North Chapter Offers Student Scholarship in Honor of Keith Board
The Indiana Native Plant Society’s North Chapter has created a student scholarship in honor of the late Keith Board. The scholarship is for students in the North Chapter region and covers the annual INPS membership fee and fees for registration and attendance at the INPS Annual Conference. Please share with students you know who may be interested.
Keith Board Student Scholarships
Each year INPS North Chapter will award 2 student scholarships to qualified recipients. The scholarship is a one-year membership in INPS and registration to attend INPS Annual Conference (held in Ft. Wayne 2019) plus a stipend for travel and lodging. The applicant is required to:
- Be currently enrolled in an accredited high school, college or university in one of the North Chapter counties (Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, La Porte, Marshall, Porter, Starke, St. Joseph Counties)
- Submit a maximum 400 word proposal/essay describing their past, current and future career goals/involvement in any study related to the research or protection of our native flora to be received by INPS North Chapter at north@indiananativeplants.org by September 15, 2019
- Provide a letter of recommendation from a current instructor
Award recipients will be notified by a representative from North Chapter on October 1, 2019. Announcements of scholarship recipients will be posted on our Facebook page and in our chapter and state newsletters.
Keith Board
July 20, 1960-January 12, 2019
The Indiana and Chicago region botanical communities suffered a great loss with the passing of INPS member Keith Board. Keith was a woodshop, drafting, and architecture teacher at Bremen High School for 31 years. He touched countless lives with his interests in woodworking, carpentry, photography, fishing, writing poetry and jokes, and of course, botany and visiting natural areas.
As a self-taught field botanist, Keith’s work was invaluable to our understanding of the flora of northern Indiana. He contributed immensely to Plants of the Chicago Region (Swink and Wilhelm 1994) and to the monumental Flora of the Chicago Region (Wilhelm and Rericha 2017).
The huge void that has been left with his passing will never be filled, but with young students looking up to mentors such as Keith and knowing that the love of our natural world is enough, we will know that his work will not be forgotten.
Please direct questions to scottnamestnik@gmail.com.