Tom's of Maine

2007 Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Medal

Presented to Kate and Tom Chappell, co founders of Tom's of Maine, a company based on values oriented approach to business, committed to high quality and environmentally sound products. The company distributes 10% of all pre-tax profits to charitable causes. They created a river conservation ethic in America, linking the Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy St. John River Project with other conservation groups and created a national marketing plan spurring the formation of scores of new watershed protection groups.

Proposed by: a member of Piscataqua Garden Club, Zone I

The Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Medal is awarded, by specific request, to non-members for exemplary service and creative vision in any field related to The Garden Club of America’s special interests.

Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor (1918–2014) was a member of The Garden Club of Nashville, Zone IX, a GCA director and GCA Executive Committee vice president. She served on the Nominating, Literary, and Founders Fund committees and chaired the Public Relations and Visiting Gardens committees. She was instrumental in the relocation of the Howe Garden to Cheekwood Estate & Gardens in 1968 and was a two-term mayor of the city of Belle Meade. She received the Zone IX Creative Leadership Award in 1982 and the GCA’s Amy Angell Collier Montague Medal for outstanding civic achievement in 1991. Elizabeth served on the boards of the American Horticultural Society, Mount Vernon, and Historic Kenmore in Virginia. The award was originally known as the Special Citation (1963–2003). It was endowed by the Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Charitable Foundation in June 2003 and first awarded in 2004.

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