"Oh, the University of Maryland played an integral part in the jobs that my family had the most of my family was on the grounds crew. And that's what kept Maryland looking as pristine as it was. And I can remember the jobs that they had. They took great pride in those jobs. And if it wasn't done right, when they became supervisors and whatnot, they would go back and have it redone you know all over again until it looked pristine. So it was no halfway doing your job. They did everything from running heavy equipment, to the lightest of equipment to keep that campus looking the way that it looked. The big M that was there was the idea of my stepdad. Because when my dad died Oh Um excuse me, when my dad died, that was my stepdads notion to put the big M there. And it became one of his products and Georgeson. His name's James Adams. He had an integral part in Lakeland, because he was president of the senior authority of the Lakeland Civic Association. And he took great pride in that. And as it ended up, they had trees planted all throughout Lakeland that were dedicated to him. There was a park in Lakeland that was dedicated to him. "
Lakeland Digital Archive - Lakeland Community Heritage Project (LCHP)
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