History of the Ryan Pinetum. The Campus Club, established in 1901 by Haverford College alumni and faculty to preserve the beauty of the campus, first envisioned "a comprehensive planting of trees" in 1928. Members spent the next two decades transplanting hundreds of young conifers into a scientific collection arranged by family and genus. Over the years, the trees have matured, and many more have been added. In the late 1980s, volunteers Nancy and Dick Ryan led a team to inventory and label the trees. In appreciation, the area's largest and finest collection of mature conifers was officially dedicated as the Ryan Pinetum in April 1993.