Industry Giant Remembered Through Scholarship and Memorial
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Industry Honors Kirk Pamper, AAF, AIFD, PFCI, accepting SAF'S Tommy Bright Award in 2006. | To help ensure that the memory of a floral industry great lives on, the Kirk Pamper Memorial Scholarship Fund is currently being established. The goal of the scholarship is to provide floral designers an opportunity to further pursue an education in the floral industry. The scholarship hopes to encourage its future recipients to remain cutting edge as designers, businesspeople and as spokespeople for the floral industry.
During his life, Kirk Pamper, AAF, AIFD, PFCI, a longtime member of SAF, earned numerous awards and accolades, including the 2006 SAF Tommy Bright Award for Achievement in Floral Presentation and the AIFD Award of Distinguished Service to the Floral Industry in 2005. He participated in countless floral design shows and workshops, such as the AIFD Regional and National Symposia, SAF conventions, the annual Holiday Expo at the Dallas Market and the Philadelphia Flower Show. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, Pamper also taught as a floral design instructor through the University of Memphis's Continuing Education Department.
Pamper died of chordoma cancer on Nov. 19, 2007. On April 20, 2008, a memorial celebrating his life will take place at the Memphis Botanic Garden in Memphis, Tenn.
AIFD provides recognition levels for donors from "Foundation Patrons," for contributions of $15, 000 and over, to "Golden Orchid Club," for donations in the range of $1,000 to $2,499. Donations made through AIFD must state that they are to be given to the Kirk Pamper Memorial Scholarship Fund. For more information, including ways to make a contribution to the scholarship, contact Lona Christoffers at lchristoffers@assoc.mgmt.com.
--Morgan Schimminger
mschimminger@safnow.org
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