Horticulture Club/Richard Reale Scholarship Reaches Full Endowment

 

It is official! The endowment for the Horticulture Club/Richard Reale Scholarship is complete as of mid June. The Horticulture Club initiated the endowment 5 years ago with a goal of a $ 20,000 endowment to fund the scholarship.

 

The scholarship was originally started 27 years ago to honor a former Horticulture student who died in an accident weeks before graduation. Richard Reale was that student, and had become active in the Horticulture Club the last few years of his academic career. He was an outstanding student who maintained a 3.9 GPA while working and participating in the club.

 

The scholarship was funded by the Reale family and friends for the first 5 years. The Horticulture Club took over the funding of the scholarship and has supported it on an annual basis the last 22 years. The scholarship is given to an outstanding student who has demonstrated both academic success as well as made significant contributions to the Horticulture Club and the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture.

 

The endowment has been funded primarily though funds generated from Hort Club annual spring sales of bedding plants as well as fall fruit sales. There have also been substantial contributions from former students and faculty to support the endowment.

 

Thanks goes to all Hort Club students who contributed time and energy in generating the endowment funds as well as individuals who made donations! Future recipients will appreciate all that you have done.

 

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