WHY DOES THE GCA SEND A STUDENT TO ENGLAND?
This Garden Club of America Scholarship dates back to 1948 following World War II, when the Hillsborough Garden Club in California proposed fostering British American relations through an exchange of scholars in horticulture, landscape architecture and related fields by supporting a British exchange student for a year in America. In 1950 the English Speaking Union (ESU) in London offered a reciprocal fellowship to an American student to study in Britain and in 1952 the Garden Club of America voted to make the Interchange Fellowship a permanent project for all member clubs.
