1999 Summer BOD: Wintergreen

January 26, 2022

The Board of Directors met on Saturday, July 17, 1999, at Trillium House, Wintergreen.

Bessie’s report noted disappointing attendance at the Lily Show hosted by Roanoke Valley in June; the appointment of Betty Schutte by Speaker Moss to chair the newly formed Capitol Square Preservation Council; and the death of Mr. August Dietz, whose company printed the Historic Garden Week Guidebook for many years. Mr. Dietz was an Honorary Member of the Garden Club of Virginia. Bessie reminded liaisons to attend committee meetings and to report to the board. She added, “Your current ‘dictator’ has asked First Vice President Mina Wood to chair an ad hoc Personnel Committee and Second Vice President Mary Hart Darden to chair an ad hoc Cyberspace Committee.”

Nan Williams of Warren, Whitney and Sherwood Management Professionals was retained during the past year to identify GCV staffing needs. Personnel Committee Chairman Mina Wood reported the results, indicating the need for a GCV Administrator who would have a myriad of duties and would assist board members and committee chairmen with nitty-gritty paperwork. She gave the following examples:

• Serve as the identifying figure for the GCV members and to take on certain related administrative and assume additional bookkeeping duties
• Serve as the House Manager and oversee GCV/HGW staff
• Serve as the marketing person for the KVH to the Richmond community – soliciting and managing business meeting and social functions at KVH.

Following a lengthy discussion, a motion was made and passed to hire a staff member.

Miscellaneous actions included the distribution of surplus Horticulture Field Day funds to Long Branch’s Sheila MacQueen Garden, the Kent-Valentine House flower fund, and to the Native Plant Society. Five thousand copies of the Garden Club Pilgrimage to Virginia booklet were approved, as was a dues increase of $10, to become effective spring 2001.