Living Legacy Trees

Class of 1920

Petrified Log

• Found near Ackerman, Mississippi. Approximately 50 million years old.

Christopher Armstrong

Autumn Blaze Red Maple

• 9/26/78 – 5/8/2006.

John T. Moore and H. E. Blakeslee

Nuttall Oak (Quercus Nuttallii)

• Given in Loving Memory by Ed and Marilyn Blakeslee.

Kelly Alexander Bufkin

• August 26, 1986 - February 9, 2021.

Joseph Blakeney Burgess

• November 24, 1997- February 20, 2020. "... weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning."Psalm 30:5. Given in loving memory by the PSPA Alumni and Friends.

Dr. Milo Burnham

Tulip Poplar

• Extension Horticulturist. For service to the Starkville Gardens Club 1970 -1996.

Lung Hua Chen

Fingetree Chioanthus Virginicus

• In Loving Memory by His Family. Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. August 1976 - June 2000. Hail State.

Robert Temple Clapp, M.S.

• Oct. 3, 1908-July 24, 1992. First Dean M.S.U. College of Forest Resources. Given with love and respect by Family. We learned from him to see both the forest AND the trees.

Thomas (Tommy) Coleman

• Given with love by family.

The Courtney and Jones Families

October Glory Red Maple

• Given by Robbin Courtney Jones.

Roger LaMoyne Dabbs

Willow Oak

• 6/3/13 – 2/25/90. Given in loving memory by his wife Elizabeth.

George P. Dampeer Jr.

Nuttall Oak (Quercus Nuttallii)

• March 5, 1939 - January 14, 2024. Given In Loving Memory by His Family.

Patrick Cooper Davis

Bracken Magnolia (Magnolia Gradiflora)

• Kappa Alpha PC'16 1998-2020. 'Bracken's Brown Beauty'.

LT. David Merrick Dowdell, Jr.

• Port Gibson, Mississippi 317 Infantry – 80 Infantry Division. Died Near Falquemo, France November 27, 1944. MSU Student Association President 1943.

Harold B. Easterwood

Ginko

• 10/14/32 – 11/14/05. Given in loving memory by family, friends, MSU teammates and former student athletes that Dr. Easterwood taught or coached.

Donald R. Ford

• Class of 1960. Awards from MSU School of Agriculture and Life Sciences: 2005 Achievement. Award 2013 Alumnus of the Year. Given in love by the family of his brother Jim.

James N. Ford

• Class of 1961. Loyal Alumnus - U.S. Air Force. Given with Love by The Donald and Phyllis Ford Family.

Thomas Nelson George

Nutall Oak (Quercus Nuttallii)

• Initiated Kappa Alpha Order 1975. 4/14/56 – 4/5/2013. Given in loving memory of our dear friend and fraternity brother who left us much too soon, but touched all of our hearts in a very special way.

Dr. William L. Giles

• President, Mississippi State University. 1966-1976. For outstanding service to agriculture. By the Mississippi Section American Society of Agronomy. June 1996.

Ulysses S. Grant

• 1822-1885. Given in honor of the 18th President of the United States on the bicentennial of his birth by the Ulysses S. Grant Association. April 27, 2022.

Timothy James Hallman

• Jan. 2, 1990-Feb. 22, 2020. Given in Loving Memory by Ann Roper & Barbara Roper. MSU Cheerleader 2011-2014 Forever Maroon & White.

Bob Hartley

• Our friend.

John Steven Hawkins

• 4/17/83 – 5/6/09. John 3:16. Given in loving memory by his dad, mom and sister.

James E. Jim Henry

Nuttall Oak (Quercus Nuttallii)

• Mechanical Engineer 1977. Given in Loving Memory by Elaine and Ticket Henry.

Michael Bruce

• Given In loving memory by his friends and family.

Alex Herbst

Armstrong Red Maple (Acer Rubrum Armstrong)

• Meteorologist 2017-2018 NWA/AMS. East MS Chapter President.

Kittye Delle Robbins-Herring

Teddy Bear Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora Southern Charm)

• Oct. 1, 1943 – Dec. 30, 2014. Given in Loving Memory by Stuart and Rebecca Herring.

Dr. Daniel T. Holt, LTC (R) USAF

Live Oak (Quercus Virginiana)

• Given in Memory by his MSU Friends and Colleagues.

J. Dudley Hutchinson, III

Sawtooth Oak (Quercus Acutissima)

• 10/18/61- 4/28/91. Given by Family and Friends.

Joe and Jeane Iupe

White Oak (Quercus Alba)

• Canton, MS. Given in Loving Memory by their Children and Grandchildren who proudly continue the Bulldog Tradition.

Susan T. Jordan

Tecan (Carya Illnoensis)

• 1/8/54 – 8/17/97. Given in loving memory by students, faculty and staff, College of Forest Resources.

William F. Lacey

• MSU Class of 1959. Given with love by Craig, Ava, and Wesley Reed, Lacey and Cole Gordon.

Doris Kinard Lee

Cherrybark Oak (Quercus Pagoda)

• 10/10/32 – 10/17/96. Given by family and friends.

John Christopher Longest

Willow Oak

• 5/29/23 – 12/19/98. Given in loving memory by the Student Health Employees.

Samson Mabry, Jr. Class of ’39 and Marjorie Stokes Mabry

Nuttall Oak

• Loyal MSU Supporters. Given by their children.

Susan Hamlin Martin

• Given in Honor of My Wife By William C. Martin, III.

Ryan Everett McCauley

Armstrong Red Maple (Acer Rubrum Armstrong)

• February 12, 1999 - September 8, 2020. Given by Jon McCauley '93.

William H. and Frances Clark McGee

Nutall Oak (Quercus Nuttallii)

• Given by Glen, Linda, Lisa, Laura, Eric, and Angela.

Frederic F. Mellen

Ginko Biloba

• Class '34

The Moon Sycamore

Platans Occidentalis

• This tree grown from seed that was one of many that Major Stuart Roosa took to the moon aboard the Apollo XIV spacecraft in 1971.

Edwin E. Moore, Jr. CPA

Willow Oak

• 4/18/31 -2/3/02. Class of 1956. Given in Loving Memory by his family.

Wink Morgan

Nuttall Oak (Quercus Nuttallii)

• April 4, 1953-June 16, 2022. Given in Loving Memory by Friends and Family Go Dawgs, and GTHOM.

Jason M. Morris

Baldcypress (Taxodium Distichum)

• 10/16/79 – 4/25/2005. Given by family and friends.

MSG George A. Nowlin and Billie Nowlin

• MSG George A. Nowlin 9/30/89 – 12/7/63. Army ROTC Drill Instructor 1919 – 1936. Billie Nowlin 2/20/20 – 12/11/2000. Given in loving memory by friends, classmates, former cadets and Associates of Billie and her father.

Elizabeth Forbes Paschall

Willow Oak (Quercus Phellos)

• June 19, 1965 - Jan. 6, 2023. BSEE MSU NASA Manager Communications Service Office. In Loving Memory by Her Family.

Jane Player

Black Walnut (Juglans Nigra)

• 12/7/25 – 7/29/2003. Given in loving memory by students, faculty and staff, College of Forest Resources

Clyde McRay Chip Rauch, Jr.

Magnolia Grandiflora (Claudia Wannamaker)

• "Frank C. Rasco, Jane Rasco, and Pamela Rasco. Given in Loving Memory by Chris and Melanie Sobczak.

Clyde McRay “Chip” Rauch, Jr.

Southern Magnolia (Magnolia Grandiflora)

• Clyde McRay “Chip” Rauch, Jr. 3/9/69 – 8/4/95. Given in loving memory by: Mississippi State University and The Poultry Science Department.

Neal Denton Rogers

Swamp White Oak

• “Papa Pete”. Given in loving memory by Family and friends.

David C. Schoggen, P.E.

Sawtooth Oak (Quercus Acutissima)

• MSU Class of 1977. Given in Loving Memory by His Family.

Dr. Jung P. Shim

• 9/3/47-12/1/21. Given in Loving Memory by the Department of Management and Information Systems.

Dr. Kent Sills

Nuttall Oak (Quercus Nuttallii)

• April 13, 1934 – May 3, 2006. MSU Band Director/Asst. Director 1967 – 1999. Given in Loving Memory by the Sills Family.

The Freedom Tree (Major Richard E. Smith)

• With the vision of universal freedom For all mankind this tree is dedicated to Major Richard E. Smith And all prisoners of war And missing in action 1972.

Tony Lee Thompson

• 6/17/47 - 8/6/2020. Given by his loving family and future bulldog children.

Professor Mfanya Tryman

Sawtooth Oak

• 1/26/48 – 2/23/05. Given in loving memory by his many friends at Mississippi State University. He was our colleague, teacher, mentor and friend.

Joseph (Joe) Grady Turner, Jr.

• 1939-2022. BSEE 1962. In Loving Memory by His Family. Hail State!

In celebration of the U.S. Constitution

• 1787 -1887. Centennial Chapter Motor Board April 6, 1988.

Charles Randolph Weatherly

Swamp Post Oak (Quercus Similis)

• July 3, 1963-Nov. 27, 1986. Given in Loving Memory by His Family and Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

Colleen White-Woodring

Teddy Bear Magnolia (Magnolia Gradiflora Southern Charm)

• 4/21/66-3/26/19. Given in Loving Memory by Her Family.

Robert Wiley

• Placed in Loving Memory by His Family.

W. H. Howard Wilkerson

Willow Oak

• 6/13/23 – 8/19/2003. Given in loving memory by family and friends.

Lisa Dodson Williams and Shun Van Buren Williams

• Lisa Dodson Williams '89 Alpha Kappa Alpha - LH. Shun Van Buren Williams '89 Omega Psi Psi - TDD. Given in the Love of God, Each Other, Family and MSU.

Dean Wingo Family

Claudi Wannamaker (Southern Magnolia Magnolia Grandiflora)

• Given in Love for Mississippi State University by the Dean Wingo Family.