LA BALLONA VALLEY BROMELIAD SOCIETY NEWSLETTER MAY 2010 **************************************************************** Meeting Meeting: Wednesday, 26 May at 7:30 pm in the Rotunda Room at the Veterans Memorial Hall. Speaker: Bob Kopfstein will present "Yellow Roads: In Search of Hechtia argentea" Drinks: Alan Levy and Katsu Nakagawa Food: Jan Brown, Philip Fetchko, and Jim Jaeger **************************************************************** From Don Misumi: Show Report Great Show!!!! We had a fantastic Show....because of all of your participation. I will list all the participants that I can at the end of this note. Our society owes a great deal of gratitude to them. We had 19 members enter 184 entries for the Show. The artistic tree branch with well placed Neogelia compactas won Best Artistic for Phil Fletchko. Wasn't Sheilla Perez's Neoregelia hat unique... what a lot of work. Steve Ball won Best of Show with his Dyckia "Bill Palen". Don Misumi won sweepstakes. Listed below are all of the members that took place in the Show and Sale. Please let me know if I missed you...we appreciate every one of you. Thanks to Gloria Grover and Denise Pidd for serving delicious lunches... to Gary Wagnild who sat for two days at the welcome table... to Emmit Willis for being Registrar... to Gary Wagnild for all the plant sale donations. Thanks to all participants: Janet Brown, Sheilla Perez, Jean Yoshii, Bonnie Darling, George Allaria, Jean Allaria, Karyl Sisson, Gary Wagnild, Phil Fetchko, Gloria Grover, Denise Pidd, Eva Szalontai, Nels Christianson, Larry Ebner, George Senge, Guy Wrinkle, Tony Princiotta, Al Palacio, Jordon and Alisa Bellew, Richard Fleg, Ray Van Veen, Steve Ball, Matthew and Jessie Fraggi, Bryan Chan, JIll Marti, Jim Jaeger, Alan Levy and Don Misumi. I will give a financial report at the May meeting. Thanks to all... Don Misumi **************************************************************** Administrivia The La Ballona Valley Bromeliad Society meets the fourth Wednesday of each month, January through October, in the Rotunda Room at Veterans' Memorial Hall, 4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City. Emmit Willis, President Jim Jaeger, Vice-President Don Misumi, Treasurer Gloria Grover, Membership Jean Yoshii, Newsletter (Have an item for the newsletter? Please email it to yoshii@usc.edu or mail it through the post.)