UMass Magazine Online

Winter 2003

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All my best friends are here

One giant molecule

I learnt to dream of Sicily

The Landscape Beautiful

Extended Family

Souvenir

“LOOK OUT ON THE OLDEST trees around you and tell them I remember them as they were when they were small, and feel sure that descendents of the tree sparrows, robins, and chickadees that visit them now are descendents of those I knew. . .”

So the 91-year-old Dorothy Waugh (the taller of the two beribboned little girls in the photo above) wrote about our campus, her own backyard, in a 1987 note to her friends at Special Collections & Archives. Her note introduced a charming series of reminiscences about her father, Dr. Frank Waugh, the landscape architecture program Waugh founded, our campus and her family. In her letters Dorothy Waugh paints a picture of “how young, small, yet very active and rapidly growing” Massachusetts Agricultural College was. The same could certainly be said of her own family, shown in this 1905 photo.

Parents Frank and Alice Waugh, left, raised Dan, Frederick, Dorothy, Esther, Albert and Sidney, in descending order, literally on campus. The children earned their pocket money picking strawberries in the campus fields (3 cents a quart!), accompanied their father on horse and buggy rides into the surrounding countryside, sketched together and enjoyed conversations at their long dining room table with a steady stream of visiting dignitaries. Small wonder that these six children all grew up to be vital, accomplished and artistic adults.

Plan a long visit to Special Collections & Archives (#2563 W.E.B. Du Bois Library, open 10am-3pm, M-F) if you go looking for more information about the Waughs. The collection is rich, and includes portfolios of both Frank Waugh’s natural history etchings and his photographs of campus personalities.

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