Special tree dedication set for Sept. 14 The Department of Accountancy in the College of Business and Public Administration is pleased to announce a special tree dedication in memory of Jake Wambsganss, former professor of accounting. The dedication will take place at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, on the west side of Gamble Hall, in the lawn areas between Gamble and Johnstone-Fulton residence hall. Everyone in the University community is invited to attend. A small reception will follow the dedication in the Page Family Marketing Center Conference Room in Gamble Hall. Wambsganns passed away in February 2007 after a brave fight against cancer. He was a professor in the Department of Accountancy and was a member of the UND faculty for 15 years, where he also served as the College of Business and Public Administration’s MBA director. Wambsganss was an avid gardener and horticulturist, who enjoyed planting fruit trees on his personal farm outside of Fordville, N.D. The Department of Accountancy will plant and dedicate a spring snow flowering crab apple tree in his honor. Please join the College of Business and Public Administration and the accounting faculty in remembering Jake Wambsganss’s service to the University at this special dedication Friday, Sept. 14, at 1:30 p.m., on the west side of Gamble Hall. -- CK Schultz, Director, External Relations, College of Business & Public Administration, ck.schultz@mail.business.und.edu, 777-6937