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Wednesday October 8th, 2025 7:00 PM In Person and Zoom Culture & Questions 6:30 PM
Emmanuel Lutheran Church– Youth Center Downstairs - 4865 Wilmington Pike
Speaker: Harry Gallis Topic: Antelope Dendrobiums
Harry is a native of Athens, GA, and graduate of Princeton and Duke University Medical School. He divided my medical career between Duke and Carolinas Healthcare System in Charlotte. An acquaintance abandoned some Cattleya plants on my porch about 40 years ago and the disease caught hold. He joined the Triangle Orchid Society in Raleigh in 1980 and the NC Piedmont OS in Charlotte in 1994 and am back with the TOS now. He has been involved in NC and SC shows for over 35 years. Starting out as a clerk at shows in the 1980’s several of us in Triangle were encouraged to enter the judging program and eventually 5 members of TOS became accredited AOS judges, most of whom are still active and we have recruited many more. He was asked to join the Education Task Force of AOS in the late 1990’s which led to more and more trouble: Chair of the committee, Chair of Judging in the Carolinas Center, National Judging Training Coordinator, AOS Trustee, Vice President and now Honorary Vice President and Emeritus Judge. Throughout all of this, his major interests have been medical and orchid education, leading to several articles in Orchids magazine, a judging webinar and travel around the US speaking to societies like ours through which he has met and re-met many orchid friends. His first love in orchids was Cattleyas but more recently he gravitated to a wide variety of dendrobiums, especially the spatulata or antelope group, the bigger and taller the better. His plants have received 56 AOS awards and recently three of his own hybrids received AOS awards: Den. Alex Gallis, Den. Sara Gallis and Rct. Savannah Hope Gallis. He registered three other hybrids by others that have received AOS awards: Rlc. Lisa Taylor Gallis and C. Susie’s Valentine and Den. Susie Gallis (currently offered in the H&R Catalogue).
OFFICER ELECTIONS All- We need You!! It is going to be hard to have meetings and activities with no officers….We will be holding officer elections in November for the next two year term. We need volunteers for all positions– All current officers are stepping back. We need new faces in each office- We have great folks that can easily step in and help run this organization, giving new ideas and new energy. Each current officer will continue to help with training and mentorship. We need: President, Vice President, Secretary, Newsletter Editor, Show Chair, Social Media Chair and Treasurer. Let us know what position you are interested in holding!
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