From the 2008 Palm Springs Horticulture Judging Seminar
Always interesting to look back at a different time, different District leadership, different goals…
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From the 2013 Albuquerque Rose Show, June 1, 2013
Some of the Judges for the Show:
Suzanne and Les Hayt from Tucson
Lynette and John Vinson from Las Vegas, Jack Ortega with John
Marylou Coffman from Gilbert
Donaldina Joung from Tubac
LeRoy Brady from Mesa
Gerry and Dave Mahoney from Glendale
Lauren Toth from Peoria
Jerry Yoneda from Clearfield
Dick Jackson from Las Vegas
Judges not pictured are Helen Baird, Jackie Jackson, Nancy Medved, Hal Reynolds, and Lynn Twitchell. Perhaps at another rose event before long…
Some of the many people who helped make the rose show happen:
Charlene Bacchus keeps the Rose Garden running, which is a year-round job. For today’s rose show, she was in charge of the classification table, making sure entries were correctly named and placed in the correct classes.
Jack Ortega was Judges’ Chairman. He and his wife Juanita are outstanding exhibitors.
Jody Ifversen took reservations for photographs; served in classification and placement for photographs; and was the blue ribbon runner for the show.
Beth Baker was busy helping exhibitors in the morning, and then visitors later in the day. She took out just enough time to allow me to photograph her.
Rose friends in the Pacific Southwest District probably know Carroll Sue Wagner quite well. She has been both a Horticulture and Arrangement Judge (now Emeritus in Arrangements), Consulting Rosarian, famed pruning lecturer at the pruning demonstrations in the spring, and is another person who worked hard on the 1998 National Convention.
Debbie Butcher did whatever needed to be done. She is also the treasurer for the Albuquerque Rose Society.
Pat Jeremia has become a wonderful arranger since joining the Albuquerque Rose Society. For years she worked at the shows putting extra roses into bouquets and arrangements for sale, which helped as a fundraiser for the local society. Here she is shown before the show, working on what became her award winning arrangement. She won the Princess Award for an arrangement of all fresh roses.
Pat Stone had been a member for some time before I joined the Albuquerque Rose Society. For those of you who remember the 1998 National Convention in Albuquerque, Pat, along with her husband Hal (“Stoney”) contributed much to that convention. Pat has worked hard every year that I have been a member.
Miscellaneous
( The following images are snapshots that come from various rose shows and activities in the Pacific Southwest District (and a few from elsewhere) from 2004-2007. I have kept them for the history and the memories. Some of the people pictured are no longer with us. All were snapshots taken with a little Nikon Coolpix that fit in my purse while traveling to judge rose shows. The Coolpix was my first digital camera (2004-2008), and it was used just for traveling to rose shows, while I continued to use my Nikon film camera for everything else. These are from six to nine years ago. They hold pleasant memories for me as an ARS Accredited Rose and Rose Arrangement Judge, and I hope they hold pleasant memories for other judges and rosarians. This page and the images from this point downward were originally published in 2007. ~ March 22, 2013)
People You Might Meet
If you spend much time growing roses, you might come across some of these people. As you can see, Southwestern gardeners look like a pretty happy bunch!
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Lynette and John Vinson
Tucson Rose Show, April 14, 2007
Donaldina Joung and Lois Brandt
Tucson Rose Show, April 14, 2007
Sue Diller and Barbara Schneider
Tucson Rose Show, April 14, 2007
Paul Wright, Lois Brandt, Donaldina Joung, Tucson Rose Show, April 14, 2007
MaryLou Coffman and Debbie Butcher
Ron Feurer, Terry Swartz, Dan Bifano, Hetty Shurtleff
Lois Brandt, Miriam Yoder, and Sally Long
MaryLou Coffman, Terry Swartz, Kathy Green, Dave Mahoney
Gerry Mahoney and Terry Swartz
Claudia Bonnett and Lois Brandt
We need to get some pictures of you. Your picture would be wanted a lot more than the several of me. Show me how to take pictures of you with your camera and we will get some that you can put on this site.
Thank you, Susan. It is a nifty website, and yes it is a lovely photo of Stoney.
Oh! what fun! Yes, your mom is right we need to see some pictures of you too.