Bio: Smagacz, Lori (Scholarship - 1974)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Smagacz, Taylor

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 5/16/1974

Smagacz, Lori (Scholarship -1974)

Lori Smagacz, a student at Neillsville High School, who won a scholarship from the Business and Professional Women’s Club, attended a special high school workshop at the Trees for Tomorrow Environmental Center, Eagle River, on May 5-8.

Forty-three girls from schools throughout the state took part in the three-day workshop on scholarships furnished by BPW clubs in their area.

M. N. Taylor, executive director, welcomed the girls and gave a colored slide lecture on the Winds of Change, Trees for Tomorrow’s history and projections for the future.

Touring in the new Trees for Tomorrow rolling classroom, towards which Wisconsin BPW clubs raised $8,000 in a recent campaign, the girls carried out the theme of the 1974 workshops, “Time to Discover.” They studied environmental and sociological products for human needs on tours to the Ottawa national forest at Watersmeet, Michigan, the Star Lake Plantation, and the Wisconsin Press Association Forest.

They learned about energy in the environment and studied ecology in the center’s demonstration forest with students teaching students.