“St. Ed’s Gets New Greenhouse” (1980)

In the summer of 1980 the 20x30 foot “glass-to-ground” greenhouse next to Fleck Hall was completed by “three Ph.Ds and a wrench,” as Brother Daniel Lynch put it at the time. Science faculty members, including Brother Daniel and Dr. Jimmy Mills, along with several students erected the structure from a kit purchased through the Texas Greenhouse Company in Ft. Worth. Since 1958, when there were fewer than 500 students in the entire university, science classes had been using a 6x12 foot greenhouse built on the roof of Fleck Hall. The original facility “stuffed full of plants and sporting a frog farm” was not sufficient to meet the increased teaching and research needs of 1980. The new greenhouse was “fully equipped with electricity, water, air conditioning and heat” and had “bound aluminum strips that can be rolled down to protect the glass, and the plants inside, from harsh or violent weather.”

St. Edward’s University Newsletter, Summer 1980

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