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Memorial
Dr. Robert Henry Rucker
26 June 1915 - 13 June 2003
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--------68th year---------
2003 -2004 Mrs. Ayres [Jo Ann] Cermin -
"Together We Grow" - 32 members -
Green Club -
- meeting place:
Exit Teen Center, 1600 Rock Prairie Road, C S
-- Judith Schafer served as Zone II Director
-- Both Judith Schafer and Idalia Aguilar are chairmen for District V
-- Judith Schafer went with a National Garden Club group to Lima Peru to judge
a flower show.
[member Sandra Williams also went on the trip.]
-- Club had a booth at a flea market in effort to raise funds for the club
projects.
-- Judith Schafer was Associate Editor of The Lone Star Gardener - wrote
column on poisonous plants
-- a newsletter was sent each month to members
-- the club received a National World Garden Award for Idalia's work.
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Winning
arrangement, center is show chairman Idalia de Aguilar,
and club member Eugenia Williams pictured
with Norma Stokes, who won the sweep-stakes award
Our
64th Annual Standard Flower Show-
Wednesday, 31 March, 2004 2:30 to 6:00 pm
at the Brazos Center, 3232
Briarcrest Dr, Bryan.
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Memorial
Helen R Pugh
20 October 1917 - 19 Nov 2003
Delia J [Dee Dee] Lee
1 Sept 1913 - 15 April 2004
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--------69th year---------
2004 - 2005: Mrs. R D [Mary Ann] Taylor -
Green Club -
- meeting place:
Exit Teen Center,
1600 Rock Prairie Road, C S
-- Members made Christmas tree decorations for a community
Christmas tree sponsored by Brazos Beautiful in downtown Bryan.
-- A highlight of the year was a trip to Purple Gate Herb Farm near Caldwell.
-- Idalia Aguilar and Judy Schafer were co-chairmen for the state flower show
in Dallas. Idalia won the Horticulture Excellence Award at the show.
-- Idalia Aguilar serves on the National Garden Club Board
-- Club sold books and garden items from the estate of dec. member Priscilla
Daniel
Spring's Coming - 3 March '05
left - Idalia with her blooming orchids
right -spring bulbs in pots - photos by Jo Ann Cermin
65th
annual Standard Flower Show
April 6, 2005
see
slide show
“Melodies
of Texas”
Idalia
de Aguilar,
Flower Show Chairman
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--------70th year---------
2005 - 2006: Mrs. R D [Mary Ann] Taylor- 37 members -
Green Club -
- meeting place:
Exit Teen Center, 1600 Rock Prairie Road, C S 9:30 a m 2nd
Fri
- Mary Staffel put up a National Garden Week display at
both community libraries.
- a club social was held in Aug at the home of member Marg Watkins
- Sept program on fall gardening "Fall Color and Food" by Elmer
Krehbiel, garden columnist for the local newspaper
- Oct program "Color in Landscape" by Cynthia Mueller, author
of garden articles and part time State Horticulture Extension Office employee
- helps with the Landscape Design Schools.
- a high light of our meetings - horticulture info by Helen Quinn.
- Nov - the club members traveled to Martha's Bloomers in Navasota to hear
Trish Barksdale demonstrate "Fun With Holiday Florals" - lunch and
shopping.
- Dec - a club social with husbands at the home of Idalia and Victor Aguilar.
- Jan - members made floral designs at the meeting.
- Feb program on floral design by Nancy Atkinson from Brenham who had attended
classes under Dr. James Johnson at TAMU on floral design
- March meeting was teaching and refreshing our members about floral design
and entering horticulture for our 66th flower show.
- April meeting - speaker failed to show.
- May meeting was installation of officers at the home of member Sandra
Lawrence.
- Our big project for the year was Mary Ann Taylor's tree project - a two year
project with the first year being planning. Club members collected over 50
tree seedlings which were given in the fall to two classes of middle school
Jr. Master Gardeners - one of these classes was special education students.
The students grew the trees during the second year and panted them in the
spring for Arbor Day.
- a second undertaking was making recycled decorations for the community
Christmas Tree sponsored by Brazos Beautiful.
- a $500 scholarship was given to a TAMU horticulture work/study student with
money raised from sale of books and garden items from the estate of Priscilla
Daniel.
- Floral arrangements were made for Hospice clients.
- Money was collected for Penny Pines and Greening of the Gulf repair from the
hurricanes.
- Club held a Small Standard Flower Show with a sale table to help cover
expenses of the show.
- Donations were made for Seeds for Life, Brazos Beautiful Wildflower Seeds,
Rio Grande Wild Life Corridor, State Endowment Fund [Garden Club] also
District and State Scholarships [Garden Club],
- the club sold National [Garden Club] Council Calendars.
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66th
annual Flower Show -
29th March 2006
see slide show
"Floral Expressions"
Idalia de Aguilar,
Flower Show Chairman
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Memorial
Eileen Anita Winnett
Kramer
3 November 1915 - 25 February 2006
Former President A&M Garden Club
long-term member
of the College Station cemetery board
and area Girl Scout board of directors
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--------71th year---------
2006 - 2007: Idalia de Aguilar - "Friendship is
the Garden's most beautiful flower" - 32 members [latest count
41] - Green Club -
- meeting place:
Exit Teen Center, 1600 Rock Prairie Road, C S 9:30 a m 2nd
Fri
- A&M Garden Club's 70th Anniversary year
--Sept Program - "Butterflies" by Judith Scharer
---October Newsletter
--Oct - "Green House Horticulture" at TAMU Greenhouses by Sharon
Bannister
---November Newsletter
--Nov- "Making Hypertusa Pots" by Helen Quinn
---December Newsletter
--Dec- "A Christmas Celebration" - History of Wreaths by Helen Quin,
A living Wreath by Delma Cassaro, Making a Wreath by Judith Schafer - at home
of Sandra Lawrence
--January Newsletter
--Jan - "Preparing for the Battle of Flowers Parade" by Jo Ann
Cermin
Desert Willow Vine blooming in Jo Ann's garden June '02
Jo Ann shared cuttings of this plant with fellow club members
--Feb - "Gardening for Seniors" by Mary Ann Cermin
--March- "Xeriscape Gardening in College Station" by Jennifer
Nations
-- 11 April 2007 - Horticultural Celebration" at the Brazos Center
-- Photo Contest 11 April
2007
--May-- Installation of New Officers
1936-1946
1946 - 1951
1951- 1956 1956 - 1966
1966 - 1976 1976
-1986 1986 - 1996
1996 - 2002
2002 -2007
For anyone desiring more
information about our club
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