The collection contains two items: a program on the 50th anniversary and a manuscript on the history of the Towar Gardens. The program of Towar School’s 50th Anniversary Celebration on Arbor Day in 1987 contains a brief history of the building as well as an order of events and honorees who were instrumental in the beginning operations of Towar School. The other item is a copy of the manuscript detailing the history of Towar Gardens and Meridian School District #7, written by Barbara Grumbache and Virginia Sterling. The history began in 1850 with George Morris Towar, who built the first school building. His son, James Delos Towar, continued with his father’s tradition after his death in serving the community by working on expanding the city of East Lansing, Michigan. He has also claimed to be the person who first suggested the city’s name of East Lansing. The featured history in the program appears to be an abridged and edited version of the manuscript.