Notables: June 2007 - Nursery Management & Production

New positions

Russell Clark to market manager; and Robert Best to district sales manager, Netafim USA Landscape and Turf Division, Fresno, Calif.

Pete Rethans to western region sales manager, Fine Americas Inc., Walnut Creek, Calif.

Mohsen Eskander to managing director, Meyer Industries Lawn and Garden Segment, Akron, Ohio.

Kenneth Von Forell to national director of independent agents; Morey E. Daniel, Amy Edwards and Gary W. Tapp to senior account managers; and Tracy Teetor to account executive, Hortica Insurance and Employee Benefits, Edwardsville, Ill.

Andy Andrews to sales manager, Pennsylvania Green Expo, Mohnton, Pa.

David A. Morris to commercial leader, Dow AgroSciences Turf and Ornamental and Technical Products.

Pete Sheerdy to national sales and marketing manager, Speedling Inc. Ornamentals Division, Sun City, Fla.

John Peterson to head, Horticulture and Crop Sciences Department, Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Carlos Pego to sales representative, ForemostCo., Miami.

Warren Quinn to vice president for operations; Craig Regelbrugge to vice president for government relations and research; Stephanie Stockton to director of business education; and Amanda Flynn to director of member services, American Nursery & Landscape Association, Washington, D.C.

Brian Cantin to senior grower specialist, Berger Peat Moss, Saint-Modeste, Quebec, Canada.

Ping Wang and Brian Nault to associate professors, Department of Entomology, Cornell University’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva.

Michael Harowitz to regional manager, Absorbent Technologies Inc., Beaverton, Ore.

Thomas Hill to communications manager; and Steve Larson to national ornamental account manager, BASF Professional Turf and Ornamentals, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Mark Fales to sales and marketing manager, American Coolair, Jacksonville, Fla.

Kevin Staso to sales director, North Creek Nurseries, Landenberg, Pa.

Jessica Reinhardt to marketing assistant, Dramm, Manitowoc, Wis.

Brad Adcock to senior major account coordinator; and Doug Miller to territory sales representative, Zelenka Nursery LLC, Grand Haven, Mich.

Jack Jones to branch manager, Ruppert Nurseries Maryland Landscape Management Branch, Forestville, Md.

Chris Buchheit to marketing manager for controlled-release fertilizers, Scotts Co. Professional Business Group, Marysville, Ohio.

Cliff Simonton to national accounts marketing director, Association Services Group, LaGrange, Ga.

Rick Heidvogel to sales manager, Baseline, Boise, Idaho.

Robert Condron to outside sales representative; and Todd Jarrett to area manager, Skinner Nurseries, Jacksonville, Fla.

David Lau to international business director, Spectrum Technologies Inc., Plainfield, Ill.

Honors

American Horticultural Society award recipients: Michael A. Dirr, University of Georgia, Athens, Liberty Hyde Bailey Award; Elwin R. Orton, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., Luther Burbank Award; Paul Saunders, Saunders Brothers Nursery and Orchard, Piney River, Va., Paul Ecke Jr. Commercial Award; Gardener’s Supply, Burlington, Vt., G.B. Gunlogson Award; Kathleen Norris Brenzel, Menlo Park, Calif., Horticultural Communication Award; Teresia M. Hazen, Legacy Therapeutic Gardens, Portland, Ore., Horticultural Therapy Award; Steve Martino, Steve Martino and Associates, Phoenix, Landscape Design Award; the late Lauralee M. Peters, Meritorious Service Award; Kris S. Jarantoski, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Ill., Professional Award; Norman Lownds, Michigan State University, Lansing, Jane L. Taylor Award; Thomas MacCubbin, University of Florida, Orange County, Teaching Award; Carolina Foothills Garden Club, Greenville, S.C., Urban Beautification Award.

Flower Carpet Scarlet rose from Anthony Tesselaar Plants, Lawndale, Calif., received highest honors in 2006 All-Deutschland Rose Trials.

Carl Whitcomb, Lacebark Inc., Stillwater, Okla., received the Henry A. Wallace Award from Iowa State University.

Alabama Nursery and Landscape Association award recipients: Leah Quarles, Landscape Workshop Inc., Pelham, Ala., Horizon Award; and Buddy Martin, Martin’s Nursery, Semmes, Ala., Lifetime Achievement Award.

Northwest Horticulture, Mabton, Wash., received Garden Writers Association Silver Award of Achievement in the Trade-Special Project category for its Grower Planning Wheel.

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Plantscape Industry Alliance Interiorscape Hall of Fame inductees: Don and Carole Horowitz, Plantscape Inc., Pittsburgh; Interiorscape Professionals; Tony Godfrey, Olive Hill Nurseries, Fallbrook, Calif., Allied Trade Professional; and Alfred Seth Emsig, Posthumous Inductee.