Scholarship Winners – The West Virginia Nursery and Landscaping Association

We are proud to announce that four in-state students attending West Virginia University studying landscape architecture are receiving $5,000 each, thanks to our Marcus W. Rennix scholarship program. The WVNLA board of directors approved their applications at its October 22 meeting. Congratulations to: Joshua Cross of Summit Point, a senior majoring in Landscape Architecture, […]

The board of directors of the West Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association (WVNLA) selected Adaline Cumpston, a senior at John Marshall High School, to receive a scholarship created in memory of George W. Longenecker. In 2024, WVLNA established the Longenecker Scholarship to encourage graduating high school seniors to apply for and enroll in the Landscape […]

The Marcus Rennix Scholarship is open to horticulture, landscape architecture, or nursery and greenhouse management West Virginia native students who have completed half the required courses in the relevant major and maintained at least a 2.5 grade point average. The criteria prioritizes scholarships to West Virginia citizens wherever they are studying in an effort to […]

We were pleased to welcome our 2025 scholarship recipients to our Winter Symposium on Feb. 11 in Charleston. Students traveled to Charleston and were recognized at the luncheon. Five Marcus Rennix scholarships in the amount of $5,000 were awarded each to Horticulture, Landscape Architecture and other green industry students attending WVU. To qualify, these students […]

Congratulations to our first George W. Longenecker scholarship recipients. The board of directors of the West Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association (WVNLA) approved scholarships for two West Virginia students entering West Virginia University’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design. Sarah Gompers is a rising WVU Landscape Architecture student from Buckhannon who attends Buckhannon […]

West Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association Announces$12,500 in Scholarship Awards for Five College Students The board members of WVNLA were pleased to select five scholarship recipients who will receive $2,500 each through the Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship program. The students — all attending West Virginia University (WVU) — were recognized at the association’s February […]

Two applicants for the 2023 Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship so impressed the board of directors that they awarded them both full $5,000 scholarships. Garrett Balog of Charleston is a junior studying horticulture at West Virginia University. He graduated from Mooresville Senior High School in North Carolina. Seth Glazer of Huntington attends Columbus State Community College […]

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 […]

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 […]