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Terry Laurin

Awarded Distinguished Service Award 2018

For the last thirty years Terry Laurin has run his own perennial garden business. He is also a certified ski instructor with the Canadian Ski Instructors' Alliance. Terry's love of iris started early. His late aunt, Verna Laurin, was an avid iris collector. He remembers as a child playing between the iris beds in her Toronto garden. Sixty years later he has over 600 different iris cultivars growing in his own garden located in Aurora, Ontario, Canada. His garden is a display garden for the Historic Iris Preservation Society, the Society for Siberian Iris and the Median Iris Society. Terry is current president of the Ontario Iris Society (ONIS) which, with the help of his aunt, was formed in 1962 as the Toronto Regional Iris Society. He is a past director and past vice-president of the Canadian Iris Society as well as a past director of the Dwarf Iris Society. He currently occupies his time as Photo Manager for the American Iris Society Iris Encyclopedia or WIKI. Terry is also an accredited American Iris Society Garden/Exhibition judge.

It was at the 2012 AIS National Convention in Ontario, California that Terry approached Bob Pries with a proposal. He suggested that he contact owners of various iris websites with the goal of asking them for permission to upload pictures from their websites to the wiki. Website owners were eager to help with this venture. When the word got out that Terry was doing this project he found himself receiving slides, CDs, thumb-drives and emails with JPEGs from people around the world. As a result has uploaded more that 320,000 pictures to the wiki over the last six years. Terry would like to thank all the people who contribute to this ongoing project as their contributions have greatly enhanced the AIS wiki and made it a better resource for all iris lovers. Congratulations to Terry for his dedication and devotion as Photo Manager for the AIS Encyclopedia! (taken from IRISES, The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, Winter 2019, Volume 100, No. 1)

-- Main.RPries - 2012-05-18
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