AWARDS
Helen Field Fischer Gold Medal
Established in 1950, this is the Society’s highest honor and is the official recognition for distinguished and meritorious service rendered the AHS by a member on the national level. It is named for the founder of the American Hemerocallis Society. In general this award should honor only one person annually, but two awards have been given on occasion. A dual award to two members of the same family will count as one. Nominations may be submitted by any AHS member to the AHS Awards & Honors Chairman by mail or email. Nominations are due by September 1st for the upcoming year. The AHS Board votes by secret ballot at the annual fall board meeting, and the award is presented at the following AHS National Convention.
Award Winners
| Claude Carpenter | Georgia | 2023 |
| Nikki Schmith | Illinois | 2022 |
| Marcia Zech | Washington | 2021 |
| Melodye Campbell | New York | 2020 |
| Mary Collier Fisher | Massachusetts | 2019 |
| Julie Covington | Virginia | 2018 |
| Dan and Jackie Bachman | Ohio | 2017 |
| Gisela Meckstroth | Ohio | 2016 |
| Earl and Barbara Watts | Mississippi | 2015 |
| Joanne Larson | Illinois | 2014 |
| Timothy J. Fehr | Wisconsin | 2013 |
| Kevin P. Walek | Virginia | 2012 |
| Jim and Peggy Jeffcoat | South Carolina | 2011 |
| Bill and Jean Norris | Florida | 2010 |
| Lee Pickles | Tennessee | 2009 |
| Roswitha Waterman | New York | 2009 |
| Pat Mercer | Georgia | 2008 |
| Kay Day Pricola | California | 2007 |
| Wayne Johnson | Florida | 2006 |
| Ken Cobb | North Carolina | 2005 |
| Hal Rice | Michigan | 2004 |
| Virginia Henson | Texas | 2003 |
| Nell Jessup | Georgia | 2002 |
| David Kirchhoff | Florida | 2001 |
| Peggy Estes | Oklahoma | 2000 |
| Earlene Garber | Louisiana | 2000 |
| William C. Monroe | Louisiana | 1999 |
| Jack Harrison | Alabama | 1998 |
| Annie Weinreich | Texas | 1997 |
| Bill & Mary Anne Ater | Texas | 1996 |
| Bob Brooks | California | 1995 |
| Dorothea Boldt | Louisiana | 1994 |
| Frances Gatlin | Missouri | 1993 |
| Elly Launius | Mississippi | 1993 |
| Clarence J. Crochet | Louisiana | 1992 |
| R.W. Munson, Jr. | Florida | 1991 |
| Selma Timmons | Georgia | 1991 |
| Virginia Peck | Tennessee | 1990 |
| Mavis G. Smith | Missouri | 1989 |
| Betty Woods | Georgia | 1988 |
| Ida Munson | Florida | 1987 |
| Sarah Sikes | Alabama | 1986 |
| Luke Senior, Jr. | Arkansas | 1985 |
| Lucia Bjorkman | Texas | 1984 |
| Mildred Schlumpf | Texas | 1983 |
| Olive Langdon | Alabama | 1982 |
| Daisy L. Ferrick | Kansas | 1981 |
| Shirley Gene Wild | Missouri | 1980 |
| Martha B. Hadley | Missouri | 1980 |
| Luther J. Cooper, Jr. | North Carolina | 1979 |
| Betty Barnes | Mississippi | 1978 |
| Ruth Mannoni | Kansas | 1977 |
| Edna Lankart | Texas | 1976 |
| Louise Simon | Louisiana | 1975 |
| Willard Gardner | North Carolina | 1975 |
| George T. Pettus | Missouri | 1974 |
| Ethel Smith | Mississippi | 1973 |
| Molly Wheeler | Illinois | 1972 |
| Walter C. Hava | Mississippi | 1971 |
| Hyta Mederer | Georgia | 1970 |
| Bertie Ferris | Texas | 1970 |
| George M. Darrow | Maryland | 1969 |
| William E. Monroe | Louisiana | 1968 |
| Ben Parry | Tennessee | 1967 |
| Lula Mae Purnell | Texas | 1966 |
| Olive Hindman | Florida | 1965 |
| Hubert A. Fischer | Illinois | 1964 |
| Ophelia Taylor | Florida | 1963 |
| Frances Lamb | Kentucky | 1962 |
| D. R. McKeithan | Oklahoma | 1961 |
| Mrs. Carl Marcue | Iowa | 1960 |
| Wilmer B. Flory | Indiana | 1959 |
| Elmer A. Claar | Illinois | 1958 |
| Hugh M. Russell | Texas | 1957 |
| F. Edgar Rice | Oklahoma | 1956 |
| George E. Lenington | Missouri | 1955 |
| Bess Ross | Iowa | 1954 |
| Gretchen Harshbarger | Iowa | 1953 |
| Viola Richards | Indiana | 1952 |
| M. Frederick Stuntz | New York | 1951 |
| Helen Field Fischer | Iowa | 1950 |
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