Gulf Coast Daylily Society
Established March 9, 1956

Club Presidents
Year President Year President
1956-57 Mamie Schulz 1981-82 Mable Nelson
1958-59 Mrs. Walter Frohriep 1983-84 Ann Marks
1960-61 E. A. Young 1985-86 Dinah Martin
1962-63 Mrs. Walter Frohriep 1987-88 Gene Orgeron
1964-65 Pat Bishop 1989-90 Gene Marks
1966-67 Mrs. H. T. Tyer 1991-94 Margaret Jones
1968-69 Mrs. L. W. Knowles 1995-97 Mable Nelson
1970-71 Thelma Mimms 1998-99 Gene Orgeron
1972-73 Mamie Schulz 2000-01 Fred Rice
1974 Vera Petersen 2002 Jay Farquhar
1975-78 Cora Hund 2003-06 Margie Dumesnil
1979-80 Albert (Bobo) Faggard 2007-08 Deane Spradley

A HISTORY OF THE GULF COAST DAYLILY SOCIETY
by Margaret Jones
(reprinted from the Spring 1993 Region 6 Daylily Newsletter)

A group of garden club judges and interested daylily growers met at the Flying Chef Restaurant, Nederland, Texas, on March 9, 1956, for the purpose of organizing a daylily club. Charter members were the 21 members present and 5 not present who paid their dues of $1. Of these, only one is still living, Mrs. Kate Pessarra.

Mamie Schulz was the first president. Among the charter members were Lucille Williamson, who won numerous AHS awards, Mrs. H. R. Hunsucker, and Inez Coffman-Young, .

At the April 1956 meeting the members voted to be called the Gulf Coast Hemerocallis Society; however, years later the name was changed to Gulf Coast Daylily Society.

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