November 2025:

 On November 20, 2025, about 50 Oberlin College students and staff gathered with community members to renew Oberlin’s commitment to Green Legacy Hiroshima. After a video greeting from GLH core members, Kana Sakamoto (‘26) and Kisa Biely (‘26) spoke about GLH’s mission and the history of hibakujumoku. Professor Ann Sherif recognized the support of the community, especially Diana Roose, staff and residents at Kendal at Oberlin (host to a GLH wisteria), and College president Carmen Twillie Ambar (present at the tree dedication in 2017 as well). Participants braved the Ohio cold to dedicate the new GLH plaque that identifies two ginkgo trees (parent tree in Hiroshima's Shukkeien Garden) in the center of Oberlin’s historic Tappan Square.

(Photo Credit: Isabella Moss)