Graduate student Jermie Humphries accepts his check from John Williams, director of the Kabacoff School
University of New Orleans graduate student Jermie Humphries received a $1,000 internship stipend from the International Gold and Silver Plate Society. The society recognizes outstanding hospitality students at selected universities. Criteria for the internship stipend include a consistently high level of academic achievement, financial need and a strong commitment to a career in the hospitality industries. The student should also possess the qualities of leadership and maturity that suggest future success.
John Williams, the director of the Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration, presented Humphries with the check at a welcome back luncheon in the Kabacoff School dining room.
The Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration offers a premier undergraduate hospitality management education and the only master’s degree program in the state of Louisiana.
For 55 years, the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association has sponsored the Gold and Silver Plate Awards program. Among its objectives, the program acts as a catalyst for the development of industry programs and projects, with emphasis on the need for improved education, training and manpower recruitment.