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MIDDLE TENNESSEE DAFFODIL SOCIETY HISTORY
The Middle Tennessee
Daffodil Society was organized on April
5, 1958. This was four years after the American Daffodil Society
was organized on April 9, 1954 in Washington, D.C. Louise Linton
Hardison, along with Mary Cartwright, attended
the 1957 ADS convention in Ohio, which inspired her to organize
the MTDS. Louise Linton Hardison was the first MTDS president.
Other founding members included Mary Cartwright, Margaret Cosner,
Dan Eadie, Sam Caldwell and Clarence Connell.
The Middle Tennessee
Daffodil Society would like to gratefully acknowledge the past
growers and former members of our society who were instrumental
in the growth and perseverance of the society. Those individuals,
who over the years, encouraged many of the current members to
fall in love with showing and growing daffodils. Members to whom
we owe our gratitude include Dick Frank, Louise Linton Hardison, Clarence Connell,
Dan Eadie, Sam Caldwell, Pat Lee, Alice Wray Taylor, Kitty Frank,
Billy Hobby, Pat Bates, Martha Gaines, Becky Talbot, Sue Thomas,
Edna Metcalfe, Dot Allen and Arlene Ziegler.
MTDS Presidents
1958 - 1960
Louise Linton Hardison
1966 – 1970
Mary Cartwright
1970 – 1972 Sally Stanford
1976 – 1978
Kitty Frank
1978 – 1980
Ted Snazelle
1980 – 1982
Becky Talbot
1982 – 1984
Betty McEachern
1984
Mary Lou Gripshover
1984 – 1986
Dick Frank
1986 - 1988
Alice Wray Taylor
1988 - 1990 Sue
Zapp
1990
- 1992 Sam Winters
1992 - 1996
Mary Cartwright
1996 - 1998
Sam Winters
1998
- 2000 Dick Frank
2000 - 2002 Patrice
Winters
2002 - 2004 Ann
McKinney
2004 - 2006 Becky
Fox Matthews
2006
- 2008
Ann McKinney
2009
- 2011 Anne Owen & Susan Basham
2011 - 2015
Jeff and Jennifer Harvey
2016 - 2023
Suzanne Shambaugh
MTDS members who are American Daffodil Society Silver
Medal Winners
The Silver Medal is given for exceptional service to the American
Daffodil Society.
1981
- Louise Hardison - a founder and the first president of
MTDS. She was ADS membership chairman from 1958-1961. She was
a superb exhibitor and instructor. Her daffodils now bloom in
the Louise Hardison Garden at Cheekwood.
1991
- Kitty Frank - a past editor of The Daffodil Journal
from 1986-1994. She was president of MTDS from 1976-1978 and was
co-chairman of the 1993 ADS convention held in Nashville. Kitty
was an outstanding judge, exhibitor and coordinated the Louise
Hardison Garden at Cheekwood.
1999
- Dick Frank - a leading member of the MTDS for many years,
exhibiting, judging and worked as a judging instructor to
add new judges to the Nashville area. Dick was president of MTDS
from 1984-1986 and again from 1998-2000. He was co-chairman of
the ADS convention in Nashville in 1993. He was the
ADS Legal Counsel for more than 30 years and then the ADS
Legal Counsel Emeritus.
2021
- Becky Fox Matthews- a Past President of ADS (2012-2014) and a Past President of MTDS (2004-2006),
she has also served as Youth Chair and Media Chair for ADS and as Newsletter Editor and Website Editor for MTDS. She chaired the ADS Fall Forums in Nashville for 2008 and 2012 and was co-chair of the 2018 National Convention in Franklin, Tennessee.
Monumental
moments involving the MTDS in American Daffodil Society History
1958
- Founding of the MTDS, with 112 members
1958
- First MTDS show
Judged
by George Lee, second ADS president
10 Quinn entries
1962 - First ADS Convention hosted by MTDS held in Nashville
Attended
by 200 people
First Judging School III was offered
1969
- Second ADS Convention hosted by MTDS held in Nashville
First Quinn Gold Medal awarded to Harry Tuggle
1982
- Third ADS Convention hosted by MTDS held in Nashville
Throckmorton Ribbon awarded for the first time
1993
- Fourth ADS Convention hosted by MTDS held in Nashville
Miniature Bronze Award offered for the first time
2005 - MTDS added an Artistic Design Section with four classes to our show
2008 - MTDS added a Photography Exhibit with four classes to our show
2008 - ADS
Fall Board Meeting and Miniatures Symposium hosted by MTDS held in Nashville
2012 - ADS Fall Board Meeting and Symposium "The Future of Daffodils" hosted by MTDS held in Nashville
2018 - Fifth ADS National Convention and Show hosted by MTDS was held in Nashville (Franklin) - "Music City"
MIDDLE
TENNESSEE DAFFODIL SOCIETY
OFFICERS and SHOW COMMITTEE 2023
President Suzanne Shambaugh
Vice President Susan Basham
Treasurer/Membership
Chair Byron Dumas
Website/Newsletter Editor
Becky Fox Matthews
Show and Judges Chair Becky Fox Matthews
Clerks
Chair
Andrew Buhler, Jr.
Staging
Co-Chairs
Susan and
Ray Basham
Photography Chair
Anne Owen
Artistic Design
Chair
Connie Baird
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