Michiana Orchid
Society
January
2008 Newsletter
Editor
Shirley Keim sak12000@aol.com
January Meeting: Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 1:30 pm at the River Park Library Branch*
Program: Orchid Pests and Diseases presented by Don Garling.
Refreshments: Sherry
Out with the old and in with the
New
It is always nice to end
things on a positive note. Thanks to the
gracious hospitality of John and his wife that is how we will remember our 2007
end of the year monthly meeting. John’s
beautiful home provided the perfect setting for our December orchid exchange at
which we enjoyed a bountiful feast of a wide variety of holiday foods. We also had a chance to see how John’s
orchids were growing - both in the basement and in his greenhouse. Thank
you John and Barb! And thank you to
all the people who brought food.
To start the New Year you
will all be treated to something that you have been asking for. We will be having a guest speaker. Don Garling will enlighten us on the
topic of Orchid Pests and Diseases.
Don is a respected orchid
judge with the Great Lakes Judging Center and a professor in the biological
area at Michigan State University. He
gives this presentation often to different groups around the country. Those of us who heard him give his talk at
Ann Arbor last year can assure you that it is well worth hearing. Knowing Don, he keeps his information updated
as to new methods and product currently available to combat what ails our
orchids. Be sure to bring paper and
pencil. You will want to take note from
this talk.
The program committee has
contacted a few other speakers and is now in the process of working out
dates that will work for both their
schedules and our schedules. Nothing is
positive yet for the February meeting.
Hopefully there will be enough pictures taken at the World Orchid
Conference that we could present a digital slide show of this upcoming special
event. The only problem we may encounter
in our plans to present a slide show would be the lack of a digital projector. If any of you have one we could borrow or
know where we can get one to use at the meeting please let Ron know.
WOC
For those of you who are yet
familiar with WOC, the letters stands for World Orchid Conference. Those of us who will be lucky enough to
attend are starting to pack our bags.
The conference will be haled January 22-27 in Miami. It is held every third year but in a
different country. The last time it was
held in the U.S. A. was some 35 years ago.
For some of us attending, this may be the last chance we have of seeing
anything of this magnitude without traveling to some foreign country. Maybe the younger members of our group will
be amongst those having another chance.
For those who have unlimited budgets and unlimited time to checkout the vendors,
there will be some 150 vendors from all over the world. The exhibits we will
see are considered to be among the best that
anyone will ever see including
orchids that most of us will only see in books or on websites. Those attending
primarily for intellectual versus aesthetic reasons, they will have around
twenty different presentations to chose from each day of the conference. As it now stands, approximately eight members
of our society will be going to the conference.
Meanwhile, back home, we need
to be thinking about our participation in upcoming shows. Below are listed two of the shows in which we
regularly participate. At the moment we
have enough volunteers for the Grand Valley show. Check your calendars to see who might be
available to help with the Greater Lansing show. If you have not participated in doing show
set ups and take downs let us know of your interest. We will make sure you do not have to venture
out alone. More show dates will be
listed in the next newsletter.
Happy New Year:
Please add this information, web
address for the Tamiami
International Orchid Festival, to the January newsletter. I have not yet
looked at it but am hoping that there will be enough interesting things
there to get me back over to
of my interest would be The Eric Young Foundation but I don't believe I
could be that lucky!
Rick Hendrickson
(hendr@purdue.edu)
Ps..... Has anyone contacted the
down to see us at the show.
Rick; The info you need should be up on the website
WWW.Tamiamiorchidfestival.com
Lecture schedule should be up soon.
Look forward to seeing you there, Martin
Upcoming Shows
Dates: Show/Location:
Volunteers
Needed:
Feb 2-3 Grand
Valley/Meijers Gardens-Grand Rapids, MI Registration (Fri/Feb 1): Katie
Set-up(Fri/Feb
1): Lynda, Vicki, Sue
Take-
down (Sun/Feb 3): Bruce
Feb23-24 Greater Lansing/Lansing MI: Registration
(Fri/Feb 1): ???
Set-up(Fri/Feb
22): ???
Take- down
(Sun/Feb 24): ???
Payeurs
receive their first AOS award
In October 2007 the Payeurs
brought a Gastrochilus japonicus to
the Great Lakes Judging Center to be judged for a possible AOS award. Much to their surprise, the orchid received
an HCC of 77. For those of you not
familiar with HCC, it stands for a Highly Commended Certificate. In addition to a small fee required to
register the award, the owner(s) of the orchid have the privilege of giving the
orchid a name. The orchid is also photographed and the photograph becomes part
of a large data bank of AOS awards photographs.
Because it was the first AOS award the Payeurs received, and hopefully
not the last, they chose to name the awarded plant “Genesis”. (See photo at beginning of the newsletter.)
Your opportunity
to have your orchids AOS judged and awarded
If you are the proud owner of
an orchid in bloom that you think may be worthy of an AOS award contact Sandy
or the Payeurs. Sandy, as a certified
judge, and Ron, Katie, and Brittany, as student judges -- are required to
attend a certain number of AOS judging sessions at the Great Lakes Judging
Center in Ann Arbor Michigan. These sessions are held the third Saturday of
each month. If any of the above is going
to a session at the time your orchid is in bloom, they are willing to take your
plant with them to be judged according to AOS standards.
2008 Refreshments
Program 2008 Refreshments
Program
Jan
Sherry Don
Garling-Orchid Pests & Diseases July
In Home Member’s
Greenhouse,etc.
Feb Shirley ???WOC Slides Aug
Road
Trip
Mar Lisa TBA Sept ? TBA
Apr Barbara TBA Oct
? TBA
May Bessie TBA Nov
? TBA
Jun In Home
Member’s
Greenhouse, etc. Dec In Home Christmas Party/Exchange
- Be sure to read each month’s newsletter. We will let you know at meetings and in
the newsletter if there will be any change in where we meet.
Minutes for December Meeting
The
meeting was called to order at 2:05 P.M. at John’s house. Thanks to John and
his wife for the use of his house for the Christmas Party. Meeting next month will be in the library
where we always meet. Plans for
renovations are still pending. Minutes
and Treasurer’s Report were approved as printed. Annual Treasurer’s Report was passed around
and discussion followed. Program
chairman will be a new position for next year.
Winter heating is in place at the greenhouse. Mystery plant still has not bloomed. Thank you notes were sent to the people who
came to the show. Pictures of AOS judged
plant from show were passed around. The
third Sunday of each month is when plants can be judged for AOS awards without
a show taking place. If you have a plant
that might qualify Contact Ron and Katie for arrangements to take plant to
meeting. Nominating Committee presented slate of new officers. President Katie, Vice President Don and
Lynda, Treasure Deb, Co-secretary Sue and Shirley. There were no nominations from the floor, it
was moved and seconded to accept slate.
Bill Ported donated a plant for a door prize at the Christmas Party. Katie and Vicky will set up the Grand Valley
Show. Meeting was adjourned for show and
tell and plant exchange.
Respectfully
submitted
Shirley
Keim
Co-secretary
DUES REMINDER
Wow!
19 members have already paid for the new year! Payable to Michiana Orchid
Society, dues are $10 for individuals and $15 for families--a great deal. Pay
at the meeting or send to Treasurer Deb Longworth, 7451 E 900 N, New Carlisle
IN 46552.
TREASURER'S REPORT
January
1, 2008
Beginning
Balance $748.01
Income
Dues $60.00
Correction
for voided check $25.00
Total
income $85.00
Expenses
Show
supplies $25.00
Printing 30.00
Total
expenses $55.00
Ending
Balance $778.01
Amount
in Savings $2,956.89
Respectfully
submitted,
Deb
Longworth, treasurer