MD Osprey:

Below is a forwarded email announcement about the 2007 Tim Schantz 
Memorial Scholarship for a college-aged birder, which includes a trip 
to the 2007 Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival in Homer, Alaska in May. 
I've also included the text of the actual announcement at the bottom 
of this message.

Tim Schantz was an excellent birder, a superb leader, a great person, 
and a good friend of ours who died of a massive cardiac arrest in the 
Nome airport on his way to lead a trip to Gambell, Alaska in 2001. 
Tim was 37 years old when he died. Having just spent the week before 
with him in the Pribiloffs, Barbara and I learned of his death the 
following day, when we were looking forward to seeing him again at Gambell.

It would be great to have a Maryland birder be selected for this scholarship!

Thanks.

Phil


>Subject: 2006 Scholarship Trip to the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival
>From: 
>Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:20:11 -0600
>
>Everyone:
>
>Attached is an announcement regarding the Tim Schantz Memorial Fund trip to
>the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival for 2006.  We have been very fortunate
>to have had excellent recipients who have represented this effort well and
>we want this to continue.  We rely on all of you, our best birding world
>contacts, to get the word out about the scholarship trip for us.  We need
>to applications in by the end of January, so please forward this
>announcement out to local birding organizations with which you have contact
>and encourage any interested individuals you know to request an
>application.  Happy Holidays to all and hope to see you in Homer.
>
>(See attached file: 2006 Scholarship Notice.doc)
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Dean, Kit, Mike and Tom Schantz



Birding Scholarship Trip Opportunity

The Tim Schantz Memorial Foundation will send a college age 
scholarship recipient to the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival in 
Homer, Alaska May 10-13, 2007 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 in 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 and has sent a 
student to the festival the past 5 years.  The scholarship trip will 
include the following:

- Roundtrip airfare to Anchorage, Alaska
- Transportation from Anchorage to Homer, Alaska
- Four nights lodging for the festival
- A copy of the 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 request a scholarship application send an email to 
  or write to:

Tim Schantz Memorial Foundation
6608 Medinah Drive
Ft. Worth, TX 76132



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Phil Davis      Davidsonville, Maryland     USA
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