2004 Winter BOD: Richmond

April 11, 2022

The Board of Directors met on January 13, 2004, at the Kent-Valentine House. Mary Hart Darden reported on her travels to Montpelier to accept the Madison Cup on behalf of GCV. She was seated beside Lord and Lady Cornwallis at the awards dinner and when she asked where next in Virginia they were headed, Lord Cornwallis stated they were going to Yorktown, “where we got our thrashing.” Mary Hart described him as, “so charming, I almost forgot he was a Redcoat.”

Annabel Josephs provided the 2004-2006 slate from the Nominations Committee, to be presented in May for approval by the membership.

Board discussions focused again on finances and the announcement that QuickBooks accounting software had been selected for use by all treasurers of the Garden Club of Virginia. New cost-saving policies and procedures for the Journalcontinued to evolve. As a result of continued database concerns, technical consultant Gary Mittler of Media Orange in Charlottesville was engaged for $6,000 to make the database current and stabilized.