Organizations Filed Purposes:
The purpose of River Oaks Garden Club is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement.
The River Oaks Garden Club seeks to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening through meetings, conferences and publications and to foster conservation, civic improvement and education. The Sadie Gwin Blackburn Environmental Seminar, sponsored by the Garden Club, is an annual event that features globally known speakers in various environmental disciplines.The Club sponsors the annual Azalea Trail, which is a tour of Bayou Bend as well as several members' homes and gardens. The Forum of Civics building is also on the tour and is the site of many educational displays and question and answer sessions with gardening experts. Over 5,000 people attend this three day event and all members of the club volunteer a minimum of ten hours to help stage the event.
The Garden Club funds the maintenance of the gardens and the salary of the curator of gardens of the Bayou Bend Gardens, a part of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In addition to this funding, 35 club members voluntarily work in the gardens on a weekly basis, both maintaining the gardens and propagating plants for the gardens.
The River Oaks Garden Club supports other educational and cultural organizations that advance the club's mission. The organizations supported during 2018/2019 are listed on Schedule I.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Christine Yordan | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Janna Weber | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mary Jane Wakefield | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Cynthia Trigg | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Terry Smith | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Madeleine Sheehy | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Pam Rundle | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lili Pickard | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Carole Ann Paddock | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Oaks | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Martha Mcdugald | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Soraya Mcclelland | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Helen Maxson | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Hope Lum | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Sandy Lucas | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Joann Levering | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kay Lynn Kuper | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Carmen Knapp | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Carol Junell | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Gayle Hightower | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Annette Harris | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Cheri Fossler | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Cherie Flores | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Madeleine Elmer | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Karey Dye | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kackie Dunwoody | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kelty Crain | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Meredith Cocke | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Carol Butler | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Virginia Mary Brown | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lori Britton | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Maudie Beard | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Carole Bailey | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Nancy Abendshein | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Patricia Hopson | Parliamentarian | 1 | $0 |
| Connie Wright | Asst Treas | 10 | $0 |
| Kris Maclay | Treasurer | 20 | $0 |
| Susan Toomey | Corresp Sec | 2 | $0 |
| Margaret Pfeiffer | Asst Record Sec | 1 | $0 |
| Liz Rigney | Record Sec | 5 | $0 |
| D'Anne Anderson | President Elect | 20 | $0 |
| Lisa Mears | Past President | 2 | $0 |
| Nancy Gordon | President | 20 | $0 |
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