Lambuth College - Lantern Yearbook (Jackson, TN)

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Richard E. Womack Memorial Garden On Saturday, May 24, 1980, in an impressive ceremony the new Richard E. Womack Memorial Garden was dedicated. Much work and effort had gone into the preparation of this garden. A group of early Lambuth graduates, who had attended Lambuth during the presidency of Dr. Womack and who knew first-hand the tremen- dous sacrifices he had made to keep Lambuth open during the Great Depression, were con- cerned that there was no permanent memorial to Dr. Womack on the campus. Their goals were to have a monument in the center of campus life as an everlasting reminder of Dr. Womack ' s achieve- ments and also to create an out-of-doors center for campus life ... a gathering place between or before class. A committee was formed including Reverend and Mrs. Artie Bivens, Miss Elizabeth Boren, Rev- erend Marcus Gurley, Mrs. Helen Ross, with Mrs. Jewel Tucker as chairman. This committee was able to raise from approxi- mately 153 alumni contributors the considerable monies to re-construct the area outside the main campus entrance of Jones Hall. Professor Larry Ray of the Art Department acted for the commit- tee as the designer and also sculpted the larger than life size bust of Dr. Womack which was cast in bronze and set in place on a large Georgia granite pedastal. Photo by Kirk Smith The landscaping of the garden has never been completed and will be added to as funds are avail- able. 10

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