Notables: September 2007 - Nursery Management & Production

New positions

Nathan Cross to national business manager, Spectrum Technologies Inc., Plainfield, Ill.

Kayri Havens to director of plant science and conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Ill.

Richard Rees to product development manager; and David Spak to manager of biological development, Bayer Environmental Science, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Rick Burkhard to vice president of sales, BioSafe Systems, East Hartford, Conn.

Frank Benzing to president and CEO, SummerWinds Garden Centers, Boise, Idaho.

David Feist to product manager, Nufarm Americas Inc., Burr Ridge, Ill.

Karen Rane to plant lab diagnostician, University of Maryland Cooperative Extension, College Park.

Douglas Morosoff to sales manager, Horizon Nursery and Landscape Supply, Vero Beach, Fla.

Rick Slaybaugh to sales representative; and Kathy Enders to broker relations and plug specialist, Speedling Inc., Sun City, Fla.

Andrea Jerabek to communications specialist/editor, Wisconsin Green Industry Federation, Greenfield.

Robert Heimbach to inside sales and service manager, Otterbine Barebo Inc., Emmaus, Pa.

Chuck Kistler to network administrator; and Megan Carmody to accounts payable specialist, Ruppert Nurseries, Laytonsville, Md.

Rolland Reed to territory manager, ForemostCo, Miami.

Honors

Eberly Public Relations, Atlanta, received a Garden Writers Association Silver Award of Achievement for a Novalis media kit.

Hughes and Stuart Creative Marketing Strategies, Centennial, Colo., received Communicator Print Media Awards and Hermes Creative Awards.

Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association award recipients: Gary Roberts, Gary Roberts Nursery and Landscape Inc., Fort Pierce, Wendell Butler Award; Kenneth St. Germain, St. Germain’s Dracaena Farm, Homestead, Hall of Fame inductee; Erik Tietig, Pine Island Nursery and Tree Farm, Miami, Farm Credit/FNGLA Young Nursery Professional of the Year; Frank Giglia Jr., Signature Supply Inc., Lakeland, Outstanding Chapter President; Jane Spurling, Walt’s Collected Plants, Key Largo, Outstanding Chapter Secretary/Treasurer; Carolan Mahr, Ted Mahr Supply Inc., Cape Coral, Outstanding Allied Division Member; Alan Shapiro, Grandiflora, Gainesville, Outstanding Floriculture Division Member; Randy Strode, Agri-Starts Inc., Apopka, Outstanding Foliage Division Member; Paul Brock, Tallahassee Nurseries Inc., Tallahassee, Outstanding Garden Center Division Member; Wayne Tharpe, Washington Holmes Technical Center, Chipley, Outstanding Landscape Division Member; Rosemary Warner, Native Southeastern Trees Inc., Osteen, Outstanding Woody Ornamental Division Member; U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Friend of the Industry Award; Ken Kuhl, Florida Department of Agriculture, Tallahassee, Friend of the Industry Award; and Ed Skvarch, St. Lucie County Extension Service, Fort  Pierce, Outstanding Educator.

Business changes

Horizon Nursery and Landscape Supply, Vero Beach, Fla., opened a wholesale landscape distribution center in Wildwood, Fla.

Deaths

James Thomas “Jim” Irwin, Irwin Greenhouses Inc., Canyon, Texas, died June 4. He was 80.

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Jim Kluck, Dublin Nursery, Schuyler, Neb., died June 22. He was 55.