For my first year teaching at LCC (1966-67) my biology classroom was the break room in an old house up on the hill above the Springfield Train Station. The house had been used as an office building by the previous occupant. I got the break room because it had running water for lab sessions. In the fall of 1968 we moved into our new labs on the new 30th Ave campus. The new labs worked just as we had planned them. However, for some reason the greenhouse we had planned failed to appear. Needing to raise plants for biology and botany labs we dismantled the ramshackled temporary greenhouse we had put together next to the house on the hill and hauled it out to 30th. It ended up on the hillside above the parking lot south of the science building. Not a pretty sight. Eventually the administration found funds for a real greenhouse that was constructed on the open space just west of the science building.

When I returned to Eugene in 2004 after 20 years overseas, I had trouble recognizing my old science building and could not see the greenhouse. A member of the new biology staff guided me through the new building which had encapsulated the old rooms I had known. The greenhouse had not disappeared but had been relocated to the east side of the new building.