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This huge oak tree outside the IMU at IUB is the most impressive one on campus, said Judy East, School of Education. "I first noticed that tree in about 1971 when I came to Bloomington to go caving at Buckner's Cave. It was breathtaking then, and now that I live here, 26 years later, it looks just as healthy as it did then. I wonder how old it is, and how much longer we can preserve it? What a loss it will be when that tree goes!" According to a record of trees compiled by IU botanist Paul Weatherwax in 1974, this bur oak was already a large tree when the university moved to its present site in the 1880s. Pictured last autumn under the oak are (left to right) tree nominator Judy East, IU student Jillian East, and IU employees Melissa McDonald, Dawn Merrill, Sonjai Reynolds, Amy Sutley, Kara Cornwell, Terry Jackson and Rebecca Gross. Photo by Chris Meyer
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It was the ancient poet Horace who coined the phrase "the groves of
Academe" in Book 2 of the Epistles: "And seek for truth in the groves of
Academe." But did he foresee the addition of what is affectionately known
as "the stinkin' gingko" on the IUB campus? Said IUB employee Kim Denny.
"How about the smelliest tree? My nod would have to go to the gingko tree (photo at right)
next to Maxwell Hall. When in full color, it is a splendid yellow, but oh! the
odor when its fruit is produced!" Denny is pictured
(far right) with fellow IUB employees Doris Deckard (left) and Jill Fortner.
There's good circumstantial evidence that this tree was one of two
brought to campus by John Morrison of Salem, an IU trustee and the father
of Sarah Parke Morrison, IU's first woman student. The gingkos are
descendants of trees which have been in cultivation for centuries in the
temple gardens of China and Japan.
Photo by Chris Meyer
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Some architects say that the university campus is the only "intentional
community" in three centuries of American history. Adding color to the
stone facade of East Building on the IU Kokomo campus (photo at left) is a
stand of flowering crab apple trees.
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An April robin (photo at right) in a tree was captured on film while IU
Kokomo bookstore employee Johanna Thompson was taking a photography
class several years ago.
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Winter berries adorn the hawthorn tree (photo at left), a descendant of the rose family, on the IU Kokomo campus.
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In full dress and on a pathway of IUB's Old Crescent (photo above), this noble maple tree has shaded the steps of many generations of students. Nearby, where IU's Memorial Stadium once stood, an arboretum is a popular place for contemplation, containing 450 trees and shrubs and hundreds of varieties of plants.
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A small redbud tree (photo at left) standing in a concrete planter at the southwestern corner of the School of Nursing building on the IUPUI campus was the tree nominated by Eleanor Donnelly, associate professor of nursing. "Beautiful and enduring, it stands over against the encroachment of ever more concrete and brick," she said. "It adorns our days here."
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IU East student Noriko Kuwahara planted a little bit of home on the Richmond campus by designing and planting a grove of flowering cherry trees. In her native Japan, cherry trees are associated with education and are often planted on school grounds. Kuwahara sees the tree planting as a way to promote cultural under-standing. She also planted this weeping cherry (photo at right)in the MikesellPlaza. Photo by Suzanne Derengowski