July 19, 2001 Business College Lagoon:
This had a cyclone fence around it 10 years ago. I think
there's a picture of my son, Stephen, three years old, sitting on my lap in the
seat of Seth Hammond's 100-ton crane. Specialty Crane. That was the week I planted
the first of the steel columns for the 'Admin. Building' which is now called the
Orfalea School of Business.
Henry Hilgert (22 years, keeping these grounds). He must have seen to the fence around the lagoon back then. He was protecting the wonga-wonga (sp.) vine so it would grow until he stripped it off the rock yesterday. He preserved the bamboo so he could cut it all back to renew it. That's pickerel grass in the pond. Plant your natives in the fall and mulch heavily. (No drip!)
All those curves on the structural plans gave Steve Hayes, the ironworker foreman, headaches. The big orange crane was set up in that corner where the clock tower is now, a pile of heavy timbers under the front end so I could unload the trucks out here on the dusty 'road' where this grass and clover are growing. Pond, rock, gazebo, rose garden, cactus garden, old trees that were there then, young trees that were brought later, turf grass, clover, flowers opening, seeds ripening, seeds falling, growing. The clock on the tower reads 10:50 am.
Cindy can't recall what Steven said about the bees in the cactus flowers. The bees are going ape.
Harold Buss