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Green thumb therapy by a prison horticulturist in Belmont
Herbert S. Frank, a 60 year old German born horticulturist, teaches landscaping to inmates at San Quentin and other California prisons. He fled Nazi Europe, lived under Japanese occupation in Shanghai, and later built a career in the San Francisco Bay area. Frank has guided ex convicts into landscaping careers, won 22 national awards, served as California Man of the Year in 1965, and led a reform minded program that includes furloughs and community projects. The San Quentin program has produced bucolic grounds, a unique Herbert Frank rose, and multiple excons running their own firms.
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Herbert Frank
San Quentin
California
Frank
Gartenbauschule Ahlem
Hanover
Nuernberg
Hangchow
China
San Francisco Bay Area
Excons
Fairfield
Calif
Germany
Poland
Theresienstadt
Berlin
East Berlin
Shanghai
Hangchow International Golf Club
Victor Sasson
T. V. Soong
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
Vienna
Market Street
Belmont
Landscaping Association of California
America