Wine Industry Scholarships

Wine Industry Scholarships. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

The Washington Wine Industry Foundation is offering four sets of scholarships totaling more than $13,000 for students interested in viticulture or enology. Julie Lindholm is the Special Projects Director for the Foundation.

LINDHOLM: Each 4 scholarships have different criteria and the applications are completely different because for instance one of them is the Horse Heaven Hills Wine Growers Scholarship, you do have to be a resident in the Benton, Yakima or Klickitat county to qualify for that one.

In addition to the Horse Heaven scholarship there is the Walter J. Clore, John Farmer and Bill Preston scholarships.

LINDHOLM: Well it will be for going to college. Some of them have the requirement that the college does have to be in Washington State but when the committee looks at awarding these scholarships they look at high school, college and post college students so each one of them has a different qualification.

Lindholm says they are looked at as separate groups so they are not competing.

LINDHOLM: They can go to the Washington Wine Industry Foundation web site which is washingtonwinefoundation.org. They can download the criteria as well as the application. Each one of them again have a little bit of different criteria for each scholarship so they need to review the paperwork and make sure they’re sending in the right information.

All scholarships must be postmarked by June 1, 2011 and are available to high school seniors or graduates and college students currently enrolled or planning to enroll in a college or university viticulture and/or enology program. 
That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.