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Show Five Trees Planted In U of U Program Five trees have been planted in front of the Sill Home Living Center on the University of Utah campus in the first Arbor Day program ever conducted on the university's upper campus. The university campus already has the largest collection of trees in the intermountain area more than 150 species on the lower campus, according to Dr. Walter P. Cottom, U of U professor of botany. Proper landscaping will be an important phase in the beautifi-cation beautifi-cation of the expanded campus envisioned for the university. The planting at the Sill Home Living Center included trees donated do-nated by several members of the Neighborhood Garden Club. Mrs. Seymour Wells donated a white oak in memory of her mother, Mrs. Seldon I. Clawson. Mr. and Mrs. Theron S. Parmelee donat-ed donat-ed an European beech tree in memory of Mrs. Parmelee's mother, Mrs. Joseph Whiteley. Three red oak tree were donated ( in memory of Mrs. Martha Wat-; Wat-; son by four of her daughters, Mrs. H. E. Havenor, Mrs. Dan B. Shields, Mrs. James Hance, and Mrs. S. L. Billings. All three women memorialized by the tree plantings were active in civic work, such as establishment establish-ment of Neighborhood House and U of U scholarship and loan funds. On the occasion, Dr. Cottam briefly explained the meaning of Arbor Day and told of the great appreciation the Utah pioneers had for trees. He said he felt a planted tree, therefore, was a most fitting memorial to their memory. The trees were accepted by Dr. Irving B. McNulty, head of the U of U Department of Botany on behalf of the university. Mrs. Spencer McMurdie expressed ex-pressed appreciation of the club in being permitted to sponsor the program. Dr. Cottom pointed out that planning already is under way to expand the U of U arboretum by using new and unusual trees. The trees donated by the Garden Club were new species for the campus and the club plans similar simi-lar donations in the future to the university arboretum. |