Arthur Westcott Cowell, Class of 1903, worked as a landscape architect in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia before moving to State College, Penn. in 1913 where he organized the landscape architecture department at Penn State. He retired in 1925 to carry on his own professional practice most noted for planting plans for Pennsylvania highways; designed the state park at Washington's Crossing; Bowman Hill Tower; The Aubury Arboretum in Philadelphia; Oglesby Park, Wheeling, W. Va.; Evergreen Gorge Cemetery, Erie; the Capitol Grounds, Harrisburg; the Stephen C. Foster Memorial Park, White Springs, Fla.; and the original plan for the Ernst Behrend estate, Erie, now the Behrend Center, a division of Penn State. He also was a founding member of the Cornell chapter of Alpha Zeta, a professional agricultural fraternity. Harriet Lyndon Cowell, Class of '06, a member of Sigma Xi, also moved to State College in 1913 where she was an active member of the State College Bird Club, Fellow of the American Ornithological Union, member of Sigma Delta Epsilon, an organizer of the Centre County Library and the State College Community Library.