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In a message dated 3/28/2010 5:08:41 P.M. Central Standard Time,
cemahan@aol.com writes:
Every year...through the Great Depression, interrupted only by WWII, AIS has held annual conventions. An organization does not keep growing by eliminating its annual conventions. How sad this is. Clarence Clarence,
Sad perhaps, but facts must be faced. As Dennis said, we have the
garden tour members locked in but why can't we consider an educational
convention together with a botanical garden? All of those conventions you
referred to did not all have garden tours and many had very small attendance of
less than 100 people. Several were basically business meetings.
True, they were business meetings of great men and women of horticultural skill
and fame, but they primarily visited the New York Botanical Garden, Cornell,
Nashville (an iris hotbed of iris hybridizing) and Freeport, IL. The
growth was after WWII along with the growth of the U.S. in general. Now we
are mirroring the decrease in the U.S. of interest in organizations of any
kind.
Jim M.
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