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2013 Convention Activities
Wednesday
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Dale Martens leading the discussion at the morning judges workshop
Judges workshop attendees
Ben Paternoster leading the discussion at the intermediate judges morning session
Convention Chair Jo Anne Martinez making update announcements at the luncheon
Stephen Maciejewski at lunch filling in as Chapters Chairperson and calling the roll of chapters
Practice judging at the afternoon judges session (Bob Clark, Leslie Milde, Carolyn Conlin-Lane)
Afternoon practice judging: first-time convention attendee Jerry O’Keefe (left), Thad Scaggs, and Elaine Stutt
Practice judging team Betsy Branson, Sylvia Svitak, Cindy Eastman
Dale Martens leading the Gesneriad Hybridizers Meeting later that afternoon
Hybridizer Bob Counsell from the UK presenting
Hybridizer Ruth Coulson from Australia presenting
Attendees selecting their door prizes at the close of the GHA meeting
Some Board members and guests headed over to the Toronto Botanical Garden to view the needlepoint collection donated by The Gesneriad Society
Several of the Renée White donated needlepoint pictures now on display in Toronto
Librarian Zachary Osborne (left) with Paul Kroll and Doris Brownlie
Board members and guests at the reception and viewing of the needlepoint picture collection
Back at the hotel for an evening demonstration on mounting gesneriads presented by Bob and Dee Stewart
A mounted Streptocarpus
Stephen Maciejewski at the evening conservation meeting presenting an update on the activities at the Gesneriad Conservation Center of China