Archives Accession # 839

1.1.07.1ga Arboretum Foundation Unit 39 (The Amateurs) album

Date statement: : 1968-2002
Summary:

 1 album in box

Description:

 Album is in a box labelled "Arboretum Unit 39/ 50th Anniversary/May 13, 1996."
11x7" envelope taped to inside album cover contains:
6/11/2001, "55th Anniversary Luncheon, June, 2001, Graham Visitors Center."
3/19/2001, "Judith Elenora Rouzie," obituary, no source.
11/10/2000, "No substitute for experience," re: Frances Ross, Seattle Times, 2 pp.
11/10/2000, thank you letter from Elaine Anderson to Kathryn Bowden, with membership list, 2 pp.
2000, partial article re: class reunion, Seattle Times.
after 1996 unit reunion, "Nancy" letter to "Mary" on 50th anniversary talk, 2 pp.
5/22/1996, receipt for album.
1994, "Quotations from a Garden/Created by/The Arboretum Foundation/at the 1994 Northwest Flower & Garden Show.
n.d., A few definitions, 2 pp.
n.d., 2 4x6" glossy photos of picnic table, in envelope  labelled "Beety."

Invitation to Golden Anniversary of Arboretum Unit 39, on same page as printed card naming three unable to attend.
May 1996, "Fifty years: Unit 39 celebrates a golden anniversary," Ground Work.
"Unit 30 Golden Jubilee 1996, lists of current and former members who atttended, and those who could not.
"Unit 39 Golden Jubilee -1996/...and we remember," names list.
"Unit 39 Golden Jubilee 1996," "Set-up," "Menu," "Invitations," "The Party," "Program."
"Arboretum Unit 39," speech text, 4 pp.
"Golden Anniversary Unit 39-1995 [sic]/Celebration songs.
"Ode to the Arboretum Amateurs," by Lee Clarke.
9 pages of photos of members, labelled with names and some events: "Cruising Lake Washington - 1968," "Weeding in Rhododendron Glen 1969," "Beyond Port Townsend at Mary Barnard Blanchard's Home 1970," "On Hood Canal at Margarete Frink's Home," "A Beach Picnic en route to Bloedel Reserve Garden," "Meerkerk Gardens on Whitbey Island May 1990," "Waiting for the Bus to the Bloedel," a printed article "Unit #39 Turns 40," "40th Anniversary Party of Unit 39 at Jeannine Curry's Home," "At Steve and Mary Lea's Home on Whidbey Island," "At the Coe's Hidden Valley Ranch near Cle Elum 1992."
3/19/2000, "Women Who Make A Difference," gallery ad with photo of Anne Gould Hauberg.
June 2001, "55th Anniversary Luncheon, June, 2001, Graham Visitors Center," photo; on same page as April, 2000, "New Century Women," group photo.
Winter 20002, WPA Bulletin, entire issue, including "Sophisticated Amateurs," re: Unit 39, 3 pp.

Accession date: 2025-08-25 Last updated: 2026-01-20 11:46:30
Subjects: Bloedel Reserve, Arboretum Foundation

Names	Role	Function
Backus, Frances Arnold Anderson		Subject
Curry, Jeannine, 1921(?)-2002		Subject
Hauberg, Anne		Subject
Krauss, Sophie		Subject
Sorrells, Ken		Subject
Calvert, Pat, (Patricia Calvert)		Subject

Location	Note
Archives workroom closed cupboard