The Edelweiss Garden Club offers a minimum of one educational scholarship to high
school seniors graduating from an Otsego County school-public,
private or parochial, and planning to attend a Michigan school
of higher learning and/or students who already have graduated
from an Otsego County high school and are presently enrolled in
a Michigan school of higher learning. These scholarships are for one year.
Applicants must be planning to major one of the following fields
of study: Agriculture Education, Horticulture, Floriculture,
Landscape Design, Golf Course Management, Botany, Biology, Plant
Pathology/Science, Forestry, Agronomy, Environmental Concerns,
Environmental Conservation, City (Rural and Urban) Planning,
Wildlife Science, Habitat or Forest/Systems Ecology, Land
Management. The Scholarship committee must grant approval for
majors other than the ones listed.
Scholarship recipients will be chosen on the basis of
educational excellence, awards or achievements, character,
initiative and experience and financial need.
Applications are available at the
counselors' offices at Gaylord H.S., Johannesburg H.S.,
Vanderbilt H.S. and St. Mary's H.S.
The scholarship will be paid to the finance office of the
recipients’ educational institutions in early August.
The completed application must be received by May 1, 2017, and
should be mailed to:
Cynthia Hilling
250 Arrowhead Trail
Gaylord, MI. 49735
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