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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Women's Crabs planted a tree in memory of J. Sterling 

 Morton, the father of Arbor Day in the United States. 



At the, bi-ennid convention of the General Federation 

 of Women's Clubs in Des Moines in June the conserva- 

 tion department under the direction of Mrs. Mary K. 

 Sherman, gave a big part of its program to memorial 

 tree planting and making of plans for a nation-wide 

 campaign for encouraging it. 



The planting of fifty-three live oak trees as living mon- 

 uments to the sons of A. and M. College of Texas who 

 died in the service of their country in their efforts to 

 perpetuate the liberty that had been their heritage, was 

 the occasion of a simple, but most impressive ceremony. 

 Several hun- 

 dred cadets as- 

 s e m b 1 e d in 

 front of Guion 

 Hall. President 

 Bizzell, five 

 members of the 

 Board of Di- 

 rectors, Presi- 

 dent L. J. Hart, 

 W. A. Miller, 

 Jr., John T. 

 Dickson, J. R. 

 Kubena and H. 

 A. Breiham, to- 

 gether with a 

 number of fac- 

 ulty members, 

 were grouped 

 on the steps of 

 the building. 

 Dr. John A. 

 Held, pastor of 

 the First Bap- 

 tist Church of 

 Bryan, invoked 

 the blessings of 

 t h e Almighty 

 on the crowd 

 assembled. The 

 College Band 

 played the 



English Anthem, "God Save the King." President 

 Bizzell then introduced the speaker of the day, L. J. 

 Hart, of San Antonio, President of the Board of 

 Directors. At the close of his address Professor R. F. 

 Smith read the names of fifty-three men, members of the 

 Federal and College students, Alumni and faculty, who 

 were each placed in charge of a squad of four cadets to 

 plant a tree for one of the heroes. As the band played 

 the French National anthem, "Marseillaise," the squads 

 under their leaders marched to a tree planting site, and 

 as the notes of the American anthem were played the 

 earth was placed around the roots of the trees. When 

 the work was finished taps was sounded. And immedi- 

 ately following came the "Star Spangled Banner," 



bringing the crowd to attention. When the last note was 

 sounded the meeting was dismissed. 



Following the calling of the roll President Bizzell 

 announced that at the meeting of the Board earlier in 

 the day it had been decided to plant one tree in honor of 

 A. I'.. Davidson, former Vice-President of the Board, 

 who died recently, so immediately following these ex- 

 ercises President Bizzell took the five members of the 

 Board to a place near the entrance to the College grounds 

 and there planted one live oak tree in memory of this 

 distinguished citizen of Texas. 



Mrs. Blanche Bellak of Philadelphia and Washington is 

 setting a fine example to war mothers by her planting of 



memorial trees 

 for her son, 

 Joseph Faus- 

 sett Bellak, I'. 

 S.N. Mrs. Bel- 

 lack is taking 

 a keen in: 

 in all affairs of 

 the .American 

 Legion and the 

 Patriotic Order 

 of the Sons of 

 America a n d 

 has been of 

 great help to 

 the organiza- 

 tion of the 

 Joseph Faus- 

 sett Bellak Post 

 No. 195 of the 

 American Le- 

 gion in Phila- 

 delphia. Mrs. 

 Bellak planted 

 a gold star tree 

 in the south 

 side of the 

 churchyard of 

 historic Christ 

 Church, Sec- 

 ond Street, 

 above Market, 

 in ' Philadelphia, in memory of her son, Lieutenant 

 Bellak, the only member of the congregation of that 

 church to lose his life in the war. The tree, an English 

 elm, is a gift to the church by Mrs. Bellak, who had it 

 brought from Oxford, England. The Joseph Faussett 

 Bellak Post No. 195, of the American Legion, attended 

 the service in a body, as did the Patriotic Order of the 

 Sons of America. The post is composed of men who 

 served in the Navy during the war. The dedication was 

 by Dr. Louis C. Washburn, rector of Christ Church. 

 Chaplain Curtis H. Dickens, of the Navy Yard, made a 

 brief address. The dedication ceremonies followed a 

 memorial service in the church in honor of the 139th 

 anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington 



Photograph by Rav 



THE "GOLD STAR" PLANTING AT HISTORIC CHRIST CHURCH 



This English elm was planted by his mother, in honor of the memory of Lieut. Bellak, U. S. N., following 

 an impressive memorial service at old Christ Church in Philadelphia. The gold star for Lieut. Bellak 

 is the only one on the bronze memorial tablet of this famous old church. 



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