Lynette McDougald, AIFD
Instructor/Florist Manager, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
(662)325-3585
lmcdougald@pss.msstate.edu

Lynette McDougald is an instructor of Retail Floristry Management at Mississippi State University and manager of the University Florist on the MSU campus.

In 1999, McDougald was the Floral Coordinator for the U.S. Women's Open held in West Point, Mississippi. She provided and maintained over 300 arrangements for the golf tournament.

She was Mississippi's Designer of the Year, in 2000, competing and winning in all six categories.

In 2003, McDougald served on the floral design team at New York's Rockerfeller Center for HBO's season premiere party for The Sopranos television show. The project required 20 continuous hours beginning at 1:00 am and concluding at 9:00 pm. The guest list of 3,000 included many television and movie stars.

Currently, she serves on many Mississippi State University committees developing themes and floral arrangements for most MSU special events.

She is coordinator of the State Future Farmers of America annual floriculture competition and co-coordinator of Summer Seminar in Horticulture at MSU which is sponsored by the Garden Clubs of Mississippi.

Most recently, McDougald was extended an invitation to be inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designer, July 2006 in Washington DC.

Dr. James DelPrince, AIFD
Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
(662) 325-1965
jdelprince@pss.msstate.edu

Jim DelPrince is an Associate Professor of Floral Design at Mississippi State University.  He has been a member of the American Institute of Floral Designers since 1992 and served as President of the AIFD Southern Region in 2001-2002.  He is also a member of PFCI, the Professional Floral Communicators International.

DelPrince has completed research in historical floral designs spanning the years 1790-1900 and conducted research at the U.S. Library of Congress and the Lindley Library, Royal Botanical Society, London.  As part of this ongoing research, he received a fellowship with the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., in horticulture of the American Classical period, 1790-1850. While there, he also conducted floral workshops for the Smithsonian Horticulture staff and interns. 

As a visiting scholar at Winterthur, the estate of Henry Francis DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware, he conducted research on nineteenth century floral containers.  He will return to Delaware this fall as a Winterthur fellow.

Among his most recent publications, DelPrince co-authored The AIFD Guide to Floral Design and is a writer for Flora magazine.