Lafayette Garden Club
Lafayette, Louisiana
Serving the Community since 1930

MONTHLY MEETING
Second Wednesday at 9:00 a.m
No meetings June through August

Ira Nelson Horticulture Center
2206 Johnston Street
   University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Board Meetings
Held prior to the regular scheduled meeting in
October, January, April, and
at the call of the President

The objectives of Lafayette Garden Club shall be
to advance gardening: to further the purpose of and
to encourage civic and roadside beautification
in cooperation with our state and national organizations.

PRESIDENT’S THEME
"We As Gardeners Beautify the Environment, Let's Encougarge Others To Do The Same”
CONSERVATION PLEDGE
I pledge to protect and conserve the natural resources
of the plant Earth and promise to promote education so we may
become caretakers of  our air, water, forests, land and wildlife.


Did you know?
America's Conservation Pledge is a creed defining the term "conservation" and the calling the attention of all to the necessity for preserving our remaining natural resources.  The Pledge had its origin in a national competition, with $5,000.00 in prizes, sponsored by Outdoor Life magazine in 1946.  Officials of the federal and state governments actively supported the competition by helping to publicize it in schools, among sportsman's clubs and elsewhere.
More than 15,000 entries were received.  Each person who submitted a pledge also had to write an essay on the necessity for conservation.  The winning Pledge was written by L.L. Foreman of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The pledge was revised in 1993.  The pledge runs on the letters page of every issue of Outdoor Life.