Monterey Mushrooms Announces Carl Victor Fields Scholarship Awards Top $2.2 Million

Ten years ago in 2004, Monterey Mushrooms renamed its scholastic achievement program the Carl Victor Fields Scholarship Awards in honor of the late Carl Fields, recognizing his passionate dedication and commitment to helping our youth.  Since that time the program has continued its work awarding scholarships to the dependent children of Monterey employees so that this school year of 2014-2015, Monterey will be awarding $204,000 to 136 dependent students of Monterey employees.  This brings the total scholarship monies awarded since the program's inception in 1992, to over $2,230,000.

Shah Kazemi, Monterey's president reflects, "As we look back on the beginning of this program to the present, we are gratified to see the many tangible rewards and benefits achieved through helping the children of our employees attain their scholastic goals. I know Carl would be pleased with the program's success." 

And successes are many.  All of Monterey's facilities report multiple instances of dependent students entering and completing two and four-year programs in fields such as science, business, physics, engineering and targeted technical training. Of note, our Loudon, TN facility advises that four students including Juan Cahue are currently pursuing degrees in the medical field; Joe Cuevas and Juan Medina graduated and are now employed as mechanic and air-conditioning specialist respectively.  Clarke Tajte from Monterey's Orlando, FL facility has graduated with plans to pursue a higher degree in her field of pharmacology.  These same kinds of stories are repeated throughout all of Monterey's ten facilities.

Scholarship applications were received from Monterey's multi-site facilities located throughout North America and awards are based on academic achievement, financial need, and future potential.  The awards are made for one year at a time – for a total of four years if the student continues to meet the criteria of the program.  Monterey is proud of all recipients, past and present, and wishes them well as they continue striving to reach their goals.

Source: Monterey Mushrooms