Spring Meadow Nursery and the Horticultural Research Institute ( HRI ) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 - 2023Spring Meadow - Proven Winners ® Endowment Fund scholarship .
Dale & Liz Deppe established the Spring Meadow - Proven Winners ® Endowment Fund in 1999 , believe that endorse bright , well - direct , certified people is essential to the green industry ’s protection and growth . Through HRI , the AmericanHort Foundation administers endowment that help pupil obtain the necessary teaching to quest after horticultural careers .
" We have been bless by this industry and the wise man who have aid us along the way , and we are attached to supporting emerging professionals through efforts like these , " said Dale Deppe . Spring Meadow Nursery aims to grant scholarships to students interested in woody plant production , extension , breeding , horticultural sales , and marketing .
The students were awarded scholarships for the 2021 - 2022 granting period , bringing the total amount of awards distributed through the fund to over $ 115,000 . The bookman were chosen from a private-enterprise national applicant consortium for their academic achievements , outstanding leaders abilities , and commitment to pursuing horticulture careers .
Jacob Letmanski is an undergraduate bookman studying Agronomy and Horticulture at Iowa State University in Ames , Iowa . He hopes to go to another university after graduating in 2024 for graduate school , where he will follow up on industrial plant nurture . He hopes to finally work as a plant breeder focusing on woody plants and perennials .
Jack Schaefer has obtained landscape horticulture companion ’s degrees from Cincinnati State . He is pursuing a bachelor ’s in horticulture from the University of Cincinnati . Jack is apply at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden , where he applies his lovemaking of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and bush . With the belief that plants benefit everyone in the community , Jack enjoys ameliorate the lives of those around him with horticultural outreach projects . His favorite part about working at the CZBG is seeing the latest and greatest plant cultivar from plant breeders and experimenting with their landscape painting functionality .
Sophie Schmidt is a soph in Horticulture Research at Iowa State University . Her inquiry interests lie in in increasing our apprehension of plant genomics and leveraging that noesis to meliorate industrial plant breeding , specifically in horticultural crops . Sophie grew up in the Minneapolis region , start up her own lawn caution concern there , and recently completed an internship in plant life wellness at Bachman ’s Nursery . Her future educational and research goals admit prosecute a passe-partout ’s and , eventually , Ph.D. in industrial plant breeding or plant genomics .
Carolyn Krauss , who was a overlord ’s student in Plant Sciences at the University of Tennessee , was present a scholarship as well . Tragically , Krauss died January 15 . She earned her Associate ’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of North Georgia , her Bachelor ’s Degree in Horticultural Science from the University of Georgia , and her Master ’s Degree in Business Administration , condense in Data Analytics , from Louisiana State University . Before bulge out alum school day , Carolyn worked as a nursery and garden center handler . The University of Georgia is establish a learnedness in her memory . gift can be made to this fund by clickinghere .
A total of 43 Spring Meadow - Proven Winners ® Endowed Fund scholarships have been awarded to students since 2004 . learnedness applications for the 2022 - 2023 allow period are open until June 1 , 2023 . Individuals concerned in applying for a scholarship cancheck the HRI websiteor contact Jennifer Gray , HRI Administrator , at ( 614 ) 884 - 1155 for more scholarship practical app details .
