2021 ADS Region 5 Service Award
In 1974, the AHS Board established this award for outstanding service to AHS at the regional level. Currently serving board members are not eligible. However, Serving Regional Presidents are now eligible to be nominated for these awards.
Only one AHS Regional Service Award may be awarded per region per year. A dual award for two members of the same family counts as one award. An AHS member will only be eligible to win a Regional Service Award once. Nominations may come from any member of the nominee's region. Nominations must be sent to the AHS Awards & Honors Chairman by September 1st by mail or email, and must contain a summary of the nominee's worthiness for this award. The AHS Board votes by secret ballot at the annual fall board meeting, and the award is presented at the following AHS National Convention.
Only one AHS Regional Service Award may be awarded per region per year. A dual award for two members of the same family counts as one award. An AHS member will only be eligible to win a Regional Service Award once. Nominations may come from any member of the nominee's region. Nominations must be sent to the AHS Awards & Honors Chairman by September 1st by mail or email, and must contain a summary of the nominee's worthiness for this award. The AHS Board votes by secret ballot at the annual fall board meeting, and the award is presented at the following AHS National Convention.
The 2021 Region 5 ADS Service Award goes to Bruce and Kathy Fowler.
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On June 17th during the awards banquet at the 2023 ADS National Convention in Nashville, TN, Bill and Diana Waldrop were announced winners of the Regional Service Award for Region 5. When one can affix the words ‘founder of a daylily club’ with their name, then they have achieved a status or category that many daylily folks have never attained. In 2004 the Cobb County Daylily Society (CCDS) was founded by Bill and Diana Waldrop of Marietta, Georgia, county seat of Cobb County and Georgia’s third most populous county. This new daylily club started with 15 members, and they now have an active membership of 56. The CCDS has been meeting at the Marietta First United Methodist Church in Bill and Diana’s Sunday School classroom since 2005. Since 2007, the CCDS has had their daylily show in the Family Life Hall at their Church. Every year, Bill and Diana host a ‘Daylily Breakfast and Grooming Clinic’ in their garden to help prepare CCDS members with their show entries. Bill has served two terms as President. Diana has served one term as President, two terms as Secretary, and presently is serving as the club reporter for The Georgia Daylily. Both are currently serving as Publicity Chairs.
This dynamic duo started growing daylilies around 1992. Their garden is named Kennesaw Mountain Daylily Gardens and has been an ADS Display Garden since 2010. Their garden was an ADS National Tour Garden in 2015 and Bill was honored with winning the ADS President’s Cup for his ‘Blazing Cannons’ (Waldrop, 2013). Additionally, their garden has been a spring Region 5 Tour Garden in 2011 and 2021. They also have allowed the CCDS to use three rows in the back of their garden for the club’s daylily plants. Diana takes care of planting, fertilizing, and general care of these three rows. Both contribute their own daylilies for auction and sales for the CCDS and Region 5. They host an annual plant sale and auction in their garden utilizing the clubs Activity Rewards Membership (ARM) System in which members earn points throughout the club year for various activities to purchase daylilies. Bill and Diana Waldrop have served as Garden Judges since 2012 and have done educational programs throughout Region 5 and the ADS. Bill as well put on his lawyer’s cap and served as General Counsel for the ADS from 2000 to 2005. It is not the magnitude of Bill and Diana Waldrop’s acts of service but the amount of love that they have put into them that matters. Their accomplishment of founding a very successful daylily club has unveiled who they are as a person and helped them obtain fulfillment in life by doing so. The daylily world has benefitted by their service because daylilies indeed has been the place always intended for them.
This dynamic duo started growing daylilies around 1992. Their garden is named Kennesaw Mountain Daylily Gardens and has been an ADS Display Garden since 2010. Their garden was an ADS National Tour Garden in 2015 and Bill was honored with winning the ADS President’s Cup for his ‘Blazing Cannons’ (Waldrop, 2013). Additionally, their garden has been a spring Region 5 Tour Garden in 2011 and 2021. They also have allowed the CCDS to use three rows in the back of their garden for the club’s daylily plants. Diana takes care of planting, fertilizing, and general care of these three rows. Both contribute their own daylilies for auction and sales for the CCDS and Region 5. They host an annual plant sale and auction in their garden utilizing the clubs Activity Rewards Membership (ARM) System in which members earn points throughout the club year for various activities to purchase daylilies. Bill and Diana Waldrop have served as Garden Judges since 2012 and have done educational programs throughout Region 5 and the ADS. Bill as well put on his lawyer’s cap and served as General Counsel for the ADS from 2000 to 2005. It is not the magnitude of Bill and Diana Waldrop’s acts of service but the amount of love that they have put into them that matters. Their accomplishment of founding a very successful daylily club has unveiled who they are as a person and helped them obtain fulfillment in life by doing so. The daylily world has benefitted by their service because daylilies indeed has been the place always intended for them.