Re: Happy Birthday

["Don Rude" <101I@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

Let me join Susan in wishing Bob a happy day. The encyclopedia will be a major contribution to the iris world forever. 

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From: "Susan Grigg" <101d@rewrite.aisboard.org> 
To: "aisdiscuss" <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 8:51:40 AM 
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Happy Birthday 

Happy Birthday to the Iris Encyclopedia and "Thank you" to the Parent, 
Bob Pries, and to all the contributors who make the wiki such a great 
resource for the world! You have given AIS a great gift. 

Susan Grigg 

On 8/22/2014 8:40 AM, Robert Pries wrote: 
> August is The Iris Encyclopediabs Birth Month. It is a rambunctious 5 year 
> old. Happy Birthday wiki! There is fair evidence that more people now seek 
> their iris information from our wiki than from Davebs Garden another wiki. 
> Within the last year use has grown 36% and continues to grow. People from the 
> whole world contribute to the wiki and use it. It should be a source of pride 
> for AIS to be providing this service. 
> 
> In 1920 John Wister, president of the new AIS, wrote of creating an AIS 
> library. He wrote at length of what it should contain and hoped that it would 
> be a traveling library, so that many could look into it. Little would he know 
> that we can now bring great parts of the AIS library to the entire world via 
> the wiki. 
> 
> The early AIS also paid subscriptions to The Flower Grower for all its 
> members. In turn The Flower Grower published many articles on Iris and the 
> Iris Society each issue serving as the Societies monthly newsletter on top of 
> the AIS Bulletin. Today we have News & Notes. B B The Flower Grower also 
> served as a monthly forum for the Gladiolus Society and the Rose Society. The 
> hot bnewb idea for non-profits today is bpartneringb. It is ironic 
> that AIS did this from its beginnings. 
> 
> I think this is a lesson in what can be accomplished when we work together. 
> The 650 plus contributors to the Encyclopedia can be proud of what they are 
> achieving. We welcome everyone to help. It will not be long before the 
> Encyclopedia will be celebrating 10 years and that will be the same time that 
> AIS is 100 years old. Think about how you would want the future to look and 
> help us record it on the Encyclopedia! 
> -- 
> 
> Bob Pries 
> Zone 7a 
> Roxboro, NC 
> (336)597-8805 
> 
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