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May 1995 Newsletter *: Odontoglossum Alliance Newsletter Dues Are Due Odontoglossum Included with this newsletter is a Alliance meeting membership and dues form. The membership year is from August through May. Several of you in Portland. have already given me your dues payment for the The meeting of the Odontoglossum year 1995-96. Please excuse me sending you an Alliance was held in Portland on 28 April 1995 additional form. Just ignore it. For those of you in conjunction with the Western Orchid who have not renewed this is the time to do it. Congress. The lectures were attended by over Please note that dues for membership, which 100 people who were privileged to hear four includes the newsletter is $15.00 per year. If you great talks on interesting aspects of the would like a copy of the New Zealand letter, also Odontoglossum Alliance. The meeting opened quarterly, this is an additional $5.00. with, coffee, fruit and rolls giving attendees the Membership dues NOT received before the opportunity to have some early morning August 95 newsletter will receive a reminder conversation about odontoglossums and renew notice BUT NO Newsletter. So send in your dues old friendships. Bob Hamilton, President, with promptly. his opening remarks, introduced Wim Velsink, We continue to accept contributions to the AOS the session moderator. Wim is an amateur odont Robert B. Dugger Trophy which will have the grower and provided a lively and brief first award in the spring of 1996 and annually introduction of each speaker. thereafter. First to come on the scene was Sandro This year we are asking for some more Cusi of Mexico. Sandro gave an accurate and information. We plan to publish and send to each interesting description of the growing conditions member a membership booklet. of Lemboglossums in their natural environment. If you wish to receive the two tape set of the His talk was illustrated with pictures of the talks given in Portland you may also add this growing conditions as well as maps showing with your payment ($50.00). These tapes will be location and climate conditions for the plants. mailed in the August time frame. We will only His photographs of flowers were many that had reproduce enough to cover orders so this is your not been generally seen before. Sandro’s talk as opportunity. You should order them now if you well as some flower pictures, will be printed in want them. the August 95 newsletter. Juan Filipe Posada of Medellin, Colombia, gave an accurate, but discouraging picture of the Election state of odontoglossums in the wild in Colombia. The by-laws of the Alliance call for electing a De-forestation is destroying the natural habitat Board of Directors. We will have a nominating y of odontoglossums and Juan saw no stopping of committee recommend a slate that will be printed the present trend. in the February 1996 newsletter. During the period February 1996 through 1 May 1996 we win accept nominations firom members. ( continued on page 2) (continued on page 2) Newsletter 1 May 1995 Alliance Meeting Election In the May 1996 Newsletter we will send out a He then went on to show slides of native ballet accompanying the dues form for the period Colombian odontoglossums and suggest many, August 1996-May 1997. Voting will be done by that are not weU known, as potential breeding returning the ballot before 1 August 1996. At tiiat parents for further hybrid development. His talk time the top eight by vote count will be elected was most interesting and informative. as Directors for the next three years. The Board Helmut Rohrl is well known for his of Directors will then elect the Officers of the intergeneric hybrids of the odontoglossum Alliance, President, Vice-President, and alliance. He described many hybrids made with Secretary-Treasurer. These results and the alliance material, illustrating them with slides of election results will be published in the August the flowers. His talk is reproduced in this 1996 newsletter. newsletter. Steve Gettel was the concluding speaker Future Odontoglossum with his discussion of Classic Odonts. He Alliance Meetings showed the finest odonts raised over the years and the results of current breeding programs. The next scheduled meeting of the Steve’s talk is also reproduced in this newsletter. Odontoglossum Alliance will be held in All of these talks were video taped as well as the Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday 13 talk of Dr. Wally Thomas- "Odontoglossums". April 1996. This meeting will be held in The talks are on two 60 minute tapes. The conjunction with the Western Orchid Congress Odontoglossum Alliance will make available this and AOS Trustees meeting. The Saturday date two tape set for the cost of $50.00, which covers was scheduled to not conflict with any other reproduction and mailing costs. Members who lecture programs of the congress. It will also missed these talks or those who were present that permit those who can’t travel before Friday to wish to have a reminder of these talks should attend this meeting. Dr. WaUy Thomas is the send their money to: Western Orchid Congress Chairman and Odontoglossum Alliance Organizer. He reports we will be in P.O. Box 58 "Odontoglossum country". Preliminary efforts Westport Point, MA 02791 are underway to organize this meeting. It is We will close out this opportunity in August and planned at this time to have a four lecture series mail the tapes shortly there after. in the morning followed by a luncheon and Following the talks a luncheon with over 60 auction of fine Odontoglossum Alliance material. attendees was held. The President gave a short There is some consideration for having a dinner business report followed by a Treasurer’s report. on the evening 12 April 1996. Those who have The Treasurer’s report showed there were comments or suggestions for this meeting can adequate funds for the establishment of the AOS send them either to the President, Robert Odontoglossum Alliance trophy and operating Hamilton, 2439 Woolsey Street, Berkeley, CA funds for the Alliance. The operating funds are 94705 or to your editor. used principally for the printing and mailing of It is planned that the 1997 meeting of the the quarterly newsletter. Alliance will be held in Santa Barbara, California The high light of the luncheon was the auction of in conjunction with the Western Orchid very high quality, unusual and normally not Congress. The 1998 meeting will be held in obtainable Odontoglossum Alliance material, Toronto, Canada in May 1998. generously donated by our members. (continued on page 3) (continued on page 3) Newsletter 2 May 1995 Contributions to this fund may continue to be Meeting made. They may be sent directly to the AOS or to the Treasurer, John Miller of the There were some 34 separately auctioned items. Odontoglossum Alliance. The award will be Dr. Howard Liebman, John Hainsworth, and Dr. determined by the AOS Committee on Awards Steve Beckendorf ably conducted the auction. with the first award being made in the spring of The lively and active bidding raised $3005 for 1996. the Odontoglossum Alliance. This was the largest The procedure is for each of the sixteen amount ever raised the several times these judging centers to submit a single nomination for award to the committee. The Committee for auctions have been conducted. The material Awards then makes the final determination. The contributed was most exciting with several items award is a monetary award equal to the income available that are just not seen on the open derived from the endowment. The market. The bidders were interested and Odontoglossum Alliance exceeded the minimum generous. The proceeds of the auction will go amount required of $5000.00 to establish the towards the AOS trophy, fund more color in the award. The initial contribution to this fund was newsletter and into a general reserve fund for slightly larger than the minimum amount. alliance purposes. Amounts can be contributed to the endowment in AH in all it was a most interesting and the future to increase its size and the award. informative meeting that was very well attended. The concept of establishing the trophy and nanung it after Bob Dugger was proposed by the chairman of the Board of the Odontoglossum Future Meetings Alliance, Bruce Cobbledick at a meeting in Santa Plans are underway to have an International Barbara in March 1994. At that time a plan was Odontoglossum Alliance meeting at the World developed to request establishment of the award Orchid Conference to be held in Vancouver in at the 1995 meeting of the Odontoglossum 1999. It is hoped we will have all the Alliance and the AOS Committee on awards. The Odontoglossum ALliances participating. This proposed award was publicized in the include New Zealand, Australian, and British as Odontoglossum Alliance newsletter and well as our own Alliance. Make your plans and contributions were solicited from our members. start to block out these dates. Generous contributions were received firom many people, contributions both large and small, but all Robert B. Dugger counted to bring the fund beyond the minimum required. The President, Robert Hamilton wrote AOS Trophy a a comprehensive letter to the AOS committee Established requesting the award, defining the award At a meeting of the AOS Committee on Awards, parameters and clearly citing the work of Bob Chaired by Anita Aldrich, the committee Dugger. Please note in the figures the number of recommended to the AOS Trustees the hybrids Bob has contributed to the Odontoglossum repertoire’. John Miller made a establishment of the Robert B. Dugger award for "an odontoglossum or hybrid with short presentation to the Awards Committee on odontoglossum in the parentage, Bob’s contributions to the odontoglossum world exhibited before the AOS Judging System" and requested their approval for establishing the to be awarded annually.
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