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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 23, 1993                   TAG: 9303230103
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

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TREE-PLANTING TODAY AT TECH

A gift of 50 flowering cherry trees for the College of Human Resources at Virginia Tech has arrived, and the first will be planted at a ceremony at Wallace Hall near the adult day-care center patio at Tech today at 5:15 p.m.

The trees are a gift from Koriyama (Japan) Women's University.

Thirty of the trees are Yoshino cherry trees, the same variety that is famous in Washington; 20 are weeping cherries, which are a smaller variety.

The trees will be planted around Wallace Hall, across the Tech campus and near the duck pond.

Tech and the Koriyama school share several research, faculty and student exchange programs.

Fusa Sekiguchi, president of Koriyama, formally made a gift of the cherry trees to Tech during rededication of Wallace Hall last fall.

"We are sure the saplings will be nurtured well, and grow to be a strong and beautiful addition to your campus, as we hope that the relations between our two schools will also be nurtured into a strong beneficial relationship," she wrote in a recent letter.

Sekiguchi also wrote that she could not attend today's ceremony.

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