This year’s set of winners includes 39 apprentices, 4 trade school students and 12 college students. “I am so proud of these scholarship winners, and the variety of winners is great to see,” said Foundation Chair Patrick Wallner of Wallner Plumbing in Redding, Calif. “We have the usual young people making their choice to get their career started in the trades, but we also have some older folks who decided to make plumbing and HVAC their second career and are loving it.”
“I thank you for giving an older apprentice like me the chance to further my plumbing career,” wrote apprentice Leonard Digiantomasso of Havertown, Pa. in a thank you note to the Foundation donors. He is enrolled in the PHCC of Pennsylvania plumbing apprenticeship training program.
This was also the first year for a new scholarship reserved for military veterans sponsored by the Gil Meyerowitz estate, and a set of awards for Hispanic and Latino applicants sponsored by the Ferguson Cares Foundation.
The Foundation extends its congratulations to all winners and its thanks to the contractor donors and corporate sponsors who make these awards possible.
Additional sponsorships are provided by A.O. Smith, Bradford White Corporation, Delta Faucet Company, InSinkErator, RIDGID, Scorpion Home Services Marketing, State Water Heaters, Sterling (a Kohler brand), SupplyHouse.com, the Texas and Massachusetts PHCC Auxiliaries, the PHCC Past National Officers, Bill Jones, and Gerry Kennedy. Funding is also provided by the generous donations made by PHCC contractors.
