by Tom Uribes
The university will name a plaza in the Peace Garden for the late Dean Richard D. Ford in a dedication ceremony on Tuesday, May 4.
Dean Ford, who died July 4, 1997, at age 62, was dean of the then-School of Health and Social Work (now Health and Human Services) for 22 years before returning to teaching the year prior to his death.
At the ceremony, from 11:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., President John D. Welty will lead a slate of speakers prior to the unveiling of a plaque marking the Richard D. Ford Peace Plaza. A reception at noon will be held in the plaza, followed by an invitation-only luncheon in the Renaissance Room. The President's Quintet is scheduled to perform for the event.
Mrs. Nancy Ford, the dean's widow, will attend, as will Bob Boro, the plaza's landscape architect, said Dr. Ben Quillian, vice president for administration.
Others speaking will be the garden's founder, Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor, social work education professor and coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program; Dr. Benjamin Cuellar, current health and human services dean; and Dr. Felton Burns, social work education professor.
Located in the tranquil, tree-lined area near the center of campus and containing three symbolic works of art, the Peace Garden was established in 1990 with the installation of a bust of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
A sculpture of Cesar E. Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers Union, was dedicated in 1996 at the east end of the garden. In January, a sculpture of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was erected at the north side, just a few yards west of the sculpture of Gandhi.
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