Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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1 By A. H. Denman CLASSES

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By Roy Pctcfson MEMORIAL FOREST OW proud and happy Lincoln students will be if ever in the years to come they wander to a certain beautiful spot located within the Forest Reservation on the White River Highway near Enumclaw. Here they will behold a onefhundredfseventyffivef acre tract covered by Douglas fir trees and standing out against the whole, a monument with the words, Memorial Forest of Lincoln High School, Tacoma. Each spring the forestry classes, under the direction of Mr. Nessen, make the journey to the reservation, the third planting took place this spring, when forty girls and boys on April 15 set out two thousand ive hundred young trees. They reported on their return that the trees planted on former trips have already begun to make a showing. The idea was first suggested in 1951 by the Washington BifCentennial Tree Planting Association, whose goal it is to have a tree planted for every person in the United States. Growing year by year to a more stately height, they seem a fitting tribute with which to commemorate the twofhundredth anniversary of the birth of George Wash' ington, who year by year grows to a more exalted height in the minds of the Americar. people. Six

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Eight I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prcst Against the ea1'th's sweet flowing breast A tree that looks at Goal all clay, And lifts her leafy affms to piayg