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
• 2024 Andi Rivarola

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-- BobPries - 2011-06-15