ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Atlantic
City Hotel & Lodging Association (ACHLA) Scholarship Foundation awarded a
record $28,000 to 24 area hospitality and culinary students at its annual
Scholarship Awards Luncheon held at the Tropicana Casino and Resort.

    New Jersey State Senator Jim Whelan, who serves on the state
legislature*s Higher Education Committee, was the keynote speaker.

    The scholarship committee, chaired by its Executive Director, Howard
Bacharach, presented scholarships to hospitality and culinary students at
Atlantic Cape Community College, Atlantic County Institute of Technology,
Cape May Technical School, Culinary Institute of America, Drexel
University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Johnson & Wales University,
Richard Stockton College and Rutgers University. The scholarships totaled
the largest yet awarded since the inception of the scholarship program,
which began in the early 1980*s, and has now awarded in excess of $215,000
to date.

    Through close collaboration with local and regional educational
institutions that offer programs in hospitality education, ACHLA actively
support activities and programs that promote the hospitality/culinary
industry as a desirable career alternative and promote our members as the
employers of choice.

   ACHLA has created the Education/Scholarship Program which is dedicated
to offering area high school and college students a career path in the
Lodging, Hospitality, Culinary and other Tourism vocations.

    For more information, contact the ACHLA at (609) 345-8910 or visit

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