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Several of the people who shaped the University in its earlier years are pictured here celebrating Arbor Day April 22, 1905. From left are Marshall S. Snow, acting chancellor (1887-1891); Edward Mallinckrodt Sr., trustee (1902-1928); Isaac H. Lionberger, trustee (1894-1919); Robert S. Brookings, chairman of the Board of Trustees (1895-1928); Winfield Scott Chaplin, chancellor (1891-1907); Calvin M. Woodward, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture (1870-1896, 1901-1910); Alfred L. Shapleigh, trustee (1895-1945); William K. Bixby, former president of the Board of Control of the School of Fine Arts and namesake of Bixby Hall; Charles Parson, archaeologist who donated the mummies of Pet-Menekh and Henut-Wedjebu to the Gallery of Art; and Henry Ware Eliot, on the board of managers of the Manual Training School, son of former Chancellor William Greenleaf Eliot and father of T.S. Eliot.

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Washington University is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2003-04.

Special programs and announcements will be made throughout the yearlong observance.