Gary and Monica have been growing a few roses for over 10 years, but became active in the Huntington Rose Society (HRS) in the early 1990s. Since then, the number of roses that they grow has increased from about 25 to around 300 rose bushes. They have each been President of the Huntington Rose Society (HRS)  and Rose Show Chairs for the annual HRS rose show, and have held a variety of other positions in the HRS. They have been the Editors for the HRS’s newsletter Thorny Bush for the last four years. They are also Consulting Rosarians for the American Rose Society and serve as local and on-line (ARS web site) consultants about roses. For the last two years they have served on the American Rose Society’s Product Evaluation Committee to evaluate new rose care products.  Both Monica and Gary are Professors of the Department of Pharmacology at Marshall University School of Medicine.  As you have probably guessed, their research area is Toxicology.