Copper Beech Tree Dedicated on Arbor Day
in Memory of Hutton House Lectures Founder

Fan Bush-Brown’s daughters, Martha Risom (left) of Connecticut and Lel Gimbel of Glen Cove, along with Dr. David Steinberg of Old Westbury, president, Long Island University, unveil the plaque.

A beautiful copper beech tree was dedicated on Arbor Day, April 28, 2006, at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in honor of the late Frances “Fan” Bush-Brown, founder of the Campus’s renowned Hutton House Lectures.

The new tree replaced a copper beech that lived more than 90 years before being removed last year from the front yard of Lorber Hall, the former mansion of financier William E. Hutton II.

Bush-Brown, wife of former Long Island University Chancellor Albert Bush-Brown, founded the Hutton House Lecture series in 1977 as a cultural service to residents of North Shore communities and to showcase stars of the C.W. Post faculty and well-known guest speakers. Speakers have included anthropologists Margaret Mead, Richard Leakey and Jane Goodall, writer Malachy McCourt and opera singer Barbara Bliss. Topics include current events, art, literature, music, workshops for writing and painting and more.

The Arbor Day Celebration began with a “Noble Trees” lecture by Vincent Simeone, director of the Planting Fields Arboretum and coordinator of the C.W. Post Community Arboretum.

Posted: May 1, 2006