For those of you who don't know, the Skate Tree is located on Center Avenue on the HPU campus. It is in the grove of trees next to the parking lot across from Phelps Chapel.

For reasons unknown, an old-fashoned (metal) roller skate is lodged in a fork in said tree. It is passed-by hundreds of times each day without much notice.

Only a few people ever notice the skate tree's existence. That is why I have selected it as the symbol of the true HPU spirit.


Greg Irwin
Class of 1999


the Skate Tree's location
across Center from Phelps Chapel