Ruth Crocker
Ruth Crocker
2008 Katharine Thomas Cary Medal
Presented to Ruth Cox Crocker, exhibitor, editor and teacher extraordinaire. Ruth has won nearly every GCA flower arrangement award and is both a Flower Arranging and Horticulture Judge and was just named President of the World Association of Flower Arrangers/USA. (WAFA)
Proposed by: a member of The Summit Garden Club, Zone IV
Seconded by: a member of Founders Garden Club of Dallas, Zone IX
The Katharine Thomas Cary Medal is awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of floral design education.
The Katharine Thomas Cary Medal was endowed by New Canaan Garden Club, Zone II, in memory of member Katherine Babcock Thomas Cary (Mrs. William Harris Cary: 1874–1953). She served as a GCA director, floral design judge, and GCA librarian. The medal was designed in 1955 by Karl Gruppe and first awarded in 1956.
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