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About the 2013 Annual Meeting

73nd Annual Meeting
Orlando, FL
February 1-5, 2013

2013 Program
Program for the meeting

2013 Pre-Conference Newsletter
Meeting registration, hotel registration and meeting information

SRASHS will meet in conjunction with the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientist (SAAS).  The 2013 SAAS Convention will be held in Orlando, FL February 2-5, 2013 at the Wyndham Orlando.

2012 Fall Newsletter
Call for paper titles, award nominiations and election ballot

Dues and Membership
ASHS Headquarters will start collecting and managing dues for the Southern Region. Dues can be paid at the Southern Region annual meetings, with your yearly ASHS membership, or through the ASHS Online Store at http://shop.ashs.org/home.php, Dues are $30.  Notice: Dues must be current to be elected to an office, and to receive a career award, dues must be current and paid in 3 out of the past 5 years.  SRASHS By Laws state that dues apply to the year paid.  We do not collect dues in arrears, so when you pay your dues they will be credited to the year you pay.



Southern Region ASHS
The Southern Region  ASHS is a regional scientific society of the parent scientific society the American Society for Horticultural Science.  The Southern Region encompasses the 14 southern states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.  Membership varies over the years from about 400 to 500 active members.  Membership is composed of  research scientists, teachers and extension specialist from Universities, State, Federal and private research organizations, and industry. The Southern Region also contains a student section, the Association of Collegiate Branch, which is composed of student clubs from Departments of Horticulture and Plant Science across the region.  The main focus of the Southern Region is the Annual Meeting, which is held every February in conjunction with the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (SAAS).  The Annual Meeting consist of presentations of scientific papers, student paper competitions and judging contest, commodity group meetings,  and awards presentations. 

Goals:
  • Encourage and facilitate the mutual exchange of ideas and information concerning horticultural research, extension, education, and industry in the south
  • Promote stronger bonds among horticulturists in the southern regions
  • Encourage participation in the national society of the American Society for Horticultural Science
The Southern Region ASHS is recognized widely as the strongest and most active Region of the American Society for  Horticultural Science, and has a history that goes back to 1920!  Join us and become a part of the Tradition.

President
David Creech
Department of Agriculture
P.O. Box 13000
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, TX
75962-3000
Phone: 936-468-4343
Fax: 936-468-4747
dcreech@sfasu.edu
President-Elect
Curt  Rom
Department of Horticulture
University of Arkansas
316 Plant Science Buidling
Fayetteville, AR 72701-1021
Phone: 479-575-7434
Fax: 479-575-8619
drp,@uarl/edi
Secretary-Treasurer
David Wm. Reed
Dept. of Horticultural Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-2133
Phone: (979) 458-0710
Fax: (979) 845-6083
dwreed@tamu.edu