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Last March, photographer Randy Johnson was taking a solitary walk through the woods of the Old Crescent on the Bloomington campus following a snow and ice storm that was so severe, many in the surrounding counties were without heat and telephone for several days. Through a glass-like filigree on winter branches, the clock face on the bell tower of the Student Building is frozen in time.
It was an image that IU President and Mrs. Brand have chosen to wed with a stanza of poetry from Robert Frost's famous "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," first published in The New Republic March 7, 1923, for their holiday greeting card (shown above).
Frost, who shared through poetry his dreams inspired by New England woods, was twice a visitor to IU. He inscribed the guest book at Bryan House with the final stanza of the poem following a three-week stay as poet-in-residence at the IUB campus in April 1943 as he was Turning Homeward.
That same year, Frost received his fourth Pulitzer Prize.