Antinette “Toni” Keller’s memorial, located near a Prairie Park trail behind DeKalb Elks Club, 209 S. Annie Glidden Road, no longer features the towering sunflower planted in her memory. According to an Oct. 24, 2010, Northern Star article, Keller...

Toni Keller’s garden at Neptune North was planted in the spring of 2012. The grounds crew at NIU work to keep the plants growing. The sunflower was Keller’s favorite flower and has become a symbol for her sunny personality, though recently the sunflowers...

Sunflower heads are made up of nearly 2,000 separate flowers. These flowers are not particularly impressive individually, but become something beautiful when put together. This can be seen as an apt analogy for the NIU community, who has come together...