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Marilyn Light

At the COC AGM in Saskatoon this year the delegates awarded Marilyn Light the COC Certificate Award for long time service to the Canadian Orchid community. Marilyn has served COC in a variety of roles since its founding meeting in Vancouver. She has been our long time Conservation Chair, she has served as President, she and her husband have provided us with educational slide and DVD programs, and she has lectured widely across Canada and the world. Marilyn has authored books and many articles about orchids and orchid culture. She has done research on our native orchids and is an active member of the Orchid Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. She is also a member of the Ottawa Orchid Society. As conservation chair she has kept us abreast of developments in international and Canada wide regulations respecting importation and export of orchid plants, a necessary but often unthankful job. As you retire from COC conservation chair, we thank you Marilyn for your long distinguished service to the Canadian orchid community. Peter Poot.

Ingrid Ostrander

Ingrid Ostrander has been given this award for outstanding service to the Canadian community in organization, promotion or leadership. The Certificate was presented to her by VicOS President, John Taylor, at the September General Meeting.

Ingrid has been a dedicated orchidist for at least the past 30 years. She was a founding member of the Orchid Society of Alberta (Edmonton), serving as President for two years and the sponsor of the Ostrander Service Award

In the Victoria Orchid Society she was President three times for a total of six years. Ingrid was a mentor to dozens of Society members with her unbridled enthusiasm about orchids and orchid lore. She was instrumental in hosting the COC annual meeting during 2001 spring show, having served as Show Chair 16 times in Edmonton and Victoria.

Ingrid was a founding member of the Canadian Orchid Congress and while President worked on its incorporation and the group insurance plan. She initiated the popular Canadian culture sheets, and together with her late husband, Will, did the artwork.

In 1995 she was accepted by the American Orchid Society as an accredited judge. Since then she assisted in establishing the Richmond BC AOS judging center, served as the Pacific Northwest Center Secretary for nine years and served as an AOS judging chair numerous times throughout Canada .

She was instrumental in setting up the British Columbia Orchid Congress by organizing the four main societies of southwestern BC into a cohesive unit, including working on a comprehensive show flower class schedule.

As an author she has written or translated over 100 essays on orchids that have a permanent home on the COC website and has had several articles published in AOS Magazines.

As an orchid hobbyist Ingrid has bred her own hybrids, naming a few, some of which have received AOS awards and altogether has accumulated 29 awards for her orchids.

Joyce and Allan Reddoch

Over the past 49 years, Joyce and Allan Reddoch, members of the Ottawa Field-Naturalist’ Club, have participated in the Native Orchid Location Survey in the Ottawa District where they have, as volunteers, monitored orchid populations in Gatineau Park and elsewhere to obtain data and to document life histories of some 20 species. This represents collectively the largest assemblage of long term orchid studies in Canada. Herbarium specimens have been collected, and data published in scientific papers. Their monograph, The orchids in the Ottawa District: floristics, phytogeography, population studies and historical review, was published in 1997. Detailed studies of Goodyera pubescens, G. tesselata, Platanthera hookeri, and Spiranthes casei as well as documentation of the impact of flooding, herbivory, and drought on selected orchid populations and habitats have provided a foundation for future conservation initiatives. As Joyce and Allan bring their orchid longevity studies to a close, we should recognize the rare dedication, conservation and publication legacy that their effort represents for Canadian wild orchids.

Publications:

Reddoch, J.M and A.H. Reddoch, 1997. The orchids in the Ottawa District: floristics, phytogeography, population studies and historical review. Canadian Field-Naturalist 111: 1 – 185.

Reddoch, J.M and A.H. Reddoch, 2007. Population dynamics, and flowering synchrony of Goodyera pubescens (Orchidaceae) in southwestern Québec. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 134: 379 – 388.

Reddoch, J.M and A.H. Reddoch, 2009. Phenology, population dynamics, and flowering dynamics of Case’s Ladies’-tresses, Spiranthes casei var. casei, (Orchidaceae) in Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Field-Naturalist 123: 19 – 31.

Reddoch, J.M and A.H. Reddoch, 2014. Orchid longevities in Gatineau Park: Final Summary. Trail and Landscape 48: 62 – 67.

Joyce and Allan Reddoch receive COC award

Jerry Bolce

Today the COC honours Jerry Bolce, long serving newsletter editor and web master of the Canadian Orchid Congress. In 1999, Jerry agreed to take on the role of webmaster and newsletter editor for two years. Eleven years later he is still doing it, and both newsletter and web site have grown and expanded into the readily accessible, interactive and content packed tools used by societies and orchidists on a daily basis. In these important dual roles, he has played a key role in advancing the dissemination of services, tools and information available to Canadian orchidists. His reach stretches beyond the COC and Canadian borders as it is not unusual for him to receive requests from and give advice to orchidists far beyond our borders. As one of the longest serving members of the present COC board, Jerry also plays an important role as chief archivist of all COC’s important history. His judgment, understated humour and sound advice have been appreciated and sought by fledgling Board members and his low key collegial approach has made him a treasured colleague. In his role as webmaster, Jerry has established the COC as an important source of orchid services, culture, education and conservation. As newsletter editor, he has presented breaking news and interesting articles on culture, orchid happenings and COC news His newsletters are eagerly awaited and read by Societies for both engaging style and content. Indeed he has been the sticky glue that in many ways has helped keep the COC together by providing an information and service focal point for Canadian orchid societies and their members. Jerry’s activities outside the COC have also been impressive. An orchid grower of some note for over 20 years, he was a founding member of the Central Ontario Orchid Society and continues to be active in executive positions on their executive today. It gives me great pleasure on behalf of the COC to present this award to Jerry Bolce for his long and exemplary service to the COC.

Lynne Cassidy

Today the COC honours Lynne Cassidy of the Fraser Valley Orchid Society for her many long and dedicated years of service to orchid societies and orchid growing in Canada. In 2003, when the COC became incorporated as a not for profit corporation, she became one of the 6 founding directors of the corporation. Lynne served COC as vice president in 1999 and president in 2000-2. The duties in 2000 were particularly onerous as the COC and WOC were held in Vancouver, a meeting that took 5 years in the planning and was a brilliant success which established Canada’s credibility as serious or hid growers. Since its inception in 2004 Lynne has managed the very important group insurance program adopted by most societies. She has negotiated and established terms of reference, affordable rates such that the program has become a key service offered by the COC. Lynne continues to be active in the Fraser Valley Orchid Society oversees the management of a Canadian fund for orchid conservation research and maintains a large collection of orchids in her personal greenhouse. It gives me great pleasure on behalf of the COC to present this certificate to Lynne Cassidy for her exemplary service to the national orchid community in Canada.

COC Certificates Awarded at 2010 AGM

A highlight of the COOS AGM and Show was the presentation of COC Certificates to two special people who have each worked over ten years for the COC, fulfilling key roles that have provided members and hobbyists with essential information and services. These two outstanding individuals are Jerry Bolce, our hardworking COC newsletter editor and webmaster and Lynne Cassidy, the instigator and operating genius behind the very successful COC insurance program. A presentation was made to Jerry at the meeting and Lynne’s certificate was mailed to her society for presentation at their show which is the Oct 22-23 weekend. Congratulations to these two very deserving first recipients of the COC certificate.

Jean Hollebone, President, Canadian Orchid Congress

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