The Detroit Ceramic Tile Contractors Association (DCTCA) awarded this year’s DCTCA Scholarship at the association’s annual cocktail party at Club Venetian in Madison Heights on February 10, 2017.

This year’s winners are Breanna Scranton, from Lawrence Technological University, and Albert Sachteleben, from the University of Detroit Mercy. Also in attendance at the presentation were Karl Daubmann, Dean of the School of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University, Martin Schwartz, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University, and Joe Odoefer, Associate Dean and Professor of Architecture at University of Detroit Mercy.

The scholarship is funded by an annual golf outing that is hosted by the DCTCA. The event is sponsored and attended by some of the largest tile contractors and suppliers in southeast Michigan. This year’s DCTCA Golf Outing takes place on July 25, 2017, at Bay Pointe Golf Club in West Bloomfield.

The Detroit Ceramic Tile Contractors Association (DCTCA) is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion, advancement, education, and training of the southeast Michigan unionized residential and commercial ceramic tile industry. For more information, head to www.dctca.com.

L to R: Bob Michielutti, Michielutti Bros. Inc.; Kurt Von Koss, Great Lakes Ceramic Tile Council; Ron Capp, Wolverine Stone Co.; Joe Maiuri, Shores Tile Co.; Frank Fazi, F.D. Berardino Tile Inc.; award-recipient Breanna Scranton; Karl Daubmann, Lawrence Technological University; Jack DiGiovanni, Eldorado Tile & Marble; Martin Schwartz, Lawrence Technological University; Phil Bianchini, Empire Tile Co. 

L to R: Bob Michielutti, Michielutti Bros. Inc.; Ron Capp, Wolverine Stone Co.; Kurt Von Koss, Great Lakes Ceramic Tile Council; award-recipient Albert Sachteleben; Frank Fazi, F.D. Berardino Tile Inc.; Jack DiGiovanni, Eldorado Tile & Marble; Joe Odoefer, University of Detroit Mercy; Joe Maiuri, Shores Tile Co.; Phil Bianchini, Empire Tile Co.