This year's Official UNM Holiday Ornament is now available at the UNM Bookstores. The second in a series of collectibles, the 2009 ornament features the Duck Pond, designed in 1974 by landscape architect Garrett Eckbo as part of a new mall extending from the east side of the Student Union to the west side of the Alumni Memorial Chapel.
Completed in 1976, UNM's Duck Pond is a main campus landmark and is in almost constant use by students, faculty, staff, classes, school children, newlyweds and wedding photographers, and of course, picnickers.
A relaxing place to study, commune and share ideas, it is also frequented each year by thousands of school children, families, alumni, faculty and staff. Scholars who meet and fall in love at UNM frequently wed to the backdrop featured in our 2009 holiday ornament, the second in a series of collectibles.
The ornament is available in the store and on the website for $18.89, a price set in honor of UNM's founding year. All proceeds benefit the UNM Parent Association.
For more information or to purchase online visit: 2009 Official UNM Holiday Ornament.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at November 5, 2009 12:19 PM