Meriden Student Honored by Connecticut Funeral Directors Association

Gabriel Blasczak of Meriden has been selected by the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association (CFDA) to receive 2017 college scholarship funds. Blasczak, a new graduate of Francis T. Maloney High School, will study Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University in the Fall. CFDA presented $500 to 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): Connecticut Funeral Directors Association President Robert L. Muccino, Jr. and funeral director Teresa C. McCall of Rose Hill Funeral Homes congratulate honoree Gabriel Blasczak of Meriden at the scholarship ceremony.