When Redbird Gale (Marr) Myers ’77 returned from a trip to Japan to find that her husband had purchased 10 Japanese maple trees, she had no idea that number would increase to 4,000.
Alum’s generosity blooms into campus legacy

When Redbird Gale (Marr) Myers ’77 returned from a trip to Japan to find that her husband had purchased 10 Japanese maple trees, she had no idea that number would increase to 4,000.
Historic Ewing Manor will be open for public tours from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays, May through September.
Experience Ewing Manor’s rich history by participating in an architectural tour on Saturday, April 2.
A community tour of the historic Ewing Manor will be from 5-7 p.m. December 16. No reservations are needed.
Ewing Manor and the David Davis Mansion will once again be part of the popular Christmas at the Mansions tour on Saturday, December 11.
The historic Ewing Manor will be open for public tours from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays June through October. The last tour will start at 5:15 p.m. with the exception of Labor Day.
The Bloomington-Normal area was home to a champion of efforts to ratify the 19th amendment in Hazle Buck Ewing. Toni Tucker, director of the Ewing Cultural Center, discusses Ewing’s involvement in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
LeErin Humbracht lost hours of sleep obsessing over centerpieces for her June 6 wedding, which she’d been planning over a year. More than 200 guests were expected from as far as the East Coast–and then a global pandemic hit.
Hazle Buck Ewing’s activist writings, as well as incoming letters from dozens of other suffragists and materials from the National Woman’s Party and Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, are now freely available online for research and study, thanks to a monthslong digitization campaign by Milner Library and the Ewing Cultural Center.
Decorated for the holidays, Ewing Manor will be open for a community tour, with each room representing a Christmas song.