mvhcpa: hietter@aol.com Edit My ProfileI am a second-generation Auburn man. I got to see Bo, Barkley, and Big Hurt all play while I earned two degrees in accounting from AU between 1983 and 1988. I now work as an accountant for the City of Sandy Springs in Georgia, while living in the town of WInder (about 20 minutes from Athens, the home of the Bulldogs).
Six months of prison, about half of which has already been served, with a laughable probation after that. And when he gets out, he’ll be a hero to thousands, if not millions, for the rest of his pathetic life.Upon first reflecting on this, I figured that if Hell didn’t exist already, God would have to Continue Story…
The last roll will take place on April 20, 2013. (Author’s note: In view of the fact that our Oaks’ time on the Plains is drawing to a close, I thought I would update and re-run the first article Continue Story…
One spring afternoon in the mid-Eighties, having previously seen the invitation painted on the cafeteria windows, I began walking from my class at Haley Center over to Foy Union to sign up for the College Bowl academic competition. As I started toward Foy, I noticed a fellow of large stature (who naturally stood out from Continue Story…
As my previous articles have shown, I’m not a very knowledgeable football analyst, so I tend to write more about what I know, such as my own experiences as an Auburn fan. Now that the rock-‘em, sock-‘em orgy of analysis and prognostication that is National Signing Day has come and gone, I thought that I Continue Story…
One bright, shiny, gorgeous Autumn day in 1997, I was sitting in my home in Flowery Branch, Georgia (having moved from Florida via South Georgia) when it struck me that a significant football game was going to be played that day in a city a mere 45 minutes away, in a venue that was hallowed Continue Story…
“I’ll take care of you even if you have all that Auburn stuff on you!” said the lady, dressed in Georgia Bulldog attire, at the car tag office in my county bordering that of the University of Georgia. I meant to reply in the spirit of good fun in which the initial comment obviously was Continue Story…
by Michael Val Hietter, ’86&’88 on September 1, 2012My wife Eileen and I were enjoying our first not-visiting-relatives vacation since…our honeymoon four years ago, staying at her mother’s vacation condo in Hilton Head (which is about the only way we could afford to “do” Hilton Head). After our beach-and-pool day, we decided to go to Continue Story…
