Hannibal-LaGrange University will hold an Arbor Day Celebration on Friday, April 1, at 3 p.m. in the Roland Fine Arts Center on HLGU’s campus.
Come celebrate Arbor Day with HLGU as we honor Delores Lorene Scarff by planting a tree on campus. There will be a reception following the celebration in the Roland Fine Arts Center lobby.
Mrs. Scarff was a musician and the mother of alum, Glenda Franklin ’65. This tree was donated by Mrs. Franklin’s friends, Mervin Sharkey, Margaret Stubbings, and Sandra Farris. Mrs. Scarff and her husband ran a resort in the Ozarks for several years.
Planting trees on HLGU’s campus has been a longtime tradition as a Tree Campus Higher Education institution. HLGU earned the designation for the ninth year in a row in 2021.
Tree Campus Higher Education is a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and to engage staff and students in conservation goals. HLGU achieved this title by meeting recognition standards including student service-learning projects.
Hannibal-LaGrange University is a four-year Christian university fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The University prides itself in the traditional and nontraditional educational experience it offers in a distinctively Christian environment.