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July-August 1964
SUNDAY TOURS AT FOSTER GARDEN
During the months of July and August several volunteers have conducted a free public tour of Foster Botanic Garden, each Sunday at 2:30 PM. The response from the public has been gratifying, with attendance at 75-100. This will probably become an annual program.
Volunteer guides are: Mrs. Miyono Moriwaki, Mrs. J. D. Babcock, Mrs. R. N. McCullough, Mrs. Nevin Dauer, Kay Lewis, Yoshio Miyashiro. Loraine Kuck initiated the project and serves as chairman.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP CONTRIBUTION
Most members have been very prompt in renewing their memberships. Our membership year runs from June 1st of one year to May 31st of the next. This sometimes causes confusion, as many organizations operate on the calendar year. If you are in doubt as to the status of your membership, please call the office, 571708, or leave a message at 59373.
May we remind you that entrance to plant sales, the annual banquet, certain tours and lectures throughout the year, is open to members in good standing only.
If we are to carry forward our current projects, and initiate new ones, we will need your membership contribution and continued support.
BI-LINGUAL GUIDES ORGANIZE
In an effort to supply guide service for non-English speaking tour groups, the Friends are organizing a group of bi-lingual guides. The first group is English/Japanese, and will serve under the chairmanship of Mrs. Miyono Moriwaki. She has already gathered a class of about 12 men and women for training at Foster Garden. Yoshio Miyashiro is gathering information as to Japanese common names for some of the plant material in the garden.
If you are interested in serving with this group, call Mrs. Moriwaki at 998518, our office, or 59373.
FLORA PACIFICA PICTURES
Many members have inquired if any pictures were taken of the exhibits at Flora Pacifica. We have a series of slides of the various areas of the show, and duplicates may be ordered at $0.4 each. The slides are on view at our office, 8:30 to 12:00, weekdays.
PACIFIC VISITORS
The Board of Trustees hosted a lunch at The Willows on July 24th for a group of young men who are working in various fields of horticulture in the Pacific area, or are completing their educations in these fields. They are attending a two-month seminar at the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange at the East-West Center. The group is under the direction of Project Office James Hubbard (also a member of your Board of Trustees). They have toured the University and East-West Center grounds, the various gardens of Honolulu Botanic Gardens, some homes and gardens of interest in Honolulu, visited Lyon Arboretum, HSPA, etc., and made one trip to the outer islands, with another one scheduled soon. Part of their orientation has included a briefing of the function of Friends of Foster Garden, Outdoor Circle, Garden Club, and like organizations in our community. A few have expressed an interest in initiating similar organizations in their areas.
Most of them have evidenced a willingness to participate in a plant exchange program with Honolulu Botanic Gardens. This will bring us plants from such areas as Tonga, Ponape, Palau, Guam, Samoa, Truk, Western Samoa, Tahiti, Okinawa, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Japan.
One of the members of the group, Ichiro Sakanashi, horticulturist with Higashiyama Botanical Garden, Nagoya, Japan, has been assisting Yoshio Miyashiro with identification of Foster Garden's plant material by the common names used in Japan. We expect this to be a great help in conducting our Japanese/English tours.
Most of the group are interested in seeing private gardens of special beauty or interest, so if any of our members would care to host any of the group on a Saturday or Sunday, they should contact Mr. Hubbard at 918694.
ANDEAN EXPEDITION
Mack Wills, Jr., has volunteered to prepare occasional reports on what's what with "our man in the Andes". The material will be excerpted from Paul C. Hutchinson's reports and letters, and will include progress notes from Director Websch on plant material received.
