New Member Show 2014 New WSO Members approved at the 2014 Fall Convention

New Members of 2014

by Diane O. Pinney

I always come away from the Spring Convention and the Orientation for our new WSO Members with such a sense of pride, excitement, and pleasure. It is a privilege to help bring these artists into this professional organization. They cannot help but be inspired by the energy and excitement of our Members and Board Members, the quality and variety of the workshops, and the opportunities available to them for education and service. In fact, two of them volunteered for key jobs at WSO before the Convention ended on Sunday!

Of the 43 New Members in the Class of 2014, 21 were registered for the Spring Convention. Five of these New Members were juried into the 2015 Spring Experimental Exhibit by Juror Gale Webb: Jack Allen, Linda Burgel, Vernon Groff, Jean Wendling, and Rose West; and both Jack and Vernon received Awards of Distinction. How special is that!

The New Members were identified by bright red/orange ribbons tied to their badges. The New Member Orientation on Friday, April 4 was well attended, and six of the Board Members made presentations on some aspect of WSO. It is always a learning experience even for the old timers.

The New Member Gallery on the WSO Website has been updated for this new class. This same New Member slide show of images ran during the New Member Orientation. As you can see, our New Members are very accomplished watercolor artists. New applications for the class of 2015 are already coming in so our Society continues to be enriched by fine watercolor artists.

We always invite WSO Members to step up and serve as mentors or buddies for the New Members who might need some help in submitting paintings, registering for conventions, getting involved in a critique group, understanding some of our policies, etc. If you are interesting in helping out in this way, please let me know, and I will assign you to someone who might need some guidance getting integrated to the Society.

Diane O. Pinney

New Member Chair

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Jack Allen	Tigard	“Newport Bay”
Ase Blake	Salem	“Venetian Waterway”
Allison Bollman	Portland	“Duncan a la Carte”
Linda Burgel	Bend	“A Dandy Life”
Patricia Canby	Damacus	“Doors”
Katherine Christensen	Portland	“Red Bird of Paradise”
Elvina May Christopherson	Scappoose	“Sunflower”
Lane Clem	Beaverton	“1950 Ford Black”
Susan DeRosa	Jacksonville	“South Umpqua River, Scottsburg”
Pat Farr	Wilsonville	“Beach Morning”
Cynthia Ferguson	Roseburg	“Could Be Nasturtiums”
Diane Field	Portland	“Stones with Cacti”
Rita Frank	The Dalles	“In the Garden”
Marlene Gerlt	Roseburg	“Spring”
Vernon Groff	Sandy	“Alpaca Blue”
Susan Hinton	Portland	“Prophetic”
John Holdway, Jr.	Eugene	“Birdhouse”
Carol Hubbard	Damascus	“Good Morning”
Lorry Jackson	Gresham	“Persimmons”
Kaylene Kirchem	Portland	“Filling the Red Cup”
Karen Lawson	Roseburg	“Colors of Fall”
Laura Leiman	Portland	“Mountain D”
Denise Marshall	Eagle Point	“Apples on the Portch”
Paul Mathenia	Redmond	“High Desert Sole”
Sandy McCormack	Eugene	“Flowers in Blue Glass”
Javier Montoya	King City	“Santa Barbara Courthouse”
Marcia Morrow	Gresham	“Snow Shine”
Cathy Nicholson	Ashland	“Sunflowers”
Beth Paul	Paul	“Multnomah Falls”
Beth Frolander Peterman	Corvallis	“Burch Farm Vista”
Eve Prior	Portland	“Klaloch Sitkas”
Joan Ririe	Grants Pass	“View from Pelicans Perch”
Kathy Sandell	West Linn	“I Like This Kitchen”
Ward Jene Stroud	Portland	“Old Rusty”
Carol Tocher	Canby	“Baker”
Zsuzsanna Vamos	Hillsboro	“Snowy Street”
Sara Viviamore	Jefferson	“New Orleans Airport”
Nancy Waugaman	Roseburg	“Turtle”
Ann Wecks	Corbett	“Tibetan Lady”
Jean Wendling	Florence	“Dockside”
Rose West	Portland	“Gorge Showing Off”
Sharon Wise	Murphy	“Classic Ladies”
Linda Zirkle	Damacus	“Majestic Mountain”