The de Lacy Gray Memorial Medal for Conservation was given originally in 1965 by the Dolley Madison Garden Club in memory of de Lacy Cave Thompson Gray, a member of the Dolley Madison Garden Club and President of the Garden Club of Virginia from 1930-1932. The medal is presented to an individual member, or a member club of the GCV. First awarded in 1965, it recognizes outstanding effort to further the knowledge of our natural resources and to encourage their wise use.
Prior to his death in 1999, Mrs. Gray’s grandson, Walter G. Dunnington, Jr. provided medals to sustain the gift in the foreseable future and contributed generously to the Kent-Valentine House in memory of his grandmother and his mother, Allen Gray Dunnington.
Nominations (click here for form) are to be postmarked by March 1 or received electronically by 5 pm on March 1.:
Garden Club of Virginia
Kent-Valentine House
12 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23219
email to: communications@gcvirginia.org
HISTORY OF DE LACY GRAY WINNERS
2024 Lisa Mountcastle
2023 Mary Louisa Pollard
2022 Carol Carter
2021 Betty Davenport
2020 Anna Galusha Aquino and Meg Turner
2019 Anne Mead Beals
2018 Mary Bruce Glaize
2017 Heidi James
2016 Hollis Stauber
2015 Polly Rowley
2014 Betsy Agelasto
2013 Nancy Dickerson
2012 Virginia (Gina) Farrar
2011 Sallie Sebrell
2010 Catharine Gillliam and Mary Stuart Gilliam
2009 Suzanne Wescoat
2008 Eve D. Fout (1929 – 2007)
2007 Jocelyn Sladen
2006 Rossie Fisher
2005 Martha Wingfield
2004 Rebecca Lea McGovern
2003 Mary Glen Taylor
2001 Fran Boninti
2000 Molly Brown