L to R: President Karen Lipman, Chelsea Mahaffey, Susan Strayer, Emily Lubahan, Alex Luddy , & DeeDee Bolt

Each year Carrie T Watson Garden Club awards a scholarship to a student or students studying horticulture, landscape architecture, or related subjects or majors. Shown above receiving their checks from President Karen Lipman, Awards committee Chair Susan Strayer, committee member DeeDee Bolt, the 2011 Scholarship Award recipients are particularly talented.

Chelsea Mahaffey is a Horticulture major at Temple University and currently has a 3.45 GPA. Chelsea is on the horticulture honor society. She has worked at the Erie Zoo for the past four summers and comes highly recommended by Jeff at the zoo and two of our Carrie T. members.

Emily Lubahn is undertaking a masters program for Landscape design at Conway School of Landscape Design in Conway, MA. Emily received her BA from the University of Vermont with a 3.40 GPA with a double major in Anthropology and Studio Art. She is currently in San Pedro, Mexico working on an urban streetscape using native plants.

Alex Luddy he has been a scholarship recipient for the last two years and will be entering his last year at Penn State majoring in Landscape Architecture. Alex just returned from a semester in Italy. He maintains a 3.25 GPA.

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