Tolland Student Honored by Connecticut Funeral Directors Association

Michael Slane of Tolland has been selected by the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association (CFDA) to receive 2017 college scholarship funds. Slane, a new graduate of Tolland High School, will pursue a career in Social Work at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. in the Fall. CFDA presented $500 to each of eight Connecticut student honorees at a ceremony near its offices in Wethersfield, Conn.

“The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association created this grant program to encourage students to follow their dreams and enter professions that provide emotional or physical support to families,” explains Robert L. Muccino Jr. of Waterbury, a licensed funeral director and the President of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association. “As funeral directors, we help families every day during what can be very difficult times, so we understand how important these jobs are to support people in need.”

This is the seventeenth consecutive year that the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association has awarded college scholarship funds to help young people pursue careers in the “helping” professions. This includes the fields of caregiving, counseling, social services, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, medicine, social work, gerontology, or funeral service. One student in each of Connecticut’s eight counties was selected to receive $500 in funds for college.

For information about the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association and their scholarship program, call 860-721-0234 or 800-919-2332, or visit www.ctfda.org

PICTURED (left to right): CFDA Executive Committee member Jacqueline L. Teske of Pietras Family Funeral Homes; honoree Michael Slane of Tolland; his mother Cheryl Slane; and CFDA President Robert L. Muccino Jr.