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Student Scholarship Recipients

Every year, students are selected as recipients of the Fred and Gertrude England Hospitality Education Foundation Scholarship Award, which includes the Louis N. Ventresca Award. Each recipient is thought to be an exceptional representative of the hospitality industry for the future. The following students have received scholarship awards since 1999, when the scholarship fund was first incorporated.

Below is the list of student scholarship winners with the year they won and the college they attended. All of these students are majoring in hospitality or hotel management related field.


(Left to Right) Victor Nelson, General Manager of the Ramada Geneva Lakefront, Geneva, NY and Chairman of the Education Foundation, Pam Inman, Executive VP & Chief Operating Officer of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), the 2010 Student Scholarship winners Tony Zaccaglino (Rochester Institute of Technology), Stephanie Lambert (NYC College of Technology), and Elexis Frank (Mohawk Valley Community College), Jan Marie Chesterton, NYSH&TA President and Michael C. Hoffman, Owner of Turf Hotels, Latham, and Chairman of the Board.

 
1999
Stephanie Hare
2000
Margaret Rotolo
Dana Digges
2001
Amanda Congdon
Deanna-Marie Nati
2002
Carolyn Barnum
Melody Joy Hirschorn
2003
Stephen N. Lionel
Kevin L. Johnson
2004
Jason D’Agostino *
Mark Slagle
2005
Christine Paoletti*
Marc Kline
2006
Michelle Keim*
Bradlee Hancock
2007
Emily Daubney*
Robert Daniel Hawk
Tenzing Chemey
2008
Timothy Lawrence
Erin Hulbert
Mirna Rackov
2009
Mary Gibson*
Joshua Schwartz
Jessica Tucker

*Louis N. Ventresca Scholarship Award recipients.