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"In
a Japanese Garden" "No effort to create an impossible or pure ideal landscape is made in the Japanese Garden. Its artistic purpose is to copy faithfully the veritable landscape, and to convey the real impression that a real landscape communicates. It is therefore at once a picture and a poem; perhaps even more a poem than a picture. For as nature's scenery, in its varying aspects, affects us with sensations of joy or solemnity, of grimness or of sweetness, of force or of peace, so must the true reflection of it in the labor of the landscape gardener create not merely an impression of beauty, but a mood in the soul." Excerpted
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Annual Members Meeting The Annual Members Meeting will take place at the Garden Study Center in the Botanical Gardens of City Park on July 20th, 2005 at 5:00 p.m. The following slate of officers and board members will be presented for approval by the membership. Additional nominations will be accepted from members in good standing during the meeting.
President:
Dr. Jack P. Strong Vice-
president:
Dr. Tetsuo Nakamoto Treasurer:
Mr. Secretary:
Ms. Colleen Thian Advisor/Past
President:
Mrs. Mr.
Vaughn Banting
Mrs. Gloria Battiste Dr.
David Borne
Rev. Frank Candalisa Ms.
Kathleen Devitt
Mr. Elroy Eckhardt Mr.
George Hirabayashi
Mr. James Hollingshad Mrs.
Noriko Lastrapes
Dr. T. Gray Malcom Mr.
Mike Mitchell
Mr. Narutoshi Ochiai Ms.
Jeanne Okamoto
Mrs. Carol Smith
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