President’s Welcome

PO Box 2755, Salem, Oregon 97308-2755 Fall 2018 Volume 13, Issue 2

At this time of reflection and looking forward, it is stunning to realize that it was just 3.5 years ago that the Lord & Schryver

Conservancy acquired Gaiety Hollow. Since then, notable progress has been made on many fronts, both on site and in community out-reach. This year, the garden at Gaiety Hollow has reached a new level of restoration including redoing most of the brick work, expanding the flower garden display, and painting the exterior of the house. Likewise, the historic gardens at Deepwood have made significant advances. The

Archive Committee continues its important work of adding to the collection and assisting with the book research. A variety of programs provided educational opportunities for the communi-ty: hands-on workshops, focused conversations, and many garden tours and open gardens. How does this happen? In short, it is the extraordinary dedication and passion of our volunteers. Thank you one and all. But certainly the most signifi-cant milestone is the addition of Pam Wasson to our team as the

first full-time Executive Director. Her contribution already validates the adage that “good things are worth the wait.” You know her quali-fications from the August announcement. Her energy, enthusiasm, vision and let’s-get-it-done attitude portend the opportunity and ability to bring the L&S Conservancy to its next level of professionalism and realization of its mission. Welcome Pam!As we turn the calendar, there are many inspiring and challenging projects on the horizon. Of major significance is the resumption of the Gilbert House garden tours by the L&S Conservancy in June, 2019. Thanks to the generosity of Jay Raney who offered to coordinate this ef-fort, we are actively planning for what will become our signature event. Pam is scheduling a wide array of programs for 2019 to engage the public, all within the framework of the L&S legacy. Overarching all this activity is the ongoing priority of strengthening our sustainability.We are grateful for the continued support which you and so many oth-ers have extended in so many ways. It is truly a blessing. We consider it a privilege and responsibility to steward the L&S legacy for the com-munity, both now and in the future. We invite you to join us in this endeavor as you consider your philanthropic decisions. May the joy of the holiday season warm your heart and hearth.

A Message from Executive Director I have just completed my third month with L&S Conservancy and am impressed with all I see. The Board, volunteers and local community are clearly behind this organization and want it to succeed. Currently, I am focusing on program development and community outreach. Both are required to take the organization to the next level and to ensure its long-term sustainability. Until now, our primary focus has been on restor-ing Gaiety Hollow to its original state. This undertaking required a large investment in time, energy and money and, thanks to your support, is nearing completion. Although tempting, it is not time to sit back and rest on our laurels. Instead, we must throw open the doors and invite our neighbors and friends to share this wonderful cultural asset.Even though Lord and Schryver are no longer here, their unique legacy in the areas of women entrepreneurship, garden design and civic beautification remain relevant today.  I see an opportunity to connect with the community as they would have – by encouraging cultural and artistic endeavors, embracing the richness of multiple perspectives and appreciating the beauty of a garden.I welcome your ideas and suggestions as we enter this exciting new chapter!

Board MembersBobbie ClydeBobbie Dolp

Liz Frances-Powers

Lola HackettMarilyn Kingery

Susan Napack

Jay RaneyRoss Sutherland

Mary Anne Spradlin

Executive DirectorPam Wasson

pam@lordschryver.org | 971-600-6987

Programs on the HorizonWe are scheduling a variety of lectures and workshops in 2019 to be held at Gaiety Hollow and other local venues. Below is a sneak peek of what’s coming your way.

• April (TBD): Rooted in Place: TheEvolution of Garden Design in thePacific Northwest with Lucy Hardiman

• May 5: Embellish a throwback clochelike Elizabeth and Edith wore withCamilla Haneberg

• May 18-19: Botanical Illustrationworkshop with Jeanne Debons

• June 23: Pressed flowers greeting cardswith Camilla Haneberg

• September 14 -15: Poetry WritingWorkshop with Eleanor Berry

• October 5-6: Sketching in the Gardenwith Janet Parker

• November (TBD): Glass Slides of HistoricGardens with Suzanne Bishop and MattCowen

A GLORIOUS GARDEN SEASON

AT GAIETY HOLLOW WITH MORE TO COMEFor those of you who were fortunate enough to visit the garden at Gaiety Hollow this season, memories of a bountiful display in the flower garden set within the stunning, restored brick paths can provide inspiration through the winter days ahead. And now the care which Lord & Schryver gave to all seasons is coming into play; the winter-blooming sasanqua camellias are bringing color and fragrance to the garden. All the brickwork has been treated to eliminate the slippery fac-tor – safety is our primary responsibility. We are currently working on ways to create better drainage in the west allée.You may also have noticed the driveway gate which now grac-es the front. Completing Lord & Schyver’s sense of enclosure and based on their design, KC Meaders and Chet Zenone engineered and crafted this amazing, complicated structure.

Thanks to the enthusiasm and dedication of our docents, we welcomed more visitors to the garden this season, including Deepwood. Major projects on the horizon include restoration and up-grade of the reserve area. While less glamorous, this section is vital for all the behind-the-scenes tasks for the visible garden; the venerable shed, storage bins for compost, cold-frame and a continuous, flat surface throughout. Sections of the periph-eral fences always need replacing and repair. Germination of perennials and annuals for next season is underway and hope-fully, when you read this, the bulbs will be in the ground. In a NW garden, there is no such thing as “down time.” Do thank our hardworking volunteer gardeners for their year-round effort.

Lord & Schryver Conservancy Neighborhood Garden ToursIt is with great excitement that the L&S Conservancy will continue the very popular June garden tour previously sponsored by the Gilbert House Children’s Museum for over 20 years. We have selected the charming Englewood neighborhood for our first annual signature event in 2019. Many gardeners in the area have enthusiastically offered to share their creations which include a wide variety of style, intent and plant material. This walking tour will offer joy and inspiration whether you are an avid or vicarious gardener, live in the country, apartment or city house. We are most grateful to Alicia Bay, Executive Director of Gilbert House, for her generosity of time and encouragement. Their years of experience in running this complex event will ease our path enormously.So mark your calendars: June 1 and 2 (Saturday and Sunday) from 10 am - 4 pm. Information and updates will be coming your way as spring arrives. Thanks, in advance, to all the many volunteers who are/will be involved. And, of course, a special thanks to our Englewood hosts!

Contact InformationWebsite: www.lordschryver.orgEmail: info@lordschryver.org

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Archive The Archive Committee carries on its valuable work of docu-menting the lives and careers of Lord & Schryver. This rich re-source of images, oral histories, drawings, journals, L&S garden identification is a unique supplement to their professional papers held in the Special Collection at the Knight Library. Committee members spend many hours organizing and enriching this col-lection while experiencing the joy of discovering new bits and pieces of the story. They continue to be a priceless support for Val Libby’s research on the book.

The House at Gaiety Hollow Shines!Thanks to a grant from the Kinsman Foundation and a gift from a generous donor we were able to have the exterior of the house at Gaiety Hollow painted this summer.  The house remains its original white, the better to showcase the shadows of the trees on the south and west side of the house as Elizabeth and Edith planned when they designed and built the house in 1932.  The work was done by Gordy Hagglund’s  crew at H&B Painting.  We are most grateful for their great care of the historic plants very near the house.  We love the fresh, clean look.The bi-fold garage doors, which usually go unnoticed, underwent a complex restoration thanks to the efforts of KC Meaders and Chet Zenone. We continue with the routine maintenance that a house of this age requires as well as updates to make the house even more comfortable for all who use it. We had several small group and corporate rentals over the summer as well as classes and events of our own.  Please contact us if you are thinking of renting Gaiety Hollow in 2019 as the calendar is starting to fill.  We remain the perfect venue for your small group class, meeting or event.  Please see the website for details and application.

L&S Deepwood GardenersThe historic gardens at Deepwood are the only Lord & Schryver gardens available to the public free of charge from dawn to dusk every day of the year. They are cared for by the Lord & Schryver Deepwood Gardeners who work to rehabilitate and maintain them according to the intent of Lord & Schryver.One of our more pleasing achievements over the last several years was the shepherding of a slip of hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata ‘Plena’) to the point of bloom, two years running. This lovely tree in the Tea House Garden could be seen from 12th Street as a pale pink cloud over the fence. The original tree was lost in a storm. Research determined that this variety was not available for purchase in the U.S. It is available in the U.K., but couldn’t be imported. Suckers from the original tree had appeared, but no one knew if the tree had been grafted, so it was with cheers and applause, a single sucker carefully nurtured and pruned by volunteer Woody Dukes, bloomed pale pink, true to the original planting.In the coming months the Gardeners will be working with both the city and the Friends of Deepwood to accomplish some much needed hardscape and structural reconstruction which has been delayed due to the departure of key city staff.

Horticulture Book ClubInterested in staying connected with fellow passionate gardeners during the off season? Why not join our Horticulture Book Club?  We meet on the second Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 7pm at Gaiety Hollow. For December: Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, by Marta McDowellFor more information, please contact Ruth Roberts: rroberts@wvi.com or 503-581-0774.

Committees at Work

The following account was recorded by Elizabeth Lord in her garden journal, pages 61-64. Interesting to note her hearing loss during the big storm, and her angst over the expense and condition

of the Old Oak. Thankfully, she did not live to see the 2014 removal of that tree.

October 10th, 1967On Friday the 29th, Calendar Day a steady downpour began in the morning and this kept up until Oct 1, on Sunday. Monday the 2nd, a calm day without much rain, but late after-noon was reported a blow would occur by 6 pm. Sure enough, we hardly finished our simple repast when the wind swept up a terrific gale and all lights blinked out. Candles were not sufficient light so we went to bed “to think & listen;” not I, as I could not hear the 75 miles storm and could only see the bat like shadows on the curtains of the West window made by swaying branches of the big Oak in front and very near to my bedroom. Sometime in the night 2 big limbs crashed down, one, the farthest extend out on the lawn area was attached to the main branch of the tree and never dislodged itself until sawed off by the tree man. A hazardous undertaking. The other fell down on the lawn area near the pink dogwood and Magnolia. They were big, thick crooked branches, very heavy, sawed up and given away as we could not use so much wood. Never has the garden had more litter – small, stem branches, green leaves, and the burst leaves (from the heat exposure all sum-mer long.)I’ve been worried about this tree ever since Aphis have attacked it at the first signs of spring. Don Rasmussen decided it must be sprayed, but how can a 150 foot tree, outspread-ing branches 200 feet, spraying touch all the vermin. It is an expensive task, too (my spraying this 125 x 130 ft of garden reaches in the sum of $350.00 a year. A big burden for me.) This year the en-tire top branch has turned brown & the leaves are all eaten to a lace-like texture. Can it possibly have the Oak disease that is prevalent in the Willamette Valley. There is nothing I can do! The spreading disease will eventually kill the tree and the thought of disposing of it by cutting down is a task I can not even imagine. A tree of my life and lives of generations – it must be as old as America – 1776 – an acorn at that date.

GARDEN MANAGER/CURATOR POSITIONEffective August 1, Lindsey Kerr resigned from her full-time position as garden manager/curator for the L&S

Conservancy to move back east to be closer to family and friends. She brought her horticultural and curatorial ex-pertise to the enhancement of the gardens at Gaiety Hollow and Deepwood. We all learned a lot from Lindsey; the

skills associated with fine gardening and the demands of what it means to have a public garden. We wish her well as she pursues her career.

A search is underway to fill this position. The job description is posted on many sites (see our website) and we will continue until the position is filled with just the right person. Please contact Pam (pam@lordschryver.org) if you know of any qualified candidates. In the meantime, the volunteer gardeners and Garden Committee are moving

forward with great skill and enthusiasm to carry on with the seasonal demands of the gardens.

OUR BOARD CONTINUES TO EVOLVE

It is with great joy that our board welcomes Bobbie Clyde to participate in the governance of the L&S Conservancy. Bobbie brings a strong business experience and previous par-ticipation on other non-profit boards. She worked at Chemeketa Community College for 22 years, beginning as a teacher and ending as Director of the Small Business Development Center.  Bobbie has two married daughters and two grandchildren.  In addition to cherishing

her own garden, Bobbie enjoys play-ing tennis and the ukulele. She

began her association with us in 2016 as a volunteer gar-

dener at Gaiety Hollow and is honored to be a

member of the board.

We are so sorry that Bill Fink has found it necessary to resign from the board due to family commitments. He has brought valuable

experience in Human Resources to our table as we have moved into

hiring professionals. We will also miss his

good sense and positive attitude. Thank you Bill!

CAREFUL FINANCIAL PLANNING

CAN BENEFIT EVERYONEAs a service to all community minded citizens, we offer these considerations provided by Barry Nelson of Capital Financial Planners regarding some ways to maximize one’s philanthropic giving.

The Lord & Schryver Conservancy has been blessed by many generous donors who have given during their lifetime to sustain this vital part of our cultural his-tory. A way you might help keep the culture alive for future generations is to name the Lord & Schryver Conservancy (LSC) in the Beneficiary Designations on your retirement accounts, IRAs, or annuities. These can be very efficient assets to leave to non-profit orga-nizations, as children, nieces, and nephews are likely to inherit a tax liability along with these accounts. By naming LSC as a beneficiary of these accounts, 100% of the funds are able to be put to use by LSC. One can designate multiple beneficiaries for a given asset. What better way to communicate your values than leaving this type of legacy!

In addition to the above, you may also name LCS as a recipient of a portion of your taxable investment accounts or other worldly belongings in your other estate planning documents, such as your Trust or Will.

These are just a few ideas for your consideration for continuing to support the cultural activities of the Lord & Schryver Conservancy for future generations.

Contact your attorney for proper documentation of your interests and intent. Also, contact Pam Wasson at pam@lordschryver.org or, 971-600-6987, for more information about how you can support this cultural treasure. Thank you!

With Much Appreciation

Margaret BagleyAlicia Bay

Tom W CookChris D’arcyBonnie HullKC Meaders

Tom McMullenBarry Nelson

Russell SchutteChet Zenone

Kinsman FoundationMurdock Charitable Trust

Oregon Humanities

Autumn LeafCapital Financial Planners

CBTwo architectsGarrett Hemann Robertson PC Lefor, Rapp and Holland, LLC Salem Blueprint and Printing

And all our loyal, regular volunteers who support us

in untold ways.

MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY!

The Lord & Schryver Conservancy is one of Salem’s cultural treasures. We need your support to keep it thriving. Here are some ways you can help:

VolunteerConsider helping in the gardens at Gaiety Hollow and Deepwood– all skill levels are welcome. If gardening is not your thing, we also welcome help with program development, event planning, community outreach and woodworking.

Bring your Business, Club or Friends to Gaiety HollowFor a nominal fee, you can rent our facility for corporate and club meetings, retreats and private events. We offer a fully-equipped kitchen allowing you to affordably “self-cater,” a conference area with presentation screen, wi-fi, work tables and seating (for 30), break-out rooms and garden access.

DonateIt takes funding to keep the lights on, water the garden and address the basic needs of running a nonprofit. We are grateful for your financial support. You can contribute by check to the L&S Conservancy or online at www. lordschryver.org. Consider making your donation effortless by enrolling in the Circle of Friends, our monthly giving program. Questions? Please contact Pam Wasson at pam@lordschryver.org

Thank you for supporting the L&S Conservancy.

A word about the Lord & Schryver logo: As you may noticed, our original Lord & Schryver logo and tagline have gotten a face lift. We have maintained the iconic camellia graphic (hand-drawn by Bonnie Hull) and updated the letterforms to reflect elements of the elegant architectural calligraphy to be found in Edith and Elizabeth’s drawings. Here is a little bit about the fonts:

FORUM Titling (Lord & Schryver) is based on the Frederick Goudy design first shown in 1912 then produced as foundry face in 1924. The principles of classical architecture can be seen in combination of its direct and rounded lines – vertical climbing pilasters, semi-circular arch, a horizontal cornices. (MyFonts)

CHARTER (conservancy) is based on the characters of Pierre-Simon Fournier, a French 18th century punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician who invented the “point system”, standardized measurement system for font sizes. (Wikipedia)

MARCEL Script (Let The Garden Embrace You) is based on the handwriting of Marcel Heuzé, a Frenchman conscripted to work in a German labor camp during World War II, sourced from a cache of letters written home to his family. (MyFonts)