Dear MBCA Members and
Supporters:
The Desert Wise Landscape Tour was
absolutely spectacular! The weather
was perfect. Our volunteer docents were eager, helpful, and dedicated to the
success of the event. The garden
site hosts were knowledgeable and generous. And, it appears that the tour-goers were
enthusiastic and appreciative!
We will alert you soon to some photos
of the Tour on the MBCA website. We
are so grateful to our docent volunteers and garden site hosts. We learned that many of the hosts
spent lots of extra hours in their gardens recently to bring them into prime
viewing condition – Thank You!
Docents’ roles were varied, as greeters, parking attendants, and check-in
gurus, and some also assisted with garden tours – it couldn’t have happened
without them. Deepest thanks to our
Site Hosts and Docents!
Docents
(alphabetical by first
name)
|
Al
Willcut
|
Danny Sall
|
Kathryn (Kay)
Taylor
|
|
Almut Fleck
|
Esther Shaw
|
Ken
Lair
|
|
Ann
Murdy
|
Gayla Blanton
|
Marina West
|
|
Bonnie Brady
|
Ida
Foreman
|
Meg
Foley
|
|
Carol Damon
|
Janet Tucker
|
Pat
Freter
|
|
Cynthia Anderson
|
Judy Corl-Lorono
|
Steve Rieman
|
|
Dan
Grieser
|
Kathleen Lowndes
|
Sylvia
LaBonte
|
Site
Hosts
(in order of site
number)
|
1 -
Robin Kobaly & Doug Thompson
|
11
- Melva & Don Matthews
|
|
2 -
Kat & Bill La Haye
|
12
- Phillip Mayberry & Scott Walker
|
|
3 -
Nancy & George Huntington
|
13
- Mike Lipsitz & Phu Do
|
|
4 -
Cathy & Stan Zarakov
|
14
- Rich Gerston
|
|
5 -
Phyllis & Richard Schwartz
|
15
- Cheryl Montell & Brian Leatart
|
|
6 -
Nora Lousignont & John Lauretig
|
16
- James Berg & Frederick Fulmer
|
|
7 -
Bobette & Tony Milici
|
17
- Miriam Seger
|
|
8 -
Ron Cousino & Sean Mylett
|
18
- Cathy Sheehe & Mark Butler
|
|
9 -
Ruth & Steve Rieman
|
19
- Joan Robey & Steve Stajich
|
|
10
- Shelly & Dale Fredenburg
|
20 - Josh Hoines
(Joshua Tree National
Park)
|
Additional thanks are extended to
Dave Miller for the beautiful and useful design of the Tour Guidebook, to Mike
Lipsitz and Greg Gilbert for editing, and to Judy Litowitz for providing
registration services at WindWalkers on Tour Day. And finally, thanks to the Committee
members who put in many hours to make the Tour successful: Sarah Kennington, Ann
Murdy, Ruth Rieman, Cathy Sheehe, and Cathy Zarakov, under the stellar
leadership of MBCA’s Events Director Claudia Sall. Thank you all!
