First general manager of the Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC), the governing body of student cooperatives in Ann Arbor, Mich., who served the ICC for 34 years beginning in 1951. Buchele also helped to establish the North American Student Cooperative League (NASCL) and North American Student Cooperative Organization (NASCO). Before that he was active in the student cooperative movement on the University of Kansas campus.
Photograph of Tom Gaffield and his family at Matthaei Botanical Gardens on August 2, 2008, the day of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Gaffield Children's Garden.
Photograph of a woman holding a caterpillar on a leaf at Matthaei Botanical Gardens on August 2, 2008, the day of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Children's Garden.
Photograph of one of the greenhouses at Matthaei Botanical Gardens on August 2, 2008, the day of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Children's Garden.
Image of the cacao pods in a Theobroma cacao (Chocolate Tree) from the Smithsonian NMNH botany archive, an example of a plant in the Tropical House at the Matthaei Conservatory.