HS 401, Spring 2016, NC Association of Physicians Assistants Veterans Garden, Durham, NC ($85,000garden) received a $2,000 donation – resulted in an $8,500 value for design and $85,000 value for landscape construction.
Memorial gardens pay tribute to fallen heroes, provide a place of remembrance for friends and families, and reflect the place and the people who developed them. Students worked with NC Association of Physicians Assistants stakeholders (mostly veterans) to develop and integrate the existing gardens and the adjacent area that contains a statue by artist, John Prazen, a Korean War veteran and Navy corpsman (USS Sperry). With information discovered during the workshop, students redesigned the space and prepared a landscape design, a 3-D model, and a cost estimate for the Veteran’s Memorial Garden at the NCAPA Stead Center. They used that Students’ report to raise$85,000 to build the memorial garden. I was invited to speak on the day of the dedication.