Burpee<\/a> is offering seeds for the bi-colored Marquis Marigolds, said Jamie Mattikow, a 1986 alum and president and CEO of the Bucks County company.<\/p>\n“Lafayette was a great university to help you experience different possibilities,” Mattikow said. “I went in as an undeclared liberal arts major and I tried different courses, and different areas captured my interest. The economics and business and government and law were nice complimentary majors with different curriculums.”<\/p>\n
Additional 200th anniversary plans include the unveiling of a bronze statue dedicated to Adrienne de Noailles, wife of the Marquis de Lafayette. The work, by artist Audrey Flack and completed by Brian Booth Craig after Flack’s death, will be installed near Skillman Library and unveiled and dedicated in March.<\/p>\n
Lafayette College President Nicole Hurd said the college’s celebrations are celebrating “our very democratic origin story.”<\/p>\n
“I love the fact that we are named for a founding father that was the same age as our students when he came over to participate in the Revolution, who fought for freedom, for liberty, for democracy, but also spoke out against slavery,” she said. “He was somebody who was very committed to these ideas that are the American experiment.”<\/p>\nAdrienne Lafayette, the wife to the Marquis de Lafayette, is portrayed here in the 1894 etching “Madame de La Fayette” that Albert Rosenthal created for Charlemagne Tower. As part of its bicentennial celebration, Lafayette College commissioned artist Audrey Flack to create a bust of Adrienne to be installed near the school’s Skillman Library. 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