75th Anniversary Speek by Derek Bok – 2004
Twenty-five years ago, I was privileged to speak on the occasion of the Bok Sanctuary’s 50th anniversary. I could hardly be confident then that I would be fortunate enough to […]
The Work of One Man Can Make a Difference – 1979 speech by Derek Bok
Text of speech by Derek C. Bok, President of Harvard University, and grandson of Edward Bok, builder of Lake Wales’ Singing Tower. The speech was delivered February 1, 1979, on […]
Successward: A Few Prefatory Words (Introduction)
Successward is the 1895 book written by Edward Bok. The average young man is apt to think that success is not for him. To his mind it is a gift […]
Catching Up with Conservation: Lakela’s Mint Habitat Improvement Workday
In April, staff of the Rare Plant Conservation Program (RPCP) and St. Lucie County and nine volunteers from the local public participated in the final volunteer habitat improvement workday for […]
Why I Believe in Poverty As The Richest Experience That Can Come To A Boy
Written by Edward Bok and published in 1915 by the Curtis Publishing Company I MAKE my living trying to edit the “Ladies’ Home Journal.” And because the public has been most generous […]
What I Owe to America: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 39
Whatever shortcomings I may have found during my fifty-year period of Americanization; however America may have failed to help my transition from a foreigner into an American, I owe to her […]
Catching Up with Conservation: Brooksville Bellflower
In March, annual counting of all the Brooksville Bellflower, Campanula robinsiae, was performed at each population by the Rare Plant Conservation Program (RPCP) and project partners including the Florida Department […]