We are sad to share the news that Dr. Bruce "Doc" Hamilton has passed away. He was a fixture on the faculty in the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture and the various permutations of Cook College. He was the Director of Rutgers Gardens, moving it towards a larger goal of serving the state as a university public garden while lovingly pruning, mowing, and planting as much he could possibly take on himself. He is remembered with the Hamilton Award, the university’s national horticulture recognition that bears his name.
For years we had offices across the hall from one another and had countless of those end-of-the-day moments that ranged from touching to humorous. But the real treat was going on field trips with him, from Boston to Washington DC. Revisiting Dumbarton Oaks with him was a revelation and discovering newly built parks in Boston broadened my first look at them.
