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Throwback Thursday: reforesting Old Campus
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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12:00am September 05 2024
Fifty years ago this fall, as we reported in our October 1974 issue, students arrived to find 33 new pin oak trees had been planted on Old Campus. The quad's earlier canopy of elms had been ravaged by Dutch elm disease beginning in the 1930s. The new arrivals have grown in nicely.  |
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