Sandy Schultz is a native Miamian. She has been growing orchids seriously for about half a dozen years, and as a hobby for years before that. Her late mother Dorothy Schultz preceded her in the interest. Dorothy was a founder of the South Dade Amateur Orchid club and grew and hybridized orchids for many years.

Prior to her interest in orchids, Sandy showed and trained horses. She still is a hunter/jumper judge for state shows and has a horse farm in Horse Country of western Miami-Dade County. A teacher of health and wellness at Miami Dade College, Sandy just received her third endowed chair. She received her Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology at Florida State University and is a co-author of several texts on the subject.

Georgia Tasker is a veteran writer for The Miami Herald. She moved to South Florida in 1969. When she became the newspaper's garden writer ten years later, she learned about plants on the job and received a certificate from Florida International University in tropical botany.

Georgia went to Hanover College in Indiana and worked in Dayton, Ohio, before joining The Herald. She is the author or co-author of three gardening books. She was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1987-88 and has received numerous award for her writing, including the Barbour Medal from Fairchild Tropical Garden and a lifetime achievement award from Tropical Audubon Society.

Sandy and Georgia spent two weeks last summer looking at the orchids of Mt. Kinabalu and hunting for orangutans (which they found). Their presentation will feature an intimate look at the Malaysian part of Borneo, the world's 3rd largest island.

We hope to see everyone there!!!