On campus for more than thirty years, the Magnolia Tree at the Delta Gamma house stood tall. Today on June 6 the tree was taken down.
The Alpha Psi chapter of Delta Gamma is expanding their sorority house. Lisa Darnell, the chairman of the building committee, said the sorority had been planning renovations for three years. She pledged Delta Gamma in 1969.
“It’s emotional,” said Darnell. “If there would have been anyway to save it we would have. We tried to even move the tree, as big as it was, but we didn’t think it would survive.”
The building committee plans to kiln dry the wood and make furniture out of the historic Magnolia Tree.
“We’ve got pictures of the tree in house pictures, so our members who never got to see it, will get to see it like it used to be,” said Darnell.
Delta Gamma still expects to house girls on the south wing of the house in the upcoming school year. Renovations are expected to be finished in August 2017.
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