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Unidentified people at a formal event

From left to right: Andy Higgins (President, Paul Ecke Ranch, Paul Ecke de Guatemala), PEG employee, Andor Gerendas (head engineer, PEG), grower PEG, and Byron Calderon, (general manager, PEG).

From left to right: Lars Henriksen (general manager, PLA International, owned by the Paul Ecke Ranch), Ron Cramer (Paul Ecke Ranch), Paul Ecke III. Far right: Franz Fruehwirth (head poinsettia breeder, Paul Ecke Ranch).

Kimie Kurashima's husband, Manabu, worked with the Paul Ecke Ranch to set up a plant patent act in Japan.

From left to right: Teruo Takatomi, owner, Ron Cramer, Paul Ecke III, with J&H employees.

Paul Ecke Sr. (left), William Dealy (right, without a hat). Bill Dealy was married to Ruth (Crix) Ecke, Paul and Magdalena Ecke's daughter. 

Ron Cramer (left), Paul Ecke Jr.(right), with Japanese delegation from the Japanese Poinsettia Association. 

Paul Ecke III (left) at the PLA booth at the Essen Trade Show in Germany. PLA was an Ecke company based in Denmark that managed licensing for poinsettias and other crops around the world. 

Prior to the 1960's, Poinsettia sales consisted primarily of cut flowers.

The Eckes first met with Mrs. Ramos at a poinsettia seminar in the Philippines. This picture was taken on her subsequent visit to the Paul Ecke Ranch. 

Workers with field-cut poinsettias

Paul Ecke III (center), Mrs. Amelita Ramos, first lady of the Philippines (wife of Fidel Ramos), and Paul Ecke Jr. (right), with the rest of the delegation from the  Philippines.

Carlos ___, range attendant at the Paul Ecke Ranch, and Paul Ecke III. 

Presumably members of the Hegg family (daughters of Franz Hegg), Norway. The Hegg family were partners of the Ecke Ranch in Europe for plant licensing. 

From left to right: Jim Mellano of Mellano and Company, Maureen Ecke (Paul Jr.'s wife), and Paul Ecke Jr. First the right: Bob Otsuka,  market manager for the San Francisco Flower Market, H. Michael Mellano of Mellano and Company, ?, Monica Mellano,…