There are several recognition awards at the District Level for outstanding service to the district.  Each award, and its process for nomination and voting, is outlined below. 

Silver Honor Medal

This is the highest District award given by the American Rose Society and is one of three:  the Bronze, for local society service, and the Gold, for national ARS service, are the other two.   

The Silver Honor process begins with a call for nominations in early March, received from the District’s Prizes and Awards Committee members, who represent each local society (list is below).  Your P&A committee member should be consulting with their local society Board of Directors and/or membership for appropriate nominations.  Any P&A member can nominate anyone in the district.

 This list of candidates is then compiled, and ballots are sent out to all P&A members for voting in April.  Votes are returned, and the winner is determined based on specific rules of the ARS:

• All nominees must be ARS members.
• At least 2/3rds of the P&A committee must return their vote.
• The winning candidate must receive 50% of the votes cast.  If less, the top two candidates go out again to the P&A committee for further balloting until one candidate receives 50% of the votes.

As you can see, it’s Really IMPORTANT for ALL P&A committee members to return a vote, even if it’s a vote for “No medal to be awarded,” which is required to also be on the ballot.

The Silver Honor Medal is presented to the recipient at the October CR Meeting.

Outstanding Consulting Rosarian

This is the highest District award for CR work, also awarded by the ARS.  The process is similar to that of the Silver award:

• Call for nominations goes out to the P&A committee members in March.  They consult with their local Board of Directors and/or local CRs for suggested nominations.
• Nominations are received back, compiled, ballots are prepared for voting.
• Committee members vote, ballots are returned to me.  Recipient is determined by a simple majority.

The CR Award is presented to the recipient at the October CR Meeting.

Outstanding Judges Award

This is a new award for the PNW District, with a similar, but slightly different, process.

• The call for nominations goes out to local society Show Chairs, as they are most familiar with the work of the show Judges in our district. 
• List of nominees is compiled, ballot goes out to the P&A Committee members for voting.
• Ballots are returned to me, recipient is determined by a simple majority.

 The Judges Award is presented at the October CR Meeting.

 Prizes and Awards Committee Members 

Terms of office run concurrently with the District Director term.  If you have any comments or questions on our district awards process, or have updates to the list below, feel free to contact the Committee Chair.

Caroline Finch
Prizes & Awards Chair