GPS joined the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Children’s Memorial Peace Gardens Project planting two dozen daffodil bulbs on the school’s campus. The small gardens of daffodils being planted by businesses, non-profits, schools, and civic agencies are dedicated to innocent children and youth who died as a result of acts of war, domestic violence, and other acts of violence.
Students in the Environmental Science class, who are proficient at planting and harvesting from their work in the GPS garden tilled the earth around a tree in the Naiad area of the campus and amended the soil for the bulbs. The day was a civilian day for students – a day when girls don’t have to wear their traditional uniforms.
A press release from the city of Chattanooga says that “as the bulbs continue to bloom each year, they will serve as a visual tribute to the loss of innocent lives and the hope of saving many others.”
Native Chattanoogan Sylvia Wygoda, retired executive director of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, is the creator and coordinator of the program. She has been a guest of the GPS Global Speaker Series.