Students in the Amy Wise Children's Creative Learning Center perform a song during the dedication ceremony on Friday.

BUTLER TWP — The love Amy Wise had for children and nature will live on in a building dedicated on Friday to her memory.

The Amy Wise Children’s Creative Learning Center on the Butler County Community College main campus was celebrated with tours, a luncheon, a song by the students who attend the center and speakers who loved Wise.

“Amy would be very excited and proud to see this place,” said her brother, John L. Wise III, who is the vice president and secretary of Eagle Printing.

Wise and his family donated $1 million to renovate the former campus bookstore and create the open, airy, nature-themed facility where children learn and grow today.

Amy Wise, who died in November 2014, had a passion for early childhood education as well as a special affinity for instilling a love of nature in young students.

Many features of the center reflect her interest in nature, including the interior barnwood wall, the upright budding twigs seen throughout the facility and the large windows that provide the children with natural light and a beautiful view of the meadow on the east side of campus.

John Wise said the boards on the building’s exterior are intentionally reminiscent of the rolling hills of Vermont, where his sister had lived and taught since 1979.

For more on Friday's ceremony, read Sunday's Butler Eagle.