GAHWNY Student History Award up to $1000

Press Release Date: June 1, 2013
To: Western New York Community Colleges including:

Erie Community College
Finger Lakes Community College
Genesee Community College
Jamestown Community College
 Monroe Community College
Niagara Community College

The GAHWNY Executive Committee is pleased to announce
the establishment of the
GAHWNY STUDENT HISTORY AWARD of up to $1000

Awarded to a student (or students)  graduating from one of the community colleges listed above with plans to continue his/her education by majoring in history at an accredited four year school in New York State. Students must submit proof of graduation from a community college and acceptance to a four year school.

The $1000 award will be divided among the number of approved applicants each year.

Deadline for application is December 31, 2013. Funds will be awarded in February 2014. Application forms will be available August 1, 2013 at: www.GAHWNY.org

See our Student History Award page for more information.

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Our Website Has a New Look!

Welcome to the new website of the Government Appointed Historians of Western New York (GAHWNY). After five years it was time for a fresh look.

You will find the links to all of the historians in the column on the left. That list will remain stationary as you move throughout the site. Only the content in the middle changes. We hope the blog format will make it easier to explore our website while still having all the links you need in the same spot.

Our historians are always up to something throughout our counties, so look forward to added content on a regular basis. Items of importance, like conference dates, will be found as a sticky on the column to the right. Just click on it and it will take to the conference information.

Any document downloads from our old site will be transferred over during the next few days and will be found on a new learning page.

Many thanks to the folks at Shorpy.com for granting us permission to use one of their digitally restored photographs as our background image. It is a 1900 view of the Labor Day parade in downtown Buffalo, NY. The image seemed a perfect fit for us. The website is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a greaser at a coal mine in 1910, who fibbed and said he was 14 in order to get a job. Shorpy has many images from the Western New York area, so head over there and look around.

Enjoy!
Cindy Amrhein, Webmaster