| John W. Andresen | University of Toronto |
| F. Raymond Brush | American Association of Nurserymen |
| William H. Collins | American Garden Cole, Inc. |
| Thomas S. Elias | Cary Arboretum, N.Y. Botanical Garden |
| William Flemer III | Princeton Nurseries |
| Henry D. Gerhold | Pennsylvania State University |
| Thomas O. Gilmore | Gilmore Plant & Bulb Company |
| Clyde M. Hunt | Northeastern Area State & Private Forestry |
| Stanley L. Krugman | U.S. Forest Service |
| Silas Little | Northeastern Forest Experiment Station |
| Alan J. Long | Pennsylvania State University |
| Henry Norweb | Holden Arboretum |
| Edgar H. Palpant | Pennsylvania State University |
| F. Phillip Neumann | City of Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Edgar G. Rex | N.J. Federation of Shade Tree Commissions |
| Robert S. Ross | Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation |
| John J. Ryan | New York Dept. of Transportation |
| Frank S. Santamour, Jr. | U.S. National Arboretum |
| E.L. Shafer, Jr. | U.S. Forest Service |
| Kim C. Steiner | Pennsylvania State University |
| A.M. Townsend | Nursery Crops Research Laboratory, ARS |
| Horace V. Wester | Ecological Services Laboratory, NCP |
