A LOOK Back: 1915 Campus Gardening 

A group of students at Central State Normal School (now UCO) work in the school garden on campus around 1915. The 1914 Bronze Book (yearbook) commented on school gardens and agriculture professor, Fred Ives: 

“The man you see most frequently in overalls on the campus is Mr. Ives, head of this department. He is sometimes alone, digging around some bush or flower, but more often with a group of students, all working like farmers. Much of the beauty in flowers, grass, trees, whitewash, etc., on the grounds comes from such labor, not because it saves money for the state of Oklahoma but because students best learn to do by doing.”