PHOENIX  BONSAI  SOCIETY :
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This Page Last Updated: September 8, 2025

       “We are a partly and continually changing assembly of persons who share, more often than not it seems, one common trait:  interest in the creation of miniature potted trees.  Some stay for years, others visit just a few times.  (Both people and trees, that is…)  Our horticultural skill ranges from lacking to master gardener; our aesthetic creativity ranges from blank to artist; our knowledge of the field ranges from polite disinterest to near professorial.
“Analysis of the membership rosters in the various club yearbooks produces a few additional facts:  40% of the members are only in the club for a single year, 23% for two or three years, and 7% for four or five years.  The remaining 30% of PhxBS members are in the club for seven or more years.  About one in ten of all our members will voluntarily serve in some type of office, whose different permutations over the years have numbered over two dozen posts.  Many of these are held for more than one term.  We volunteer a little time and talent out of our ordinary busy schedules to handle a few behind-the-scenes details for the enjoyment of our peers and countless, nameless passersby who marvel at the trees and for a short distance shake their heads at the wondrousness of the bonsai or their own self-doubts about gardening.  Usually there is a brief, sometimes heartfelt, appreciation of a particular type of beauty which has seduced a number of us.”

 

HISTORIANS
1995 – present Robert Baran
1979 – 1981 Penny Schneck
1970 – 1971 Nadine Andrade
WEBMASTERS
2011 – present Eric Zimmet
1999 – 2016 Robert Baran
ASSISTANT WEBMASTER
2010 – 2011 Eric Zimmet
NEWSLETTER EDITORS
1995 – 2016 Robert Baran
1968 – 1970 Joan McCarter
YEARBOOK EDITORS
2009 – present Susie Kingston
1997 – 2008 Robert Baran
1995 – 1996 Jim Claycomb
1990 – 1995 Doug Acker
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
1974 – 1989 Rex Tsutsumida
PROGRAM CHAIR
1971 – 1984 Louis H. Knaak
1968 – ? Joan McCarter
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
1995 – 2006 Doug Acker
1970 – 1995 Leroy Fujii
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
2003 – 2005 Carl Reeder
SOCIAL SECRETARY
1977 – 1981 Virginia Cahill
CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES
1973 – 1977 Virginia Cahill
1971 – 1973 Leonard A. Weissman
1970 – 1971 Joan McCarter
RECORDING SECRETARIES
1971 – 1977 Nadine Andrade
1970 – 1971 Julia Oppelt
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
1988 – 1989 Alice Barlow
1987 – 1990 Elaine Orlinsky
1985 – 1987 Elsie Andrade
1984 – 1985 Elaine Orlinsky
1984 – 1985 Ray Garcia
1983 – 1984 Nona DiDomenico
1979 – 1983 Elsie Andrade
1979 – 1980 Frank Harris
HOSTESSES
1984 – 1985 Nona DiDomenico
1970 – 1971 Margaret Julian
PUBLICITY
1970 – 1971 Alice Feffer
SUPPLIES
1994 – 1995 Penny Schneck
1990 – 1994 Sam Lew, Jr.
MEMORIAL GARDEN DIRECTORS
1990 – 1995 Elsie Andrade
1979 – 1990 John B. Finkey
As Participants in the Running of the Valley Garden Center :
MEMBER OF VALLEY GARDEN CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS
1979 – 2025 Elsie Andrade
1978 – 1979 Margaret Finnegan
VALLEY GARDEN CENTER PRESIDENTS
2002 – 2006 Doug Acker
2001 – 2002 Max Miller
1981 – 1982 Elsie Andrade
VALLEY GARDEN CENTER VICE-PRESIDENT
1999 – 2001 Bill Mooney
VALLEY GARDEN CENTER TREASURERS
2002 – 2007 Ernie Hasan
2001 – 2002 Bill Mooney
VALLEY GARDEN CENTER SECRETARIES
2011 – 2013 Ken Roberts
1999 – 2001 Max Miller
VALLEY GARDEN CENTER TWO-YEAR TRUSTEE
2003 – 2004 Max Miller
CLUB LIAISON TO THE VALLEY GARDEN CENTER
2019 – present Andrew Cunningham
2019 – present Val Engermann
2017 – 2019 Tom Mainwaring
2016 – 2017 Ken Roberts
2015 – 2016 Kate Schumacher
2013 – 2015 Alex Gray
2011 – 2013 Elsie Andrade
 
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