President's Message
Dear Garden Club Members,
I am delighted to welcome you to the 2010-2011 Acton Garden Club program year and its exciting offerings presented here. Many more opportunities for growing, learning, and serving both the Club and the community lie ahead. With speakers on a fascinating array of subjects and our own homegrown horticulture and floral design study groups, we have so many ways both to learn and to share knowledge.
In June, we celebrated Acton’s 275th anniversary with our ‘All About Town’ flower show at Acton Memorial Library. The show gave members a chance to reflect on aspects of Acton yesterday and today and at the same time apply floral design concepts we’ve learned from our Floral Concerns Director, Thelma Shoneman. Thank you, Thelma. We’ll have opportunities to learn even more in this year’s Floral Design Study Group.
Our celebration of Acton’s 275th anniversary continues with tidbits from Acton’s history scattered through our yearbook. We wish thank to Belle Choate and the Jenks’ Library for help with these historical nuggets honoring Acton’s 275th birthday.
Federation study schools on the environment, flower shows, gardening, and landscape design open up new vistas. If you’re interested in finding out more about these courses, go to www.gcfm.org. Or, talk with members who’ve completed these courses and more. Their names are listed with Club Members Serving the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts.
While we’ve been enjoying the summer in our gardens, the Yearbook Committee has worked tirelessly to produce our wonderful yearbook so full of opportunities to learn. Please join me in thanking Yearbook Chair Susanne Fuller and her committee of Jackie Amirhor, Kathy Burke, Joan Gardner, Peggy Garrison, Virginia Hahn, Phyllis McDonough, Judy Rice, Janet Richards, Judy Shuppert, and Karin Victor who have worked so hard to check every detail, organize Club information and make it accessible to our members. Check the program listings. Perhaps you have a friend who might enjoy attending one of our meetings and learn something new. Let us continue growing the future together.
Joan Yatteau
President
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