Orchid View OUR NEXT MONTHLY MEETING June 4, 2018 MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS Great Room by the Bay, the Activities Center, 811 S
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June Orchid View OUR NEXT MONTHLY MEETING June 4, 2018 MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS Great Room by the Bay, The Activities Center, 811 S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota, FL 6:00 Door Opens 6:15 Culture class with Roy Krueger 7:00 Business Meeting Speaker: Mark Reinke: Topic: Encyclia’s http://www.marblebranchfarms.com/ Members Only’ Silent Auction Members’ Plant Table Plant Raffle completes our Meeting! Guests are always welcome! Club address; PO Box 19895, Sarasota, FL 34276-2895 Please Note: Should you arrive to our Monthly SOS Meeting after 7:00 pm, when the Gate to the Selby Activities Center is locked, please call the cell phone of one of our members in the meeting, as listed on the gate. Someone will come down to let you in. Selby’s Rules are such that the Gate must be locked once our meeting has started, at which time no one is available to continue to sit by the gate. 1 New Members None this month ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We say “Good Luck” in the future and our “Thank You” to Denny Pavlock, who will still be around (we can’t let him get away) as our outgoing President A new President Marta Hudson took over in April and we wish her the best in the future. 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patty Turffs, Michael Jungels and Betty Smith Michael is one of our scholarship winners for 2018, here he is with our scholarship committee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 April Meeting Minutes 7:00 PM Dennis Pavlock called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Denny spoke about the Cattleya Symposium and SOS funding 20 raffle tickets to facilitate the attendance. He sold 12, close to the minimum of 15. Hopefully the rest will be sold in the June meeting. New Business: Denny turned the meeting over to Marta Hudson. Hello, I am Marta Hudson, Joined SOS in January 2014 and a month later I began to shadow Jo Davis to officially become Membership Chairperson in May. At the time, I had 5 orchids in my collection and barely knew how to read the plants labels. A year later, I qualified for the mentoring program and by then my passion for orchids and my collection were significantly growing. I learned a lot from Roys culture lessons, and the mentoring program. Last year I helped re-potting hundreds of plants and my passion grew and grew. A former IBM & Discovery Channel geek in the IT training field, a culinary snob, a realtor, and an orchid lover. Married to Bob Hudson, have 3 kids and 6 grandsons. Marta Thanked Dennis for his many years of Service to the SOS and last 3 as president At the table in the back of the room there will be a cake and beverages to recognize Denny’s outstanding service. In addition, I’d like Denny to come up to the podium. Denny received 3 gifts for each year of service as tokens of our appreciation. 1. In the spring, Denny already received a Rlc. (Rhyncholaeliocattleya) Mary Alice Underwood 'Krull-Smith' AM/AOS. Jim Krull (Krull/Smith Orchids in Apopka, FL) personally picked this one out for the gift. 2. A paid registration to the Cattleya Symposium 3. A plaque designed for his personal orchids collection. Gave a giftbox to Denny to unwrap. 7:15 PM *** Announcements: Turn To PowerPoint Marta asked the 5 Officers who serve for the next 3 years: to please come to the front: Including Dennis Pavlock, todays Past president, & Laurie Stoner Treasurer 3. Vice President & Cultural Study > Roy Krueger 4. Past President & Annual Orchid Show Chairperson & Webmaster > Dennis Pavlock 5. Recording Secretary > Randy Brodsky 6. Corresponding Secretary OPEN Your 6 Directors-at-Large are: please come to the podium as you are called: 1. Publicity & Advertising > Bruce Oltchick 4 2. OrchidView Newsletter Editor & Photography> Karen Bird-Lister 3. Raffle for Annual Show, & Food, etc > Patti Quinnelly 4. Membership > Eileen Antonelli 5. Storage Management & Selbys Meetings Setting and Cleaning-up > Mario Valencia- Rojas 6. Orchid Shows Display & Set-up > Jill Lopez Many Officers and directors came up front and were introduced. They responded to the following 4 questions: 1- Name 2- When did you joined the SOS Board for the first time? 3- How large is your orchid Collection? 4- Do you have a Favorite Orchid? Marta asked Laurie Stoner to come to the front but to keep things going at a fast pace, Marta went to Laurie instead and introduced her to the members saying: - Laurie has been the back bone of the Society for over 15 years wearing many hats and filling in positions as needed. Because of her dedication and hard work, we want to present a token of gratitude, a card with a check to purchase an orchid for her collection. Thank you Laurie! Back to business, Marta said that we need a few more members to join the board with the following open positions: Corresponding Secretary, Website Management, Hospitality as Judy Robertson is serving her last year, and a Treasurer. Other non-board positions open are 1 or 2 for events planners and coordinators for the September Picknick & The December Holiday Party. Please raise your hand if you want to be in charge and or participate in these committees. Joining the board is a great way to not only serve the club, but it’s a wonderful way to learn something new and work alongside like-minded people. Eileen Antonelli said that we had 1 new member joining but had to leave early. Marta said that she has handled the membership to Eileen Antonelli and left her with a new set of updated name badges. Starting this month, you will began taking your badges home and bring them back every meeting. Marta said, I will keep mine in the glove compartment. Scholarships: Committee: Betty Smith & Patti Turfs & Barbara Del Gato (not present, out of town) One applicant returning: Jordan Olson, and 2 new ones: Elizabeth Gape & Michael Jungels. Please meet Michael, here today interested in Environmental Sciences & Hydroponics. The other 2 will be here at the June meeting. * Photography by Karen Bird-Lister 5 Upcoming Events: The Redlands Orchid Festival is coming up next on, May 18th thru May 20th Cattleya Symposium: August 3 & 4 - Ft Pierce A 15 minutes break its coming up, Please vote for the best species, hybrid, and novice plants on the display table. The ribbon winners will be photographed by Karen Bird-Lister so we can get a picture of members with their awarded plants for the SOS website Please purchase raffle tickets. Plants purchased from Jim Roberts, Florida Suncoast Orchids. Our guess speaker today was Bill Nunez, with the Topic of Growing Specimen Cattleya Alliance Plants. He had a wonderful presentation, and everyone took notes and went home with many tips to get the best results on growing beautiful healthier Catts that trive in small thight containers for many years. He spoke about calcium built up, flushing the excess of minerals, re-potting in a fast draining media with slow decomposition to avoid root rot. 7:15 – 7:30 PM BREAK: Lets take a 15 minute break to have cake, purchase raffle tickets and vote. After break: Roy introduced Bill Nunez, ‘AKA‘ Rhizome Cowboy ‘ Roy Krueger & Cathy Lewis reviewed all the plants on the display table. & Roy will choose a speaker’s plants. Plant raffle: Announced by Susan Gerhardt 8:30 PM Clean-up Buy a chance! Win expense paid attendance to the 2018 Cattleya Symposium The Sarasota Orchid Society is funding a special raffle for our members. The prize is attendance at The Annual Cattleya Symposium in Fort Pierce, Florida, August 2 thru 4th, 2018. This is a premier orchid learning experience. Raffle PRIZE for SOS member winner(s) will include: Attendance for the two-day event, including lunches both days 6 A room for two nights, including breakfast, at the Hampton Inn, Ft. Pierce, Florida the nights of August 2nd and 3rd Pizza Party August 2nd, sponsored by our hosts, Odoms Orchids Plant Sales tables will be provided by some of the visiting presenters An auction of Cattleya species & hybrid clones, as well as seedlings, will be held in the lobby of the Hampton Inn after 7 p.m. on Friday (August 3rd); Many rare and/or unusual selections will be available to the highest bidder. Estimated value of this raffle is approximately $330 Details of the raffle … SOS will sell no more than 40-$10 raffle tickets. A minimum of 15 raffle tickets must be sold for one drawing to occur o 30 raffle tickets must be sold for both drawings to occur Two winners will be drawn A member can buy a maximum of 3 ($10) tickets 2018 Cattleya Symposium August 3 & 4,2018 (Check in Aug 2nd) Fort Pierce, FL Venue: IFAS- Indian River Research & Education Center Host Hotel: Hampton Inn, Ft. Pierce, FL Two-day seminar event (August 3-4) - with 4 guest speakers (list below) each day. Check-in day at host hotel begins on Thursday, August 2nd from 4:00 p.m. with a pizza party provided in the hotel lobby, courtesy of the organizers. Lunch is included both 7 seminar days at the Indian River Research and Education Center. Plant Sales tables will be provided by visiting presenters. An auction of Cattleya species & hybrid clones as well as seedlings will be held in the host hotel’s lobby after 7 p.m. on Friday (August 3rd); many rare and/or unusual selections will be available to the highest bidder. Hotel accommodations (2 nights) at Hampton Inn; Breakfast included. Drive time from Sarasota to Ft.