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G reeting to the Region 2 Youth! Region Two Youth News I am so glad to be with you again in 2004. Can you believe, we are having a Region 2 meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, this summer and that you are invited We are working on plans for a really great time. Hey guys, this is not just a trip with your parents. We “Youth” stick together! Think of all the new friends you will meet and the fun you will have. I am excited! I am not going to tell you about all the plans, but don’t miss out. There will be lots do. I would love to hear from all of you. Please e-mail me (wekyhe@msn.com) about what you have been doing and any special activities you would like to do at the summer meeting. Hey, our Daylily Enthusiasts of Southern Indiana (DESI) club is hosting the Daylily Heaven in 2007 summer meeting. Mark it on your calendar. We are already making plans for YOU! In this newsletter issue, we are introducing some of the Youth members in the Judy Heath (DESI) and the Metropolitan Columbus DS (MCDS) clubs. Kaylee Gray is the daughter of Mike and Angie Gray. She lives in Velpen, Indiana. Kaylee is six years old and is in Kindergarten at the Otwell Elementary School. Her favorite part of Kindergarten is reading and music. Kaylee is a very busy young lady. She takes dance lessons, plays tee-ball, enjoys fishing, works on the computer. Now, with all these activities, she says her favorite hobby is helping her Dad plant daylilies. Her favorite daylily is LITTLE GRAPETTE. Purple is Kaylee’s and her mother’s favorite color. Kaylee Gray She is a third-generation daylily grower. Her favorite job is deadheading. I wonder who taught her how to do that! We are looking forward to a very special purple introduction from Kaylee in the near future. Our next DESI Youth member is Tanner Gray. Tanner is nine years old and is in the third grade at Otwell Elementary School. This young man is destined to be a great hybridizer. He has very definite traits in mind that he wants to see in a daylily. Number one is a bubbly gold edge. His favorite daylily is ICING ON THE CAKE. Tanner is in close competition with his grandfather to have the first true blue daylily. Like his sister, Tanner also has a very busy schedule. He plays basketball, soccer, video games, and he plants daylilies. Tanner was also a very gracious host when we were treated to a Bar-B-Q picnic at his home this past summer. Who knows, maybe Tanner will have the very first blue daylily with a gold edge. We have our fingers crossed. Two good friends, often seen at the 2003 AHS National Convention, are 14 year old McKenzie Williams and 18 year old Tiago Bergemann. Tiago lives in Joinville, Santa Catarina, in Brazil. Tiago developed a love of daylilies from his parents, Dario and Neussa. His favorite hybridizers are Dan Hansen and David Kirchhoff. Tiago is majoring in International Business at a college in his home town. He plays tennis and soccer. We are looking forward to meeting Tiago this summer in St. Louis. McKenzie is the other half of this vivacious friendship. Not only does McKenzie attend Memorial High School, but she also works for her Mom. They take pictures of newborn babies at a large hospital in Evansville. Leo Sharp is McKenzie’s favorite hybridizer, and she has two daylilies named after her. She plays basketball, Tanner Gray has a golden retriever named Pumpkin, a cat named Daisy, and a hamster named Scratchy. McKenzie has been attending regionals and nationals with her grandparents, Don and Lea Ann Williams, for many years. We hope her brother, Evan, will attend some of the meetings soon. Evan and McKenzie’s parents are Judy and Eric Williams. DESI is delighted to introduce you to Shannon Hayes their newest Youth member. Shannon is 13 years old and is in the seventh grade at Pike Central Middle School. Shannon’s favorite daylilies are ALIAS PETER PARKER and READ MY LIPS. She enjoys working in the garden. However, she spends most of her time unloading mulch. At school, she plays volleyball and throws shot put and discus in track. Shannon McKenzie Williams (Evansville, IN). Tiago Bergemann (Brazil) and enjoys spending time with her family. She and her brother, Johnny, like drag racing and love riding 4-wheelers. She also sings in the choir and likes to listen to music with her friends. Like a typical teen, Shannon loves to talk with her friends on the phone and the Internet. She is the daughter of Mikki and David Asserud. Shannon would love to meet other Youth members at the Region 2 meeting this summer. Metropolitan Columbus DS Secretary Virginia Myers forwarded information about several AHS Youth members who belong to MCDS, and additional Region 2 Youth members will be introduced in our next newsletter issue. Shannon Hayes All images on this page by Judy Heath (continued, on page 23) Page 8 Spring-Summer 2004 AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter
Your RPD’s Message I think it this summer is going to be a GREAT daylily summer! In June the AHS National Convention takes place in St. Louis, MO, over the dates of June 30 to July 3. If you’ve never been to a national convention, this is the time to see one for yourself. Normally the national is held in some exotic location like Florida or Oklahoma, and it seems frivolous to spend the time money and effort to go to them. This one Paul Meske is in our own backyard and is eminently doable. My first national was in 1999 in Minneapolis, MN. It is like a regional meeting on steroids. It runs a longer, there are more people, the gardens are better, the collections are more spectacular, the speakers and banquets are spectacular, and you see the “big names” of daylilydom riding the tour buses and walking around the gardens the same as you. It’s all an experience you will remember for a long time. Ask anyone who’s gone to a national, and they will tell you the same thing. As if having the national in St. Louis isn’t enough, next year it will be in Region 2 in Cincinnati, June 29 to July 3. This year, three weeks after the national convention, you have the opportunity to take part in a “first.” The AHS Region 2 Summer Meeting will be held July 23 to 25 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the first time ever! This is only the second time it will have been held in Wisconsin. There are seven gardens on the official tour and if you arrive early, you will have the opportunity to visit another six gardens. Check out the web site at http://www.badbuds.org/convention.htm In closing I would like to suggest that, as you wander through the gardens of St. Louis and Green Bay, keep track of your favorite daylilies and remember to vote in the popularity poll right after you leave from Green Bay. Owing to its northerly location, bloom almost anywhere else in Region 2 will have already peaked, and it is the perfect time to cast your ballot. For 2003 only 132 ballots were turned in. If we work real hard, I think we can get that number up to 134 or maybe 135! Please send your club news for the Fall 2004/Winter 2005 newsle wslett tter in “stor ory” format by September ember 1, 2004, to your editor or. Include photos os or slides of your important club events ents and share them with our Region 2 members. Please update your RVP and editor about changes in your club’s leadership, their addresses, telephone numbers, etc. Your Editor’s Message A fter the hectic travels of last summer, I enjoyed staying in Ohio, cold freezes and breezes and all! Northern Comfort is seeing the first signs of daffodils ‘February Gold’ and ‘Tete a Tete’ starting to come out of the ground about a week into January and looking at lilac bushes, bare, but loaded with swollen buds. For me, that is a wonderful way to watch the winding down of winter. Gisela Meckstroth I hope this newsletter will turn out with better color than the last issue. The Region 2 Summer Meeting tour gardens are certainly going to be a sight to see. Selecting front and back covers was difficult since the committee members had sent images that were, pretty much, all so well suited for that purpose. I am trying my best to keep the newsletter cost down by scanning all photos used for inside pages myself. Only the photos/slides for the outside covers were (at extra cost) professionally scanned. All layout is done by me using PageMaker. By going to self covers (using the same paper for covers and inside pages), the cost has been lowered by about one third over previous issues. Since some local clubs have been donating money to be used for color in the newsletter, our RVP and I have decided to add some color pages for the write-ups of the Youth liaison’s page(s) and the wonderful Region 2 Symposium presentations. However, there are always some advantages and disadvantage. We had a few color pages available for 14 symposium presentation write-ups, and that meant that each article gets about 1/2 page color; then, additional article-text must be continued on following black-white pages. Ours is the largest of the 15 AHS regions with the highest number of members and highest number of newsletter copies that have to be mailed. AHS contributes only a relatively very small amount of money per mailing label, and this means that production of the twice yearly newsletter is an extra large burden on our Region. The money for it has to be raised entirely by Region 2 members themselves. We do this with the Region 2 Summer Meeting plant auction and the Region 2 Winter E-mail auction. Not an easy task! (The symposium is a break-even event and does not contribute directly to the newsletter printing and mailing.) A big Thank-You to all of you who have helped pitch in to accomplish that large task by donating plants to the summer-meeting and electronic auctions, by purchasing plants from both sources, and for running the auctions. I hope to see you in Green Bay, Wisconsin! Do you know... ...that an AHS Youth membership costs only $8 per year See the inside front cover for details. AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter Spring-Summer 2004 Page 9
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