2008 PNDC Gold Medal Nominee
Our nomination for the person to receive the 2008 PNDC Gold Medal is Jeanette Benson from the Portland
Dahlia Society.
Jeanette has served as the President and Vice-president of the Portland Society. She has assisted with
the arrangements for the ADS Executive Board Meeting that was held in Portland and has made
arrangements for most of the PNDC spring meetings that have been held in Portland.
For many years she has been the liaison between the dahlia societies and the garden societies in the
Portland area and the county fairs in the northern Oregon and southern Washington areas. Jeanette has
also prepared laminated educational exhibits for use at garden clubs and fairs. Last year her exhibit won
special recognition at the Oregon State Fair.
Jeanette has conducted numerous PNDC judging schools in the Portland area and has held judging dahlia
workshops for garden club judges and flower show judges.
She is a life member of the Portland Society and has served as an ADS representative for many years.
Submitting Portland’s show reports to the ADS was also a task she undertook.
This nominee has a nurseryman’s license and owns a small commercial dahlia business.
Jeanette has contributed an exhaustive amount of energy and time to promote the dahlia. As an avid
grower, she willing shares her knowledge and experiences with anyone who shows an interest or has a
question.
We feel Jeanette is more than qualified to receive the 2008 PNDC Gold Medal.
Respectively submitted,
Ron and Ginger Clack
Roseburg Dahlia Society
Bob and Sally Miller
Southern Oregon Dahlia Society
Our nomination for the person to receive the 2008 PNDC Gold Medal is Jeanette Benson from the Portland
Dahlia Society.
Jeanette has served as the President and Vice-president of the Portland Society. She has assisted with
the arrangements for the ADS Executive Board Meeting that was held in Portland and has made
arrangements for most of the PNDC spring meetings that have been held in Portland.
For many years she has been the liaison between the dahlia societies and the garden societies in the
Portland area and the county fairs in the northern Oregon and southern Washington areas. Jeanette has
also prepared laminated educational exhibits for use at garden clubs and fairs. Last year her exhibit won
special recognition at the Oregon State Fair.
Jeanette has conducted numerous PNDC judging schools in the Portland area and has held judging dahlia
workshops for garden club judges and flower show judges.
She is a life member of the Portland Society and has served as an ADS representative for many years.
Submitting Portland’s show reports to the ADS was also a task she undertook.
This nominee has a nurseryman’s license and owns a small commercial dahlia business.
Jeanette has contributed an exhaustive amount of energy and time to promote the dahlia. As an avid
grower, she willing shares her knowledge and experiences with anyone who shows an interest or has a
question.
We feel Jeanette is more than qualified to receive the 2008 PNDC Gold Medal.
Respectively submitted,
Ron and Ginger Clack
Roseburg Dahlia Society
Bob and Sally Miller
Southern Oregon Dahlia Society
PNDC
Jeanette Benson