1971 - 2020

Diggers Slide Show

Photo from the 70s: Helen Rose, Mugsy

Davenport, Fanny Goodhue and Gretl Mulder;

working on pots in Polly Ellis’s garden

1981: Diggers Auction at the Old Mill with Sally Staver, Annie

Babcock, Louise Garland, Carolyn Hotchkis, Maria Grant,

Katie Gates and Martha Chandler

1984 – Pot boys: John Babcock, Willie

Cunningham and Scooter Hollingsworth

1985: The year it rained at the Auction

Gretl Mulder’s house where we ate in every room: Mimi Jones,

Barbara Jameson and Jan Clayton; Joan Banning and Rosie Jones

1987: Ruth Von Platen and Martha Chandler, Gwen’s aunts and regular Auction

guests at the Auction at Polly Ellis’s house; Gwen’s sister-in-law, Louise Garland

and sisters, Sabra Clark and Dorrie Scully (Louise had grown up in Dorrie’s house)

1989: Auction at the Old Mill: Sally Wenzlau, Gwen Babcock and

Barbara Jameson

1990: Gretl Mulder and her aunt, Dingle

Linley

1990 The Field Trip to the Monterey Peninsula

The Diggers in front of the Garland House, built in 1927:

Back: Anne Neville, Dingle Linley, Dorrie Scully, Liz Merrill, Polly Ellis and Louisa Miller.

Front: Mariedna Farrand, Debby Smith, Gretl Mulder, Linda Zinn, Gwen Babcock and Barbara Jameson

1990: Bette Cooper, Susan Kranwinkle

and Dorrie Scully at Dorrie’s house

1994: Polly Ellis: Sally and Bill Wenzlau;

2002: Auction: Linda Zinn; Sisters: Dorrie Scully, Ann Schneider and Louisa Miller; Rosie Jones and Anne Neville

2003: Before the Auction at Gwen Babcock’s at 1500 Park Place, San Marino: Judy McDonald, Dorrie Scully, Linda Zinn, Debbie

Hollingsworth, Eugenie Schlueter, Mary Anne Cunningham, Fran Neumann, Susan Babcock, Sally Harris, Joan Banning, Debbe

Booth, Sara Pelton, Bette Cooper, Megan Phelps and Cathy Tosetti

Carroll Sue Anawalt, Rosie Jones, Barbara Jameson, Polly Ellis, Annette Serrurier, Gwen Babcock, Judy Banning, Ann Schneider,

Sally Wenzlau, Liz Merrill, Louisa Miller and Susan Kranwinkle

Amanda Goodan, Debby Smith, Gretl Mulder, Annie Fraser, Cindy Wenzlau, Sally Miller, Liz Gilfillan and Jane Herrmann

2003: Auction: Susan Babcock, Cathy

Tosetti, Annie Fraser and Sara Pelton

Diggers in 2003

Gwen Babcock, Debbe Booth, Polly Ellis and Cindy Wenzlau

Cindy and Sally Wenzlau – daughter in

law and mother in law

Florence Banning and her daughters-in-law, Judy and Joan Banning

Florence (Mrs. Hancock Banning, Jr.) was President of the Diggers 1940-41.

Judy (Mrs. Hancock Banning III was President of the Diggers 1971-72. Joan

(Mrs. Robert J. Banning) was President of the Diggers 1980-82.

Sally Wenzlau, Joan Banning and

Rosie Jones - Balboa

Judy Banning, arranging Auction

flowers

2004: Christmas Arrangements with Sally

Wenzlau, Rosie Jones and Barbara Jameson at

Cindy’s house

April 2005: Santa Ynez field trip: We had lunch

at Mimi and Nelson Jones’ ranch, dinner at

Annette and Steve Serrurier’s ranch and

breakfast at Barbara and Frank’s place at Alisal.

I think we stopped at the Merrill’s in Gaviota

after that. We rolled home.

Barbara Jameson, Arnie Mulder, Steve

Serrurier, Louisa Miller, Frank Jameson, Liz

Merrill and Rick Neumann;

Sally Miller, George Corey, Eugenie Schlueter,

Mimi and Nelson Jones

Picture taken at the Serrurier ranch: John Cooper, Pete Pelton, Bob Miller, Frank Jameson, Louisa Miller,

George Corey, Eugenie Schlueter, Dorrie Scully, Arnie Mulder, Mimi Jones, Gretl Mulder, Rick Neumann, Fran

Neumann, Polly Ellis, Schuyler Hollingsworth, Debbie Hollingsworth, Debbe Booth and Spike Booth;

Steve Serrurier, Judy Banning, Anne Neville, Liz Merrill, Gwen Babcock, Nelson Jones, Bill Banning and Guil

Babcock;

Barbara Jameson, Sally Miller, Liz Gilfillan, Annette Serrurier and Graeme Gilfillan

2007: 315 years on one couch at Barbara Jameson’s house: Joan

Banning, Rosie Jones, Sally Wenzlau and Louisa Miller

2008: Mimi Jones and godchild, Ruth

Pasqualetto

2008 – Making Christmas arrangements with Megan Phelps, Mary Ann Mielke and Tracy Hirrel

2009Barbara Jameson, Anne Neville and Louisa Miller

April 21, 2010:Ruth Pasqualetto, Lisa Evans, Sally Miller, Susan Babcock, Debbe Booth, Judy McDonald, Sara Pelton, Megan Phelps, Susan Kranwinkle, Bette Cooper, Kate Morphy and Cindy WenzlauHannah Farbstein, Mary Anne Mielke, Sally Wenzlau, Cathy Tosetti, Kathy Miller, Louisa Miller, Debbe Smith, Tracy Hirrel, Debbie Hollingworth, Carlin McCarthy, Eugenie Schlueter, Fran Neumann, Barbara Jameson, Sally Harris, Gretl Mulder, Linda Zinn, Annie Fraser and Jane Hermann;Joan Banning, Gwen Babcock, Rosie Jones, Amanda Goodan, Polly Ellis, Dorrie Scully, Anne Neville, Annette Serrurier and Mimi Jones

2011 – Fran Neumann, Sally Wenzlau, Debbe Booth and Lisa Evans;

Gwen and Sally

2011Ruth Pasqualetto and Susan Babcock; Hannah Farbstein and Kathy Miller

2013 - after the AuctionTom Haralambos, Marcia Albrecht, Page Haralambos and Dave McCarthy

2014: Diggers Group Pictures: the Sallys: Sally Wenzlau, Sally Miller and Sally Harris and

the Debbies: Debby Smith, Debbe Booth and Debbie Hollingsworth

2014 - Group Picture before the Auction

Mary Blodgett, Page Haralambos, Ruth Pasqualetto, Sara Pelton, Carlin McCarthy, Annie Fraser, Judy McDonald, Bette

Cooper, Marcia Albrecht, Liz Gilfillan, Megan Phelps, Cindy Wenzlau and Sally Harris;

Susan Babcock, Cathy Tosetti, Mary Anne Mielke, Tracy Hirrel, Athena Wood, Debbie Hollingsworth, Yvonne Zaro, Sally

Miller, Kathy Miller, Debbe Booth, Debby Smith. Susan Kranwinkle, Linda Zinn and Kate Morphy

Louisa Miller, Sally Wenzlau, Gwen Babcock, Dorrie Scully, Anne Neville, Annette Serrurier, Mimi Jones, Barbara Jameson

and Gretl Mulder

2016: Flower arranging for the Auction:

Dorrie Scully, Annette Serrurier and Debby Smith

2018

Anne Neville with her 50 year award.

Mothers and Daughters: Ruth and Barbara; Gwen and Susan

Old Mill Group Picture

Kathy Miller, Eugenie Schlueter, Gwen Babcock, Gretl Mulder, Barbara Jameson, Carlin McCarthy, Cathy Tosetti, Yvonne

Zaro, Jane Herrmann, Page Haralambos, Bette Cooper, Sally Wenzlau, Mary Anne Mielke, Debbie Hollingsworth, Ruth

Pasqualetto, Sally Harris, Marcia Albrecht, Dorrie Scully, Debbe Booth, Louisa Miller and Judy McDonald

2018: Cathy Tosetti, Ruth Pasqualetto, Mary Blodgett and Carlin McCarthy, wrapping

Zone meeting goodie bags

April 2 - 3, 2019: Our last Auction workdays

Adrienne Kreindler, Nancy McGowan, Marianne Lynch and Annie Babcock

Auction workdays 2019

Angela Loewel Megan Phelps Yvonne Zaro Alfrida King

Jeanette Martin and Nena Brogan

Auction workdays 2019

April 3, 2019: Our last Auction at Cathy Tosetti’s

June 5, 2019: Our last Annual Meeting at Clare Tayback’s

Connie Harding, Athena Wood, Lisa Evans and

Carlin McCarthy

Jane Herrmann, Clare Tayback, Judy McDonald;

December 2019: Christmas Arrangements at Gwen Babcock’s;

Carlin McCarthy; Annette Serrurier and Cathy Tosetti;

Sally Wenzlau, Mary Ann Mielke and Jane Herrmann;

Liz Gilfillan and Bette Cooper

February 3, 2020: Annette’s house: What a fun meeting!

Athena Wood, Sally Miller and Kathy Miller

Susan Kranwinkle, Marianne Lynch and Connie Harding

Some Diggers have only been members for a short time. Others have

moved away and stayed on our rosters as Absentee members. Here are

some of our absentee members:

Louisa Miller and her

daughter, Candy Miller of

Burnet, Texas, member since

1992 – photo taken at Nuccio’s

Nursery on February 2, 2007

Hannah Farbstein, member since 2008, of

Cambridge, MA and Kate Morphy, member

since 2006 of Goleta, CA and Megan Phelps

– photo taken at the Old Mill on January 7,

2007

Annie Fraser, member since 1996 and a

resident of Nashville, TN and Sara

Pelton, member since 2000 and a

resident of Santa Barbara, CA – photo

from the Auction at the Old Mill in 2017.

Susan Kranwinkle and Kathy Ryan,

member since 1991, and a resident of

Bellevue, WA – photo from December

1991 taken at Gwen Babcock’s

1575 Circle Drive home.

Carroll Sue Anawalt, Sally Wenzlau, member since 1966 and

Debby Smith, member since 1979 and a resident of Seattle, WA. –

photo taken in 1997.

The End