Club Objectives | History | Sponsorships | President’s Message | Themes | Acknowledgements | Club Officers | Committee Chairs | Past Presidents
Club Objectives
The purpose of this organization shall be:
- To gather together gardeners for the study of horticulture;
- To promote artistry in floral design and landscape design;
- To aid in protection of all natural resources;
- To encourage conservation practices in the home and community.
Our club programs, activities and projects have all been planned to further one or more of our objectives:
- Every member participates in the Christmas Wreath making and our Civic Christmas Decorations workshops.
- Every member participates in the Flower Mart.
- Every member works on one or more of our other projects:
- Monthly Young Gardeners meetings;
- Monthly Garden Therapy meetings at the Nursing Home;
- Landscaping around public buildings;
- Clearing around and conserving historic sites;
- Decorating a Christmas Tree for Hospice;
- Directing school children in improving and beautifying their own environment.
- Members are encouraged to bring an annual artistic arrangement to be judged.
- Members are encouraged to bring at least one horticultural exhibit each year and orally share information about its growing habits in our county.
Our members want to learn from one another, share what they know, and work together to improve our community.
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Calvert Garden Club History
The Calvert Garden Club
P.O. Box 3068, Prince Frederick, MD 20678-9998
Organized 1936
Membership
Forty-seven (47) Active
Six (6) Associate
Fifteen (15) Life
Member
National Garden Clubs
Central Atlantic Region
The Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, Inc. (District II)
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Sponsorships
American Chestnut Land Trust
Azalea Society of America
Battle Creek Cyprus Swamp
Calvert County Historical Society, Inc.
Calvert Farmland Trust
The Calverton School Young Gardeners
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland
Friends of the One Room Schoolhouse
Friends of the Wallville School
Habitat for Humanity
Hammond Harwood House
Hospice Festival of Trees
Jefferson Patterson Park
Penny Pines
Project Echo
Sotterley Foundation, Inc.
Southern Calvert Land Trust
Washington Daffodil Society
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President’s Message
The eleven year sojourn with Calvert Garden Club that I have been privileged to spend since joining in 1998 has enriched me in many ways. A wonderful source of friends, of horizon broadening learning, not to mention delicious broadening lunches and ever new experiences -- the club has become my very important greater family.
With the club I have grown as I have seen other women grow and flourish. When approached to chair the first pilgrimage of the triumvirate’s (Adele Maguire, Mary Smolinski, and me) three, I felt I could not possibly do it. Very quickly I learned with this club you can do practically anything. I have never experienced such a group of talented, capable, and eager women before. With you we can do what is set before us.
And now with your trust and support, I intend to serve you to the best of my ability. Looking ahead to the next two years, I see us accomplishing the transformation of the kitchen garden at Linden to a flower and herb garden, possibly instituting a flower-complementing-art show at Anne Marie Gardens similar to Art Blooms at the Walters Gallery in Baltimore, and possibly having another flower show – October 2009 marks three years from our last successful show. And of course, next year will find us preparing for the Calvert House and Garden Pilgrimage of 2011. These are just a few of the exciting events before us. I look forward to sharing them all with you.
Nancy Thompson
President
Calvert Garden Club
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2009 –2010 Gardening Club Themes
National Garden Clubs
The World Around Us – Love It -- Beautify It – Protect It
Central Atlantic Region
Restore Our Heritage with
Native Plants
Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland
Partner with the Youth to Protect and Beautify our Land
District II
Embracing Environmental Awareness Through Education and Action
Learn today for tomorrow’s generations!
Together we can make a difference!
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Acknowledgements
The Calvert Garden Club would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge and recognize the achievements of our members:
The Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, Inc.
| Past President |
Jean Hinman |
| Flower Show Life Judge |
Mary Briscoe |
| Daffodil Judge |
Mary Briscoe |
| Flower Show Judge |
Charlene Cumberland |
| Landscape Design Critics |
Mary Briscoe, Rosemary Dawley, Kitch Eisenman, Nancy Thompson, Sarah Yeats |
| Master Gardeners |
Mary Briscoe, Rosemary Dawley, Jean Hinman,Laura Jiroun, Mary Ellen Romney, Patricia Terlisner, Mary Tweedie, Sarah Yeats |
| Young Gardeners |
Denise Moroney |
| Garden Therapy |
Mary Oritt, Rene Sackett, Kathy Ursic |
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Current Club Officers
| President |
Nancy Thompson |
| First Vice President |
Denise Moroney |
| Co-First Vice President |
Diann Garner |
| Second Vice President |
Linda Western |
| Recording Secretary |
Betty Kilpatrick |
| Corresponding Secretary |
Nancy Worster |
| Treasurer |
Barbara Whited |
| Advisor |
Rosemary Dawley |
| Delegate |
Mary Smolinski |
| Delegate |
Adele Maguire |
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Committee Chairs
| Awards |
Dotty Dorsey |
| Chaplain |
Vera Lind |
| Civic Christmas Decorations |
Susan Cole, Adrea Jordan, Peggy Cochran
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| Conservation |
Mary Ellen Romney |
| Flower Mart |
Adele Maguire, Janet Cosh
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| Historic Preservation & Pilgrimage |
Susan Cole |
| Horticulture Study Group |
Joyce Fletcher |
| Hospice Christmas Tree |
Mary Oritt, Vera Lind |
| Hostess |
Sarah Yeats |
| Judges |
Floral Design - Mary Smolinski & Margaret Fahs
Horticulture - Linda Hosier |
| Landscape & Community Outreach |
Nancy Thonpson |
| Legislation & Parliament |
Virginia Bowen |
| Librarian |
Joan Sweeney |
Maryland House & Garden
Pilgrimage State Central Committee |
Susan Cole |
| Meeting Exhibits |
Floral Design - Mary Smolinski
Horticulture - Linda Hosier |
| Membership |
Linda Western |
| Memorials & Remembrances |
Rosemary Dawley |
| Newsletter |
Maricarol Cloak |
| Nursing Center Therapy |
Rene Sackett, Kathy Ursic & Mary Oritt |
| Photographer |
Maricarol Cloak, Barbara Whited |
| Programs |
Denise Moroney, Diann Garner
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| Publicity |
Maricarol Cloak |
| Sunshine |
Elaine Boucher |
| Ways and Means |
Marianne Harms |
| Website |
Maricarol Cloak
Barbara Whited |
| Yearbook |
Cover/Editor – Barbara Whited
Proof Reader – Nancy Thompson |
| Young Gardeners |
Vera Lind |
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Past Presidents
| Mrs. Clarence Davis |
1936 – 1937 |
| Mrs. Claude A. Turner |
1937 – 1939 |
| Mrs. R. B. Smoot |
1939 – 1941 |
| Mrs. Gordon Bennett |
1941 – 1943 |
| Mrs. Everard Briscoe |
1943 – 1945 |
| Mrs. G. Francis Beaven |
1945 – 1947 |
| Mrs. Joseph C. Lore, Jr. |
1947 – 1949 |
| Mrs. Everard Briscoe |
1949 – 1953 |
| Mrs. Malcolm Rockhill |
1953 – 1955 |
| Mrs. Don Smith |
1955 – 1957 |
| Mrs. John J. White |
1957 – 1959 |
| Mrs. G. Oscar Carpenter |
1959 – 1961 |
| Mrs. James R. Dawson |
1961 – 1963 |
| Mrs. John J. White |
1963 – 1965 |
| Mrs. Philip L. Cole |
1965 – 1967 |
| Mrs. Perry G. Bowen, Jr. |
1967 – 1969 |
| Mrs. Christian Wohlgemuth, Jr. |
1969 – 1971 |
| Mrs. Joseph G. Jerome |
1971 – 1973 |
| Mrs. James T. Briscoe |
1973 – 1975 |
| Mrs. Richard G. Sinclair |
1975 – 1977 |
| Mrs. Stewart E. Gordon |
1977 – 1979 |
| Mrs. Bedford C. Glascock |
1979 – 1981 |
| Mrs. Albert C. Grosvenor |
1981 – 1983 |
| Mrs. Arthur F. Oldham, Sr. |
1983 – 1985 |
| Mrs. Edward J. Hinman |
1985 – 1987 |
| Mrs. John D. Briscoe |
1987 – 1989 |
| Mrs. Richard L. Eisenman |
1989 – 1991 |
| Mrs. Edward J. Hinman |
1991 – 1991 |
| Mrs. Joseph G. Jerome |
1991 - 1993 |
| Mrs. Ronald C. Maffett |
1993 – 1995 |
| Mrs. John H. Cumberland |
1995 – 1997 |
| Mrs. Philip L. Yeats |
1997 – 2001 |
| Mrs. Michael Strider |
2001 – 2003 |
| Mrs. John Maguire |
2003 – 2007 |
| Mrs. Norman Dawley |
2007 - 2009 |
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