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Students To Plant 100
Trees On TWU Campus
6/2/04
DENTON — Ninety
high school students who are members of Rotary Youth Leadership
Awards (RYLA) will help revitalize Texas Woman’s University’s
Redbud Lane. The teens will plant 100 redbud trees along and around
the historic lane Saturday, June 5.
“This is the third
consecutive year the RYLA Leadership Institute has been held on
the TWU campus,” said Mary Ann McDuff, RYLA Steering Committee
member and past-president of the Denton Rotary Club. “The
only thing missing from the experience the past two years was a
service project, so the committee voted to provide and plant the
trees as a service project and thank you to TWU.”
The trees will be planted
on the north end of TWU’s Denton campus, near and around the
Little Chapel-in-the-Woods.
"This gift is just
glorious," said TWU Chancellor Dr. Ann Stuart. "It not
only enhances our campus, it also is a gift to Denton, since so
many people in the community enjoy our beautiful grounds."
TWU began a program
during the Centennial in 2001 to restore Redbud Lane, and this gift
will significantly advance the restoration, Dr. Stuart said. Redbud
Lane began in the 1930s as part of a campus beautification program
with a long-term goal of planting more than 2,000 redbud trees from
one end of campus to the other.
RYLA Leadership Institute
participants are high school juniors and seniors selected to attend
the June 3-6 conference by 39 Rotary Clubs in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area, including Abilene, Arlington, Azle, Bowie, Breckenridge, Burkburnett,
Burleson, Cisco, Celburne, Coleman, Colleyville, Crowell, Decatur,
Denton, Dublin, Eastland, Electra, Flower Mound, Fort Worth, Gainesville,
Graham, Grapevine, Hamlin, Haskell, Hurst-Euless-Bedford, Iowa Park,
Keller, Lewisville, Mansfield, Mineral Wells, Nocona, North Richland
Hills, Sanger, Stamford, Stephenville, The Colony, Vernon, Weatherford
and Wichita Falls. The institute is designed to help the students
identify and develop their leadership skills.
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For Further Information
Contact:
Roy Kron
Director of News and Information
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: rkron@twu.edu
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