The Penn Stater Magazine

Greetings From a Snowy Arboretum

December 8, 2011 at 1:02 pm Tina Hay Leave a comment

(Photo by Andrew Gapinski)

We interrupt the depressing coverage of the Sandusky scandal to bring you a sweet photo from the folks up at the Arboretum.

Arboretum staff member Andrew Gapinski ventured out in the snow last night to take a photo of the Hosler Oak, a white oak that was planted in September 2005 as the first official tree in the Arboretum at Penn State. It was a 2005 gift of George Biemesderfer ’55, in honor of former Penn State VP Charles Hosler ’47, ’48g, ’51g and his wife, Anna Rosa Hosler.

You can read more about the Hosler Oak, also called the “Witness Tree,” here. And you can get a sense of how much the tree has grown by looking at the photo below, which was taken from much closer-up in the spring of 2006:

Thanks to Cathy Kennedy at the Arboretum for sending Andrew’s snowy photo along.

Tina Hay, editor

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