Fellow OGD'ers, I was writing from work, during one of the pauses in the daily grind. I made the mistake of going with my recollections, which proved woefully inaccurate. Ned Nash was never president of the AOS. He was on staff, and coming from a small family business sized orchid company - he was working to save the family size orchid businesses. He lost his AOS staff position due to the membership down turn - so it was very unfair of me to include him personally in culpability for the phenomena I was discussing as he and the family firm was a victim of it. I apologize to Ned, and hope he understands I was going from memory. Ned was very gracious in his note pointing out the actually history, where I was wrong in my recollection. I want to thank him publicly for being collegial in his pointing out the actual history. He gave me the benefit of the doubt which is better than I did for him by not checking my facts.
I have got to stay off the keyboard, my memory is apocryphal at best and I do apologize to Ned Nash again for remembering incorrectly. Leo _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
