ELLA KNEE SELECTED FOR BARTENDER MAGAZINE ‘BARTENDERS’ FOUNDATION’ SCHOLARSHIP
Ella Knee from Stafford, VA, has been awarded a “Bartenders’ Basis” scholarship to attend Clemson College in South Carolina. Her mom Jennifer Knee has been a bartender for the previous three many years.
The non-profit Bartenders’ Basis, Inc. was based in 1999 by Jackie and Ray Foley, publishers of BARTENDER® Journal, to assist bartenders and their households pay for instructional bills and encourage excessive schoolers to attend school. The group raises scholarship cash from main distillers, beer and spirits wholesalers, taverns, fellow bartenders, and bar patrons.
“That is all about taking good care of our personal,” says Jackie Foley. “There are practically 300,000 bartenders within the U.S. who spend their careers taking good care of individuals – however who’s taking good care of them? We created this basis to acknowledge and assist these hard-working professionals and their households.”
Ella attended Brooke Level Excessive Faculty in Stafford the place she was within the Nationwide Honor Society, HOSA, Spirit Membership, Encourage BP, and the Images Membership. She was additionally a lifeguard and swim coach, a volunteer with Stafford County Rescue Squad, and a three-year varsity volleyball participant and varsity swimmer. She plans to check Organic Sciences at Clemson College with the purpose of coming into the medical discipline.
Ray Foley, a former Marine who for many years labored behind the bar and managed one of many largest eating places in New Jersey, based BARTENDER Journal virtually 45 years in the past and nonetheless at the moment is the one commerce publication and web site of its type targeted particularly for bartenders and the on-premise channel. He’s additionally the writer of quite a few cocktail books, together with the favored “Bartending for Dummies” which lately printed its sixth version.
For extra details about the Bartenders’ Basis, together with donate to the scholarship fund, or apply for an award, please go to bartenderfoundation.com.
