Scholarships

2025 – 2027 Scholarship VP – Karen Taylor

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TGC INC. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS FOR 2025

The Scholarship Committee met at the TGC Fall Board meeting on October 21, 2025 held at TGC Headquarters in Fort Worth. We are pleased to announce the following recipients:

Michael Cook
Michael is a student at Texas A&M with a grade point of 4.00.  His major is Viticulture and Enology.  Michael is working his PhD and upon graduating plans to be an assistant professor and extension specialist in horticulture with Texas A&M.  Michael received a $4,000 scholarship from TGC.

Kathryn Michelle Huether
Kathryn is a student at Stephen F. Austin State University with a grade point average of 3.3.  Her major is Horticulture and plans to be a Horticulture Researcher upon graduation.  Kathryn received a $3,000 scholarship from TGC.

Send the applications to Nancy Giffhorn the VP Scholarships.

Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., gives annual scholarships to Texas resident students who are college-level juniors or above.  The applicant must have at least a 3.25 GPA and be majoring in a field of horticulture.  The fields of horticulture included are floriculture, landscape design, horticulture, botany, biology, plant pathology, forestry, agronomy, environmental concerns, city floriculture planning, land management and other allied subjects.  Remember!!  The application deadline is October 1 for a scholarship given the following spring/winter semester.

Grants were set up in honor of the following:  Nellie Day Trigg, Bess Buchanan, Florence H. Thomas, Mary Badham Kittel, Hazel Raske, Francis Ellis, and Ethel W. Spears.  These Scholarships are given on a rotating basis in their respective names.  These Scholarships continue to grow as the 2 member clubs give yearly to the Scholarship program thereby increasing the principle.