Hello everyone, I had hoped to be there on Saturday, but alas will not make it again this year. I am forwarding the letter below in case anyone is interested in submitting articles on the genus or related topics to the American Rhododendron Society Journal. There are are plenty of native species in the Northeast that would be of interest. Anne ------ Forwarded Message From: "Sally Perkins" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:01:41 -0400 To: "'Susan Clark'" <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]> Cc: "Peter F. George" <[log in to unmask]>, "Anne Perry" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: FW: Assistance Please Dear ARS newsletter editors and contacts who answer email: a plea from the new JARS editor: As I'm sure all of you know, I am the new Editor of JARS, and while Sonja has been very helpful in providing me with as many as yet unpublished submissions as she could, the reality is that in this transition period at least, 1) I do not yet have all the wonderful contacts she had developed over the years, and 2) I very much need more submissions for future issues of JARS ASAP. I have been searching the newsletters of about the 1/3 of ARS societies that send them to me, and other magazines available to me for the potential republishing of some of their articles, but in the short term at least, I need many more submissions. Each issue takes about 9-12 articles, depending on their lengths, and for each issue, I need a good mixture of technical and non-technical papers on different topics, especially if the Board wants more content focused on "gardening issues". Sonja is helping me to the extent she can, but as Editor, it is my responsibility to resolve this "shortfall" situation as best I can. A big difference between JARS and many other garden-oriented journals is that all JARS contributions are voluntary and not paid for, which means content is both mostly dependent on submissions provided by ARS members and that they do not always come at the most appropriate or desirable times. JARS is a relatively high-quality, large journal compared to the periodic issues produced by many other genus (.g. cyclamen) or family (e.g. orchid) focused societies, and to keep it relevant, interesting and comprehensive is challenging. I am therefore asking each of you as knowledgeable people in each of your geographical areas to either contact people you know who might be interested in contributing articles and ask them to please submit contributions to me as soon as possible, or suggest their names (with email addresses) and areas of interest to me and I will contact them. I know that this request is unusual, but I believe circumstances demand it at this time. I hope to ultimately be routinely working on the content of issues one or two issues ahead of the one currently being completed, as reviewing and revising issues takes time. Right now, I'm just focusing on the current issue, and I don't even have sufficient contributions to fill it. I will work on this challenge at the Everett convention, but that will be too late to get content for the this year's summer issue, which has to be finalised by early June. Any other suggestions or advice as to how to ensure an acceptable number of appropriate submissions will be submitted would be greatly appreciated, as I'm still on a steep learning curve as to who are the most relevant and productive writers with respect to JARS. Thanks to all of you in advance for your help in resolving this major, but hopefully somewhat temporary, problem. Sincerely, Glen Jamieson, Editor ------ End of Forwarded Message