Howard Hite Award for Hybridizing Excellence

The Howard Hite Award for Hybridizing Excellence was started in 1989 at the Region 2 Summer Meeting.  It is sponsored by the Southern Michigan Daylily Society.  The winner receives a sand-etched glass plate showing an engraved image of Hite’s H. ‘Indonesia’ (1978.)
The award is meant to honor years of effort on the part of a hybridizer to improve daylily cultivars.  Any Region 2 member, including members of the Awards and Honors Committee may submit names of candidates for the award to the Regional President before March 1 of each year.
The criteria for selection of a recipient are as follows:

1. The award is to honor a region 2 AHS member who has contributed notable achievements in the field of hybridizing from years of a dedicated hybridizing program.
2. The award may be given each year only if a recipient is selected.
3. A person may receive the award only one time.
4. Deceased hybridizers may be considered for the award.
5. Any region 2 member, (including committee members) may submit names of possible recipients to the RP before March 1 of each year.  The final selection will be determined by the Hite Award Committee composed of four members and the current RP representing the five states in the region.
6. Names of past nominees may be considered as possible candidates for future years.
7. The selection committee needs to notify the president of SMDS as soon as the candidate is selected, but no later than one month preceding the annual Region 2 Summer Meeting as to give ample time for the award to be engraved for presentation at the Region 2 Summer Meeting.
8. The committee members will be appointed by the current RP to serve a two-year term (a) four members will be carried over by each succeeding RP (b) in the event that the choice of a new RP creates a vacancy in one of the five states that the committee represents, the new RP will select and appoint a replacement to complete the unexpired term.
9. The new RP will choose new committee members for his or her second year of term in office.

2009 Hite Winner Jamie Gossard

Since 1987, Region 2 hybridizers have competed for the Englerth Award for Hybridizing Excellence.  The purpose of this award is to encourage and promote Region 2 hybridizers.  The award is named in memory of Lawrence and Winifred Englerth of Hopkins, MI.  Winifred was known for introducing daylilies with high bud count such as 'Mini Minx', 'Skippy Skeezix' and 'Pinkie Pinkerton'.  Visitors at the Summer Meeting view seedlings in a special bed designated the "Englerth Bed," and vote on which submitted seedling they think is the most outstanding.

The award medallions have been donated by John and Geraldine Couturier, who now reside in Region 10.  Each medallion is engraved with the winner's name and is awarded at the Awards Banquet on Saturday night of the summer meeting.
If you are interested in entering your seedlings in this competition, please contact the regional president.

Previous Winners of this prestigious award:

2009- Martin Kamensky

2008- John Sheehan - Seedling 00-11-1

2007- Lea Ann Williams - Seedling 00WSXRH

2006- Ken Blanchard (Seedling BLA 01-1) and Charles Applegate (Seedling 21398A)

2005- Dan Bachman - Seedling 00-53

2004- Jamie Gossard - Seedling JG/00/2

2003- No award given

2002- Gus Guzinski - H. 'To Go Boldly'

2001- Dan Bachman - H. 'Coleman Hawkins'

2000- Leo Sharp - H. 'Brookwood Marian Cavanaugh'

1999- Dan Bachman - H. 'Ben Bachman'

1998- Howard Reeve, Jr. - H. 'Grandma Kissed Me'

1997- Ed Myers - H. 'Little Summer Star'

1996- Arthur Blodgett - H. 'Romona's Memory'

1995- No award given

1994- Charles Applegate - H. 'Morning Has Broken'

1993- Dennis Anderson - H. 'Indy Seductress'

1992- Charles Applegate - H. 'Land of Promise'

1991- Lee Craigmyle

1990- Phillip Brockington - H. 'Coburg Pink Wink'

1989- Alfred Goldner - Seedling T86-63

1988- Dennis Anderson - H. 'Indy Charmer'

1987- Steve Moldovan

1952 Viola M. Richards, Indiana

1958 Elmer A. Claar, Illinois

1959 Wilmer B. Flory, Indiana

1964 Hubert A. Fischer, Illinois

1972 Molly Wheeler, Illinois

2004 Hal Rice, Michigan

1954 Dr. Ezra J. Kraus, Illinois (later Oregon)

1956 David F. Hall, Illinois

1959 Elmer A. Claar, Illinois

1962 Orville W. Fay, Illinois

1968 Hubert A. Fischer, Illinois

1969 Wilmer B. Flory, Indiana

1970 Robert A. Griesbach, Illinois

1973 Brother Charles Reckamp, Illinois

1974 James E. Marsh, Illinois

1991 Bryant K. Millikan, Indiana

1992 Steve Moldovan, Ohio

2002 Curt Hanson, Ohio

2005 Dr. Charles Branch, Illinois

1989 Harris Olsen, Michigan

1994 Leo Sharp, Indiana

1996 Hiram Pearcy, Wisconsin

1997 Hal Rice, Michigan

1998 Joanne Larson, Illinois

2001 Lu and Orville Dickhaut, Illinois

2002 None awarded

2003 Lea Ann & Don Williams, Indiana

2004 Curt Hanson, Ohio

2005 Dan Bachman, Ohio

2006 Ed and Virginia Myers, Ohio

2007 Gisela Meckstroth

2008 none awarded

2009  John Sheehan

AHS Best Regional Newsletter Award

2006 Narda Jones

2009 Narda Jones

2008 Wilma Brouwer-Herwig, "Nate Bremer: A hardy Wisconsin dormant"  

Best Article in a Regional Newsletter Award

2001 Sharon Fitzpatrick for Northern Grown Daylilies and Growing Daylilies Hydroponically, Reg 2 Spring-Summer 2000 Newsletter.

2002 Caroline Benser for Favorite Southern Cultivars, Reg 2 Spring-Summer 2001 Newsletter.

2003 Dan Bachman for From Cotton to Satin: The Social Gracing of the Spider Daylily, Reg 10 Sp-Su Newsletter

2004 Julie Gridley, Ohio., for Dan Bachman: Narrowing My Focus, Reg 2 Spring-Summer 2003 Newsletter.

2005 Sharon Fitzpatrick, Ohio , for Steve Moldovan’s Quest for a Piece of Sky, Reg 2 Spring0-Summer 2004 Newsletter.

2008 Phil and Luel Korth, Wisconsin, for Article About Hybridizing “Success of a Northern hybridizing program” Region 2, Daylily Region 2 Great Lakes,Spring/Summer 2007

1958 Mrs. George Richardson, Ohio

1967 Isabelle Du Jardin, Illinois

1977 Judith Paul, Illinois

1988 Walter Stackman, Illinois

2006 Corey Lucius, Ohio

2007 Arielle Lucius, Ohio

Christine Erin Stamile Youth Award

2005 Mckenzie Williams, Indiana

1986 Geraldine Couturier, Michigan (Bloom)

1987 Geraldine Couturier, Michigan (Bloom)

1993 Bryant Millikan, Indiana (Bloom)

1994 Sharon Fitzpatrick, Ohio (Bloom)

1992 Patricia Crooks Henley, Ohio (Bloom)

1998 Jerry Benser, Wisconsin (Landscape)

2003 Debbie Hurlbert, Ohio (Landscape)

2005 Duane Hurlbert, Ohio (Bloom)

2006 Duane Hurlbert, Ohio (Bloom)

2006 Duane Hurlbert, Ohio (Landscape)

2007 Debbie Hurlbert, Ohio (Bloom)

AD. Roquemore Memorial Award (best slide of a daylily clump)

1982 David Platt, Illinois

1987 Geraldine Couturier, Michigan (now Tennessee)

1996 Richard Henley, Ohio

Region 14 Slide Sequence Award

1993 Sharon Fitzpatrick, Ohio

1995 Richard L. Ford, Illinois

Lazarus Memorial Award (Best Video Recording of a Daylily Related Presentation)

1993 Dan Bachman, Ohio

2000 Sharon Fitzpatrick, Ohio

2008 Charles Dorsey, Ohio

AHS Individual Cultivar Awards - Earned By Region 2 Members

Stout Silver Medal - the highest honor bestowed on a daylily

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