Dear RosEXEC,

Congratulations to the following people for being voted in to join RosEXEC in 2018!

U.S. Members: Nahla Bassil Chris Dardick Jonathan Fresnedo Ramirez Phil Stewart Lise Mahoney

International Liaisons:

Craig Hardner Felicidad Fernandez

We are late this year with nominations and election of the Secretary. We can do it within next few days but first we need to:

(1) Identifying who is willing to run for Secretary and (2) Vote for the candidates

All new, ongoing, and rotating-off U.S. members are eligible to become Secretary candidates, except for the current officers (Mercy, Chris and Ksenija). However, all of you receiving this email may vote, except ex officio Dorrie. As a reminder, the Secretary for 2018 automatically becomes Vice-Chair for 2019 and then Chair for 2020. The 2018 Secretary is also responsible for taking minutes of RosEXEC during 2018, including the in-person meeting in San Diego (although if the Sec is not in attendance, we'll find an alternative).

So, to get this going, if you are willing to become Secretary, please email me back by the end of Saturday, January 13th. Once we get the pool of candidates we will send an email to the RosEXEC to vote.

Please find attached agenda for in-person meeting on Sunday and minutes from our October meeting. I apologize for being late on sharing these. You can provide comment for the minutes and additional suggestions for the agenda on Sunday.

Hope to see you all in a few days. Don't forget we changed the time of the in person meeting to 10am to 12 pm. Those that can't join us in person will have a chance to participate via skype. Dorrie's skype connection info is in the attached agenda.

Ksenija

Ksenija Gasic Ph.D. Associate Professor of Horticultutre Peach breeding and genetics

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences Clemson University 105 Collings St. 112 BRC Clemson, SC 29634

Office: 864.656.3664