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Gulf Oil Company yesterday began planting four 20-foot little leaf linden trees at the Gulf station of K. F. Lacosse and sons at Mass Ave and Harvard St. The project will cost Gulf $1500.
The project was originally the idea of Ronald L. Fleming and Stephen F. Linden, graduates of the Graduate School of Design, who submitted a design to Gulf last May. Both Fleming and Linden are members of the Green Committee.
The Green Committee
The Green Committee is an organization of undergraduates, graduate students, alumni and faculty members whose purpose is "to foster greenness around the campus," Eric A. Brass '76, a committee member, said yesterday.
Freshmen formed the group three years age to improve the appearance of the Yard, Brass said.
Diana K. McGuire, landscape architect for the University, said yesterday that other projects the committee is working on include the planting of more trees and grass along the campus riverfront and designing, with the House committees, the layout and planting of house gardens.
Gulf was very enthusiastic about the tree planting idea when Fleming and Linden first suggested it, Bernard M. Markwell, Gulf vice president of governmental relations, said yesterday. "Gulf is as ecologically and beautifyingly aware as anybody, no doubt about that," he said.
Markwell said, however, that he did not know of any similar plans for other stations.
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