Grief can foster beauty as wonderful as flowers pushing through rocky soil. In 2000, following three student deaths, the James M. Bennett Memorial Garden was instituted as a place to remember and reflect on lost students, staff and alumni. For each tragic loss, a brick is engraved to honor them and placed in the walkway of the garden. In 2012, the Memorial Garden Committee was formed to maintain and reinforce the garden. In my four years at Bennett, I have dedicated myself to seeing the garden grow before my eyes and unfortunately watching as new bricks were laid to memorialize friends who are no longer with us. My sophomore year, I assisted in the building of a bell tower and watched as it was erected in the garden. The purpose of this bell
