Early in 1998, Rick Rader, MOGSouth member from Chattanooga suggested that MOGSouth establish a perpetual award to honor the memory and spirit of the long time MOGSouth members Nancilee and Dan Kelly, to be called the Mother Courage Award. Mother Courage is the name Nancilee gave to her blue Drop Head Coupe. A committee was drafted at the 1998 Spring Meet to decide the criteria for the award and that committee decided that the award is to be given to the person or persons who best personify Dan and Nancilee’s love for people, Morgans and life.
Each year, potential awardees are nominated by the club membership at large and the new recipient is selected, from those nominated, by the past three recipients of the award. The award is presented at the annual MOGSouth Holiday Party.
MOGSouth members are eligible to receive the award multiple times. This was motioned in 2018 at the Holiday Party and subsequently approved by a general MOGSouth membership survey.
