Honorary Members

The Society recognizes members who have “rendered a special meritorious service to the Society and to the advancement of horticulture in Florida” by designation as Honorary Members. Election to Honorary Membership is one of the greatest honors the Society can bestow. Honorary Members are provided lifetime membership in the Society without requirement to pay dues.

Please consider your peers and make nominations for this distinguished honor.


Honorary Members (1988 to Present)*

Albrigo, L. Gene 2012
Anderson, J.B. 1922
Anderson, Shirley F. 2002
Beckenbach, J.R. 1967
Berckmens, P.J. 1893
Berger, E.W. 1940
Berry, Robert E. 1987
Blackmon, G.H. 1964
Bosanquet, L.P. 1924
Brecht, Jeffrey K. 2014
Brown, Arthur C. 1952
Bryan, Herbert H. 2003
Bullock, Robert C. 2008
Burgis, Donald S. 1980
Calvert, David V. 1997
Camp, A.F. 1956
Campbell, Beverly 2010
Campbell, C.W. 1988
Cantliffe, Daniel J. 2006
Carlton, R.A. 1962
Castle, William S. 2011
Chase, J.C. 1939
Chase, S.O. 1939
Childers, N.F. 1993
Clayton, H.G. 1956
Colburn, Burt 1970
Commander, C.C. 1952
Cooper, W.C. 1981
Dickey, R.D. 1968
Edsall, R.S. 1967
Etxeberria, Ed 2016
Everett, Paul H. 1986
Fairchild, David 1922
Fifield, Willard M. 1955
Flagler, H.M. 1903
Floyd, Bayard F. 1944
Floyd, W.L. 1939
Ford, Harry 1985
Forsee, W.T., Jr. 1973
Gaitskill, S.H. 1909
Gardner, Frank E. 1967
Garrett, Charles A. 1951
Goldweber, Seymour 1984
Grierson, William 1979
Guzman, Victor L. 1987
Haden, Mrs. Florence P. 1934
Hall, David J. 2011
Harding, Paul L. 1968
Hart, W.S. 1909
Hastings, H.G. 1939
Hatton, Thurman T. 1987
Hayslip, Norman C. 1981
Henricksen, H.C. 1939
Holland, Frank L. 1962
Holland, Spessard L. 1945
Hoyt, Avery S. 1950
Hoyt, R.D. 1914
Hubbard, E.S. 1922
Hume, H. Harold 1927
Ismail, Mohamed A. 1996
Jackson, Larry K. 2000
Jamison, F.S. 1962
Johnson, Warren O. 1965
Jones, John Paul 1997
Kender, Walter J. 2000
Knight, Robert J., Jr. 2006
Koo, R.C.J. 1978
Krezdorn, A.H. 1979
Krome, William H. 1973
Krome, William J. 1927
Krome, Mrs. Isabelle B. 1960
Lawrence, Fred P. 1973
Lipsey, L.W. 1924
Locascio, Salvadore J. 1996
Logan, J.H. 1965
Lynch, S. John 1975
MacDowell, Louis G. 1968
Magie, Robert O. 1977
Mathias, A.F. 1972
Matthews, Richard F. 1992
Mayo, Nathan 1940
McCornack, A.A. 1986
Menninger, Edwin A. 1964
Miller, Leon W. 1972
Miller, Ralph L. 1972
Montelaro, James 1985
Morton, Julia F. 1989
Mounts, M.U. 1958
Mowry, Harold 1950
Murdock, Del I. 1984
Newell, Wilmon 1940
Norman, Gerald G. 1967
Norris, Robert, E. 1962
O’Byrne, Frank M. 1962
Overman, A.J. 1988
Painter, E.O. 1909
Peterson, J. Hardin 1950
Pratt, J.B. 1980
Redmond, D. 1893
Reed, R.R. 1970
Reitz, Herman J. 1970
Reitz, J. Wayne 1955
Robinson, T. Ralph 1942
Rolfs, P.H. 1921
Rolfs, Mrs. P.H. 1921
Ruehle, George D. 1958
Sargent, Steven A. 2018
Saunders, Fred 1999
Sharpe, Ralph H. 1974
Shaw, Miss Eleanor G. 1927
Sherman, Wayne B. 2003
Showalter, Robert K. 1984
Singleton, Gray 1962
Skinner, L.B. 1931
Sloan, G. Dexter 1964
Smith, Paul F. 1972
Smoot, John J. 1986
Spalding, Donald H. 1987
Spencer, E.L. 1962
Stamps, Robert 2010
Steffani, C.H. 1958
Stephens, James M. 1995
Stevens, H.B. 1934
Swingle, W.T. 1941
Syvertsen, James P 2013
Taber, George L. 1914
Tait, W.L. 1941
Talbott, George M. 1980
Tenny, Lloyd S. 1956
Thompson, Ralph P. 1962
Thompson, W.L. 1962
Thullbery, Howard A. 1962
Todd, Norman 1991
Tucker, David P. 1999
Veldhuis, M.K. 1972
Ward, W.F. 1962
Waters, Will E. 1997
Webber, H.J. 1941
Wedgworth, Ruth S. 1965
Wenzel, F.W. 1973
Wheaton, T. Adair 1994
Wilfret, Gary J. 1998
Wilson, Lorenzo A. 1934
Wiltbank, William J. 1987
Winsberg, Theodore W. 2007
Winston, J.R. 1960
Wolfe, H.S. 1964
Young, T.W. 1978
Yothers, W.W. 1976
Ziegler, L.W. 1976

*Date listed is the year in which the
award was received.