A small park on the Athens Campus that was created as a tribute an Ohio University alum responsible for many landscaping efforts at the University over a more than 30-year period is being relocated.
George Carper
The late George Carper ’48 earned a B.S. in agriculture from the College of Arts & Sciences and what is not the Department of Environmental & Plant Biology.
The park was originally conceived, designed, funded and built by those employed in the University’s Facilities Department to honor the late George Carper, an OHIO alumnus who operated a nursery in nearby Meigs County and who, as an independent contractor, was responsible for several landscaping projects on the Athens Campus.
A 1948 graduate of Ohio University and a World War II veteran, Carper and his wife, Peg, founded Carper’s Nursery in Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1951. Over the course of the next 30-plus years, Carper received numerous landscaping contracts on the Athens Campus, where he not only beautified his alma mater but also mentored many young landscapers.
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