Please visit our new website QuailValleyGardenClub.org
Quail Valley Garden Club provides assistance for college students majoring in garden related fields. Its purpose is to promote fields that support gardening through increased knowledge and professional expertise. Students in Texas colleges completing their sophomore year or above or graduate students with close ties to Texas may apply if they are majoring in Horticulture, Landscape design, Ecology, Forestry or a closely related field.
We also provide scholarships for Elkins High School Seniors who are college bound and in the upper 1/3 of the class.Its purpose is to support deserving students in our neighborhood go to college.
Pictured our 2010 winners.
Penny Johnson is our 2014-15 Scholarship Chair. For more information and application forms, please download the applicable information from the links below and follow cover letter instructions. At Elkins, Ms. Carter-McClaine handles the application forms and teacher letters. Please get with her office to handle the Elkins High School portion of the application process.
Download 2014-15 College Application Packet PDF form
Download 2014-15 College Application Packet Word file
Download 2014-15 HS Application Packet PDF form
Download 2014-15 HS Application Packet Word file
Some of our Past Scholarship Efforts
Pictured l-r are Barbara Whitaker, principal Elkins High School , Debbie Cogan, senior counselor (now retired), Suzy Walters, 2009-10 Chair, Quail Valley Garden Club Scholarships, preparing for student applications.
The 2008-09 Scholarship winners were Courtney Rodriquez and Rupesh Panchal. The 2008-09 committee chaired by Mary Abbott was represented by committee member Patsy Armbruster. Elkins High School Seniors both are attending college and majoring in pre-med.
Courtney Rodriguez left above is pictured with Barbara Whitaker, Elkins High School Principal.
Rupesh Panchal was unable to attend due to work he was doing at Texas A&M, but he supplied a picture on left. Rupesh was represented by his mother Beena Panchal shown standing with 2009-10 Scholarship Chair Suzzy Walters on left.
L-R below are Courtney's Grandmother, Marie Jacquot; Courtney; her mother, Katherine Kerry; and garden club committee member and Founding President Patsy Armbruster.
Learn more about our other recent Scholarship Winners.