NALS Awards
NALS has two prestigious awards, which are given as tributes to people, not lilies. The E. H. Wilson Award is given to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the genus Lilium, and the Slate-MacDaniels Award is given to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the North American Lily Society. Below is a list of individuals who have won these prestigious awards and the year the award was given.
[twocol_one]E. H. Wilson (established 1959)
1960 Dr. George L. Slate
1961 Isabella Preston
1962 Dr. Norma Pfeiffer
1963 Dr. Samuel Emsweller
1964 Dr. F. L. Skinner
1965 Dr. L. H. MacDaniels
1966 Jan de Graaff
1967 Dr. E. F. Palmer
1968 Fred M. Abbey
1969 Clara C. Bangs
1970 Claude L. Shride
1971 A. J. Porter
1972 Virginia Howie
1973 George Holland (posthumous)
1975 Carlton Yerex
1976 Henry Payne
1977 Carl Feldmaier
1978 Leslie Woodriff
1979 Dr. Richard Lighty
1979 Edward McRae
1980 Dr. George O. Doak
1981 Patrick Synge
1982 Wallace Windus
1983 Charles Robinson
1984 Julius Wadekamper
1985 LeVern Freimann
1986 Harrison Peters
1987 Harve & Ruth Strahm
1990 Ed Robinson
1991 Peter Schenk
1994 Dr. Robert Griesbach
1994 Judith F. McRae
1995 William Craig
1995 Fred Fellner
1998 Victor Orekhov
1998 William Doreen
1999 Dr. Cecil F. Patterson
2000 Peter Geiser
2002 Norgart Martschinke
2003 Fred Tarlton
2005 Wilbert Ronald
2008 Jaap Van Tuyl
2014 Lynn Collicut
2017 Johan Mak
2019 Art Evans
2021 Dr. Richard A. Casagrande
2022 Darm Crook
2023 Jan van der Werelde (posthumous)
Slate-MacDaniels (established 1982)
1983 Earl Holl
1984 Judith F. McRae
1984 Dorothy B. Schaefer
1985 Jasper Berhenke
1986 John Montgomery
1988 David Schultz
1988 Andrew & Norma Simoni
1991 Calvin Helsley
1992 Hugh & Ruth Cocker
1993 William Evans
1994 Mary Hoffman
1995 Vicki Bowen
1996 Angie Collings
1997 Virginia Howie
1998 Kathryn Andersen
1999 Dr Robert Gilman
2000 Dr. Wilbert Ronald
2002 Linda Darnton
2003 T. Ross Martin
2004 Maureen Barber
2004 Frans Officer
2005 Warren Summers
2006 Dr. Arthur Evans
2007 Dr. Gene Fox (posthumous)
2008 Ede Strand
2009 Ron Chiabotta
2010 Barrie Strohman
2012 Stephanie Sims
2012 Barbara Small
2013 Nigel Strohman
2015 Charlie Kroell
2016 Larry Diehl
2017 Jeff Stiller
2018 Vijay Chandhok
2019 Lynn Slackman
2020 Marianne Casey
2021 Jocelyn Thayer
2023 Brian Bergman