Featured Alumni
Helping Auburn and EAGLES Take Flight I f you know Auburn, you probably know Nick Davis (’84), even if you’ve never met him.
transition program providing students with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to pursue a college education. The experiences focus on academic enrichment, personal, social and independent living skills, health and wellness and integrated work experiences, helping these students reach employment and independent living goals. “The EAGLES Program is special to me because I see the extraordinary work our executive director, Betty Patten, and her team perform,” Davis said. “They are giving hope to these special students and their families where there was no hope for a future before. Without exception, when meeting each parent, they convey in one way or another, that their biggest fear is that they will outlive their child. What a juxtaposition. Every other parent’s greatest fear is losing a child. It is truly an honor and a privilege to be a part of this amazing program.” And Davis has a personal connection — one of his nephews is a participant. “He had never seen a path to Auburn until this program came online,” Davis said. “He is now a student at Auburn like his cousins and generations before him.”
He is the CEO, CMO and majority shareholder of Momma G’s, Inc., the franchisor of Momma Goldberg’s Delis — itself an institution, on the corner of Magnolia and Donahue. But Davis’s orange-and-blue roots run deeper than that. As a third-gen- eration Auburn grad, he remembers five-hour drives from his family home in northeast Atlanta to the Plains on gameday weekends and has held on to old football programs signed by Shug Jordan and other greats. Among other Auburn contribu- tions, he is a key supporter of the Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center, the namesake of the L. Nick Davis Endowed Fund for Excellence at Harbert, and, in the past 40 years, an active member of too many Au- burn University boards and commis- sions to recount here. “I believe to whom much is given, much is expected. That is what drives me — I am willing to give to Auburn with my time, talents and treasures because I believe in Auburn and what we are accomplishing to prepare our students for a better future for our country,” he said. Davis is also a member of the EAGLES Engagement Council, which raises funds to support EAGLES — which stands for the “education to accomplish growth in life experiences for success.” It is a comprehensive
NICK DAVIS (’84, economics) CMO/CEO Momma G's, Inc.
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