Deadline extended

Garden Club to award scholarships

Mar 22, 2020

Update: The deadline for applications has been extended to June 30 for high school and college students.

The Wareham Garden Club will be awarding $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors and college students this spring.

Applicants must have lived in Wareham for at least one year, be a current student with at least a B average (3.0 on a 4.0 scale), and have good character.

Scholarships are available for students with focus of study in one or more of the following areas: horticulture, forestry, botany, environmental studies, agronomy, biology or marine biology, conservation, floriculture, city planning, landscape design or architecture, land management, or allied subject. Students with extracurricular experience in these areas will be given extra consideration.

High school applicants must be graduating this spring, and must be accepted to a college or other post-secondary school, and should submit an application postmarked on or before June 30.

College students must be current students, and should submit an official transcript with an application postmarked on or before June 30.

Applications will be available at area high schools when they reopen, and are available by contacting Chairperson Norma White at norma.white@comcast.net, warehamgardenclub@gmail.com, or by mail to the Wareham Garden Club, PO Box 3276, Wareham, MA 02571.