PHOENIX CHAPTER
President Doug Green (480)998-5638 Treasurer Suzanne Cash (602) 942-0727 Postcards Sandy Zetlan (602) 363-6098 Programs are held at the Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 North Galvin Parkway, on the second Tuesday of each month at 7pm. Meetings will be in either Webster Hall, or Dorrance Hall. Please look for signs when entering garden, or ask at the main gate. Each month an educational program is presented, chapter and state AZNPS buisness is discussed, and members socialize with the guest speaker. For more information email. |
Summer Program
The Phoenix Chapter is on summer break.
Message from new Phoenix Chapter President
The Phoenix Chapter is going through some tweaking exercises in the change from Doug Newton to Doug Green as president, which took place in March 2008.
Doug Newton did an excellent job as President for his two to three years in office. His forte was getting outstanding speakers for our monthly meetings. The "well" that he drank from was ASU, Dept. of Biology, where he is currently working on/acquiring his graduate degree in Botany. Since Doug has been working on the Flora of the Eagletail Mtns, he has spent a great deal of his weekend time botanizing that area. As a result, he had limited time to run the Phoenix Chapter, and attend AZNPS Board Meetings, etc. So in February, we had an official presidential election. Since I was the only one who volunteered to run for President, it was a close election--or was that a "closed" election? Nevertheless I won, only because no one else ran. So here I am, writing the Chapter report. The major point here is that Doug Newton did an admirable job as President, and all our Phoenix Chapter members thanked Doug for his services at our March '08 meeting.
By vote of our Membership @ our March Chapter Meeting, we decided to give a monetary donation to the following:
$300 to the Desert Botanical Garden as an appreciation of DBG permitting ourPhoenix Chapter to use Webster Hall for 9 months of the year for our meetings. They've been great to us, and we wanted to make this donation to their General Funds Program. It's not much, but we don't have a lot to give. It’s the thought that counts. Right?
$300 to "Desert Plants," a joint venture of Boyce Thompson Arboretum and University of Arizona. Dr. Les Landrum of the ASU Herbarium made this suggestion as the "Desert Plants" publication can always use the monies. Dr. Margie Norem, Editor of "Desert Plants" was really taken aback by this donation of the Phoenix Chapter. She said we really made her week. She will acknowledge our Chapter donation in the next edition in June '08.
Where didthe Phoenix Chapter of AZNPS get the above $600.00 contributions? As the TV ad says --"We earn it the hard way--we sell AZNPS goods!" at events such as plant-related shows in greater Phoenix. It is mostly my efforts--as no one seems to want to help out, except occasionally--so it really pleases me to see our hard earned monies go to those deserving organizations. I'm really happy to see our efforts going to other non-profits. Our next season of talks and field trips will start up again in the fall, so please contact me if you want to help out!
-Doug Green, Phoenix Chapter President