We Receive Lots of Thanks...Here are a few!

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2009 Gifted Fund Scholarship Winners

Beverly B. Reid

"I am so excited. Nadine and I are all set to fulfill this scholarship. It means the world to me."


Holly Spencer

"Thank you so much for allowing me to be the recipient of the 2009 Gifted Grant for Region 3. I must tell you that the honor of being chosen means at least as much to me personally as the grant itself does financially. Please extend my thanks to all the other people involved in this program."

Jana Nelson

"OH MY GOSH!!! I am SO excited and honored!!! Again, thanks for this wonderful opportunity."

Laurie Bauchman


"Thank-you so much!!! I am absolutely thrilled! Please express to everyone on the committee how grateful I am for this opportunity! I really can't thank you enough and will look forward to telling you all about my experience."

Marsha Williams

"I am so thrilled to receive this scholarship! I am planning to do the training in April of 2009. Thank you so much. I so sincerely appreciate this and I know it will make a huge difference in the future of my horse and I."

Maggie Stonecipher

"Thank you so much. I am very excited and will get busy with my planning. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity! I will maximize my time training with Sue and take advantage of all I can."

Jennifer MacPhail

"Thank you!!! I am thrilled and honored to be awarded this scholarship."

Barbara A. Cadwell

"Thank you for your exciting and gratifying e-mail advising me that I have been selected to receive a Gifted fund grant. I am most grateful that fellow riders whom I respect chose me for this honor."



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Joan Darnell

"Thank you so much for all your support for the FE/ Jr/ Yr clinics."

 
Jordan Meadows

"I would like to thank you for all of your hard work to help put on this years Olympic Dream Program.... I hope the program will continue to educate and inspire others in the years to come!"

Vanessa Simon

"I can't begin to tell you how thankful I am that I had the opportunity to go on the Olympic Dream Program.....These memories will stay with me for the rest of my life. I can't thank you enough, and I hope I will have more experiences like this in my future."

Emily Tears

"Dear Mr. Boomer: Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to tour the different training facilities in Europe. Their riding is excellent and I feel so privileged to have been a part of the Olympic Dream Program. Thank you for everything that you and the Dressage Foundation does for the dressage community."

Katie Alms

"Dear John, I wanted to thank you so much for making this trip happen. I had such a great time meeting and watching these top Dressage Riders. The trip was very educational and I feel that I have come home a better rider. Thanks again to all those who give so much to us Young Riders and I hope they all know that it means so much!"

Fort Worth Dressage Club

"The Fort Worth Dressage Club would like to thank The Dressage Foundation for their generous grant to FWDC for our Adult Camp. Without you this Camp could not have happened."

Emily O'Neill

"Dear Members of The Dressage Foundation,
I write to you in utmost gratitude for granting me the opportunity to participate in the Jr/YR Clinic Series with George Williams. It was an amazing weekend- educational, inspirational and truly a blast! It is a wonderful organization you all run and we are so fortunate as riders and dressage enthusiasts to be able to take advantage of such opportunities. I certainly would not have been able to do it with out the help from the Foundation."

Ann Bennett

"Thank you to the Dressage Foundation for supporting our event. GMO members who would not normally participate in this type of learning environment found that they made important breakthroughs in their communication with their horse and were inspired to continue learning and improving their horsemanship. The discussions about the training pyramid at lunch each day encouraged a healthy dialogue and inspired questions like why is there not a training pyramid for riders?"

Mickie Hull (Kaweah CDS)

"Thank you to the Dressage Foundation for granting us the financial help t put on this clinic for our local dressage community. We are in a fairly rural agricultural area of central California. Cows are a BIG business here, not horses. So, because of the grant from the Dressage Foundation, we were able to offer this clinic to CDS members in the Central region at a reasonable price and fairly close location. That is why we were able to fill the clinic slots almost immediately. Please let your Board know the grants (even the little ones) are promoting dressage and dressage education that would not be attainable to many in the rural areas."

Micaela Mabragana

"Hi! My name is Micaela Mabragana. I was the winner of the Amanda Ward Award. I just wanted to say Thank you!!! I've qualified to go to the young rider world cup in Frakfurt representing Argentina with Granada. The generous prize I received at Saugerties has been so helpful. I have no words to explain how happy and grateful I am. Once again, THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!"


The following thank-yous are from past recipients of the Carol Lavell Gifted Fund

 

Jennifer Brandl

"Again, I would like to say that this has been a very wonderful learning experience. Thank you very much to The Dressage Foundation and Carol Lavell for allowing PeeTee and me to develop something to build on for years to come."


Marsha Allen

"Thank you very much Dressage Foundation, and Carol Lavell for providing me and the other amateurs awarded a Gifted scholarship the opportunity of a lifetime to take a whole week off to train and ride dressage and not have distractions of work, family or pressing obligations."




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