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PCToday Photo Gallery - Students, Alumnus Collaborate on Monumental 'Tribute to Knowledge'

James A. Asbury, this year's Alumnus Achievement Award recipient, worked with Pennsylvania College of Technology students during the Spring 2006 semester to erect a dry-stone loop near the entrance to the Schneebeli Earth Science Center. Enrollees in the landscaping and masonry majors joined the 2002 business management graduate in creating the mortarless structure the only one of its kind in the world. Check out the Summer 2006 issue of One College Avenue, Penn College's quarterly magazine, for much more on the unique project.

— Photos by Carl J. Bower, horticulture instructor; and Tom Wilson, writer/editor

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James A. Asbury, atop his dry-stone creation

Parallel buttresses rise from the ground, awaiting the loop that eventually will unite them

 

Surrounded by fresh mulch and other landscaping, the “Tribute to Knowledge” greets visitors to the Schneebeli Earth Science Center

Removal of plants was the logical first step in clearing the job site Placement of the tube heralds a crucial phase of construction


 


 

Asbury supervises a busy crew of student stone-handlers, building a monument to their education

Spring 2006

Landscaping and masonry students and faculty gather around their handiwork