Text Box: the Evil Weevil Fund, funding for local parks, improvements to the Guild’s meeting & library facilities as well as secure the financial future of the club. Tom became an accredited BSI Bromeliad Judge in l982 and is now a Master Judge. He served on the BSI Board of Directors for 14 years serving as Director, Secretary, and 6 years as Vice President and 6 years as President. Tom is the only BSI President that has served two consecutive terms. Under Tom’s leadership, the Board operated effectively and efficiently to serve its members. Tom is presently Chair of the World Headquarters Committee which is an effort to try and establish a permanent home for the Bromeliad Society International at The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. The garden would make a perfect home for the BSI since The Mulford Foster Bromeliad Identification Center is already located there and the BSI Archive files are housed there. Tom has designed and installed many residential and commercial landscapes featuring bromeliads. He is in demand as a speaker throughout Florida and the United States presenting programs on bromeliads to Garden Clubs, Bromeliad Clubs, and the University of South Florida Botanical Gardens. Tom has worked tirelessly through the years, providing leadership when needed, and promoting bromeliads on the local, state, national and international levels. He is presently serving as the President of the Tampa Bay Orchid Society and Director of the Bromeliad Guild of Tampa Bay. His wife, Carol, is Vice President of the BGTB. Tom and Carol live in Lutz and grow their bromeliads on their 2.5 acres of land and greenhouses. Carol photographs blooming bromeliads in their yard and greenhouses each month and has a collection of 13,000 plus bromeliad pictures. Some of her bromeliad photos were recently published in the Tampa Bay Magazine. Tom will be using some of these photos in a power point program as he shares his knowledge about them.