News - Announcements (updated April 17 2013)
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Search the AIS website: (April 2013)
Are you looking for something on the AIS website? We now have a powerful new search mechanism to help you in your endeavors. There is a permanent link to it from the main AIS entry page and you may also go direct to it from here: AIS Search plus search info
Check it out and give it a try.
2013 AIS Photo Contest: (April 2013)
The AIS invites you to participate in our annual Photo Contest. Submissions for the 2013 AIS Photo Contest will be received from April 1, 2013 until midnight June 30, 2013. This contest is free and open to everyone, with the exception of contest judges and the contest chairperson who are not eligible to enter or win. The full entry information + entry form for the 2013 AIS Photo Contest is available now on the AIS website. For further information on this item please go to: Photos and Puzzles> Enter Photo Contest
2013 AIS Judges List: (March 2013)
The 2013 list of AIS Judges is now available on the AIS website. It is provided as a PDF file that can be downloaded/viewed or printed for your reference. For this item please go to: Member Services>Society Information>AIS Documents using the website navigation menu on the left.
AIS Storefront On-Line ordering: (March 2013)
The AIS storefront now has on-line ordering as an option.
The AIS Storefront Shopping Cart is now on line and operational.
To access this, please go to: www.aisstorefront.selfsites.com
All items are listed by product type, then by shipping destination; United States (US), Canada (Canada) and Overseas (Overseas). All prices/payments are in $US and include shipping and handling. By using the AIS Storefront Shopping Cart, customers can pay by check, money order, credit card (VISA or Mastercard only) or through PayPal. Customers will receive email confirmation of all orders.
AIS 2012 Convention: (February 2013) Registration update! The registration deadline for the 2013 AIS Convention in Dallas, Texas for Adult $299 and Youth $150 fees has been extended to March 1, 2013. For more information you may contact Bonnie Nichols, Convention Chair at e-mail: bjnhtn@aol.com or Dell Perry, Convention Registrar at e-mail: seandelirises@yahoo.com
January 2013 AIS Bulletin: (February 2013) The January 2013 issue of the AIS Bulletin is now available for online viewing within the Emembers section of our website. Note: to access this area you must have a current AIS Emembership. Please see the Electronic Membership information area of the website for more details.
Proposed 2013 AIS Awards Ballot (January 2013)
The proposed 2013 AIS Awards Ballot is now available. The purpose of posting the proposed AIS Awards Ballot online is to give people (AIS Judges and hybridizers) the chance to review the listing and provide input before the official AIS Awards Ballot is finalized and sent out for voting.
For this item and further information please go to:
About Irises>Awards & Surveys >AIS Awards
AIS
2012 Convention: (January 2013/October 2012) Everyone is now looking forward
to the next AIS Convention in Dallas, Texas. The
convention will take place April 15-20 2013 with
visits to official iris tour gardens in the surrounding area. As usual we
have the details conveniently provided here on the AIS website for
you to make your plans well ahead of time:
Click here for the info: AIS 2013 Convention information
New info for the Geek Dinner at the AIS 2013 Convention is now added. Register now for extra good times at the convention. Details available on our convention page.
AIS Bulletin Index: (December 2012) The AIS Bulletin Index has been recently updated to include up to AIS Bulletin issue 366 inclusive. To get a copy of this handy reference item please go to the following webpage: About the AIS Bulletin or use the sidebar navigation at any time.
AIS Donations: (December 2012) If you are thinking of making a donation to the AIS please visit the AIS Donations webpage for an easy explanation on how to proceed. Donations to AIS are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law as the AIS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Contributions to the AIS are made through the AIS Foundation and can be designated to a specific AIS fund of your choice. For full information please go to the following webpage: AIS Donations/The AIS Foundation or use the sidebar navigation at any time.
A $25.00 VOUCHER MAY BE YOURS! (December 2012) There is an AIS Voucher Program now available for any new member of AIS, any new E-Member, or for any current member who upgrades membership; that is, upgrades from a single membership to a triennial or to a dual, or an E-Member who upgrades to multiple years of E-Membership.
Please follow this link to read the full program details: AIS Voucher Program
For the listing of participating nurseries follow this link: AIS Voucher Program Nurseries List
AIS Non-discrimination Policy: (December 2012) The AIS Non-discrimination Policy is now posted on the AIS website. To view this please go to: AIS Documents area
ERRATA: October/November 2012 AIS Bulletin; Page 3: The information on Electronic Membership Rates is incorrect. There is only one type of AIS Electronic Membership. The single year eMembership rate is $15.00. We apologize for the error.
2012 Tall Bearded Iris Symposium
Ballot results: (November 2012)
The results of the Seventy-second Official Tall Bearded Iris Symposium of the American
Iris Society are now available on the AIS website. For this item and further information please go to: About Irises>Awards & Surveys > Tall
Bearded Iris Symposium
AIS 2013 Calendars now available to order: (October 2012) The 2013 calendars are now available to order through the AIS Storefront section of the website. Great item for gifts!
Please go to: Member Services>AIS Storefront
2012 AIS Photo Contest Results Posted: The 2012 AIS Photo Contest awardee photos have been posted in a slide show in the Gallery section of the Photos and Galleries page on the AIS website. To see the slide show, click here.
2012 AIS Awards announced: (August 2012)
The 2012 American Iris Society annual awards have now been announced. The full AIS awards listing maybe found at the AIS Awards area of the AIS website. The top AIS award, the Dykes Medal has been won by the TB iris FLORENTINE SILK hybridized by Keith Keppel of Oregon. Congratulations to all the award winners and to all those
hybridizers involved in producing awesome new iris varieties each year.
For more please go to: About Irises>Awards & Surveys >AIS Awards
Iris Registration Form to submit a photo of a registered iris: A form to accompany the submission of a digital photo of a registered iris is now available for download from the Iris Registrations section of the AIS website. The form may be filled out electronically, saved, and emailed along with a digital photo.
AIS Bulletin Archive. All the AIS Bulletins from the first one issued in 1920 thru 2009 have been scanned and converted to PDFs (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format) and placed in an on line library that is now accessible to AIS Emembers through the Emembers page on the AIS website. If you are an Emember, click here to access this new service. If you would like to become and Emember, click here.
AIS Image Coordinator: (June 2012) AIS President Judy Keisling has appointed Janet Smith as the AIS Image Coordinator. The Image Coordinator has the responsibility of creating a reference library of registered irises. Registrants are requested (but not required) to submit images after a registration has been completed and they have received the Registration Certificate for the iris. Instructions and a new "fillable" form are available on the AIS website with guidelines on the type of photograph and the desired quality for the image. Send the photos or any questions you may have to the Image Coordinator, Janet Smith at: aisimages@irises.org
News Archive
Siberian Iris Convention for 2012 *** event cancelled and rescheduled for 2013
Lansing 2013 - A Capital Idea /
Siberian (and species) Convention
new date: June 6-8 2013 location: Lansing, Michigan
***Note: (March 2012) important notice-unfortunately due to the warm early spring weather and the corresponding potential of very early bloom, the Siberian Iris Convention for 2012 has been cancelled and rescheduled for the 2013 dates shown.
For further information contact: Judy Hollingworth, Convention Chair
e-mail: cyberiris@att.net | phone: 517-930-4429
2011 AIS Exhibition Reports: (February 2012) These are now available on the AIS website. Please go to: Member Services > AIS Exhibition Reports
AIS Electronic Membership: (January 2012) The AIS announces a new membership service - electronic membership. Emembership is separate from the normal AIS membership. Emembers do not receive printed copies of the AIS Bulletins. Instead, they have access to online AIS Bulletins using an easy to use viewer. Emembers also have access to online viewing of The Basic Iris Culture booklet and access to irisregister.com, the online database of iris registrations and introductions. Additional services may be made available in the future. Please see the Electronic Membership information area of the website for more details.
New AIS Registrar announcement: (August 2011)
John Jones has been appointed AIS Registrar and as of July 2011 has taken over the responsibilities. Please send all registrations and correspondence to the new Registrar-Recorder John I. Jones. See the Iris Registrations section of the AIS website.
AIS RVP Handbook: (March 2011)
The newly revised AIS RVP Handbook is now available. This is an Adobe PDF file that can be downloaded/viewed/printed.
For this item please go to: Member Services>Society Information>AIS Documents
Bloomin' Bucks 2011 fundraising program: (January 2011)
The AIS is a registered non-profit organization with the Bloomin'
Bucks 2011 fundraising program by Brent and Becky's Bulbs!
This is how it works: It's simple...supporters of the registered
organization, the (AIS) American Iris Society, can go to www.bloominbucks.com and from a pull down menu of all of the
organizations registered, select
to support the AIS! One click takes you into the Brent and
Becky's Bulbs website where you can order whatever you want, in
whatever quantity you want...books, bulbs, tools, supplements, gift
certificates... anything...and a percentage of each order goes to
your organization! Every little bit helps and it all adds up to support
the AIS!
Please note: This is the only way to earn credit; go to the www.bloominbucks.com website,
then selecting to support your organization and
placing an on-line order ...so no phone orders, faxed orders, etc..
Iris Encyclopedia: (August 2010)
An exciting new American Iris Society(AIS) initiative is the Iris Encyclopedia which
is now available at the the following web location: Iris Encyclopedia
For more information on this very interesting and useful venture please go to this
special area of the
AIS website: What is the Iris Encyclopedia?
Check your AIS membership status: Need to know your membership expiration date? Need to lookup the expiration date for club members or your Region's members for AIS Affiliation? Easy and quick. Please go to: www.aislookup.org
The answers to many questions on iris and
the American Iris Society (AIS) are found within the AIS website. Please direct any iris questions you
may have to your local area AIS RVP or a local iris club. These people
will be pleased to help you. A full listing of these contacts for your
area is provided under the AIS Regions listing page on this website ...or follow the link in the sidebar.
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updates to:
John I. Jones, AIS Electronic Services and Website
e-mail: aiselectronicsvcs@irises.org
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