Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 03:05:45 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Free trip to Homer, Alaska for a college-aged birder Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi MD Ospreyers: In May 2004, the Tim Schantz Memorial Foundation will again send a college age scholarship recipient to the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival in Homer, Alaska. I would love to see this trip go to an MOSer. Most of you on this distribution did not know Tim Schantz. Tim lived in Anchorage, Alaska and was a superb wilderness guide, birding leader, and all around great person. He died tragically and suddenly of cardiac arrest at age 36 in the Nome airport in May 2001 between leading a Pribiloff Islands and a Gambell birding trip. Barbara and I were glad to know him as a friend. A memorial scholarship fund was established in Tim's name. The email message, below, from his brother, Mike, deals with the Tim Schantz Scholarship Fund opportunity for 2004. If you know anyone that might be a candidate for this scholarship please pass the information on to them or please feel free to forward this message to others that may be interested. I copied and pasted the text from the flier below the message. If you would like a formatted copy of the flier, complete with artwork, let me know and I'll email the one page MS Word document to you. The formatted flier would be ideal for posting or distributing at local bird club meetings. Thanks. Phil >Subject: Alaska Birding Trip! >To: pdavis@ix.netcom.com, >From: Mike.Schantz@chemicallime.com >Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:49:38 -0500 > >Hello Friends and family. It is time to start getting applications in >for the 2004 Kachemak Bay Shorebird trip. If you know any college age >birders who might be interested in this opportunity, please forward >this information to them. The keynote speaker for the 2004 festival is >Pete Dunne. The attached flyer should answer most questions. The >dates of the festival are May 6-9 and the application deadline is Jan >15, 2004. > >(See attached file: 2004 Scholarship Notice.doc) > >Sincerely, > >Mike Schantz Birding Scholarship Trip Opportunity The Tim Schantz Memorial Foundation will send a scholarship recipient to the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival in Homer Alaska May 6-9, 2004 to help in the student's study of migrating shorebirds. The Kachemak Bay Area, a magnificent setting, is renowned for the diversity and numbers of shorebird species that pass through each spring Tim Schantz, recognized for his dedication and expertise in field bird identification died suddenly of a heart ailment May 27, 2001 at the age of 36 while guiding an birding tour to Gambell, Alaska. The Tim Schantz Foundation has been established to insure that Tim's passion for birds live on in other young aspiring students. The scholarship trip will include the following: " Roundtrip airfare to Anchorage, Alaska " Ground transportation to Homer, Alaska " Four nights lodging for the festival " A copy of the new ABA Alaska finding guide Part of this experience will involve being on the program for the shorebird festival and doing an original ornithological presentation as well as serving as an interpretive guide for the public. For more information on the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival go to homeralaska.org/shorebird To apply for the scholarship email the Foundation at schantzbird@aol.com or write to: Tim Schantz Memorial Foundation 627 E. 7th Avenue Salt Lake City, UT 84103 ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================