The Hubert Bond Owens Plaza Fountain was erected for Hubert Bond Owens, who established the University of Georgia’s landscape architecture program and was its only professor for the first nine years. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of Georgia in 1926, with his studies focused on horticulture, landscape gardening, and agriculture. He also earned a Masters in education so that he could teach students about environmental design for over 45 years. In 1969, Hubert Bond Owens was named the first dean of the School of Environmental design. On top of his teaching career, he also designed the Founders Memorial Garden at the University of Georgia.