The workday began in the garden with the new curator Sarah Roberts.

Marcy called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone.

She thanked the hostesses.  Wawa Hines. Mary Huntz, Leslie Morgan, and Mary Mac Sutherland for the luncheon and the lovely fall flowers.

Old Business:

Nancy Powell read the Sept minutes, which were approved and submitted.

New Business:

Speech School:  Terri Alston talked about work days at the SS and got people to sign up for the workday on Fri. Nov. 4 at 10am. There will be another work day in the spring.

Quarry Garden: Jinny introduced Sarah to all who may not have attended the cleanup earlier, and thanked everyone who worked in the quarry garden before the meeting.

Treasurer’s report: In Amanda’s absence,  Marcy stated that 75 members have paid their dues, which comes to $3750 thus far.   Marcy reminded everyone to pay their dues if they have yet to do so.

Yearbook:  Leslie Morgan reminded everyone to pick up there yearbook membership section.

Scrapbook:  Edwina reminded everyone to take pictures of our activities, meetings,etc and any other items for our scrapbook and turn them in to her as soon as they can.

Party:  In Catherine Fleetwood’s absence, Marcy stated that Catherine Fleetwood, Mandy Culpepper and Lori Kennedy will be meeting in the next few weeks to begin plans for the party on May 9th.

Announcements:

Signing up for meetings in 2013 is in better shape but we still have some openings. There was talk about discussing options for hosting since we do not have enough active members to fill the hosting slots (i.e. non-resident hosts possibly hosting, etc.)

Reminder that The Fulton Federation of Garden Clubs is having their November 14th meeting at Heeneys Wholesale Floral.

Reminder of the John Muir Exhibit at the History Center.

As there was no more business, the meeting was turned over to Mary Huntz, who introduced Sarah Roberts, the new Quarry Garden curator. Sarah explained in detail the new database and tagging system she is working on,  that will allow for a detailed interactive map of the garden to be available in the future. She also talked about her history and herself.

Marcy McTier called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone back.  She thanked Catherine Fleetwood , Jane Sterne, Jane Tracy and Nancy Tracy for hosting the meeting at Southface, a non profit company that provides environmental advice, services and educational classes to the public.

Southface has been around 34 years, the mission is to promote and educate sustainable buildings.  The Whitehead Bio Medical Building at Emory was the sustainable building in the city Atlanta.

We learned about the LEED program and Earth Craft buildings.  Neither are required, however, a certain standard applies.  The Southface house was built in 1996 with features such as light shelves (harvesting daylight can save half of the energy of traditional lighting), rapidly renewable energy sources.  Everything in the building is eco friendly from the paint to the carpet to the adhesives.

Marcy recognized the new members,  Jennifer Euart, Parker Tekin and Liz Irby.  She also recognized Mandy Culpepper, the new member liaison.

Officer Reports:

Having been emailed, the May minutes were approved and submitted, and everyone was reminded to sign the attendance sheet.

Speech School:

Nicole Warren reminded everyone about the required work days and encouraged everyone to sign up to help for 2 hours sometime during the year.

Quarry Garden:

Jinny Keough said the Quarry Garden as another new Director and hopefully she will be able to attend our work day and meeting at the History Center in October.

She also announced that a special Flower Festival coming to St. Phillips Catheradral on October 5 and 6.

Corresponding Secretary Rawson Grobety spoke about the use of our hotmail service and asked anyone not getting the mail or having trouble opening the Evite to let her know and she would try to help them.  Our goal is to go paperless in the next year to save trees!

Yearbook:

Leslie Morgan reminded everyone not to forget to pick up their new yearbook pages.  The yearbook is smaller this year because of an effort to have more information online,

Membership:

Lois Yates told us about the lovely luncheon she and Marianne Craft had for the new members in late August.  She also asked the members not hostessing this year to quickly sign up on the chart for next year and to remember the new “rule of 4” hostesses, unless there is a special need for a 5th.

Historian:

Sallie Smith gave us a brief “history fact” by reminding us of when, where and why the Atlanta Speech School was founded by the Hamm Family, who had a deaf child and realized there was no where for the child to get the therapies and school that he needed, and how Mimosa became involved in the garden.

Flower Show:

Shelby Drinkard announced that there will not be a Flower Show this year.  The organizers are skipping this year to allow more time to plan a special celebration for the 25th Anniversary in 2013.

Party:

VP Catherine Fleetwood announced that she will be chairing and hosting the bi-annual Mimosa party at her house this year, which will be on Wednesday, May 9.  We will be doing a Mimosa market theme with things to be auctioned off such as jams, jellies, etc.  It was discussed that the new members be in charge of the flower arrangements since they would not be able to do the flower show this year.

Announcements:

Marcy announced that Guerry Redmon’s mother, Rae Neal Morris, had also passed away in mid August after a long illiness.

The Fulton Federation of Garden Clubs, of which Mimosa is a member is having their November 14th meeting at Heeneys Wholesale Floral.  The program is Holiday Workshop with an opportunity to make purchases.

An article sent from Elizabeth Morgan informed the membership of an up coming John Muir exhibit in the Cherokee Library at the History Museum.  The exhibit is about Muir’s botany writings and travels throughout the southeast, and runs from October 12th  to December 4th.

As there was no more business, the meeting was then turned over to Sophie Mason, who introduced our Speaker, Laura Case, who gave us a very interesting talk about Southface as well as a tour of the facilities.  We saw the gardens and heard why they had planted what they planted.  She explained that the sidewalks were porous to catch all of the rainwater possible.  We saw the compost pile and had a brief explanation of how it works and what all goes into it.  We then toured the rooftop garden and saw how it was built and the benefit of the garden.

Call Meeting To Order and Welcome Everyone:

Thank Hostesses:

Eileen thanked the hostess today – Caroline Millican, Amanda Brady, Libby Lanier, Jean Glenn.

Official Business:

Everyone should have received the minutes from the April meeting. There were no additions or corrections, and the minutes were approved as submitted.

Eileen thanked Mary Huntz again for organizing such an amazing garden tour in Madison, GA. Hopefully, we can do it again and spend more time at Mary’s farm!! It was thrilling to see.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Treasurer: Eileen reminded everyone to turn in any receipts for expenses incurred that need reimbursement.   Please give them to Eileen.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. We are thrilled to welcome and introduce our three new members to Mimosa: Jennifer Alston Euart, Liz Day Irby, Parker Allen Tekin.   They all have strong family ties to Mimosa and we are so lucky to have them!!

• Jennifer – Gayle Alston’s daughter, sister-in-law to Terri, and related to the Glenns and Alstons. She is multi-talented and has a lot of experience with flowers. She has two daughters.
• Liz – Linda Beth’s daughter-in-law, sister-in-law to Laura and Gregg Irby. She has in interest in flowers, in addition to being a wife, mother, lawyer and volunteer.
• Parker – Tricia’s daughter and Sally Allen’s niece.   Parker has a young daughter, is an active volunteer and has tons of enthusiasm.

2. Eileen thanked all the members of the Mimosa Board for their efforts this year. We have had great attendance. Everyone has paid dues. We are in great shape for next year!!!!

3. Eileen officially passed the gavel to Marcy McTier, who begins her term as President of Mimosa. Eileen will be working with Gregg Irby on the website.

PROGRAM

With no further business, I’d like to have Sophie introduce our speaker Tony Aeck “What the Trust for Public Land has done for Georgia”

Call Meeting To Order and Welcome Everyone:

Thank Hostesses:

Eileen thanked her co-hostesses Shayla Rumely, Jinny Keough and Mickie Keough for the bus trip and lunch in Madison. Mary Huntz has done a tremendous job putting the program together.

Official Business:

Everyone should have received the minutes from the February meeting. If there are no additions or corrections, then the minutes will be approved as submitted.

Remember to sign the attendance sheet.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS:

No Reports.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• The New Member Ballots have been counted and we are thrilled to welcome three new members into Mimosa: Jennifer Alston Euart, Liz Day Irby, Parker Allen Tekin.

• The Slate for 2011-12 is very close to being finalized.

• With sadness I need to report that Betty Garges passed away one week ago. Betty was Esther Garges mother-in-law and was a member of Mimosa for many years.  Her funeral took place Monday, April 25th at 11am at Arlington.
• I’d like to recognize a Mary Huntz and Sophie Mason for the tremendous job they have done coordinating programs this year. I’m so excited that they have signed up to do programs again next year. Thank you both!

Eileen called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone.

Thanked Hostesses:

Eileen thanked Anna Muir, Tee Davis, Julie Harlan and Julie George for hosting us at the Biltmore Imperial Ballroom.

Official Business:

Everyone should have received the minutes from the February meeting. The minutes were approved and submitted.

Everyone, please remember to sign the attendance sheet.

Executive Committee Reports:

Treasurer Report:

Amanda Brady: Party money was distributed.

Speech School Report: Sissy/Lois: For the website, we need photos of the Speech School Garden and a breif write up about our work by April.

Quarry Garden Report: Jinny/Shelby: Also for the website, we need photos of the Quarry and a brief write up by April. everything is blooming in the Quarry Garden, please visit. They hired a part time gardener to work on inventory and GPS data.

Yearbook: Nancy Tracy/ Catherine Fleetwood. Eventually the yearbooks will phase out to our website. Next year we will print out only the contact portion of the yearbook.

Website: Jackie Cushman. The website is a work in progress.

Hostess Chart: Kendrick Williams reports all hostess slots for 2011-12 are filled. Kendrick and Dicksie will send 2011-12 hostesses an email reminding them of their hostess duty. They have been very well organized!

Flower Show Report: Shelby Drinkard/Claire Marie Huff:

We had a great showing at the Flower Show! All those people who entered the Flower show stood up and were recognized. We swept the Amaryllis category with blue, red and yellow. Thanks to all who participated!

Our member’s-elect won the Blue ribbon for their window box. They stood up and were recognized.

Announcements:

Reminder that we have three new member spaces available for the next year. Proposal forms are due today and Eileen will mail out the ballot this week.

The Slate for 2011-12 is almost finalized. Thanks to all of you who are currently serving and planing to serve again. Thanks to all the new participation, we appreciate all of you who said yes! We still need to fill one job.

Sadly,  Dr Ed Loughlin passed away this weekend. Memorial service is today at the H.M Patterson, Spring Hill. The family will receive friends at Patterson’s following the service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Department of Othopedics at Grady Memorial Hospital, 49 Jesse Hill Drive, Atlanta, Ga 30303.

Our hearts go out to our own Linda Beth. Linda Beth, Laura Irby Smith, Greg Irby and the entire family will be in our thoughts and prayers.

Eileen recognized Julie Harlan for all of her hard work and agreeing to be the Treasurer for two years!

Sophie Mason introduced Kevin Murray.