THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA IS DEDICATED TO RESTORING

THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA IS DEDICATED TO RESTORING, IMPROVING AND PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT THROUGH ITS CONSERVATION, HORTICULTURE, CIVIC IMPROVEMENT, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Photos, left to right: Tropical forests, a destination for many scholars, photo by Leila Salazar; Gainey garden, Atlanta, Georgia, photo by Robert Rausch; Hippeastrum puniceum, Barbados lily; Summer field botany. Canarium trees, Bogor Botanical Garden, Indonesia; Fledgling saw-whet owl, photo by E. C. Hunter; Interchange Fellow, Rupert Hugh-Jones; Shortia galacifolia, Oconee bells; Scholar examines endangered plant species. All photos from the CGA collection. Scholarships & Fellowships THE GARDEN CLUB of America THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA 14 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022 Phone: (212) 753-8287 • Fax: (212) 753-0134 Web site: www.gcamerica.org The Garden Club of America policy conforms with and strongly supports applicable federal and state laws that forbid discrimination on the basis of race sex, disability, religion, age, national origin or sexual orientation with regard to the application for any of the scholarships The Garden Club of America sponsors. E ACH YEAR, BETWEEN 30 AND 40 THE L FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS ESTABLISHED IN 1928 SCHOLARS ARE THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE ROME PRIZE FELLOWSHIP IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA’S 14 SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS. 7 THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA SCHOLARS PURSUE THEIR STUDIES WORLDWIDE AND CAN BE FOUND DOING FIELD WORK AND RESEARCH IN ASIA, EUROPE, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES. TO DATE, OVER 300 SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA SCHOLARSHIPS. 7 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS AND THEIR STUDY PLANS ARE LISTED YEARLY AND SCHOLARSHIP REQUIREMENTS ARE FULLY DESCRIBED ON THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA’S WEB SITE AT www.gcamerica.org. 7 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS FOR EACH OF THE GCA SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS, at the American Academy in Rome provides American landscape architects with a special opportunity for advanced study, travel, and association with other fellows and prominent professors in residence. A list of former Rome Prize recipients includes many of our country’s most outstanding landscape architects, as well as artists, architects, musicians, and classicists. The Academy overlooks the historic city of Rome from its 11-acre complex on the Janiculum Hill. It has been called “an estate of the mind” and provides an atmosphere for unregiAt the Academy, Elise mented study, independent Brewster investigated ancient garden sites around work, and inspiration. Rome, including the Forum and Nero’s Golden House. Applicants must hold an accredited degree in Landscape Architecture. Selection is by the Academy in consultation with the GCA Scholarship Committee. Funds one fellow annually • Deadline November 15 Contact: Ms. Julia Lu, American Academy in Rome • 7 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022-1001 • Phone: (212) 751-7200, Fax: (212) 751-7220, • E-mail: j.lu@aarome.org Web site: www.aarome.org PLEASE COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE CONTACT. STUDENTS MAY APPLY FOR MORE THAN ONE SCHOLARSHIP, BUT ONLY ONE WILL BE GRANTED FOR THE SAME PERIOD OF STUDY. SELECTIONS ARE APPROVED BY THE GCA SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE. L FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 1948 THE GCA INTERCHANGE FELLOWSHIP & MARTIN MCLAREN SCHOLARSHIP The purpose of The Garden Club of America is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement. provide a reciprocal exchange of British and American students in horticulture, landscape architecture, or related fields. The intent of the program is to foster cultural understanding, as well as to promote horticultural studies and the exchange of information in this field. The Martin McLaren Scholarship, administered by the Institute of Horticulture in the British Isles and funded by the Martin McLaren Trust, provides a non-credit, experience beyond the regular course of study. Work may award academic credit but should be in addition to required courses. The GCA selects and administers these awards. Funds two or more scholars annually at $1500 each • Deadline February 10 Contact: Ms. Connie Sutton, The Garden Club of America • 14 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022-1002 • Phone: (212) 753-8287, Fax: (212) 753-0134 • Application on GCA Web site: www.gcamerica.org • When requesting further information, please include self-addressed stamped envelope. McLaren Scholars may work in the glass houses at Kew Gardens, England, during their academic year. work/study program for an American recipient, selected by the GCA Scholarship Committee. The academic year offers periods for study, research, and practical work at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh, as well as an optional university semester, when the fellow may have the opportunity to pursue a research project under the guidance of an advisory panel. Each year the interchange is complete when a British fellow is selected for a graduate academic year in the United States. The Interchange Fellow is selected by a committee appointed by the McLaren Trust in the U.K. and the Interchange Fellow, Rupert Hughprogram in the U.S. is Jones, did postgraduate research in Narcissus tissue culture at Oregon administered by the The State University. Garden Club of America. Funds two students annually • Deadline November 15 Contact: Ms. Connie Sutton, The Garden Club of America • 14 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022-1002 • Phone: (212) 753-8287, Fax: (212) 753-0134 • GCA Web site: www.gcamerica.org • When requesting further information, please include self-addressed stamped envelope. L FOR COLLEGE OR GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 1981 THE KATHARINE M. GROSSCUP SCHOLARSHIPS were established to encourage the study of horticulture and related fields by providing financial assistance to students who wish to pursue these academic endeavors. Preference is given to young men and women who are college juniors, seniors, or graduate students from Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky. Selection is by the Grosscup Scholarship Tree climbing is a frequent activity for Grosscup Scholar, Committee. Nathan Morrison, as part of his urban forestry studies. Funds several students annually up to $3000 each • Deadline February 1 Contact: Mrs. Nancy Stevenson, Grosscup Scholarship Committee, Cleveland Botanical Garden • 1 1030 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 • No phone calls. Fax: (216) 721-2056 • Application on GCA Web site: www.gcamerica.org L SUMMER STUDY FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 1964 THE GCA AWARDS FOR SUMMER ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Peacock Scholar, Stephen Hale, going to great heights to do predictive mapping of high elevation, sprucefir bird species using remote sensing. provide financial aid to college students following their freshman, sophomore, or junior years who wish to pursue summer studies doing field work, research, or classroom work in the environmental field. The scholarships encourage young men and women who are interested in furthering their studies and careers in the field of ecology and offer an opportunity to gain knowledge and L FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES IN BOTANY ESTABLISHED IN 1983 THE GCA AWARDS IN TROPICAL BOTANY Preference is given to students whose projects focus on the endangered flora of the Carolinas and the southeastern United States. Selection is by a panel of botanists appointed by the CPC. Funds one student annually up to $4000 • Deadline December 31 Contact: Kevin James, Conservation Programs Manager • Center for Plant Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 631660299 • Phone: (314) 577-9452, Fax: (314) 577-9465 • E-mail: KevinJames@cpc.mobot.org • Application on Web site: www.mobot.org/cpc/beattie.html were established to promote the preservation of tropical forests by enlarging the body of botanists with field experience. The program, administered by World Wildlife Fund, enables doctoral candidates to pursue independent field study in the tropics. These awards have enabled many fine young tropical botanists to carry out their field work in areas where they otherwise may not have been able to travel. Their research has the potential to significantly contribute to critical issues of tropical botany and notably impact tropical conservation. Selection is by a panel of botanists appointed by World Wildlife Fund. Funds two scholars annually at $5500 each • Deadline December 31 Contact: Judith Mashinya, Attn: GCA Awards in Tropical Botany Education for Nature Program • World Wildlife Fund, 1250 24th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037-1175 • Phone: (202) 778-9632, Fax: (202) 861-8324 • E-mail: efn@wwfus.org L FOR COLLEGE SENIORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 1994 THE FRANCES M. PEACOCK SCHOLARSHIP FOR NATIVE BIRD HABITAT L FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN BIOLOGY OR HORTICULTURE Photos, left to right: Tropical forests, a destination for many scholars, photo by Leila Salazar; Monitoring the saw-whet owls in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, photo by E. C. Hunter; Gainey garden, Atlanta, Georgia, photo by Robert Rausch; Shortia galacifolia, Oconee bells; Collecting native plant specimens in Madagascar for medicinal research, photo by James Zareski. ESTABLISHED IN 1983 THE CATHERINE H. BEATTIE FELLOWSHIP was created to promote the conservation of rare and endangered flora in the United States through the programs of the Center for Plant Conservation headquartered at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The research grant enables a student in either biology or horticulture to conduct field research on rare plants. grants financial aid to advanced students to study areas in the United States that provide winter or summer habitat for our threatened and endangered native birds. Awarded in cooperation with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the scholarship offers scholars the opportunity to pursue real habitat-related issues that eventually benefit bird species and lend useful information for land management decisions. Funds one or more scholars annually at $4000 each. In special instances if it seems highly desirable because of two unusually fine candidates or two candidates working on one project, the award may be divided • Deadline January 15 Contact: Scott Sutcliffe, Cornell Lab of Ornithology • 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 • No phone calls. Fax: (607) 254-2415 • E-mail: lh17@cornell.edu • Web site: www.birds.cornell.edu L FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES AND RECENT PH.D.S IN BOTANY ESTABLISHED IN 1997 THE ANNE S. CHATHAM FELLOWSHIP IN MEDICINAL BOTANY for well-qualified science students specializing in tropical ornamental horticulture and botany to assist with an accepted project within an accredited American university program. Funds one student annually at $2000 • Deadline January 10 Contact: Ms. Connie Sutton, The Garden Club of America, 14 East 60th Street • New York, NY, 10022-1002 • Phone: (212)753-8287, Fax: (212) 753-0134. • Application on the GCA Web site: www.gcamerica.org was established to protect and preserve knowledge about the medicinal use of plants, thus preventing the disappearance of plants with therapeutic potential. Dr. Peter H. Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden where the fellowship is administered, says, “The timely Anne S. Chatham Fellowship will help support research on the medicinal plants that are so important to humankind yet are under ever-increasing threat.” Providing this research opportunity for botanists can, in turn, assist medical science in its ability to protect lives and develop medicines. To this end, the Chatham scholar may elect to work either in the field or in the laboratory. Selection is by a panel of botanists appointed by the Missouri Botanical Garden. Funds one scholar annually at $4000 • Deadline January 15 Contact: Dr. James S. Miller, Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 • Phone: (314) 577-9503, Fax: (314) 577-9596 • E-mail: miller@mobot.org • Web site: www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/applrsrch/ chatham.html L FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 1999 THE GCA AWARD IN COASTAL WETLANDS STUDIES L FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATES ESTABLISHED IN 1999 THE LOY MCCANDLESS MARKS SCHOLARSHIP IN TROPICAL ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE fosters the study of tropical ornamental plants and their use in horticulture and landscape architecture. It affords a graduate student, or advanced undergraduate, an opportunity to study at a leading foreign institution that specializes in the field of tropical plants. The Loy McCandless Marks Scholarship, is administered by the GCA Scholarship Committee. University of Hawaii at Manoa, provides a complementary funding opportunity Mucuna bennettii, New Guinea creeper seeks to promote wetlands conservation through the support of young scientists in their field work and research. Recognizing the growing value placed on wetlands, the GCA created this award to encourage sound scientific knowledge of coastal wetlands (defined as those tidal or nontidal wetlands found in the coastal states, including those of the Great Lakes). Applicants may propose a wetlands program of their choice at a leading educational institution within the United States that specializes in wetlands studies. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) of The College of William & Mary, is the Students pursuing advanced coastal selector and administrator degrees in for this wetlands science may apply new scholarship to assist with their field work and for this award. research. Photo by C.H. Lamoureux Funds one student annually at $5000 • Deadline January 15 Contact: Carl Hershner, Ph.D., Chair, Center of Resources Management, Virginia Institute of Marine Science • P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062-1346 • Phone: (804) 684-7380, Fax: (804) 684-7179 • E-mail: carl@vims.edu L SUMMER STUDY FOR COLLEGE OR GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 2000 THE GCA SUMMER IN FIELD BOTANY SCHOLARSHIP research at an institution in the United States. Selection is by a panel of experts appointed by the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Funds one scholar annually at $4000 • Deadline January 15 Contact: Ron Figura, Landscape Architecture Foundation • 818 18th St, NW, Suite 810, Washington, DC 20006-3520 • Phone: (202) 331-7070, ext 10 • Fax: (202) 331-7079 • E-mail: rfigura@lafoundation.org provides financial aid to students following their undergraduate years or graduate students up to the Masters degree level wishing to pursue summer studies doing work in the field specifically related to field botany. This significant new award addresses the compelling need to promote the study of botany to the horticulture public and increase the awareness of the importance of botany to horticulture. Field work is to be done in any of the 50 United States. Work may award academic credit. It encourages students enrolled in a U.S. institution to gain experience beyond the required course of study. The GCA Scholarship Committee and members experienced in botany select and administer this offering. Funds one scholar annually at $1500 • Deadline February 1 L FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 2000 THE GCA FELLOWSHIP IN ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION Work in the field is an important part of a scholar’s program Contact: Ms. Connie Sutton, The Garden Club of America • 14 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022-1002 • Phone: (212) 753-8287, Fax: (212) 753-0134 • Application is on the GCA Web site: www.gcamerica.org • When requesting further information, please include self-addressed stamped envelope. supports specialized graduate study and research in ecological restoration, the active healing of the land, at a leading accredited university in the United States. The goal of this new fellowship is to support research that will advance knowledge and increase the numbers of scientists in this important field. The proposed study should conform to the Society of Ecological Restoration’s definition of ecological restoration: “The process of assisting the recovery and management of ecological integrity [which] includes a critical range of variability in biodiversity, ecological processes and structures, regional and historical context, and sustainable cultural practices.” The fellowship is administered and the scholar selected by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. It may be renewed pending review. Funds one scholar annually at $8000 • Deadline January 15 Contact: Gregory D. Armstrong, Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum • 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, WI 53711 • Phone: (608) 262-2746, Fax: (608) 262-5209 • E-mail: gdarmstr@facstaff.wisc.edu • Web site: http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/arboretum/ L FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 2000 THE DOUGLAS DOCKERY THOMAS FELLOWSHIP IN GARDEN HISTORY AND DESIGN was established to further the study of history and design in the American garden. It is intended, also, to look to the future of gardens and their unique place in our environment. The art of the garden increases in importance today with the growing restraints on all open spaces. Project study would have wide scope. This unique new award, administered by the Landscape Architecture Foundation, provides a fellowship to a graduate student to assist with study and L FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED IN 2001 THE GCA INTERNSHIP IN GARDEN HISTORY AND DESIGN was established to encourage the study of garden history and design, and if possible, aid in the cataloguing of the GCA slides in the Archives of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution. the internship will provide for an independent study program in garden history and design for credit, for a term of 10 to 16 weeks for an undergraduate and 6 months for a graduate student at any facility approved by the GCA Scholarship Committee. Preference will be given to a student who elects to work at the Archives of American Gardens. Funds one scolar annually at $2000 • Deadline: December 31 Contact: Ms. Connie Sutton, The Garden Club of America, 14 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022-1002 • Phone: (212) 753-8287, Fax: (212) 753-0134, • Application will be on the GCA web site at www.gcamerica.org after June 1, 2002.