MORE TREES TO HONOR OUR HERO DEAD 



TO the University of Illinois goes the honor of being 

 first in 1920 to set before the country on a big 

 scale what a college can do in memorial tree plant- 

 ing. One hundred and seventy-three trees have been 

 planted in honor of her dead. Of course it is to be 

 remembered that Illinois is a big school and consequently 



west coast, plans are now being made for memorial tree 

 planting next Armistice Day under the direction of Carl 

 Gould, the university architect. The O. A. C. Forestry 

 Club at the Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, 

 Oregon, has dedicated three scarlet oaks to '.he memory 

 of members of the Club. The dedication was by H. S. 



The University and the State are grateful for this sublime attempt on the part of the students of the 

 University to keep alive the names and deeds of their fallen comrades. 



Dean Davenport of the College of Agriculture. 



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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING 



The University of Illinois honored her hero dead by planting memorial trees and registering them on the honor roll of the 

 American Forestry Association. The diagram shows the marker as pictured on the front page of the official program and the way the 

 tree" have been placed as part of the scheme for the Military Drill Field. 



Captain Babbitt read the names of the Illinois dead. As these names were read the student brigade was brought to present arms and 

 the civilian portion of the crowd stood with bared heads. The trees were planted along the terrace in front of the Armory, down South 

 Sixth Street, extended to the cavalry stables, and then west across^ the drill field to South Fourth Street. They were planted in an 

 avenue 40 feet wide, with a distance of 50 feet between the trees in the rows. Groups of trees were also planted at both ends of the 

 Armory. Each tree bore a nameplate for the man it represented. Tug Wilson, president of the Union, appointed the following to carry 

 out the work- P A Niebergall. chairman, George Buchannan, G. E. Milner, S. D. Owne, R. S. Firebaugh, R. W. Slocum, C. V. Arnold, 

 C. E Baker, F E Carver, R. W. Lambert, C. C. Shade, Helen Van Inwegan, L. L. Corrie, H. R. Bowditch, R. G. Carlson, Rav Dodge, 

 L M Patton, L S Holler, V. T. Belloff, R. V. Watson, W. M. Kimmelshue, G. C. Sprague, B. S. Pickett, C. F. Hottes, W. Trelease, 

 F N Evans, C Crandall. H. B. Dorner, A. W. Jamison. W. A. Ruth. W. F. Handschin, W. P. Flint, A. S. Colby, W. S. Brock, 

 H. B Tukey, J. C. Blain, J. W. Lloyd, A. E. Atkinson, and Miss Mary E. McAdams. 



her percentage of "heroes gone west" totals higher than 

 some other institutions of learning. It in no wise dis- 

 credits other schools for the fine spirit is the same in 

 all. It just so happens that Illinois has the ground on 

 which to do something on a very impressive scale. 

 Other colleges have taken up the memorial tree planting 

 idea. At the University of Washington, on the far 



Newins, associate professor of forestry, and the trees 

 were for E. B. Blackden, Owen W. Johnson and Richard 

 W. Wilmot. Johnson was with the Twentieth Engineers. 

 At Urbana the University of Illinois carried out a pro- 

 gram of unusual merit. The trees were marked with 

 the bronze marker designed by the American Forestry 

 Association and registered on the honor roll. The Daily 



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