Grand Haven ’s Spring Meadow Nursery and the Horticultural Research Institute ( HRI ) have announced the recipients of 2019 - 2020 Spring Meadow - Proven Winners Endowment Fund scholarships .
Dale & Liz Deppe establish the Spring Meadow - Proven Winners Endowment Fund with HRI in 1999 with the notion that bright , well - train , dependant people are all-important to the light-green industry and that backing motivated students play a lively role in protect and growing the industry . Through HRI , the AmericanHort Foundation act as the administrator of endowments that help educatee to obtain the education necessary to successfully prosecute horticultural career .
“ Our team has been blessed by this industriousness and the wise man who ’ve helped us along the fashion . These scholarships represent our dedication to continue the encouragement of egress professional , ” said Dale Deppe . “ We are proud of to be able to put up these students in such a lineal style . ”
Horticulture students Mary Tuski , Noah Brown , Amber Lancaster and Jacklyn Stupienski were each awarded $ 2500 scholarships for the 2019 - 2020 granting period , impart the entire amount of award distributed through the stock to $ 83,750 . The student were chosen from a competitive home applicant pool for their pedantic achievement , exemplary leading abilities , and dedication to pursuing careers in gardening .
Currently a senior at Michigan State University , Mary Tuski is working toward her bachelor ’s degree and plans to pursue a master ’s degree in glasshouse product with a career goal of working in woody and tree production after she graduates . Mary is a member of the Michigan State Student Horticulture Association where she has serve as vice president and now is the president of the organization . She also has attended the CareerUp program at Cultivate for three yr and has gained hands - on experience in the horticulture industry working as a landscape painting labourer , a farm intern , and multiple stints as a research help in the MSU gardening lab .
Noah Brown is a Jr at North Carolina State University where he is follow up on a Bachelor of Science in agrarian business management . After graduation , he hopes to study agritourism in the Netherlands and finally design to exploit toward obtaining a direction position in the gardening industry . Noah is a member of the NC State gardening ball club and has intern at Greenleaf Nursery Company in Tarboro , NC .
An outstanding educatee , Amber Lancaster just started her senior year at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and is especially interested in propagation , reproduction , and graft of fruit tree to find the most disease - resistant cultivars for Northwest Arkansas . She is presently an houseman at the University of Arkansas in the Plant Pathology section where she is learning about types of pests and pathogens that can affect the plant in both subject area and nursery production . Amber has been a extremity of Gamma Beta Phi , Phi Theta Kappa , Baptist Collegiate Ministry and the on - campus Horticulture Club .
Jacklyn Stupienski is enter her 2nd class of a 2 - year gardening program at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury , CT . She has receive the CT Horticulture Society Scholarship , and a merit scholarship for outstanding GPA and achievement . Jacklyn ’s interests include design , generation and growing , and last twelvemonth she was go for into the summertime internship program at Monrovia . After she graduates , she trust to apply for opportunities that involve growing , propagation , or sales .
A sum of 33 Spring Meadow - Proven Winners gift scholarships have been awarded to educatee since 2004 . erudition applications for 2021 will open in April , 2020 . Individuals who are interested in applying for a scholarship cancheck the HRI websiteor contact Jennifer Gray , HRI Administrator , at ( 614 ) 884 - 1155 for more scholarship software details .
The Horticultural Research Institute , founded in 1962 , has provided more than $ 8 million in student encyclopedism and research grants for projects covering a encompassing range of product , environmental , and business issues of import to the green diligence . almost $ 11 million is committed to the endowment by person , corporation , and associations .
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