Past Scholarship winner – The West Virginia Nursery and Landscaping Association

Two promising West Virginia University students have been selected as WVNLA’s 2022 Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship winners. Ruston Seaman, a landscape architecture and an environmental and community planning double major at WVU, and Mathias Solliday, a horticulture major at WVU, both received full scholarships in the amount of $5,000, based on their academic achievements, […]

WVNLA’s board of directors has selected two recipients for the 2021 Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship. Sarah Naegele and Jacob Riggleman are both students at West Virginia University. Sarah Naegele is a senior studying landscape architecture at West Virginia University. She grew up in Charleston, where she graduated from Capital High School. Her path to […]

2020 Scholarship Winner

Rennix Scholarship Winner is Grounded in Experience Described by his professor as a “credit to our landscape architecture program,” Tyler Bailey adds the honor of being named 2020 WVNLA scholarship winner to his credentials. Tyler is a native of Poca working toward his bachelor of science degree in landscape architecture at West Virginia University. He […]

2019 Scholarship winners

West Virginia University students Brent Mitchell of Shady Spring and Nicholas Oxendale of Oak Hill have been selected as the 2019 WVNLA Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship recipients. Both are landscape architecture majors. Brent, who plans to minor in horticulture, has owned and operated his own landscaping company, HighLine Landscaping, for three years. He began […]

2018 Scholarship winner

Congratulations to Dustin Trychta, a West Virginia University horticulture student who was selected as WVNLA’s 2018 Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship winner. After graduating from high school in 1998, Dustin entered the army and was stationed as a cook in Budingen, Germany, for nearly seven years. He was honorably discharged in 2005 as a sergeant. […]

2017 Scholarship winner

Zackary Grossl, a junior majoring in landscape architecture at West Virginia University, was recently selected as the 2017 recipient of the Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship. Zack graduated from Greenbrier West High School and is the son of Dale Grossl and Tina Grossl. Zack didn’t start his college career in landscape architecture, but childhood memories […]

2016 Scholarship winner

Congratulations to Amanda Hamilton, who was recently selected as the 2016 recipient of the Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship. A junior horticulture major at West Virginia University, Hamilton grew up in Raleigh County and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. She was chosen for the award based on her excellent grades, involvement in student activities […]

Jesse Poe: 2015 scholarship winner

WVNLA is pleased to announce the selection of Jesse Poe as the Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship winner for the 2015-16 school year. Jesse is a junior Horticulture major at West Virginia University. He is from Charleston, WV, where he graduated from George Washington High School. Jesse began his college career at West Virginia State […]

WVNLA names 2014 scholarship winner

Members of WVNLA’s board of directors were unanimous in their selection of Silas Childs as the recipient of the 2014 Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship. This hard-working student is an honors student in Horticulture at West Virginia University, and is also married with two small children at home. Despite the challenges of balancing family, job […]

2014 Scholarship Winners

Three deserving and hard-working horticulture and landscape architecture students at West Virginia University were selected as recipients of the Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship for the 2013-14 school year. Whitney J. Garton Whitney is a Horticulture major, with a minor in pest management. She is a native of Jane Lew and developed an interest in […]