The Tree
As you walk down the front steps of Hopwood Hall, the oldest classroom building on campus, you see Snidow Chapel, the spiritual center of the campus and the location of worship services and musical performances throughout the year, straight ahead of you. Walking past Friendship Circle, where all of the sidewalks meet, you reach Snidow Chapel. This tree is on the left side, if you are facing the chapel.
Since this is a smaller tree, it probably isn't noticed as much as the others. Seeing that some of the limbs are bare of leaves, it reminds me of life. The many branches that have green leaves symbolize life. The few bare branches symbolize death. It seems to mean that there is death within life. It is like that with the seasons, and you can see it very well here at Lynchburg College. In the spring, trees grow new leaves and flowers bloom to show rebirth. In summer, plants grow, and in autumn, the plants begin to die. Once winter comes, most of the plants appear to be dead until spring comes again, and life is reborn.
--Michelle Horton