Grants, Scholarships & Awards
An endowment fund, in memory of former Club President Ruth Nelson, was established in 1988 with the New Hampshire Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation to benefit the Thomas Bailey Aldrich House Gardens at Strawbery Banke. This fund provides yearly financial support.
The Festival of Trees Scholarship Fund has also been established with the aformentioned Foundation. The money for this fund comes from public generosity and support during the Festival of Trees, which is co-sponsored biennially by the Portsmouth Garden Club and the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, Division of Forests and Lands - Urban Forestry Center.
To apply for a Festival of Trees grant for Seacoast Gardens and Environmental / Conservation Projects, click here.
To apply for a Festival of Trees grant for Local Schools, click here.
2011 Grants, Scholarships and Awards Reception
Suzanne Bove, Portsmouth Garden Club Grants Chair, welcomed recipients and
members to the 2011 Grant and Scholarship Awards Reception held at the Urban
Forestry Center (UFC) on May 4. A total of $1,200 was awarded to four recipients
for grants and five students received $4,500 in scholarship money.
A new $1,500 memorial scholarship was awarded this year in honor of
Priscilla Eames, a long-time Portsmouth Garden Club member and founder of the
Festival of Trees in 1983. She passed away
last summer. Priscilla's daughter, Beth Simpson, left, awarded the scholarship in
her mother's memory to UNH student Lisa Howard.
Members of the grants committee, in addition to Chair Suzanne Bove, are
Sandy Fone, Priscilla Pettis, Eva Powers, June Rogers and Elaine Syracusa. Scholarship committee members include Dianne Mrak, Chair, Mary
Flannery, A.J. Dupere, Stan Knowles, and Angie Hammond.
All funds for grants and scholarships are raised through the generous donations of visitors to the biennial Festival of Trees. The Portsmouth Garden Club thanks our supporters who allow us to "pay it forward." Please join us at the Festival of Trees on November 18th, 19th and 20th, 2011.
May 2011 Scholarship awards photo: Front row, (L to R): A.J. Dupere, UFC, Scholarship Committee; Lisa Howard,
Priscilla Eames Memorial recipient; Emma Erler, scholarship recipient; Jill
Bartolotta, scholarship recipient; Adam Tashareau, scholarship recipient; Angie Hammond,
UFC, Scholarship Committee. Back row (L to R): Mary Flannery, PGC,
Scholarship Committee; Nicholas Haskell, scholarship recipient; Dianne Mrak, PGC,
scholarship committee; Stan Knowles, scholarship committee (Photo by Eva
Powers).
May 2011 Grants awards photo: Front row (L to R): Linda Donohoe, North Hampton School fourth grade teacher
with three of her students; Linda Fritsch, PGC Festival of Trees Chair; Amy
Van Splunder, Wentworth Connections; A.J. Dupere, UFC. Back
row: Kate Simons, Greenland Central School. Linda Gebhart, Hampton
Bicentennial Park, was not present for the ceremony. (Photo by Eva Powers).
2010 Grants, Scholarships and Awards
May 2010 Scholarship awards photo: Front row, left to right: Jessica Spaulding, scholarship recipient; Dianne Mrak, PGC President; Mary Flannery, PGC Scholarship Committee Chair; Scot Flewelling, scholarship recipient.
Back row, left to right: Stan Knowles, scholarship committee; Angie Hammond, UFC, scholarship committee; A.J. Dupere, UFC, scholarship committee.
Missing from photo: Marie Odiorne, PGC, scholarship committee.
Scot Flewelling attends the Thompson School at UNH. He owns his own landscaping business, Stepping Stone Landscaping, and works in the Concord, NH area. He will receive a degree in Horticulture in 2011.
Jessica Spaulding received an associate degree in ornamental horticulture in 2008. She spent a year as an intern at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania and has returned to UNH for a bachelor's degree in environmental horticulture in 2011.
The Festival of Trees Scholarship Committee is composed of Mary Flannery, Committee Chair, PGC; Marie Odiorne, PGC; A.J. Dupere, Community Forester, UFC; Angie Hammond, CFAC Secretary, UFC; and Stan Knowles, Forester.
May 2010 Grants awards photo: Front row, left to right: George Shea, New Franklin School; Dee Barrett, Portsmouth High School Eco-Club; Lisa Harrington, New Outlook Teen Center; Priscilla Pettis, PGC Grants Chair; Brittney Fournier, Robt. J. Lister Academy; Drew Nachampassak; Joshua Goodin, Robt. J. Lister Acad.; Mary Coombs, Rye Jr. High.
Back Row: Ellyn Dugan, PHS Eco-Club; Sam Tombarelli, PHS '10 Class Advisor; Sandy Taube, Hampton GC; David Early, Chase Home for Children; Nathaniel Meyer, Chase Home; Dylan Norris, Robert J. Lister Academy.
Missing from photo: Ellen Gagnon, Robert J. Lister Academy.
Sam Tombarelli, advisor to class of 2010, Portsmouth High School, will use PGC grant money for landscaping the front entrance of PHS in memory of Will Berky, a student who died of a heart attack and whose twin is graduating this year. The plans are for a boulder with an image of Will and a planting of Sweet Williams. A crew of volunteers has planned a work day on June 5.
Dee Barrett is advisor of the Eco-Club at Portsmouth High School, and Ellyn Dugan is one of the students in the Eco-Club. Ellyn explained that their grant money will be used for benches, a rain garden and to make the outdoor classroom on the marsh more accessible to students.
George Shea represented New Franklin School, the oldest elementary school in Portsmouth, which has had highways and roads built up around it. Their grant money will be used to remove asphalt and create a green frontage to the school. Trellises, benches and an inviting entrance are planned to greet students and visitors.
Ellen Gagnon from the Robert J. Lister Academy had three students, Dylan Norris, Joshua Goodin and Brittney Fournier, explain the plans for their grant funds. Dylan stated that Lister Academy is where "Hope happens." The plans are for a low maintenance garden using native plants and addressing issues of sustainability. The garden will be in memory of Carolyn Lilly, a beloved high school secretary who passed away in 2008.
Mary Coombs from Rye Jr. High explained plans for their grant funds. A vegetable garden was started at the school last year, and it was so successful they plan to expand it this year. They will add an outdoor seating area, and their long-term plan is to be a part of the Rye Farmer's Market.
The Little Harbour School representative could not attend the reception, but Priscilla Pettis, PGC Grants Committee chair, explained that the funds would be used for students 4-day environmental camp program.
Nathaniel Meyer and David Early represented The Chase Home for Children on Middle Rd. in Portsmouth. This is a place for children who cannot live at home for various reasons. The property includes 26 acres of woods and fields. The grant money will be used for buying and planting fruit trees and blueberry bushes obtained from the recent Rockingham County Conservation District plant sale.
Lisa Harrington, New Outlook Teen Center, Exeter, explained that the center serves between 20-50 kids each day for no charge. Their Green Team has partnered with Kath Gallant, owner of Blue Moon Market & Cafe in Exeter, to work her large plot of land. The Team will help plant and care for the vegetable garden and encourages parent participation. As a service project to learn to "give back," they will bring vegetables to the New Generation shelter for pregnant women. Their grant money will be used for garden tools.
Sandy Taube, Hampton Garden Club, will use grant funds to beautify an eyesore on Rt. 1. The Hampton GC put in perennials last year and will continue to maintain and improve the site this year.
The PGC grants committee is composed of Priscilla Pettis, Chair; Suzanne Bove; Linda D'Amico; June Rogers; Elaine Syracusa; and Virginia Vaughan.
2009 Grants, Scholarships and Awards
At the May 6, 2009 Portsmouth Garden Club Grant and Scholarship Awards Reception, Festival of Trees scholarship checks were presented to four college students for a total amount of $4,500. William Kunelius is studying Forest Technology at UNH, Mathew Smith is in UNH Graduate School in Resource Administration and Management, Karina Dailey is in the masters program in Environmental Studies at Antioch University of New England in Keen and Braden Drypolcher is in Landscape and Enviornmental Design at NHTI in Concord.
May 2009 Scholarship awards photo, left to right: William Kunelius, UNH Thompson School; Marie Odiorne, PGC Scholarship Committee; Stan Knowles, Forester and Scholarship Committee; Mary Flannery, PGC Committee Chair; A.J. Dupere, Community Forrester, Urban Forestry Center; Mathew Smith, UNH; Missing from photo: Karina Dailey, Antioch University of New England in Keene and Braden Drypolcher, NHTI in Concord.
The Portsmouth Garden Club met on Wednesday May 6, 2009 at the Urban Forestry Center, Elwyn Road, Portsmouth for a Grant Awards Reception. Checks were presented to 11 local recipients totaling $2,850.00. The money will be used for beautification projects and is raised through the Festival of Trees, co-sponsored by the Portsmouth Garden Club and the NH Division of Forests and Lands-Urban Forestry Center.
Grants were presented to: Bicentennial Park, Hampton, NH; Portsmouth Alternative Secondary School; NO Coast; Strawbery Banke;Portsmouth Public Library; New Franklin School; Mayor's Blue Ribbon Cemetery Committee; Little Harbor School; Greenland Central School; Warner House; and Atlantic Heights Community Gardens.
May 2009 Grants awards photo: Front Row: left to right: Linda Gebhart for Bicentennial Park in Hampton; Brandi Staples and Ellen Gagnon for Portsmouth Alternative Secondary School (PASS); Silke Psula and Derek Durbin for NH Coast; John Forti for Strawbery Banke.
Back Row: Dylan Norris, James Burrington and Skyler Parkhouse for PASS; Susan Brough for Portsmouth Public Library; Tara Mickela for New Franklin School, June Rogers for Mayor's Blue Ribbon Cemetery Committee.
Missing from photo: Little Harbor School, Greenland Central School, Warner House, Atlantic Heights Community Gardens.
2008 Grants, Scholarships and Awards
May 2008: Scholarship, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
June 2008: Strawbery Banke, Thomas Bailey Aldrich Gardens
July 2008: Cori Belanger, center, a horticulture student at UNH, is presented with a $1,000 scholarship by the Portsmouth Garden Club's Festival of Trees Scholarship Committee: Marie Odione of the garden club; Stanley Knowles, consulting forester; Angie Hammond, of the Community Forestry Advisory Council; and Mary Flannery, Portsmouth Garden Club Scholarship chairwoman.
In 2005, with Festival of Trees funding, the Portsmouth Garden Club established a Grant Fund and named a committee for the purpose of disbursing funds for worthy community projects that reflect our mission as a club.
May 2008 Grants:
Atlantic Heights Garden Club
Planting and dedication of an elm tree in Bicentennial Park, Hampton.
City of Portsmouth Blue Ribbon Cemetery Committee
Compass Care, Portsmouth
Greenland Central School
North Hampton PAL
Portsmouth Women's City Club
Rock St, Community Garden
Thomas Bailey Aldrich House, 1908 postcard
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