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Mrs Mogabgab Is Active In Local Garden Club
BY VICKI L. HILL
Perhaps no individual has contributed more to the interest of better gardening than has Mrs. Eugene Mogabgab.
It seems fitting that with the approach of the Bay-Waveland Garden i Club?s fifteenth anniversary that this lady be especially honored for her perseverance and consistent endeavor.
Mrs. Mogabgab?s love of horticulture began sometime back in the 1930?s whence she settled down to a serious ' study of the subject.. As a result of . this intense application to a new-born hobby she later established a nursery, specializing in Camellias, roses and fancy shrubs. This small but complete enterprise was known as ?Bay Gardens and was operated successfully until 1941.
About this time Mrs. Mogabgab was invited to join a garden club in Pass Christian and remained on its roster until the residents of Bay St. Louis, who were also members of the club, agreed to form a similar organization of their own.
This automatically made the lady a charter member of the present Bay Waveland Garden Club and she was promptly elected to the office of first Secretary. It was not long before, recognizing Mrs. Mogabgab?s aptitude, the members made her President of the organization.
This office she held between 1947-48 followed by two years in the presidency of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Council of Garden Clubs Inc. She recalls with a modest chuckle the first time she was called upon to address a group of women as guest speaker.
Following this the ardent clubwoman served as Garden Center Chairman on the State Board of ?Garden Clubs of Mississippi Inc.? for four and one half years. She holds the unique distinction'of being invited to serve as a flower show judge before nationally accredited judges were known.
When_ eventually, the Accredited Judging School Courses were introduced the lady registered for the fine required courses and graduated with honors, receiving her National Certificate which enabled her to act in
flower shows anywhere in the country as an amateur judge.
A succession of invitations quickly followed- in which her services in this capacity were sought in many cities and in every ' garden club on the Gulf Coast.
In the 1950 year book of the National Camellia Society appeared an article called ?Old Camellias _ on the Gulf Coast? in which Mrs. Mogabgab proved her skill as a writer and faith-flly civic-minded citizen as well as a ' horticulturist.
In addition to valable information concerning camellias her love and loyalty for Bay St. Louis was prevalent ?to the point of stretching as far away from my subject as I dared? as the lady herself expressed it;
Not contented with the store of knowledge and experience which she had patiently accumulated the lady kept abreast of the latest methods on her beloved hobby by enlisting in special courses of study under such renowned instructors as Gregory Can-may, John Taylor Arms Edna Whit-sett and Dorothy Biddle.
With the interest of her garden club and community at heart, she was instrumental in procuring the services of lecturers and teachers of horticulture and garden lore so that others could have the advantage of the study.
It was through her efforts that the famous Dr. Cynthia West-Cott an authority on azalea blight (author oi