The Deep South Region Scholarship Program offers financial aid to a qualified Deep South Region freshman (graduating high school senior), sophomore, junior, or senior majoring in any garden or environmental related subject and enrolled in an accredited college or university in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Tennessee.

Donations and proceeds from the Deep South Life Memberships are applied to the Scholarship Fund, using the invested interest income annually, if funds are available, to provide funding for a scholarship grant of $2,000. The annual grant is dispersed to the designated school by August 15th.

Students in each state are eligible to apply with applications being sent to each individual State's Scholarship Chairman. (see list below).

The Deep South Region Scholarship Committee will consider only one (1) application from each state.

Each State's entry should be sent to the Deep South Region Scholarship Chairman, Mary W. Summerville, P.O. Box 680636, Fort Payne, AL 35968-1607, to be received no later than February 10, 2013.

The Scholarship winner will be announced at the Annual Deep South Convention.

Additional information and application forms may be obtained from individual State Chairmen.

Your Scholarship Applications should be sent to 2011 Individual Deep South State Scholarship Chairman. (For complete four (4) page brochure which includes the application, please go to the Deep South Region Web site's forms page or contact your State Chairman).