Awards 2010-2011

Member of National Garden Clubs, Inc. and The Central Atlantic Region

Mary Ellen Alden, President

March 22, 2011

Awards 2010-2011

#1 The Beatrice M. Coiner Award for Community Projects

* $150 Fergie's Gardeners, Alice Ferguson Foundation

* $100 Rock Spring Garden Club, Garden of the Year Award

#2A Edith Bittinger Environmental Improvement Award

+ $100 Woodley Gardens Garden Club, Weed Warrior Program at Welsh Park

#3 Community Service Award

* $100 Centennial Garden Club, Throughout Garden Club Year

#5 Former NCAGC President's Award - Horticultural Education

+ $150 Yacht Haven Garden Club, Educaton About Native Plants

#7 Rita Butterworth Award - Educational Exhibit

+ Ayr Hill Garden Club, Let the Games Begin! - Why Native Plants ($50)

#8 Margaret Lancaster Award - Landscape Design Council

* $100 Five Hills Garden Club, Oakton Library Garden Project

#12 The Plant Society Flower Show Citation

Old Dominion Chrysanthemum Society, Inc. Happy Anniversary Flower Show Potomac Hosta Club, Color Me Hosta

Potomac Lily Society, Magical Lilies

Potomac Rose Society, Seventy-Second Annual Potomac Rose Society Rose Show Washington Daffodil Society, Sixty-First Annual Daffodil Show

#13 Garden Therapy Award

* $100 Rock Spring Garden Club, Preschool Special Needs Class - Glebe Elementary School

#14 Garden Therapy Certificate of Recognition

* Paint Branch Garden Club, Hillhaven Assisted Living Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Woodley Gardens Garden Club, Garden Therapy with Rockville Nursing Home

#15 Youth Gardening Award

+ Woodmoor Garden Club, Rain Garden at Pine Crest Elementary School

#16A Junior Garden Club Citation

+ Rock Spring Garden Club, Friends & Flowers Junior Garden Club

#17 Club Program Citation

Yacht Haven Garden Club, Stepping Into Spring Program

*Submitted to National Garden Clubs, Inc. +Central Atlantic Region for further competition

#18 Citation for Outstanding Garden Club Achievement

24 and fewer members

District I: Mount Airy Clay Breakers Garden Club District II: Beverley Hills Garden Club District III: Five Seasons Garden Club

District IV: Seedling Garden Club

40 - 59 members

District I: Gardeners of the Junior ~e District II: Springfield Acres Garden Club District ill: Ayr Hill Garden Club

District IV: Garden Club of College Gardens

25 - 39 members

District I: Tanta-Cove Garden Club District II: Centennial Garden Club District ill: Great Falls Garden Club District IV: Potomac Village Garden Club

60 or more members

District I: Capitol Hill Garden Club District III: Rock Spring Garden Club

District IV: Bethesda Community Garden Club

#19 Certificate of Recognition

C. Club

Centennial Garden Club Ci, Arbor Day Tree Planting

* New Carrollton Garden Club, Blue Star Memorial Marker + Rock Spring Garden Club Cii, Community Outreach

Rock Spring Garden Club Cii, Day of Remembrance at Marymount University Rock Spring Garden Club Cii, It s Spring- Time for Stepping Out

#21 Publication Certificate of Merit

A. Outstanding Publications

Ai - Fergie's Gardeners, Membership Brochure *

Ai - Hayfield Farm Garden Club, Holiday Floral Program Brochure Aii - Rock Spring Garden Club, Garden of the Year Tour Brochure *Landscape Design Council, The Creative Garden Book

D. Individual

District I - David Kneipp

District II - Millie Rever

District III - Patricia Anne Frye District IV - **Paula Knepper

**NCAGC Award of Honor Recipient

#20 Yearbook Certificate of Merit

Under 20 members

*Fergie's Gardeners

20-29 members

, *Beverley Hills Garden Club I

i-small club

ii - medium club

30-44 members *Tanta-Cove Garden Club 45-69 members

*Yacht Haven Garden Club

70-99 members

*Rock Spring Garden Club

B. Outstanding Club Newsletter Under 20 members

*Fairfax Ferns Garden Club (1st) 20-29 members

*Gaywood Garden Club (1st) 30-44 members

Tanta-Cove Garden Club (1st)

C. Outstanding Council or District Newsletter *District III Newsletter, (1st)

*NCAGC Gardening Consultants Newsletter (1st)

E Electronic Publication

Ei - Fergie's Gardeners, Website, Small Club l st"

Eii - Great Falls Garden Club, Great Falls Garden Club Website, Medium Club

Eii - Rock Spring Garden Club, Blog & Facebook Page, Medium Club

45-69 members

*Ayr Hill Garden Club (1st) 70-99 members

Rock Spring Garden Club (l st)

Eii - *Five Hills Garden Club, Website

#22 Presidential Citation for Outstanding Garden Related Activities

Susan Foulke: for serving with diligence and finesse as The Capital Gardener Editor from mid 2005 through mid 2011 and drawing the exquisite original cover art for each issue.

Shirley Moore: for ably serving as Assistant Editor for The Capital Gardener from mid 2005 through mid 2011, by proofreading every word.

Janey Nadler: Advertising Chairman for The Capital Gardener since 1996 for devotion to cause and time commitment well beyond the limits of most.

Mary Ann Wren: Life Membership Chairman, for promoting life membership for NGC/NCAGC since 1996.

Rilla Crane: Thank you for coordinating with Joan Feely, Fern Valley Curator U.S. National Arboretum for the Fifty Year Anniversary rededication of Fern Valley this past May.

Ellen Spencer: for her many hours logged diligently revising NCAGC Standing Rules (The Blue Book of Policies and Procedures).

Dale DeFeo: NCAGC representative to serve as NGC 2011 Convention Chairman for her selection of able willing committee chairmen, searching for renowned speakers and coordinating all aspects with NGC President, Renee Blaschke, that NCAGC may be proud hosts of this stately event. Bravo!

Bette Lewis: Coupon Book Fundraiser Chairman for the NGC 2011 Convention, for soliciting donors through Districts, executing production and distributing Passport to Savings. Well done!

Ann Bucher: Chairman of Holiday Design Showcase for the Home NGC 2011 Convention fundraiser; for producing, with other floral designers, an innovative exciting presentation for attendees. Bravo!

Nancy Angelelli: Chairman gently worn Jewelry Sales fundraiser NGC 2011 Convention for gathering, sorting, tagging, toting and sales oversight at NCAGC events; organizing daffodil ordering for Our Congress in Full Bloom bulb sales, plus behind the scenes facilitator. Well done!

i-small club

ii - medium club

#27C Educational Service Certificate

Rock Spring Garden Club, Holiday Floral Demonstration of Dazzling Designs

#29 Helen P. Reed Award for Landscape Design

* District II NCAGC, Children s Butterfly Garden at River Farm ($100 Landscape Design Council)

#30 Elise (Lee) Harris Award

+District Il NCAGC, Carpe Diem, Seize the Day Flower Show Educational Exhibit ($50)

#31 Small Standard Flower Show Citation

District I, Memories of a Lady s Manor Flower Show

Potomac Village Garden Club, Picturing America Flower Show

#32 Standard Flower Show Award & Rosette

*District Il, Carpe Diem, Seize the Day Flower Show

* Ayr Hill Garden Club, Let the Games Begin! Flower Show

#33 Flower Show Certificate of Recognition

Seedling Garden Club, Beautiful Blooms & Butterflies Flower Show

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Citation

Catherine Hallmark, Chairman ($50 or more)

Acorn Garden Club Holly Hill Garden Club

Ayr Hill Garden Club Mount Airy Clay Breakers Garden

Beverley Hills Garden Club Club

Dominion Valley Garden Club Oak Hill Garden Club

Five Hills Garden Club Potomac Home & Garden Club

Garden Club of College Gardens Potomac Village Garden Club

Garden Club of Montclair Quantico Officers' Wives Garden

Haymarket Town & Country Club

Garden Club Rockshire Garden Club

#24 The Rae Kimmel Scholarship Citation

Terrill Meyer, Chairman ($50 or more)

Aspen Hill Garden Club Haymarket Town & Country

Ayr Hill Garden Club Garden Club

Belvoir Garden Club Holly Hill Garden Club

Bethesda Community Garden McLean Hamlet Garden Club

Club Mount Airy Clay Breakers

Centennial Garden Club Potomac Home & Garden Club

Fairfax Ferns Garden Club Potomac Village Garden Club

Five Hills Garden Club Quantico Officers' Wives Garden

Garden Club of Montclair Club

#26 Arbor House Service Certificate

Lorraine Leonard Chairman

Ayr Hill Garden Club Cheverly Garden Club

Bethesda Community Garden Holly Hill Garden Club

Club Mount Airy Clay Breakers

Capitol Hill Garden Club N~w Carollton Garden Club

Rock Spring Garden Club Springfield Acres Garden Club Springfield Garden Club of

Montgomery County Westmoreland Hills Garden Club Woodley Gardens Garden Club Yacht Haven Garden Club District Il

Landscape Design Council

Rock Spring Garden Club Springfield Acres Garden Club Tanta-Cove Garden Club Woodley Gardens Garden Club

Rock Spring Garden Club Springfield Garden Club of Montgomery County Tanta-Cove Garden Club Westmoreland Hills Garden

Club

Woodley Gardens Garden Club Woodmoor Garden Club Landscape Design Council

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Nature Conservancy Citation

Catherine Hallmark, Chairman ($50 or more)

Ayr Hill Garden Club Haymarket Town & Country

Garden Club of College Gardens Garden Club

Garden Club of Montclair Tanta-Cove Garden Club

Fern Valley Citation

Rilla Crane, Chairman ($50 or more)

Acorn Garden Club Laurel Garden Club of Burke/W.

Ayr Hill Garden Club Springfield

Belvoir Garden Club Mount Airy Clay Breakers

Bethesda Community Garden Garden Club

Club Potomac Home & Garden Club

Fairfax Ferns Garden Club Potomac Village Garden Club

Garden Club of College Gardens Quantico Officers' Wives

Holly Hill Garden Club Garden Club

Community Gardening Citation ($50 or more)

Acorn Garden Club Garden Club of College Gardens

Ayr Hill Garden Club Garden Club of Montclair

Capitol Hill Garden Club Mount Airy Clay Breakers Garden

Fairfax Ferns Garden Club Club

Arbor House Donation Citation ($50 or more) Five Hil1s Garden Club

Friendship Garden Citation

Ellen Spencer, Chairman ($50 or more)

Belvoir Garden Club Centennial Garden Club Fairfax Ferns Garden Club

Mount Airy Clay Breakers Garden Club

Potomac Home & Garden Club

Garden Club of College Gardens Potomac Village Garden Club

Garden Club of Montclair Quantico Officers' Wives Garden

Little Farms Garden Club of Club

Potomac

Red Hill Garden Club

Fern Valley Entrance and Botanical Labeling

Mary Ellen Alden, President's Project ($1 per member)

Aspen Hill Garden Club Little Farms Garden Club of

Ayr Hill Garden Club Potomac

Five Hills Garden Club McLean Hamlet Garden Club

Garden Club of College Gardens Potomac Village Garden Club

Haymarket Town & Country Rock Spring Garden Club

Garden Club Springfield Acres Garden Club

Woodley Gardens Garden Club Woodmoor Garden Club

Rockshire Garden Club Springfield Acres Garden Club Sumner Garden Club Tanta-Cove Garden Club Trowel Garden Club of

Dumfries

Woodley Gardens Garden Club Wood moor Garden Club Gardening Consultants Council

Woodley Gardens Garden Club Yacht Haven Garden Club Gardening Consultants Council

Tanta Cove Garden Club Woodley Gardens Garden Club Yacht Haven Garden Club Council of Accredited Flower

Show Judges

Gardening Consultants' Council Landscape Design Council

Springfield Garden Club of

Montgomery County Tanta-Cove Garden Club Westmoreland Hills Garden Club Woodley Gardens Garden Club Yacht Haven Garden Club Gardening Consultants Council

National Garden Clubs Certificate for Increased Membership

Vickie Godwin, Chairman Acorn Garden Club Aspen Hill Garden Club Belvoir Garden Club Capitol Hill Garden Club Chapel Square Garden Club Centreville Garden Club Cheverly Garden Club Country Hills Garden Club Garden Club of Lake Ridge

Green Thumb Garden Club

Laurel Garden Club

Hunter Mill Garden Club

Litle Farms Garden Club of

Potomac

Manassas Garden Club

Marian Forest Garden Club Monocacy Garden Club Montgomery Village Garden Club

Flower Show Schedule Submitted to CAR

New Mark Commons Garden Club Night Blooming Garden Club Potomac Village Garden Club

Red Hill Garden Club

Rockshire Garden Club Southwood Garden Club

Sumner Garden Club Westmoreland Hills Garden Club

District

District Small Standard Flower Show: District I, Memories of a Lady s Manor District Standard Flower Show, District II, Carpe Diem - Seize the Day

Small Standard Flower Show

Small Club, Cherrywood Garden Club (18 members), America Celebrates

Medium Club, The Gardeners of the Junior League of Washington (44 members) Gardeners Go Green

Standard Flower Show

Small Club, The Seedling Garden Club (22 members), Beautiful Blooms & Butterflies Medium Club, Ayr Hill Garden Club (48 members), Let the Games Begin!

National Garden Club Awards 2010:

#1 Kellogg Civic Achievement Award District I, Prospect Hill Cemetary Project

#6 Lucile Droege Mauentel Conservation Award Montgomery Village Garden Club, Wildlife Habitat Project at Asbury Methodist Village

#13A Tommy Donnan Certificates of Merit - Publications

Tanta-Cove Garden Club, Newsletter

#13B Tommy Donnan Certificates of Merit - Publications

Ayr Hill Garden Club, Ayr Hill Learning Garden Brochure

#49 Comminity Landscape Design

Potomac Village Garden Club, Potomac Community Library Gardens

#51 Decoration of Historic Building District IV, Strathmore Holiday Decorations

Flower Show Awards

#30 District Standard Flower Show District IV, 25 Years of Beauty and Arts

#57 Aii - Standard Flower Show Staged in a Public Building

Tanta-Cove Garden Club, Flights of Fancy

Golden Daffodil Awards

Springfield Acres Garden Club, 1 st for Mass Plantings Potomac Village Garden Club, 1st for Youth Plantings Tanta-Cove Garden Club, 1 st for Youth Plantings

Youth Poetry Awards

Second Grade - Aasushi Tripathy, Belvoir Garden Club

May Duff Walters Scholarship Allison Kara Palmer

2010 Central Atlantic Regional Awards

NCAGC AWARDS COMMITTEE, 2010-2011 Babs McClendon, Chairman

Mary Ellen Alden, NCAGC President! Advisor Vickie Godwin, NCAGC First Vice-President

Babs McClendon, NCAGC Second Vice-President, Awards Chairman Danielle Brabazon, District I Awards Chairman

Lin Stauffer, District Il Awards Chairman

Anne Stuntz, District 1lI Awards Chairman

Sylvia Tetreault & Anna-Mae Kobbe, District IV Awards Co-Chairmen Jane Goodman, Environmental Consultants' Council

Paula Knepper, Gardening Consultants Council

Connie Dalpra, Landscape Design Council

Mary Corley, Council of Accredited Flower Show Judges

I Jean Ladson Outstanding Achievement - Capitol Hill Garden Club, Bulb Give Away Program 1st place $100

American Horticultural Society Regional Perennial Award - Tanta-Cove Garden Club 1 st place + Rosette

Civic Improvement - Woodley Gardens Garden Club, Community Garden at Rock E Terrace School, 2nd place

, l' Outstanding Educational Exhibit, ~arge Club - Rock Spring Garden Club, Eastern Bluebird, 1 st place.

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Outstanding Educational Exhibit, Medium

Club - Tanta-Cove Garden Club, Native

I Plants, 3rd place.

Standard Flower Show Schedule, Medium Club - Tanta-Cove Garden Club, Flights of Fancy, 1st place

Standard Flower Show Schedule, Small Club - Fairfax Ferns Garden Club, My Favorite Things, 2nd place

Standard Flower Show Schedule, Large Club - Rock Spring Garden Club, Cinderella s Ball, 3rd place

Standard Flower Show Schedule, DistrictDistrict IV, 25 Years of Beauty & Arts, 3rd place

Small Standard Flower Show Schedule - Five Hills Garden Club, Shades of Autumn, 3rd place

CAR Scholarship Award - Roger Clapp

Youth Awards:

High School Essay - Carolyn Voytko, 3rd place Poetry

Grade 2 - Aasushi Tripathy, 1 st Grade 3 - Bonnie Mai, 2nd Smokey BearlWoodsey Owl Grade 2 - Victoria 3rd

Grade 3 - HM - Ariya