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Trees honor Dirr
Sep 1, 2010 by Around the Arch
More than 200 shade trees donated to UGA by the Select Sustainable Tree Trust—the first of up 1,000 trees the Watkinsville-based trust has pledged to UGA—are in honor of the late Susy Dirr (ABJ ’99), who died from cystic fibrosis in 2008. Dirr was the daughter of UGA horticulturist Michael Dirr. Over the next 10 years, the trust, formed in 2009, plans to plant as many as 1,000 trees on the UGA campus. UGA alumni partne...
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