K -- If I want fries, I'll slice a potato. From AOS, what I think would be
appropriate would be the instruction sheet we've been discussing. If it's
not your job, please just let me know who I should be talking to. I thought
you were on board, when you were so shocked that instruction sheets for RHS
registration were not being given out at all judging centers. But the
(currently entirely hypothetical, in my area) instruction sheet shouldn't
stop with how to register a new grex with RHS, that's just the start of the
process. It should also include the _next_ step(s), after RHS registration,
for getting a provisional award registered by AOS. Something really simple,
like:

"When you receive the RHS registration for your provisionally-awarded
orchid, please send a copy to [NAME] at [ADDRESS]. [NAME] will process your
award and send the paperwork on to [OTHER NAME, currently Pam Guist, at
OTHER ADDRESS], who will send you an invoice for the award fee ($60 non-AOS
member, $40 AOS member] and make arrangements to send you your award
certificate and slide after your invoice is paid. If you have not received
your invoice within [#] days, please contact [NAME] at [PHONE # OR EMAIL] to
confirm that your RHS registration was received and that no further
information is required."

Obviously, the [NAME], [ADDRESS], [PHONE # OR EMAIL], and maybe even the [#]
will vary by judging center, and so will need to be filled in locally. If
it would make things easier for the local [NAMES], the package could include
a form cover letter for the exhibitor to use when sending the RHS
registration to [NAME], with blanks for identifying the
provisionally-awarded plant, date of provisional award, etc., but that I
leave to those of you on the inside track of this process.

This is something that should end up benefitting AOS as well as exhibitors.
Cash flow would be expedited, the award wouldn't get so stale that the
exhibitor would lose interest before it even gets registered (and therefore
balk at paying) ...

Kenni



"K Barrett" wrote in message
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So what do you want from me, Kenni??

I don't make the fries.

K Barrett

I forwarded part of this thread to a knowledgable person and the answer I
got is that the paperwork on these provisional awards needs to be dealt with
by the judging center that gave the award. If you give any information to
Pam Guist the only thing she can do is send it back to the center that gave
the award. The center that gave you the provisional award should have given
you their contact info to finish off the process.
-danny

I just looked at the paperwork for the CHM that I still need to get
processed some day, and the form letter that I was sent states that the
paperwork needs to be given to the chair of the judging center. I've never
gotten an award on a hybrid so I don't know what paperwork they send along
with those. The contact info for the judging center chair doesn't appear on
the paperwork I have (there may have had a name and address on the envelope,
but I threw that away.) Of course I know the judging center chair so that
isn't a problem for me.
-danny

"danny" wrote in message
...
I forwarded part of this thread to a knowledgable person and the answer I
got is that the paperwork on these provisional awards needs to be dealt
with by the judging center that gave the award. If you give any
information to Pam Guist the only thing she can do is send it back to the
center that gave the award. The center that gave you the provisional award
should have given you their contact info to finish off the process.
-danny

Danny: All I got back, either time, was the top sheet of the triplicate
form you put on the plant when you enter it, with the sticker on it.
Someone from the judging center did, each time, ask me for a clonal name.
Kenni

"danny" wrote in message
...
I just looked at the paperwork for the CHM that I still need to get
processed some day, and the form letter that I was sent states that the
paperwork needs to be given to the chair of the judging center. I've never
gotten an award on a hybrid so I don't know what paperwork they send along
with those. The contact info for the judging center chair doesn't appear
on the paperwork I have (there may have had a name and address on the
envelope, but I threw that away.) Of course I know the judging center
chair so that isn't a problem for me.
-danny

"danny" wrote in message
...
I forwarded part of this thread to a knowledgable person and the answer I
got is that the paperwork on these provisional awards needs to be dealt
with by the judging center that gave the award. If you give any
information to Pam Guist the only thing she can do is send it back to the
center that gave the award. The center that gave you the provisional
award should have given you their contact info to finish off the process.
-danny