BAY NEWS

Newsletter of the American Gesneriad Society of San Francisco

Volume 26, No. 1, January  2004

Next Meeting: Sunday, January 18, 2004

Program: Propagating Nematanthus and

Discussion of 2004 Proposed Topics

Message from the President

At the January meeting, the club will vote on the following nominees for club offices:

Treasurer:  Irene Fey

Secretary:  David Waugh

Vice President:  Jon Dixon

President:  Terri Campbell

Also, Lorah Gross and Terri Campbell will be newsletter editors in 2004.

Again, we would like to express our thanks to Barbara Cantora for all her work as 2003 newsletter editor.

Minutes of The American Gesneriad Society of San Francisco

December 20, 2003 Meeting

by David Waugh, Secretary

There was no official meeting on this date as we had our annual Holiday party at the Lakeside Village Cafe. The club was the host.  Those who attended the party were Ben Franklin, Terri Campbell, Lorah Gross, Celine Chase, Vera and Ken Parker, Alan LaVergne, Jon Dixon Larry Williams, David Waugh, Katherine Henwood, Harriette Poss, Irene and David Fey.

We enjoyed a choice of grilled chicken, steak or salmon, and all members found their choice to be very tasty.   Some members purchased their own wine and Ben Franklin shared a bottle with others.  The menu did not include dessert but Lorah Gross provided some dessert dishes which we all shared. Thank you Ben and Lorah!

Many members brought gifts to exchange.  They included cyclamen plants, a miniature rose plant, fertilizer, venus fly trap, mistletoe, hand thrown flower pots, diastema rhyzomes.   In addition Celine Chase brought packages of 2 inch flower pots, and Lorah Gross brought Google ball point pens for everyone.

All in all, the Holiday party was a nice addition to the 2003 season.

Information About the Next Meeting

by Jon Dixon, Vice President

This month’s program will be a discussion about our program schedule for the year.  Also we will have a mini program on propagating nematanthus--aka "The Goldfish Plant." Members can help by bringing nematanthus plants to share for cuttings.

Plans for Future Improvements to the Newsletter

by Lorah Gross

I hope to get to more meetings this year not only for personal enjoyment but also in order to take color digital pictures to add to the newsletter. I have a color printer and would like to include 2-3 color pictures in each newsletter.

I also plan on making a few formatting changes so that the newsletter is easier to read including forming 2-column pages. If you have suggestions for newsletter improvement, please email me at lorah@lorah.net.

Unless there is an objection, I would also like to make the newsletters available on my web page. I will designate the address http://www.lorah.net/agssf to be the club web address (right now there is nothing there) and will put the newsletters up there. At the next meeting, I would like the members to vote on this. Also, you may vote on what you would like the directory name to be (i.e. if you don’t want www.lorah.net/agssf, you may choose www.lorah.net/anythingelse).

Picture of the raffle table at the June 2002 meeting

Nematanthus ‘Dibley’s Gold’

First place winner at the Show and Sale in August 2002

Grown by Katherine Henwood

You can see more AGS SF pictures at http://www.lorah.net/plants. Unfortunately, they’re all from 2002. I hope to get many 2004 pictures up this year. J

Proposed 2004 Officers

President:  Terri Lynn Campbell

Vice President:  Jon Dixon

Secretary:  David Waugh

Treasurer:  Irene Fey

Newsletter Editor: lorah@lorah.net

Meetings: Usually third Sunday of each month, 1-4 p.m. at Library of County Fair Bldg., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.  (Enter from parking lot North side of 10^th Avenue and Lincoln Blvd., turn right through gate next to building, go to third door) 

2004 meetings (proposed schedule): 1/18, 2/15 (in the Recreation room), 3/21, 4/18, 5/23, 6/20, 7/18, 8/22, 9/19, 10/17, 11/21, no meeting in December.

Dues: $10 single, $11 family. Make checks payable to AGS SF, mail to Treasurer.