SRGC Anniversary Offer : free membership for students

[Maggi Young]

THE SCOTTISH ROCK GARDEN CLUB
75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS BEGIN FOR STUDENTS
As part of  its 75th Anniversary celebrations, the Scottish Rock Garden Club has announced that it is offering 75 free student memberships for 2008.
Founded in 1933, the Scottish Rock Garden Club is 75 in  2008, and is the biggest horticultural society in Scotland, with over 4000 members across the world.  Many of its members are former students of botany and horticulture, and the Club has decided to offer 75 free student memberships for this year, to help to foster an interest in rock gardening and alpine plants among the current crop of UK students.
To apply for free student membership, students may simply download a form from SRGC website and send it off. (This form is also shown here  but will also be available on the main site soon.)
SRGC President, Ian Christie, said “For many of our members, the interest in alpines and rock gardening was sparked in their student days.  By offering these free student memberships we hope to increase an interest in rock gardening in the next generation of gardeners, nurserymen and horticulturalists.
For further information, contact Julia Corden, SRGC,
2 Lettoch Place, Pitlochry, Perth PH16 5BB        or email via info@srgc.org.uk
 

[Maggi Young]

To apply for a free student membership, please print out this message ( by copy and pasting this message to,for instance a notebook page,  otherwise you will print out the whole topic page!) and post off as per form details:

THE SCOTTISH ROCK GARDEN CLUB
FREE STUDENT MEMBERSHIPS
As part of the 75th Anniversary celebrations of the Scottish Rock Garden Club in 2008, the club has decided to offer 75 free student memberships, effective for one year in 2008.  They will be open to any student, resident in the UK, who is not already a member of the Club.  Student members will receive all the normal entitlements of membership; two issues of the Rock Garden per year, access to the Club’s seed exchange, to local meetings, shows and events.   As well as here,   www.srgc.org.uk  and in Forum : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1437.new#new
 
To take up this offer of free membership simply print, copy and fill in the form below and send it by post, with a photocopy of your 2007-08 matriculation or student card, to Julia, address below.
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SRGC FREE Student Membership Application Form
To: Julia Corden (SRGC75), 2 Lettoch Place, Pitlochry, Perth PH16 5BB

Yes please, I would like a free student membership of SRGC

Mr /Mrs / Ms /Miss (please circle the appropriate title)
Surname

First Name:

Address :(to which you want us to send SRGC mailings)

Postcode:

University or College:
Course:
Tutor (name and e-mail please):   


I have attached a photocopy of my matriculation or student card for 2007-08
 
Signature:



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[Maggi Young]

Just a note to say that on page 8 of the journal "The Rock Garden" No. 120, the contact for the Student Membership offer is given as Ian Bainbridge... this is incorrect, all applications to Julia at address above.
By the way, this is NOT one of the mistakes, deliberate or otherwise, which is part of Anton's Error Quiz for the champagne prize !!

[Kristl Walek]

Maggi,
My darling gardening daughter (and student) was quite thrilled to hear about this---but is feeling very disappointed because:

She is only starting university this fall (so will not have her student card until then)---I am fairly certain that all the spots will be taken by that time???

[Maggi Young]

Good point, Kristl, after all your daughter will be a student during our Anniversary year..... I'll put the matter to the powers that be....

[Maggi Young]

 While the Free Student Membership scheme is primarily aimed at current year's UK Students, I am told that all applications will be welcome and memberships may be awarded on consideration of individual circumstances. 

[David Nicholson]

Does doing Italian at evening class count?

[Maggi Young]

Nice try, Mr Nicholson but somewhere there is an "under 25 years old" clause!!

[Cephalotus]

I must try this. Of course if I can. I am a foreign student. I thought about becoming a full member, but truly saying, I didn't feel any need to. Maybe this one year will change that. Maybe after that free year I will stay longer.

[Maggi Young]

We hope that you will decide exactly that after the year, Krzysztof !  But it will be good for you to have the benefit even if for only one year.

[Cephalotus]

I am sure of that Maggie. Many thanks for informing me. (I hope that this year I will have what to share with you, both photos and seeds.)

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 I thought about becoming a full member, but truly saying, I didn't feel any need to.

Kryztof, shame on you....
"I didn't feel any need to" ... how dare you 

I could think of a million good reasons to become a member - but it would take us too far if I started naming them ...

[Cephalotus]

Gilgemyn, you can count million good reasons, because you are a member. It is also very possible, that after one year of membership I will think the same. Let us hope so.

I only wanted to notice, that my mother informed me, that I have already got something from you. I cannot wait to get it in my hands and start reading. I was told, that it is a book. Wow, that was a real surprise.

[Susan Band]

Yes, Krystof. 2 good books a year, thats why most people who don't live in Scotland join. Us living here join for all the friends and good times we have at various events. Mind you a lot of overseas members come to the Autumn discussion weekend meeting and have a great time. See how many forum members you can spot in the book!

[Paddy Tobin]

Maggi,

I'm still at school so do I qualify?

Paddy (23 on next birthday)