Joan McHenry Hoblitzell

Joan McHenry Hoblitzell has been a volunteer at Irvine Nature Center since 1995. She works diligently as a Volunteer Naturalist Guide, inspiring children to embrace the outdoors as they learn everything they can about their natural surroundings. She has done this with enthusiasm through the years, thus encouraging and inspiring these young minds to become the leaders we desperately need in the environmental emergencies we all face. She helps with Irvine’s Nature in the Classroom outreach program and Irvine’s Urban Education outreach program where she shares her love of nature with under-served school children from Baltimore City’s public schools.

This award is in recognition of your volunteer time and commitment to the Irvine Nature Center. As a Volunteer Naturalist, you have encouraged and inspired young minds to embrace the outdoors and enthusiastically shared your love of the natural world. 
 

Originally proposed by: Ellie Kelly