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2019 Scholarship Luncheon

The Greater New York Floor Coverers Industry Promotional Fund is pleased to announce this year's recipients of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Francis J. P. McHale Scholarship and Greater New York Floor Coverers Industry Promotional Fund Scholarship Awards.

The recipients are Mr. Luke Sacco and Ms. Stacey Kappel – recipients of the Greater New York Floor Coverers Scholarship and Mr. Thomas Waldron and Mr. Luke Goehring – recipients of the Francis J.P. McHale
Scholarship. This year's winners are, as in the past, deserving of this well earned success.

The recipients of the First through Thirty-First Year Scholarships have completed their courses of study with the help of the Francis J. P. McHale Scholarship and the Greater New York Floor Coverers Scholarship
programs. The Industry Promotional Fund currently has sixteen participants in the scholarship program. The Industry Promotional Fund has awarded $1,212,750 in scholarship monies to 95 students!

The 2019 Honoree of the Francis JP McHale Scholarship Award is Christopher Capobianco who is being honored for his lifetime of devotion and service to the floor coverers industry. The Honoree has worked
in the industry for 41 years in sales and as a technical consultant as well as authoring many articles for flooring trade magazines.

The luncheon to award the scholarships to this year's awardees was held on Thursday, June 8, 2019 at Pier A in New York, New York.