The Bow Garden Club presented Bow High School recent graduate Evelyn Hatem with the 2020 BHS scholarship. The garden club’s criteria for selecting their annual scholarship recipient is that the applicant must be “in good academic standing” and “plans to further their education within a college curriculum majoring in any one of the fields of horticulture, conservation, environmental science, forestry, plant science or any related field”.
Evelyn Hatem met the first criteria — good grades – hands down, and according to her teachers she earned high grades either at or near the top of her class, consistently through her high school years paving the way for her acceptance to Dartmouth College this fall. She will be majoring in environmental science with a minor in economics. She plans to use the knowledge she gains pursuing both of these disciplines toward a career as a policy advisor on environmental issues or to possibly continue her education and become an environmental lawyer. Wherever her educational road ultimately leads her, Hatem wants to use her new-found knowledge to better understand how environmental issues such as erosion, pollution or ocean acidification can be addressed in ways to benefit our communities, and our country in both the short and long term.
The letters of recommendations received from Evelyn’s teachers and principal commend her excellent leadership skills, her compassionate volunteerism and her curiosities about the world we live in. Evelyn hopes to make it just a little bit better as an environmentalist and the garden club has no doubt that she will.