AIS REGION 2 AWARDS Judy
Tucholski
Region 2 presents four major awards to the exhibits and exhibitors in approved Iris Shows held by the affiliates in our Region.
An additional award is given to a person who has performed distinguished service for the Region and/or the American Iris Society.
The history of each gives validation to the awards and to the recipients.
The guidelines for receiving each award are almost a history
in themselves. Most of the awards were created when Region 2 and the Empire State Iris Society were synonymous. For clarification,
the Empire State Iris Society (ESIS) was the forerunner of the current AIS Region 2 Affiliate structure. The ESIS Board of Directors
turned over these awards to the current AIS Region 2. The organizational change hasn’t changed the importance of the awards or
of the people who are remembered through the awarding.
The awards currently presented are:
The Irwin A
The William McGarvey Beardless Iris Award
The Ethel Anson S. Peckham Award for
Historic Iris
This report is designed to give a brief history of these awards and clicking on the titles of the awards above
will take you to a page giving the history of the award and the recipients. If any information given needs further
clarification, please contact the Region 2 Webmaster. Judy is trying to make the history of these awards
as complete as possible for the Archives. Acknowledgement is made to all the previous Award and Exhibition Chairs who have
compiled this information and kept excellent records. Most notable of these is Wendy Roller, AIS Master Judge.