CASNR gives nod to nature during Texas Tech Arbor Day
It was easy being green in April as students from Texas Tech University's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources' students stepped forward to participate in this year's long-standing Texas Tech Arbor Day tradition.
The Texas Tech Activities Board hosted a series of events on April 25 around Memorial Circle. Participants with a Texas Tech student ID received free food and a free t-shirt, and heard live music from Fort Pastor, an Orlando-based band.
Planting Flowers. Separately, an awards ceremony honoring student organizations was held. The day ended with participating student organizations planting flowers and ground cover in plots marked for their individual group. Nearly 25,000 plants plantings were done by students, faculty and staff in about two hours.
Tech's first Arbor Day, which started on March 2, 1938, started an interest in campus beautification that remains vibrant today. At that initial event, faculty, staff and more than 1,000 members of student organizations who were dismissed from classes at noon worked to spruce up the landscape. Some 5,000 shrubs, hedges and 50 varieties of trees from the college's nursery were planted across the stark campus.
Campus-Wide Event. Ten years later then-President Dossie Wiggins began an expansion program that focused on beautifying the campus, including repairing or constructing new buildings, along with laying sidewalks and landscaping the campus.
The Arbor Day tradition faded over the years, but in 1999, Debbie Montford, Chancellor John Montford's wife and chairwoman of the Campus Caregivers, revived the campus program. Since then the Texas Tech Arbor Day tradition has evolved into an annual campus-wide event.
Written by Norman Martin
Davis College NewsCenter
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