2
From The President
The IHS continues to evolve as we have now democratically elected the 4th Board of Directors, including a number of new faces. Normally, as the 1st President and founder of the IHS, I would have preferred we continue with new blood, but as there seem a number of things that need be tended to, I accepted the nomination as the 6th IHS President. I thank you for your confidence in me, and although the task ahead is a formidable one, with the cooperation of the new BOD and your continued support, I believe we will make progress. Even when we have people with the best of intentions, from time to time we take a couple of steps backward for every dozen we advance, but in the long term progress is made and we continue to contribute to the international hibiscus community. One of our greatest problems is finding talented people to aid us in the many tasks our society has undertaken. At the present, one of our most pressing needs is for a web master for our web site: www.internationalhibiscussociety.org . Should any of you reading this want to assist or know of others that might, please contact me at diveta@mail.pf From The Editor
Because of the unfortunate resignation of Constantino Dominguez as editor of Hibiscus International, in January 2009, for lack of a
