SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS October 2011, Volume 46, Issue 9 Web site: www.soos.ca ; Member of the Canadian Orchid Congress; Affiliated with the American Orchid Society, the Orchid Digest and the International Phalaenopsis Alliance. Membership: Annual Dues $30 per calendar year (January 1 to December 31 ). Surcharge $15 for newsletter by postal service. Membership secretary: Hesse Pommells 416-245-0369, #503-370 Dixon Road, Weston, Ontario, M9R 1T2 Executive: President, Yvonne Schreiber, 905-473-3405; Vice- president, Elizabeth McAlpine, 416-487-7832; Secretary, Sue Loftus 905-839-8281; Treasurer, John Vermeer, 905 823-2516 Other Positions of Responsibility: Program, Mario Ferrusi; Plant Doctor, Doug Kennedy; Meeting Set up, Tom Atkinson; Vendor and Sales table coordinator, Diane Ryley; Web Master, Max Wilson; Heinz Ernstberger with his plant of the month Newsletter, Peter and Inge Poot; Annual Show, Peter Poot; Paphiopedilum Jogjae photo pp Refreshments, Joe O’Regan. Conservation Committee, Tom Atkinson; Show table, Iryna Bonya. SOOS Annual Valentine Honorary Life Members: Terry Kennedy, Doug Kennedy, Inge Orchid Show, February 11 Poot, Peter Poot, Joe O’Regan, Diane Ryley, Wayne Hingston. and 12, 2012. We need you Annual Show: February 11 – 12, 2012 to volunteer! Meeting Program Sunday, October 2, Sales at noon, program at 1 pm. Our speaker on October 2 will be Jose Esposito of Soroa Orchids (http://www.soroaorchids.com/). He is President of Soroa Orchids, Inc, located in the heart of the Redland, Florida orchid-growing area. He is an accredited judge of the American Orchid Society and travels around the world selling and lecturing about orchid breeding and culture, including lectures at the World Orchid Conferences in Rio, Brazil and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Jose is a founder member of the International Orchid Alliance, past president of the East Everglades Orchid Club, past president of The Coalition for Orchid Species, past member of the Education Committee of the American Orchid Society, Vice President of the Redland Orchid Growers Association and Redland Orchid Festival, Inc., as well as a past board member of the South Florida Orchid Society, where he served for several years. Soroa Orchids expanded it‟s business to Canada in 2005, opening Soroa Orchids Canada in Toronto. Jose was born in Cuba, and emigrated to the United States in 1980. In Cuba, he was an accomplished writer, considered to this day the youngest published writer in Cuba, winning National prizes of Literature when he was a mere stripling of 16 years. Jose is also the new chairman of judging for the Florida Caribbean Region. Be an early bird and give yourself a chance to win a free plant. 2012 Memberships are available now. Get your name into the early renewal draws to be held in November, December and January. 2012 membership $30. 1 SOOS President’s Remarks SOOS – TBG library membership liaison – send name and SOOS number Fellow orchid aficionados: Thank you goes out of new members to the TBG and to those of you who brought in treats to share th receive TBG number for access to TBG for our September 4 meeting. The letters of library the month for October will be S and last names Hearts and flowers – send cards that start with the letters Ta. We are asking and/or flowers to SOOS members who anyone whose last name starts with these are ill or have passed away letters to bring in a treat to share. These treats Monthly Social Break co-ordinator – should be finger foods only i.e. something that putting out treats and napkins at the can be picked up with your fingers and does not monthly meetings require a plate or fork. Orchidfest and Christmas Party The C.O.O.S. show will be held on September kitchen organizer – solicit volunteers 24rd and 25th. For those of you who will be to help, direct and organize the food reading your newsletter prior to this date, for these two special occasions. This please contact Don Wyatt at job could be split into two. [email protected] if you have any Librarian – receive, process and put plants that he can use in the SOOS display. The magazines into SOOS collection at the E.C.O.S. show in Montreal will take place on TBG library. Select and purchase new October 22nd and 23rd and Laura Liebgott has books, etc. about orchids. Record and volunteered to enter the SOOS display. The prepare these items for inclusion in R.B.G. society has moved its show to the fall the SOOS collection. (Please note that from the spring and it will take place on TBG volunteers do all cataloguing). October 29th and 30th. We will be looking for flowering plants to exhibit at these shows as A new director would not be obliged to well. Is there anyone who would like to help assume one of these jobs. Perhaps you have put together one of the displays? Please let me another idea about how you could contribute know. to our Society. Or you can become a director and take some time to pick out an area in which you would feel comfortable helping out. HELP!! The election for the 2012-2013 th The election will take place at the beginning of executive will take place at the December 4 th the December 4 meeting. We need a slate of meeting. We, that is SOOS, are in desperate candidates to present to the membership on need of new people to form the next executive. which they can vote. If you are not able to The positions that need to be filled include that stand for one of the positions, but you know of president, vice president and directors. Any someone that you think would be willing and of us on the current or past executive would be able to do so, please let me know. We need more than willing to act as a mentor for any of names prior to the December meeting i.e. these positions. There are roles for more than November or preferably October. Talk to me at one new director. What could you be doing as a a meeting; e-mail me at director to help your society? Here are a few of [email protected], or phone me at the jobs that are looking to be adopted: 905-473-3405. Membership – record and collect Yvonne Schreiber membership fees from new and renewing members 2 As our SOOS president, Yvonne Schreiber, has Please note that the first session is mentioned, the present 2-year term of the SOOS board of directors, or "executive" as we tend to on September 13, not 27 as call this team, will end on December 31, 2011. I originally reported. want to add my voice to Yvonne's, and make the case for why each of our members should give serious consideration to becoming a director. As many of you know, but the newer members may not, I joined SOOS in April 2004, after Coming Events 2011 being blown away by the 2004 SOOS show that SEPTEMBER February. At the end of 2005, Jay Norris approached me to ask if I would consider 24-25, Central Ontario Orchid Society allowing my name to stand in nomination as a Show, Toronto Centre, October Toronto society director. This was a very welcome AOS judging, Cambridge, Hespeler Arena. surprise, and it did not take much arm twisting www.coos.ca for me to accept. Did I know what a director was supposed to do? Yes, and no. The yes part is October from experience on another society's board. The 1-2 , Central New York Orchid Society Show, no part is that I was green as grass to the world Baldwinsville, NY. of tropical orchids, and wondered if I would be able to help much. As it turned out, the decision 2, SOOS meeting Toronto Botanical Garden, to accept Jay's offer was the right one. sales 12 noon, program 1 pm 15, 2011 Niagara Frontier Orchid Society, When you become a director, mentoring is Buffalo, NY. available to you, from any of the directors, past or present. Your first assignment is a simple 22,23, Montreal Centre - ECOS Orchidfête one: attend the executive meetings, get to know 2011 - Days Inn Hotel, Montreal+ Montréal your fellow directors, understand how the Centre society works, and listen. As time progresses, 29, 30 RBG Orchid Society show, Royal and as you feel more comfortable, see if there is Botanical Gardens, Burlington. a simple task that you could take on. The rest will flow naturally. 27-30 AOS meetings, San Antonio, Texas. November Please do not be bashful. We need new faces and new ideas on the executive. Approach 5, Toronto Centre, TBG, Semi annual meeting. Yvonne in her role as president, or me in my role as immediate past president, and talk to us. 6, SOOS meeting Toronto Botanical Garden, sales 12 noon, program 1 pm Tom Atkinson, Immediate Past president. 12, The Essex County Orchid Society is hosting an Orchid Show & Sale on November 12, 2011. This is the first time an Orchid Show of this caliber is taking place in the Fall New Comers’ Meetings Essex County/Windsor area. This is a one day event where you will see many beautiful Wayne Hingston will once (905-686-5697) orchids artistically arranged in creative again present his excellent series on the culture displays by vendors and members. There is of the most popular types of hobby orchids. no admission fee for the public and the event These sessions are for members who have just is taking place at Colasanti's Tropical started in orchids and will be presented at the Gardens in Ruthven on Saturday Nov.