Report of the Scholarship Committee

August 2006 

The Scholarship Committee met on the evening of August 6, 2006 to select the recipients for
the 2006-2007 academic year. Those attending the selection meeting were: Annamary Miester,
LGCF President; Peggy Cazes, former LGCF President; Betty Bagert, former LGCF President;
Dolores Masson, LGCF Corresponding Secretary; Linda Finley, District VII Director; Eleanore
Capretto, LGCF Credentials Chairman; Beth Rush, representative for District II; and Ann
Cooksey, Scholarship Chairman.

We were so pleased that our Louisiana candidate, Megan Samantha Broadway from Rayville, was
chosen to receive a $3500.00 National Garden Club Scholarship in 2006.

Mary Elizabeth Bordelon from Giesmar, a senior at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
majoring in Landscape Architecture was awarded the $1000.00 Anite Currault Scholarship.

Greta Goravona from Carencro, a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Biology and Conservation
Ecology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette was awarded a $1000.00 Scholarship.

Lesley Margaret Litton from Monroe, a senior at the University of Louisiana at Monroe
majoring in Agricultural Business was awarded a $1000.00 Scholarship.

Karen Weins from Breaux Bridge, a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Biology and Ecology at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette was awarded the $1000.00 Irene M. Petitjean Horticulture
Scholarship.

Sharmila Pathikonda from Lafayette, a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental and Evolutionary
Biology was awarded the $1000.00 Ducie Heaney Scholarship.

Kourteny Anne Ackley from Lake Charles, a senior at McNeese State University majoring in
Agricultural Science was awarded the $1000.00 District VII Scholarship.

Amanda Anthony from Baton Rouge, a junior at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge majoring
in Landscape Architecture was awarded the $500.00 Shady Oaks/Neil Christopher Scholarship.

Jennifer Kay Zell from Baton Rouge, a graduate student in Landscape Architecture at Louisiana
State University Baton Rouge was awarded the $500.00 Landscape Design Consultants/Neil
Christopher Scholarship.

David Michael Newman from LaPlace, a senior at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
majoring in Landscape Architecture was awarded the $250.00 District II Book Scholarship and
the $500.00 Gardening Consultants/Jo Ann Christopher Scholarship.

There were no applications for the District I and the District VIII Sara Weiss Book
Scholarship.