February 2017 Announcements
Meeting Date: Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place: West Gray Multi-Service Center at 1475 West Gray St., Houston, TX 77019
Program Speaker: Darla Harris
Program: “Diversity of Hardy and Tropical Ferns”
No seedling of the month
Meeting Agenda:
- Greetings/Call to Order/Darla Plant Sale
- Show and Tell
- Meeting
- Break/Refreshments/Buy raffle tickets/plants
- Program
- Raffle
- Adjourn
Next Board Meeting: Thurs., March 23, 7:00 p.m.
Deadline for March bulletin: Feb. 28, 2017
Darla will be selling plants at this meeting!
January 2017 Announcements
Meeting Date: Tuesday, January 17, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place: West Gray Multi-Service Center at 1475 West Gray St., Houston, TX 77019
Program Speaker: Carole Richtmyer
Program: “Earth Stars of Texas”
No seedling of the month
Meeting Agenda:
- Greetings/Call to Order/Member Plant Sale
- Show and Tell
- Meeting
- Break/Refreshments/Buy raffle tickets/plants
- Program
- Raffle
- Adjourn
Next Board Meeting: Thurs., Jan 19, 7:00 p.m.
Deadline for February bulletin: Jan. 28, 2017
There will be a member plant sale at this meeting!
November 2016 Announcements
Meeting Date: Tuesday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place: West Gray Multi-Service Center at 1475 West Gray St., Houston, TX 77019
Program Speaker: Dennis Cathcart
Program: “Bromeliads in the Wilderness”
Seedling of the month: Neo. ‘Puppy Love’
Meeting Agenda:
- Greetings/Call to Order/Tropiflora Plant Sale
- Show and Tell
- Meeting
- Break/Refreshments/Buy raffle tickets/plants
- Program
- Raffle
- Adjourn
Next Board Meeting: Thurs., Nov 10, 7:00 p.m.
Deadline for January bulletin: Jan. 4, 2017
There will not be a member plant sale at this meeting!
Recent Honors Awarded to Gary Gallick
On Thursday, September 1, more than 40 second-year Ph.D. students and their mentors were honored at a ceremony held in Onstead Auditorium. During the event, Gary Gallick, Ph.D., was recognized as the 2015-2016 recipient of the Paul E. Darlington Mentor Award for University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Faculty.
Gary was also honored at a BS/H meeting where Jimmy Woolsey informed him that Dennis Cathcart and Tropiflora was naming a Neoregelia after him, Neoregelia ‘Gary Gallick’. The plant is a beautiful, variegated hybrid made by Ray Coleman.