January 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the he start of Auburn University's Department of Mathematics offering of the Complex Analysis sequence (starting in Winter Quarter, 1986; MATH 623-624-625) taken by Robert "Bob" Gardner, Saad El-Zanati, Gary D. Coker, and others (including Bollschweiler, I think). The course was taught by Dr. Narendra Govil in Parker Hall. This sequence was the inspiration for Robert Gardner to pursue Ph.D. work in complex analysis with Dr. N.K. Govil.

Here are some pictures of the main characters from 1986:

Gary Coker, Robert Gardner, and Ron Bollschweiler in Washington, D.C. during spring March 1986.

Gary Coker and Saad El-Zanati, March 1986.

March 1986 photo of the "Syracuse trip."

Two webpages of related interest are the Bob Gardner's "20th Anniversary of Real Analysis Class" webpage , which was a sequence of classes taught by Dr. Henderson at Auburn in 1987-88, and Bob Gardner's "20th Anniversary of Functional Analysis Class" webpage.