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The AIS Gold Medal and its winners

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The AIS Gold Medal is the highest honor the society can bestow on a member;

Past winners; Notes on major accomplishments of recipients
  • 1930 John C. Wister
    • First President and one of the initial forces behind the founding of AIS. He was a visionary creating much of the structure of the organization, for example the traveling AIS Library. He was a prodigious writer in Horticultural Journals about Iris and wrote the book 'The Iris"
  • 1935 Grace Sturtevant
    • Early hybridizer who started the development of the Tall-bearded Irises, She was also a botanical illustrator and one of the founders of the American Iris Society.
  • 1937 Richardson Wright
  • 1940 Ethel Anson Peckham
  • 1970 Lowell Fitz Randolph
  • 1976 Jay C. Ackerman
  • 1983 Melba Hamblen
  • 1985 Bee Warburton
  • 1992 Carol Ramsey
  • 199 Kay Nelson-Keppel
  • 1994 Robert Schreiner
  • 1997 Keith Keppel
  • 2000 Dr. Currier McEwen
  • 2004 Marie Caillet
  • 2010 Ron Mullin
  • 2011 Anne & Mike Lowe
  • 2011 Clarence Mahan
  • 2011 Terry Aitken
  • 2013 Jean Witt
  • 2015 Paul Gossett
  • 2017 Jeanne Clay Plank
  • 2018 Robert Pries
  • 2021 Jim Morris

 

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