Club History 2003 – 2007
2003
2003 was the Club’s 10th anniversary year. The Club adopted the activities program as an ongoing design and no better summary of this year’s events can be found but from the President’s report at the tenth AGM.
Patty Parker was the popular recipient of a Meritorious Award.
President: Theo Schutz
Vice-President: John Gellibrand
Secretary: Sylvia Hawkins
Treasurer: Anne Schramm
Committee Members: Jenny Schutz, Margaret Hayes, Ian Scott, Estelle Neilson, Kevin Ward
The Chairman informed members the following members had kindly agreed to continue their positions for 2004.
Jenny Schutz Show Marshall
Don Hayes Membership Officer
John Gellibrand Public Officer
Ian Scott Publicity Officer
The Chairman thanked them all for doing a wonderful job and consenting to continue and Club Members showed their appreciation by acclamation.
2004
The 2004 Club activities program was distributed to members.
The Club purchased a trailer to transport the Club’s trestle tables.
Theo President’s report summarised the year’s achievements.
Our First Two Day Workshop held at Luhana Motel, Moruya
THE FIRST BUS TRIP to Australian Cymbidium Show organized by Kevin Ward
AUGUST GENERAL MEETING 2004
At the 11th AGM John Gellibrand presented the revised and updated “Rules for Members” the changes were adopted by the Members.
The following were elected to the Committee.
President: Theo Schutz
Vice-President: John Gellibrand
Secretary: Sylvia Hawkins
Treasurer: Anne Schramm
Committee Members: Gerry Smith, Jenny Schutz, Margaret Hayes, Ian Scott, Estelle Neilson
2005
An insight to this year’s program is found in the President’s Report.
In September, Alan Stephenson led us on a bushwalk looking for orchids around the outskirts of Nowra.
2006
We had a hot start to 2006 for New Year’s Day was one of the hottest days on record in our area, many member lost some orchids. Theo said “he lost about thirty masdevallias and most of them were good ones.”
The guest speaker for April was Alex Brand who spoke about the downsizing of his orchid collection.
Kay Brand was asked to explain to the members how the Australian Orchid Council gives a Meritorious Award badge to the club which is then presented to a member. A very delighted Sylvia Hawkins was the receiver of this year’s badge.
In May, Clive Halls and his wife Aggie, were welcomed. Clive entertained us with information on growing Masdevallias.
The Winter Show was held a week later this year as quite a number of our members intend to attend the Australian Orchid Conference being held in Port Macquarie.
The CWA Hall was packed with 180 plants on display for the Winter Show.
The Spring Show was held in Batemans Bay and although we were down in numbers the show was a great success in attendance by the general public.
As the previous club shirt had become unavailable a new shirt was sourced; black with yellow stripes on the sleeves and collar and the club emblem embroidered on it.
The September meeting was a trivia night and one of our members showed what a well-travelled and knowledgeable woman she is. Well done Alma!
Sue Carroll has taken on the position of newsletter editor.
One of the highlights of the year was our bus trip to the Southern Orchid Spectacular held at the Cronulla Leagues Club in October.
At the AGM in November 2006 the following were elected:
President: Theo Schutz
Vice President: John Gellibrand
Secretary: Sylvia Hawkins
Treasurer: Colin Pearson
Committee Members: Jenny Schutz, Gerry Smith, Barbara Williams, Margaret Hayes, Sue Carroll
2007
The program for 2007 was accepted.
This year, 2007, the Meritorious Award Badge was presented to May Smith. It took a while for May to realize it was her being called and the look on May’s face was a picture. The Member’s agreement to this award was a thunderous acclamation.
Trevor Hughes from Nowra visited us in February to look at and talk about how our cymbidiums were growing.
In following months Ron Boyd spoke on deflasking, John Apperley on Hard Cane Dendrobiums and Tom Kelly on Australian natives.
It was our turn to hold the 2 day workshop. We had 55 orchid growers attend to listen to what Nicky Zurcher and Dennis Diehm had to say on how they grow their different genera.
The Winter Show for 2007 was once again held in Moruya but this year the Spring Show was held in the Sport and Leisure Centre in Narooma.
A display was held before each show this year one in Moruya and one in Narooma. The money raised from the raffles, on these two days, was donated to the Moruya Hospital Auxiliary.
The club entered a display in “Orchid Heaven 2007” the South and West Regional Show held in Bega in September. Second place was awarded to the club display which was in the form of a night display encompassing the moon and stars with a large star full of orchids.
ORCHID HEAVEN 2007 BEGA
In October club members were off on another bus trip to the Southern Orchid Spectacular held at the Sharkies Club & quite a number of plants were on the return trip.
During the middle months of this year our President Theo needed a sojourn in hospital with complications from diabetes but before long he was back in the chair and at the AGM in November, the following were elected to the committee.
President: Theo Schutz
Vice President: Jean Swindley
Secretary: Sylvia Hawkins
Treasurer: Colin Pearson
Committee Members: Jenny Schutz, Gerry Smith, Barbara Williams, Margaret Hayes, Sue Carroll