The Garden Club
of
Harwich
Fall
2024
Celebrating Over 90 Years!
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scholarships, Toolships & Grants
The GCH is proud to support our Harwich youth in learning about our natural world. It is our hope that by studying the environment, the next generation will understand how to respect it and care for it.
Scholarships...
We offer a $3,000 scholarship every year to a local college student who is pursuing environmental studies, botany, horticulture, landscape design or other related fields such as conservation, forestry, water purification, oceanography, and marine biology. The scholarship is awarded after her/his successful completion of a freshman year at an accredited four-year college.
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2024 Scholarship Recipient
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​Having just graduated from Monomoy High School, our 2024 Scholarship recipient, Chloe Jones, is attending the University of Vermont. Chloe will be majoring in Environmental Science. Chloe wrote “Our planet is beautiful and unique, the only planet we know of to contain water at our fingertips. I want to ensure our planet is still here and thriving after I am gone”.
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2023 Scholarship Recipient
2023 Scholarship recipient, Ana Rolf, has completed her freshman year at the University of New Hampshire and received her $3000 Scholarship check in June. Ana is majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Toolships...
We offer Toolship Grants to two Cape Cod Technical High School graduating seniors who plan to pursue a field relating to environmental areas such as horticulture, landscaping, conservation, etc. More information and an application can be obtained through the Cape Cod Tech Guidance Department.