Master Gardeners announce three scholarships
Garland County Master Gardeners has awarded $650 scholarships to Garland County high school seniors Jillian Robertson, Virginia Slick and Blake Stringfellow.
Robertson’s application, references and essay “were outstanding,” a news release said. She graduated in 2020 from Jessieville with a 3.8 GPA and ranked sixth in her class. She was class president, student council member, honor roll recipient and a member of the All-State Cheer group, as well as many other activities. She has been accepted at Southern Arkansas University where she plans to major in agricultural science.
Slick is a recent graduate of Cutter Morning Star High School where she was ranked first in her class of 44. Her GPA was 4.0 throughout her high school years. She was in the gifted and talented program and “received excellent references from her high school principal and the head of the gifted and talented program at Morning
Star,” the release said. She is from an agricultural background and works part-time at Schults Greenhouse. She has been accepted at Arkansas Tech University where she plans to major in Ag Business with a focus on Horticulture.
Stringfellow has been accepted to Southern Arkansas University where he plans to major in Ag Business and hopes to start his own forage business for local livestock owners. He graduated from Lake Hamilton High School with a 3.5 GPA. He was active in the FFA program and has his own Agricultural Business Entrepreneurship Project in the FFA. He maintains many yards as a landscape manager and is an avid outdoorsman.
The winners were chosen from a field of 10 applicants for their academic and extracurricular accomplishments. This is the first year for the Garland County Master Gardener Scholarships chosen by its scholarship committee. The Master Gardeners also contributed to the Dale Bumpers Scholarship at the University of Arkansas and to the Garland County 4-H Foundation Scholarship.