Past President Jim Winchell conferrng scholarships.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Each year we award two one thousand dollar scholarships to college level students in New Mexico. The intent of the scholarships is, of course, to acknowledge, encourage, and reward the hard work and excellence of students in the earth sciences field.  AGMC’s scholarships are open to a deserving junior, senior, or graduate student majoring in geology, and the award is based on scholarship, need, and promise. Two scholarships are given annually to a University of New Mexico and N.M. Tech. student selected by their Department at their school.

Monies for the AGMC scholarships come primarily from our Annual Gem and Mineral Show and from club auctions. This long standing Club tradition was started in October 1960 with the issuance of one $150 scholarship and over the years has increased to where the club now is giving two $1000 scholarships each December at our Christmas Dinner banquette.

The reason this has been possible is because the Club membership and the members’ activities have remained high enough, and provided enough support of shows and auctions, that over the years these scholarship moneys have increased to today’s levels.

The recipients of a scholarship for 2007 are:

Antoinette Abeyta and Will Woodruff.  They and their guests were present to enjoy the club's annual Christmas party and to receive our congratulations and check. Antoinette, a geology major, is the undergraduate student selected from NM Tech for her all around excellence in coursework and successful completion of a summer research internship in sedimentology, During dinner Antoinette relayed that the research internship was a great opportunity and involved doing turbidity studies along a stretch of the Missouri river in Minnesota.

The faculty of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM selected Will Woodruff, also a geology major and undergraduate as their recipient. Will, it was relayed to me by the Chair of the department John Geissman, is "their very best student in decades". Congratulations to these fine young people and thanks to all the club members who give their time and talents to the annual Treasurers Of The Earth (TOTE) gem and mineral show that generates the money we have to award.

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