Re: [GSAS-board] Plant auction flyer

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

"bring" is misspelled as "pring" too.  I would just pull all seller 
information from the poster entirely -- this one is definitely to entice 
buyers!


On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Erik Olson wrote:

> AWESOME!
>
> The color really does make it pop out at you.  I may put a portion of the
> final directly on the website, if that's OK with you.
>
> The 20-lot limit is just for sellers; I would not bother mentioning that
> on the flyer.
>
> Do we need to say AQUARIUM plant auction?  I suppose if we pick up an
> accidental terrestrial person, oh well.
>
> I'm not sure we're in 118 -- thought we were in the larger room for this
> one.  Meredith?
>
> ---------------------- normal folks skip this part ----------------------
>
> The plant auction has been going on as long as I've been in the club,
> which is 1993.  I think it started a couple years before that, so perhaps
> your 17th Annual is right.  Dave or Steev would know better.
>
> But hey, I'm the club HISTORIAN, and I have two whole DVDs worth of
> scanned documents at my fingertips, including old board meeting notes and
> presidential docs.  I can do better than that.  [frantic searching for the
> disk]
>
> 1989 and earlier years definitely did not have a plant auction in
> February, so says the monthly newsletters.  However, I have no monthly
> newsletters for February 1990, 1991 and 1992.
>
> November '89 board meeting notes say: "Feb -> ? plants ! & auction [...]
> Motion to take excess of $ of Plant auction to Philanth. fund."  That
> would seem to imply that there was a plant auction planned in 1990.  No
> February 1990 notes, however.
>
> 1-18-91 board notes mention: "February Plant Auction: Paul is working with
> 2 plant wholesalers.  All these plants come potted + in wrapped
> individual.  Prices are comparable with Delaware [Delaware Aquatic
> Nurseries] and these seem to grow better...."  Again, though, no February
> or March notes indicating the auction actually took place.
>
> December 1991 board meeting notes have this handwritten in the margin:
> "Art - talk in February?"  No reference to actual program, auction or no,
> in 1992.
>
> According to the notes, 1993's plant auction consisted of a $250 plant
> purchase, netted $101.50, and had so many unsold plants that Amazon Pet
> Place (Woodinville, RIP) purchased the remaining stock for $190.  Yipes!
>
> So hmm, if it really started in 1990, that would make this year the
> TWENTIETH annual plant auction.  Clay or Dave S, you were presidents
> during this time, do you remember holding the plant auction pre-Lenny
> Long?
>
>   - Erik
>
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Phil Lacefield Jr. wrote:
>
>> Here's my first pass.  Anyone see anything they want changed? I did it in a
>> way that it'll look fine in b&w, or for a REAL eye-catcher we could spend a
>> few bucks and have them printed in color at Kinko's and make a REAL splash.
>>
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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