Dr. Steven Still

2008 Medal of Honor

Horticultural educator, who taught at both Kansas State & Ohio State Universities for 32 years as a professor of Landscape Horticulture. He organized the Perennial Plant Symposium which became the Perennial Plant Association, as a method to provide continuous horticultural education for nurserymen and various national and international plantsmen.

Proposed by: Little Garden Club of Columbus, Zone X

The Medal of Honor is awarded for outstanding service to horticulture.

The Medal of Honor is The Garden Club of America's oldest national award. It was first given to Charles Sprague Sargent, a Harvard University professor and the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum, in 1920, and endowed in 1963 by the Bedford Garden Club, Zone III, in memory of member Alice Mary Sloane Anderson (Mrs. Arthur Marvin Anderson: 1888–1961). The medal was designed in 1920 by sculptor John Flanagan who also designed the original US quarter dollar coin that was first issued in 1932.

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