Hybridizer Award and its winners

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The hybridizers award honors hybridizers who have made significant advancements in Iris. "The Hybridizer's Medal is awarded to persons who have porduced new iris varieties of exceptional merit deserving of special recognition."--Garden Irises 1959.

Winners include:

• Wylie M. Ayres 1941
• Sydney B. Mitchell 1941
• J. C. Nicholls 1941
• Hans P. Sass 1941
• Jacob Sass 1941
• Merton Gage 1943
• Clarence White 1943
• E. O. Essig 1944
• Carl Salbach 1944
• David F. Hall 1944
• Henry Lee Grant 1944
• Rudolph E. Kleinsorge 1944
• E. Greig Lapham 1945
• Paul Cook 1945
• Agnes Whiting 1947
• Robert J. Graves 1949
• Geddes Douglas 1949
• F. Cleveland Morgan 1950
• Miss Isabella Preston 1950
• Elizabeth Nesmith 1951
• Eric E. Nies 1951
• Fred DeForest 1952
• Orville W. Fay 1952
• William J. McKee 1953
• Bernard, Constance & Robert Schreiner 1954
• Jesse E. Wills 1954
• Jean Stevens 1955
• Tell Muhlestein 1956
• Edward Watkins 1956
• Walter Welch 1957
• Henry E. Sass 1958
• Edith Lowry 1959
• Melba Hamblen 1961
• William B. Schortman 1961
• Tom Craig 1962
• Chet W. Tompkins 1962
• Charles Reckamp 1963
• W. A. Payne 1964
• James M. Gibson 1965
• Gordon W. Plough 1965
• Walker Ferguson 1966
• Georgia Hinkle 1966
• Bee Warburton 1966
• Charles W. Arny 1967
• Clara B. Rees 1967
• Opal Brown 1968
• Fred W. Cassebeer 1968
• Roy And Mildred Brizendine 1970
• Clifford W. Benson 1971
• G. Percy Brown 1971
• Rex & Alta Brown 1972
• Ben R. Hager 1973
• Neva Sexton 1973
• Bennett C. Jones 1974
• Keith R. Keppel 1974
• Sanford Babson 1975
• Earl Roberts 1975
• O. Currier McEwen 1976
• William G. McGarvey 1976
• Nathan Rudolph 1976
• Larry A. Gaulter 1978
• Joseph J. Ghio 1979
• Joseph A. Gatty 1980
• Nora Scopes 1982
• Henry Danielson 1983
• Walt Luihn 1985
• Joseph Mertzweiler 1985
• Doris Foster 1986
• O. David Niswonger 1986
• Lois "Jonnye" Rich 1987
• Eleanor McCown 1989
• George Shoop 1991
• Lloyd Zurbrigg 1992
• Bernard Hamner 1992
• Mary Louise Dunderman 1993
• Mary Dunn 1993
• Allan Ensminger 1994
• Fred Gadd 1995
• D. C. Nearpass 1995
• D. Steve Varner 1995
• C.E.C. Bartlett (England) 1995
• Terry Aitken 1996
• Barry Blyth (Australia) 1996
• Carl Boswell 1996
• Dr. Robert Hollingworth 1997
• Sterling Innerst 1997
• Ray Schreiner 1998
• Dorothy Guild 1999
• Tomas Tamberg (Germany) 1999
• Anthony & Dorothy Willott 1999
• Howard Shockey 2000
• John Taylor (Australia) 2000
• Jean Cayeux (France) 2000
• Marvin Granger 2001
• Hooker Nichols 2001
• Paul Black 2002
• Lynda Miller 2002
• Lorena Reid 2002
• Kenneth Fisher 2003
• Larry Lauer 2003
• Vernon Wood 2003
• Graeme Grosvenor (Australia) 2003
• John Weiler 2004
• Floyd Wickenkamp 2004
• Brad Kasperek 2005
• Marky Smith 2005
• Hiroshi Shimizu (Japan) 2006
• Hal Stahly 2006
• Robert Bauer & John Coble 2007
• Marty Schafer & Jan Sacks 2007
• ?None? 2008
• Jim & Vicki Craig 2009
• Charles Jenkins 2009
• Rick Tasco 2010
• Jean Witt 2012
• Jill Copeland 2012
• Bill Maryott 2013
• Thomas Johnson 2014
• Bryce Williamson 2014

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