Dale Martens leading the discussion at the morning judges workshop

Judges workshop attendees

Ben Paternoster leading the discussion at the intermediate judges morning session

Convention Chair Jo Anne Martinez making update announcements at the luncheon

Stephen Maciejewski at lunch filling in as Chapters Chairperson and calling the roll of chapters

Practice judging at the afternoon judges session (Bob Clark, Leslie Milde, Carolyn Conlin-Lane)

Afternoon practice judging: first-time convention attendee Jerry O’Keefe (left), Thad Scaggs, and Elaine Stutt

Practice judging team Betsy Branson, Sylvia Svitak, Cindy Eastman

Dale Martens leading the Gesneriad Hybridizers Meeting later that afternoon

Hybridizer Bob Counsell from the UK presenting

Hybridizer Ruth Coulson from Australia presenting

Attendees selecting their door prizes at the close of the GHA meeting

Some Board members and guests headed over to the Toronto Botanical Garden to view the needlepoint collection donated by The Gesneriad Society

Several of the Renée White donated needlepoint pictures now on display in Toronto

Librarian Zachary Osborne (left) with Paul Kroll and Doris Brownlie

Board members and guests at the reception and viewing of the needlepoint picture collection

Back at the hotel for an evening demonstration on mounting gesneriads presented by Bob and Dee Stewart

A mounted Streptocarpus

Stephen Maciejewski at the evening conservation meeting presenting an update on the activities at the Gesneriad Conservation Center of China