Permission to flourish

Six horticulture staff and volunteers pose outside

Last spring, a fundraising campaign during Birds Give Back funded a new internship at Illinois State University Horticulture Center.

Alum’s generosity blooms into campus legacy

Man and woman standing and smiling while surrounded by trees

When Redbird Gale (Marr) Myers ’77 returned from a trip to Japan to find that her husband had purchased 10 Japanese maple trees, she had no idea that number would increase to 4,000.