Four NDSU Horticulture and Forestry Club members were awarded scholarships by the National Association of Landscape Professionals Foundation during the National Collegiate Landscape Competition held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, March 16-18.
Connor Hagemeyer, Torie Jones, Andrew Scheldorf and Emily Schoenrock each received one of 53 scholarships awarded by the foundation.
Hagemeyer is a junior from Clara City, Minnesota, majoring in horticulture with minors in botany and crop and weed sciences. He is the club’s vice president and is involved in the Statesmen men’s choir and CRU campus ministry. After graduation, he plans to attend graduate school and pursue a career in ornamental plant breeding. His academic adviser is Harlene Hatterman-Valenti, professor and assistant department head of plant sciences.
Jones is a senior horticulture and public history double major from Bowdon, North Dakota. She was the club’s secretary for two years and is involved in Phi Alpha Theta and Collegiate 4-H. This summer she will intern at Polly Hill Arboretum on Martha's Vineyard, Maryland. Her future plans are to pursue a career in public horticulture, arboretums or botanical gardens. Her academic advisers are Todd West, associate professor of plant sciences and undergraduate program coordinator, and Angela Smith, assistant professor of history.
Scheldorf is a senior from Chokio, Minnesota, majoring in horticulture with minors in botany and biological science. He has served as the club’s president for two years, is a member of Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society and is a College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources Honor Commissioner. He also is the Real Food Challenge vice president and the undergraduate student representative on the Department of Plant Sciences Curriculum Committee. After graduation, he plans to attend graduate school in plant breeding with a career goal of becoming a plant breeder and researcher for fruit crops. West is his academic adviser.
Schoenrock is a senior from Maple Grove, Minnesota, majoring in landscape architecture with a business administration minor. She is involved in the Horticulture and Forestry Club, the student chapter of National Association of Landscape Professionals and the student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She has accepted a full-time position as a landscape architect assistant with David J. Frank Landscape Contracting, a design build firm in Germantown, Wisconsin. West is her academic adviser.
The scholarships are awarded to students whose schools have been actively involved in the National Association of Landscape Professionals. To be eligible to apply, students must be enrolled in a landscape or horticultural program at a two- or four-year college or university
The National Association of Landscape Professionals is a collaboration of landscape and lawn care industry professionals that advocates for the economic, social and environmental benefits of the industry.
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