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MSU
floral designers repeat
top wins in national student event
Two Mississippi State floral management seniors from
Starkville again are champions in national competition sponsored
by the American Institute of Floral Designers.
MSU floral design students Jena Oh and Mariah
Baird took best overall team honors at the National Symposium
of AIFD.
For the second consecutive year, Mariah R. Baird and
Jena Oh took best overall team honors in the student challenge held
this year at Palm Desert, Calif. on July 7, 2007. Oh also won best
overall individual honors, as well as first in flowers-to-carry and
second in dried-flower design.
Flowers-to-carry, dried-flower and centerpiece designs
were the categories in which the MSU team and some 60 other students
from 15 universities and colleges competed.
Baird received a $3,500 scholarship provided by the
AIFD Foundation. Though not a member of the team, fellow senior Mallory
E. Emison of Saltillo received a $2,500 AIFD scholarship based on
her studies. All three are floral management majors who have worked
part-time at The University Florist.
The MSU team's training was supervised by Jim DelPrince
and Lynette McDougald, both AIFD-certified designers who advise the
campus AIFD student chapter.
Also at the national symposium, McDougald was installed
on the board of directors of AIFD's Southern Regional Chapter and
named to the organization's Education Committee. |
