June 2026 Meeting

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Hello OSWP Members and Friends,

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Below is the information regarding our upcoming meeting on Sunday, June 14th, at Spartan Event Center: 134 E. Elizabeth Street, 15207. (Off Second Avenue in Hazelwood)

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Parking: Lot on the lower side of building, on the street, and the nearby overflow lot across the street.

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12:30 PM Spartan Center opens

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12:45 PM

Members can sell their orchids at the two tables on the left side of the room toward the back.

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PLEASE NOTE: Our agreement with the Spartan Center requires us to cover the tables. Please wait until the tables get covered before putting anything on them.

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1 PM Mini-Class in upstairs classroom

Topic: Neofinetia Orchid Workshop (Registration Required to Participate or Observe)

Speaker: ​​Everett Chronowski

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2 PM OSWP Business Meeting, Show and Tell, Raffle

There will be lots of information about the OSWP to be discussed, see our members' beautiful orchids in bloom and learn about them and buy a ticket and win something from our raffle table.

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2:45 PM

Break

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3 PM Speaker

Topic: Orchids of Peru

Speaker: Leon Glicenstein, Ph.D.​​

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Dr. Leon Glicenstein will provide an in-depth slide show presentation focusing on orchids in the wild of Peru inclusive of other relevant plants, animals and scenery. The comprehensive nature of the discussion will be bolstered by Dr Glicenstein’s personal experience serving as an orchid tour guide in southern Peru. It will provide insights into how orchids of this region grow in their habitat and will feature highlights of a Machu Pichu trip.

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Biography

Leon Glicenstein Ph.D. began growing orchids in 1954, and became assistant to the curator of orchids at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, from 1957 to 1960. He has advanced degrees in Chemistry and Horticulture, with an emphasis on plant breeding, cytology, and cytogenetics. Working as a plant breeder for five years in Costa Rica, he photographed, in the wild, approximately 80% of the then-known orchid species of Costa Rica in addition to finding new species. He has photographed many of the orchids in the Northeastern United States, Florida, and all of the orchids in California, where he located some taxa not formerly known to exist there. As a respected lecturer, he has given numerous conservation-oriented programs both nationally and internationally, showing orchids growing in their native habitats. He has published numerous articles in the American Orchid Society magazine [including a 10 part series on Jewel and Painted-leaf Orchids with a supplement] and some in the Orchid Digest.

 

Leon joined Hoosier Orchid Company in September 1998 as a breeder / grower and has created numerous novel combinations not before known, while extending knowledge of generic relationships within the orchid family. Following this he has been consulting with other orchid companies on growing orchids from seed.
 

A strong conservationist, Leon was a past chairperson of the American Orchid Societies Conservation Committee, and had been a member of this committee for decades. He represented the AOS at the international conservation meeting in Costa Rica in 2007. In 2013 Leon was elected to the position of "Fellow of the American Orchid Society" for “outstanding contributions to conservation, hybridizing, and the educational advancement of the Orchidaceae" [AOS's words], an honor given to only nine other people since the inception of the American Orchid Society.

 

4 PM Meeting Over and Clean-up

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4:30 PM Spartan Center closes

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We hope to see you there to hear great growing information and learn more about orchid plants and orchid people.  

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Happy Growing and Think Orchids,
Gary and Demetria