Re: AIS: Early Years and Current Assumptions
- Subject: Re: AIS: Early Years and Current Assumptions
- From: P* D*
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:10:45 -0600
From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>
I too very much enjoyed Anner's comments (and the research she has
conducted). I too have tried to stay out of the nonsense going on. It
there are ulterior motives behind the formation of TBIS, I guess I'm just
too indelibly dumb and naive to get it. What I do know is: I am a Life
Member of AIS (and all the sections to which I belong). I am a charter
member of TBIS. I have written articles for both groups'
newsletters/bulletins, and will continue to do so if I ever slow down long
enough to get anything written again. I'm so strung out with things to do
(granted, of my own choosing, in most cases), that I don't have the
emotional OR mental energy to participate in the mud-wrestling. Now, if
that all sounded a wee-bit haughty, I don't care! Tee-hee.
One thing of note, however, that maybe y'all might think about that may have
contributed to the "label" of AIS as a TB society over, say, the past 40
years: The annual Symposium. Favorite 100 TB's. OK, the sections (some of
them) run popularity polls amongst themselves (medians, LA's, I assume
Siberians, etc.). I think, in retrospect, AIS probably hurt itself by NOT
publishing some of those polls in the AIS Bulletin, even though on the
surface it might appear to be a duplication of information. Conversely, I
feel it would have STRENGTHENED the various sections, and all-the-more made
AIS look like a better-balanced society.
Perry Dyer
Glad for the moisture and looking forward (?) to pulling MORE weeds
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Simmons <ruth@sonetcom.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 3:23 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: AIS: Early Years and Current Assumptions
>From: "Ruth Simmons" <ruth@sonetcom.com>
>
>>I've been doing a lot of research on the gardens of the 'twenties and of
>the
>>early days of the AIS lately and I have noticed no sound indications that
>the
>>Society was founded to promote the Tall Bearded Iris as such.
>
>>"The American Iris Society was organized January 29, 1920, to promote the
>culture
>>and imrovement of the Iris and to serve as a central authoratative bureau
>of information
>>on all phases of iris interest."
>
>
>Thank you, Anner, for these astute statements. I have heard the comment
that
>"AIS IS the Tall Bearded Iris Society"
>so many times that I am glad to have your explanation.
>
>Ruth Simmons
>
>
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