Austin Daylily Society
(Name changed from Austin Hemerocallis Society, 2006)
Established May 26, 1961
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Club Presidents
Year President Year President
1961 Mrs. W. R. Cate 1988-89 Rich Rosen
1962 Lillian Peek 1990-91 Mrs. Warren Dickerson
1963-64 Mrs. Jack Fisher 1992-93 Carolyn Mersiovsky
1965-67 Mrs. William Bohn 1994 Mrs. Walter James
1968-71 Mary Anne Ater 1995-96 Bob Hughes
1972-75 Harold Kilpatrick 1997 Mary Anne Ater
1976-78 Bill Ater 1998 Ms. K. C. Dignan
1979 Elizabeth Krebs 1999-2000 Velia Sanchez-Ruiz
1980 Mary Anne Ater & Mrs. Jack Fisher 2001-03 Suzanne Adair
1981 Harold Kilpatrick 2004-05 Bill Ater
1982-83 Bill Ater 2006-07 Jeff Goldman
1984-85 Beth Zimpelman 2008-10 Art Petley
1986-87 Betty Randig    

(Reprinted from the Summer 1961 Region 6 Newsletter)
by Annie T. Giles

The Hemerocallis Study Group (we had been calling ourselves the Austin Hemerocallis Study Group) disassociated from the Violet Crown Garden Club and have established ourselves as a full flown plant Society.

We had decided to run our Society year with the National Society, thus hoping to get more members into the AHS. Our organization will be quite simple in structure but will now draw more men, since they will no longer have to first join Violet Crown to be able to join us. We have not lost any of our group, but expect to pick up several when the full publicity is released. We meet mostly at night for the men members, and our rural members (all ladies) felt that they wanted a daytime meeting group so they organized that and some of them are still members of each. However, the two groups are in no other way joined. That group meets in the morning and does lots of garden visiting. They are drawing a number of members not available to us. All feel that we have made advantageous stops for our local Societies and certainly we will draw more interest in AHS. They call themselves the Sunrise Hemerocallis Society.

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