46 Marjorie Naab Bolen's voice becomes animated when she talks about walking through a caterpillar and playing in an air factory. She's describing two of the features in the new Children's Garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, where she volunteers as a tour guide. Last December, Bolen '46 won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gardens for her volunteer work, which began in 1985 after she retired from teaching science at Brown High School in Atlanta. The new children's garden that opened this fall was built by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, a company formed by the merger of the Egleston and Scottish Rite hospitals and related health care businesses. In the air factory, for example, students learn about the interdependence of plants and animals in the respiration process.
Students walk through the caterpillar structure into a butterfly garden.
Spring is Bolen's busiest time. She drives 20 miles from her home two or three times a week to the Botanical Garden to conduct tours through the children's garden. But for me, this has been good. While a student at Agnes Scott College, Patricia LeGrande Collins '64, went to work at Callaway Gardens for a summer. She never really left.