cultural merits, including three FCCs and one CCE. He has received eight AOS show trophies and many other awards for exhibits at orchid shows around the country.
Professionally, Carlos retired as a Senior Research Associate of
the Engineering School at Columbia University, where he was
the Director of a well-known research laboratory working on
nuclear reactor safety. “The main emphasis was in determining
the integrity of the reactor cores and the meltdown levels for
normal operating as well as accident conditions for just about
every nuclear reactor in the world, including the Russian designs,”
Pacific Northwest and is active in the Northwest Orchid Society
and Mount Baker Orchid Society. He became an AOS student
judge in 2007 after visiting Taiwan with the IPA and is now accredited. Davis has a small (12’x16’) hobby greenhouse in the
back yard and has made a few crosses. He is very interested in
breeding small, colorful 4N Phals including Harlequins. In his
professional life, David is Data Protection and Archive specialist
with Oracle.
Olie Garrison – First Vice President
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Olie Garrison is a family physician in Nacogdoches, Texas. He
is an accredited AOS Judge in the Shreveport Center. Olie has
been growing orchids for 22 years and has special interest in
Phalaenopsis. He is currently our treasurer of IPA, where he has
served for the past five years and is currently the Region 6 representative.
Lynn Fuller - Membership Secretary
Lynn Fuller grew up with orchids. Her father was given his
first orchids by her mother early in their marriage because she
felt he needed a hobby. It quickly grew into his lifelong obsession (as orchids tend to do). At the time of her fathers, death
he had 1500+ orchids in a three-room estate greenhouse. Lynn
attempted to pick up where her father left off, but her schedule
and life didn’t mesh with orchids and only kept up with them
for a year or so. After about a 10 year hiatus, she returned to the
orchid world. Currently Lynn has an ever-growing collection,
mostly Phalaenopsis, between a greenhouse on a local estate and
her very sunny window sill.
Lynn quickly became active with the IPA after being part of
the group that planned and hosted the 2005 IPA Symposium in
Philadelphia and has remained very active with IPA. After that
symposium she was asked to be the Membership Secretary and
has continued in that position.
Lynn is past chair of the American Orchid Society Affiliated
Societies Committe and was involved with the organization and
staffing of the AOS 2011 and 2012 Exhibit at H[Y[ XB