Trees

Broward Jr. College President Dr. Joe B. Rushing admires the first tree planted on the new campus.

Tables dot the campus for students to eat, study, or relax with friends while black olive and umbrella trees provide shade.

Hurricane Andrew came aground in South Florida on August 24, 1992. While much of southern Miami-Dade County was leveled, Broward County damage was moderate. BCC's most dramatic damage was at the Tigertail Watersports Complex, where Australian pines crashed onto a trailer.

Hurricane Andrew's damage to Central Campus was largely confined to signs and trees, as shown in this view of the west side of the campus.

This Norfolk Island pine on Central Campus toppled and had many of its branches stripped off by the wind.

From the planting of the first tree on Central Campus─a black olive─BCC has grown to become among the State's best-landscape community Colleges.

In addition to college-transfer curriculum, the college offered courses of particular value to South Floridians, such as ornamental horticulture. Prof. Albert Will (left) discusses the fishtail palm with his students in 1964. Will served as the ornamental horticulture program's director.

Here, landscape workers plant coconut palms at the east entrance of the campus. When the campus opened in August 1963, it had 7 buildings spread out over 152-acres; it was built on land donated by the United States government. Other fixtures on Central Campus at the time of its opening were temporary trailers for the bookstore and horticulture program.