Scholarship Committee
The Scholarship Committee reflects the club’s mission to develop and stimulate interest and participation in horticulture, floral design, civic beautification, and environmental concerns.
Scholarships Awarded
2026
We’re thrilled to introduce the 2026 Lenox Garden Club scholarship recipients!
Amelia Madrigal is a Senior at Mount Greylock Regional High School. In her poem, Cardinal Choice, she starts off by saying, “I believe in tree rings. They are lines drawn through squishable temporalities, telling the story of what it’s seen and who it’s become.” Much like her poem, Amelia herself is a story unfolding supported by nature and her community. As the Outing Club President, among other activities, have grounded and inspired her. Amelia will attend Brown University this fall.
Estelle Baden, is an environmentally minded, bi-lingual Senior at Monument Mountain Regional High School. She writes, “In my experience, one project that deeply reflects the mission of the Lenox Garden Club, to nurture our natural habitat with inspiration and imagination, was my involvement in co-founding and developing a Community Closet at my school.” Estelle’s leadership qualities are well developed and effectively executed in her community. The University of Vermont Honors College is lucky to welcome this young steward.
2025
We’re thrilled to introduce this year’s Lenox Garden Club scholarship recipients!
Elijah Jones, a Taconic High School graduate, attends Berkshire Community College. He’s worked as Head Gardener at Berkshire Country Club and has volunteered for Pittsfield Beautiful and Soldier On. He told us he loves the coleus for its ease and beauty, and credits Taconic’s CTE program with opening his eyes to the joy of horticulture.
Fritz Sanders, an environmentally minded Wahconah High School graduate, studies at Montana State and is a member of the Bridger Ski Foundation. Combining his love of the outdoors, volunteer work and academic pursuits, he is taking advantage of Bozeman’s offerings. On the trail and in the classroom he concerns himself with conservation and stewardship.
2024
On May 30, 2024, Scholarship chair Mary Jane Piazza attended Wahconah Regional High School awards ceremony in Dalton, MA to present the third annual Lenox Garden Club scholarship to graduating senior Aidan Garcia. Based on essays submitted by four local high school students, the committee chose Mr. Garcia, who plans to study Biology with a concentration in Environmental science and will attend Middlebury College in the fall.
2023
The Lenox Garden Club $500 Scholarship winner for 2023 was Ms. Tia Kareh of Hoosac Valley High School, now a Freshman at MCLA. In her application, Tia states an early interest in being outside and “getting hands deep in nature” which also brings her a sense of peace.
As a middle schooler, she took part in a science fair, creating a rain gutter growing-environment for urban spaces. Tia participated in a high school summer garden internship—planting, watering and harvesting, continuing her interest in food systems and agriculture—as she states “creating life where there was nothing.” Tia dual-enrolled
in a college class on environmental sustainability where she created a hydroponic “ecocolumn” – a self-contained vertical terrestrial habitat comprised of a compost unit, which filtered downward into a sustaining aquatic habitat for fish.
Tia says that her curiosity in science, food systems, and agriculture has enforced how much the environment must be preserved—in addition to how much comfort and peace there is in nature.
2022
In 2022 our first $500 Lenox Garden Club Scholarship winner, Abigail Webster, then a senior at Berkshire Arts Technology (BART) Charter School, sent the following unsolicited email to reaffirm the value of the club’s commitment to helping worthy local high-school seniors pursue their horticulture-related goals in their chosen field of study.
