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i4"rtli; THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL I/eau-talent of History Thc University of North Carolina al Chapel Hill Hamilton Halt 070 A Chapel Hill N C 27510 13 May 1982 Jean Levi. PTA Council President Dear Jean: A propos of your phone call last night, I would like to nominate a teen of two people for the out- standing volunteer award. They are Walter Trott of 62 Willow Terrace in Chapel Hill, and Gladys Parker of 305 Lindsay Street in Carrboro. 72.1,o2/5 As you yourself know, no noney was appropriated for landscaping when Carrboro Elementary School (and others in the system) was built. As a result, the grounds were a disgrace -- nothing but naked, rock-hard clay surface. Well ■4alter rott, a retired school principal from Pennsylvania, set to work. He cajoled money out of various civic groups in town. He got the Arboretum to contribute surplus plants. And he got • the school system maintenance department to do the rough grading and some of the heavy digging. Joined by Gladys Parker, who at the tine had a son in Carrboro Elementary School, they dug, planted, watered, and weeded: not just weekends, but day after day. School principal Randy Marshall estimates that each put in about 450 hours of work -- unpaid of course -- each year for the last five years. (Gladys, I should note, has not had a child in the school for the last three years.) As a result of their labors, "arrboro Elementary School is now the showplace of Carrboro. People come from all over the county to see the glorious displays of pyrocantha (I think that's the spelling), of asaelas, of chrysanthemums, of hollyhocks, and of all the rest of the plants that await their turn to blossom and cheer the entire community. For their contribution to