DR. GEORGE L. GOOD GOLD MEDAL OF HORTICULTURE

NYSNLA awards its highest honor, the Dr. George L. Good Gold Medal of Horticulture, to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to horticulture in the State of New York.

Dr. George Lawrence Good spent his entire career on the Department of Horticulture faculty at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He was an active, engaged member of NYSNLA and received the Gold Medal of Horticulture himself in 1997. After his death in 2008, the award was rechristened the George L. Good Gold Medal of Horticulture in his honor.

Past Honorees

1982 - Dr. P.P. Pirone
1983 - Edwin Costich
1984 - Frank Karpick
1985 - Gordon Jones
1986 - Dr. Arthur Bing
1987 - Joseph Harris
1988 - Ralph Snodsmith
1989 - Dr. Carl Gortzig
1990 - Carl Totemeier
1991 - Ronald O. Barrett
1992 - Beatrice Jones
1993 - Warren T. Johnson
1994 - William "Bill" Head
1995 - James Cross
1996 - Ernie Schaufler
1997 - Dr. George Good
1998 - Henry Weller
1999 - John Hyde, W. Scott Clark
2000 - Dr. Wayne Sinclair
2001 - Ralph N. Freeman, Alfred "Fred" H. Hicks
2002 - George V. Schichtel
2003 - Richard Weir
2004 - Dr. Nina Bassuk
2005 - Carolyn Klass
2006 - Charles Scheer
2007 - Margery Daughtrey
2008 - Robert Mungari
2009 - Dr. Donald Leopold
2010 - Dr. George W. Hudler
2011 - Jan Jansen, Lifetime CNLP
2012 - Paul Fuhrmann
2013 - Edward Dore, Senior Lifetime CNLP
2014 - Steven Perry
2015 - Dr. Andrew Senesac
2016 - Dr. A. Martin Petrovic
2017 - Charles D. Schmitt, CNLP
2018 - Dr. Gary A. Brown
2019 - Daniel O. Gilrein
2020 - Donna W. Moramarco, CNLP
2021 - Vincent Simeone
2022 - Thomas Mitchell 
2023 - Jerry Parmenter, Senior CNLP