Thank you friends at FSU for all the generosity I was shown in adopting this cache and helping me to fill it with Ferris swag.
Go Bulldogs!
ORIGINAL TEXT FROM PREVIOUS OWNERS:
Part of a multicache for Ferris State University's 125th celebration. This is a 3rd stage option for the multicache that will be activated on September 3, 2009.
Ferris State University's Information Technology Services
(FSU ITS)
Susan Cherry
Jim Cook
Denise Grinnell
Jim Maat
Scott Thede
More information about the area:
Santer Preserve Celebrates Nature, Ferris Presidents
Helping to dedicate a plaque to the vision of former Richard Santer, the Ferris State professor emeritus of Geography who was honored by having the University’s 22-acre nature preserve rededicated in his name at the time of his retirement in 1996, is in turn honoring the presidents who served during his teaching career at Ferris (1969-96), as well as founder Woodbridge N. Ferris. Santer has asked former Ferris State presidents and their descendents to choose representative nature quotes, which will be the text for bronze plaques mounted on native rocks to be placed around the perimeter of the preserve that bears his name.
Those asked to contribute nature quotes for the project are David Spathelf, son of Victor F. Spathelf, president from 1952-70; Patricia Smith Shaffner, daughter of John R. Smith, interim president from 1970-71; Robert Ewigleben, Ferris president from 1971-83; Roy Tiede, interim president from 1988-89; Helen Popovich, president from 1989-94; and William Sederburg, president from 1995-2003.
Santer believes the project will “help provide the students and community with a higher level of understanding and respect for nature’s enduring value to life.”
To date, Santer and his family have donated two bronze plaques that have been set in place at the preserve in 2001 and again in 2003. One honors Woodbridge Ferris and the other William Wenrich, president from 1984-88. The project is tentatively slated to be completed in 2005.