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Mic Ei OrG:h Ae 
January 15, 1949 


BLOOD DONORS—Back row, leit to right, are Benny Morrow, Rod 
McLellan, Butch Gomez. 
Broome, Jean Gomez. 
THE HOLIDAYS 
WERE FUN! 
By Peggie Ann Wright 
Thanks to Joe Osorio and 
Burnell Seefeldt, the greenhouse 
gang enjoyed ice cream and cake. 
We welcome _ back Jimmie 
Anderson as checker on Satur- 
days and Sundays. Jimmie, who 
spent Christmas vacation from 
school in Minnesota, returned, 
deeming California to be even 
more beautiful than he first real- 
ized. He had a real chance to 
see it this time as he returned. 
Congratulations to Burnell See- 
feldt and Ed Noli on their ex- 
cellent cuts from houses I and 3. 
And have you heard the latest? 
Benny Morrow is going to have 
(and don’t take it wrong) new 
baby plants for house 9 soon. 
That’s grand, Benny. 
SUGGESTION TALLY 
FOR 1948 
During the past year, 109 sug- 
gestions were submitted with 39 
of them being accepted, making 
a total of $105.50 paid to the 
contributors of these ideas. 


Front row are Peggie Ann W right, Gwen 
(Picture by Bob Marshall) 

THEIR GOOD DEED 
FOR THE DAY 
Recently, the following peo- 
ple visited the San Mateo Blood 
Bank, giving of their blood to 
establish credit for Ray Kirke, 
our nightman who has_ under- 
gone several operations and blood 
transfusions: Gwen Broome, 
Peggie Wright, Benny Morrow, 
Rod McLellan, Butch and Jean 
Gomez. 
Only a short time before, 
Kathleen Butler gave blood to 
the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank 
in San Francisco, and her dona- 
tion has been transferred to Ray 
Kirke’s credit. This makes a 
total of seven pints to his credit 
and if he “does not use this 
amount, the remaining credit will 
stand indefinitely for use by 
members of E. W. McLellan Co. 
or their immediate families. 
If anyone is interested in mak- 
ing donations, please contact Mrs. 
Juvenal for an appointment. The 
company will arrange transporta- 
tion for the donor who will be 
paid while away from work for 
this good cause. 
B. JONES IN LIMELIGHT 
WITH ORCHID SOCIETY 
30b Jones has just completed 
his second year as President of 
the California Orchid Society. 
Under his tutelage, the member- 
ship has grown to 1200 which is 
some sort of record, we believe, 
as the membership is the second 
largest in the world. 
In a blaze of glory, the winter 
issue of the Gree Dicest pic- 
tures our Bob in grand style, pre- 
senting prizes to various mem- 
bers. It also shows Herb Hager 
as one of the judges at the an- 
nual meeting. (Maybe that is 
one of the reasons we took most 
of the first prizes! Don’t get 
angry, Herb; we know you 
couldn't judge your own ex- 
hibit.) Well done, Bob and Herb! 

NO NEW YEAR JOY IN 
FROZEN WATER LINES 
By Ed Moreland 
Could it be this cold in Cali- 
fornia? In any event, a common 
sight the morning of January 5 
was steaming cars, frozen and 
bursted water lines. The main- 
tenance crew and Red Carlson 
from “B” soon took care of the 
crucial situation. Even Mr. 
Weather Man can’t get us down 
but he surely gets us cold! 
With the Christmas parties, 
which were fun, and the flower 
rush over, we have settled down 
to routine work. Right now 
House A-2 is being rchaneem 
and several are looking forw ad 
to winter vacations. 

Being an orchid plant. sales- 
man brought added pleasure to 
Dan Ciernick when invited by 
Mr. Price, one of his San Fran- 
cisco customers, to accompany 
him on a trip to Los Angeles one 
weekend recently to visit the city 
and several orchid ranges. 
December was a quiet month 
when it came to birthday cakes, 
but we surely enjoyed the three- 
decker celebrating Jaime San- 
dovol’s anniversary. 

