Re: Next Dykes Winner
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- Subject: Re: Next Dykes Winner
- From: "* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:03:06 +0000
- References: <199806211751.LAA04192@email.bigsky.net> <3.0.5.32.19980624072822.0095ab30@midwest.net>
ernie henson wrote:
>
> At 12:11 PM 6/21/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >Carryl Meyer wrote:
> >>
> >> I was at the AIS Board Meeting in Denver when the decision was made to
> >> add more TB's to the list eligible for Dykes Medal--reasoning--all
> >> other specie on the list were winners of the medal given for that
> >> specie, whereas several of the TB's were not winners of the Wister
> >> medal--so for an interum time there will be some non-Wister Medal
> >> winners up for the Dykes. Eventually, there will be only winners of
> >> their specie medals, but for right now the rules were
> >> changed--otherwise, next year there would be only 1 TB on the ballot--
> >> My vote is known only to myself--but--for the past few years, I have
> >> not voted for a TB, as I thought that an other one was better
> >> qualified to win the Dykes Medal--hopefully, other than a TB will
> >> again win the Dykes--who knows when?
> >> Hope this helps to settle the confusion--the AIS Board Meeting minutes
> >> in the next Bulletin will have the discusion and you can read more
> >> about it there! Carryl in Western Montana--where we finally had a
> >> day without rain--nice that it was the day of our IIris Garden
> >> Tour--any good remedies for sunburn?
> >
> >Since l927, I only know of two (BROWN LASSO...BB and ELMOHR...AB) that
> won in any category other than TB. There may be more that I'm not aware
> of. How about the BIS Dykes Medalists....are they pretty much all TBs,
> too? There are certainly some excellent Medians and other types that are
> being overlooked. I guess everybody's favorite is the TBs....we're partial
> to them, but would not want to be limited only to them. Seems to have
> become an entrenched tradition to award it to TBs. Maybe the tendency to
> consider mainly the TBs helps narrow down the field since there are a lot
> of irises in the running, but that doesn't seem fair to all the other
> types. Ann Henson
>
> Thanks again, John, for keeping us up and limping along. YEA! JOHN FOR
> PRESIDENT!!!!!!!
> >
> >
