February 15, 2015
Letter to the editor
Monica van Maris, a pioneer member of Landscape Ontario and annual volunteer at Congress, was presented with a Leadership Award at the 50th IPM Symposium. She is shown accepting the award from Kyle Tobin, chair of the IPM Symposium Committee.
When I turned around to face the crowd, my heart gave a flip to see so many women in the crowd. I realized this is what I was working for all these years, to see so many women taking the same interest in our industry, as their mates. To my surprise when the program was ended, one of the speakers, Patricia Vittum Ph.D., came to me and congratulated me on a job well done, and said she hoped she can come back some other time. This is the first time a speaker has told me she enjoyed the delegates. Thank you Patricia for your kind words, we do appreciate your good job; well done. Once again I thank everyone very much.
— Monica van Maris