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High School/College Interpretive
Scholarship Program
Azure
Mountain Friends Scholarships Available
OUR
2008 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS: COURTNEY
DOYLE & CHUCK BISHOP
Both successfully completed 5 days apiece
volunteering on the summit.
Courtney:
"Although I met
many interesting people, the most exciting part of being a volunteer in
my opinion would have to be the battling the extremes, which at times
were horrendous. The first days I volunteered were in June and the
black flies were in the thousands and I donated at least a pint of my
blood for their lunch...." Summer, 2008
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Chuck:
"Being born and
raised in St. Regis Falls I have never truly appreciated Azure Mountain
as it has always been there for me...... This all changed greatly
this year when I became the recipient of the Azure Mountain Friends
Scholarship." Summer 2008
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 Azure
Mountain Friends Scholarships have been created to encourage the
involvement of area teens in helping us to fulfill our educational
mission. Each year AMF hopes to award one or two $350 scholarship
to a ‘north country’ high school senior or college student who
volunteers to serve as a Fire Tower Interpreter for 5 days. Emily
Goughery of Lake Ozonia/Canton was the first recipient of the
scholarship in 2005 and Nathan Brouwer in 2007. In learning about
Azure Mountain’s human and
natural history and the story of the fire tower’s restoration, the
students will gain a new awareness of and appreciation for
environmental and historic preservation. We anticipate that
scholarship recipients will serve as role models for their peers.
Contact AMF if you
have any questions.
1st Scholarship Winner: Emily Goughary,
Canton, NY
Below, Nate Brouwer, 2007 Scholarship Winner
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GUIDELINES for the AZURE MOUNTAIN FRIENDS ‘VOLUNTEER’ INTERPRETER SCHOLARSHIP
Purpose: The Azure
Mountain Friends Scholarships have been created to encourage the
involvement of area teens in helping us to fulfill our educational
mission. In learning about Azure Mountain’s human and natural
history and the story of the fire tower’s restoration, the students
will gain a new awareness of and appreciation for environmental and
historic preservation. We anticipate that scholarship recipients
will serve as role models for their peers.
- The Azure Mountain Friends may offer at
least one $350 scholarship to
a high school student (Senior), planning
to attend college, or to a college student who volunteers to serve as a
Fire Tower Interpreter on the Azure Mountain summit.
- The scholarship may only be used to pay
for “qualified” educational expenses, such as tuition, fees, and course
related expenses, such as books, supplies and equipment.
- AMF will prepare and distribute a press
release to the local papers. An application
form will be
distributed to interested parties including all local school
administrators and guidance counselors.
- Preference will be given to a student
living in the St. Regis Falls Central School District in order to
encourage local support for the Azure Mountain Friends and the tower
that they’ve helped to restore and now maintain.
- If there are no local applicants then the
search will be expanded to outlying areas in both Franklin and St.
Lawrence Counties.
- To be considered for this position,
students will be asked to submit a brief essay (250 words) on “Why I
would like to be an AMF ‘volunteer’ Fire Tower Interpreter for five
days
in the summer of 2009” [The 5 days would be weekend days in the
time frame between the Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends
compatible with the student’s other commitments.]
- Three AMF Directors, one of whom is an
Officer, will read the essays and together make the selection.
The Board of Directors will then vote to approve the selected
student(s). The selected student(s) will be presented with a copy
of our 52 page Fire Tower Interpreter’s Guide, an AMF identifying patch
and an AMF “T” shirt.
- The student’s 1st day on the mountain
will involve a three hour mentoring/training session with an
experienced AFM volunteer interpreter. The student will then be
left on his/her own for the remainder of the day.
- Upon completion of these 5 days of
‘interpretive’ experience on the mountain, the student shall be
required to submit a typed essay of at least 250 words in which they
summarize their experience. Their comments may be used in
soliciting future AMF scholarship applicants.
- When the student volunteer(s) has (have)
completed the interpreter experience, the AMF will make every effort to
recognize the student’s accomplishment(s) through press releases to the
local media.
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