University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well Profile Campus News, Newsletters, and Events Fall 2002 Profile: "...a teaching prairie for generations" University Relations Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/profile Recommended Citation University Relations, "Profile: "...a teaching prairie for generations"" (2002). Profile. 17. https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/profile/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Campus News, Newsletters, and Events at University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. It has been accepted for inclusion in Profile yb an authorized administrator of University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Stahler Memorial Prairie Dedicated On August 13, 2002, Stahler family and friends, and representatives of the UMM community gathered to dedicate a parcel of land gifted to the University of Minnesota, Morris, by Bonita Giberson Stahler '72 and the late Judge Thomas Stahler '41 (U of M) to be used as an environmental learning laboratory. The words spoken on that splendid summer afternoon by Susan Stahler DuPay '75 and Chancellor Sam Schuman captured the beauty of the occasion, the gracious ness of the gift and the significance of the prairie. We are pleased to share these messages with our readers: To make a prairie it takes a clover, and one bee. Brittany Spears. The Stahler and Giberson ancestors taught their children to waste _______O_ n_e_c_lo_v_e_r_a_n_d_a_b_e_e_a'-n-'-d-'--'--re_v-'-e_.,_ _______ ____~- ~n-'-ot__ w.,. an_ t _n_o__,t,~t-o_v...;.;al.;;..;u.;..;e_e;;..;d;;.;;u...;;c.;;;a""ti""o""n ..;;;an= d...;;to.;;;;...;.r.;.;esa...;;;.;;;.;;.t .;;;n.;;;atur= e~ th;;;;;.;;..;;;e lan= d;;..an= d;;..=the-=ir:..:fl:.:e:::11:.:o:.:.w~ If bees are few, revery will do.