other great stuff. And for the first time that night -- you can also pre-order the Atlanta Auburn Club's exclusive, limited-edition Toomer's Corner Ornament!
We ARE Georgia's OTHER university and this is the night to celebrate it! Come out, bring your family and join us for a night of Auburn fun, fans and football!
Help us paint Atlanta Orange & Blue!
Who will be there?
Coach Tommy Tuberville - University President Dr. Jay Gogue - VP of Alumni Affairs Debbie Shaw - Freshman Experience Professor John Penick - pictures with Aubie - The AAC Silent Auction - AU Lettermen Autographs - Auburn Cheerleaders - Tiger Rags - Anders Bookstore - Hamburgers - Hotdogs - Auburn Network's Rod Bramblett and Paul Ellen - ISP Sports - The Auburn Alumni Association - 680 The Fan (Auburn Football Network) broadcasting LIVE - Bill Van Dyke's Auburn ice sculptures - Inside the Auburn Tigers' Mark Murphy - the "Orange & Bluegrass" band - Game Day Stickers - Spirit Shakers - Auburn vendors - Village Photographers - members of the ALUM Board - and... we'll announce more on Monday!
 Admission is only $20 per person
Children 12 and under are FREE
There will be concession stands with stadium style fare + CASH bars.
Click Here to Pay Now by Credit Card via PayPal
Time: Doors open at 5:30p for Social Hour and Autographs; Program begins at 7p
Note: Pre-paid reservations are most appreciated. Or if you prefer to pay at the door - which is fine too - please send us an email confirmation with your name and how many Tigers (+children) you plan to bring! Thanks in advance & War Eagle!!
 Our Silent Auction, which benefits the club's 501(c)(3) Roy B. Sewell Memorial Scholarship Fund, is going to have a wide variety of items and Auburn/sports memorabilia, including a full-size Auburn football helmet signed by 12 former AU players: Marcus Washington, Kenny Irons, Carlos Rogers, Adlai Trone, Reggie Torbor, David Irons, Ronnie Brown, Haven Fields, Daniel Lindsey, TJ Jackson, Ben Grubbs, and Carnell "Cadillac" Williams.
What else?
Also in the Silent Auction: LASIK
eye surgery ($5000 value) by Piedmont Better Vision and Auburn's
own Stephen Hamilton, MD, one of Atlanta's premier eye surgeons and
corneal specialists. Plus, we'll have a variety of great Auburn gift baskets, an Auburn child's bicycle (with training wheels), several great autographed items, an executive leather Auburn briefcase, Auburn Billiard Sets and pool cues, certificates for hotel stays, a children's custom closet from ClosetSmith, Inc. ($500 value; Note: value may also be credited toward alternate custom closet design for any room in your house), diamond Auburn earrings ($900 value), a Tiger Rags Spirit Club membership ... and much, much more.
In addition to the Silent Auction, we will also be holding a Special Raffle to benefit our 501(c)(3) Roy B. Sewell Memorial Scholarship Fund: Top prize: 2 roundtrip tickets on Air Tran ($1,000 value), 2nd Prize: a Milliken Auburn University Rectangular Rug (5 Ft. 4 In. x 7 Ft. 8 In. - Retail value $250), and 3rd Prize: 4 Field Level Tickets for Atlanta Braves -vs- St. Louis Cardinals Thursday, July 31, 2008 ($144 value).
A Night of Fun...and Community Service
Rally Foundation will be with us as part of our community service project -- 4 Quarters 4 Research -- so don't forget to bring your ziploc bag of spare change to help fund children's cancer research (more details about this are below).
We will also have some very special guests: Friends of Lauren Burk, who will be selling special memorial wristbands throughout the hall that night. Proceeds of these wristbands will go directly to the Lauren Burk Memorial Scholarship Fund at Auburn University.
What to wear?
Come comfortable, casual and decked out in Orange & Blue! Dress as you would for a big Auburn football game! Wear your Auburn jerseys, All Auburn-All Orange shirts, orange and blue game day wigs, lucky socks, orange overalls, shorts, jeans.... you can even paint your face...or grab five friends and spell A-U-B-U-R-N! Are you Auburn's biggest and best dressed fan? Then show us! The AAC will be holding a contest for "Best Dressed Fan" and the winner will be decided by the Tigers attending!
 What
to bring?
Your friends, your family, your Auburn Spirit, a folding Auburn tailgate chair if you
want...and your checkbook/credit card/cash because there will be some great
Auburn vendors joining us for the fun.
So Atlanta... are you ready?!! Join us for some absolutely AUsome Auburn Fan Fun...it's the perfect Pep Rally to pump up the Auburn Spirit before August 30.
Payment can be made by credit card now via PayPal by clicking the link below or the one on our website. You can also pay at the door by Cash, Check or Credit Card.
Click Here to Pay Now by Credit Card via PayPal
We will have a list of all the people who have paid by PayPal at our check-in table that night. You can also bring a copy of your PayPal receipt with you that night.
Questions? Feel free email the club at: communications@atlantaauburnclub.org
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Special thanks to the AAC's Corporate Sponsors. Please visit them on our website:
The Bucket Shop, Hill Aircraft & Leasing Corp., The Settings of West Point Lake, Slopes BBQ,
Dr. Stephen Hamilton/Piedmont Better Vision, Keystone Press in Chamblee, IceCarvings.com,
Irons 2 Impact, Larry and Janet Hill - The Keller Williams Realty Team for Auburn and Lake Martin,
OpenConsult, Buck Jones Nursery, Auburn University Club at Yarbrough Farms.
Special thanks, too, to the AAC's Scholarship Supporters. Find out how they help us raise scholarship funds on our website:
Team Shootout, DreamSeat, Total Quality Services, Inc.
If you would like to know more about how you or your company can help support the Atlanta Auburn Club's non-profit 501(c)(3) scholarship fund-raising efforts that give real HOPE to metro area students to attend Auburn University, contact us at: communications@atlantaauburnclub.org
Do you know any other Tiger fans who would like to receive information about club activities and Auburn events in the Atlanta area? Be sure to forward them a copy of this newsletter and remind them to sign up for future issues at our website. Click here: http://www.atlantaauburnclub.org.
The Atlanta Auburn Club is recognized as a not-for-profit corporation by the state of Georgia, and the club's Roy B. Sewell Memorial Scholarship Fund, Inc. holds 501(c)(3) non-profit status from the IRS. The AAC raises thousands of dollars annually to fund scholarships for metro Atlanta area students to attend Auburn University. In 2007, we were able to raise about $30,000 to fund our regular and newly established endowed scholarships. The Greater Atlanta metro area is home to 20,000 Auburn alumni, fans & friends....and still growing. War Eagle!
Making Metro Atlanta an AUBURN Community in 2008!
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