The Nationwide Wooden Flooring Affiliation (NWFA) has established an NWFA Named Scholarship for Paul Stringer, who lately retired from Somerset Hardwood Flooring. Stringer spent greater than 30 years within the hardwood flooring trade, with the previous 20 years at Somerset Hardwood Flooring. There, he led the gross sales and advertising efforts, rising the corporate from an unfinished strip mill to one in all North America’s largest pre-finished strong and engineered producers.

“Paul has been an inspiration to many people within the trade for a very long time. Behind his humble allure is a fierce competitor who at all times made positive to have a profitable resolution for his prospects,” says Dan Natkin of Bauwerk Group North America. “Paul has the utmost respect of those that labored with him, in addition to those that competed towards him. This scholarship is the right method to honor a person who gave a lot to the trade and helped many people construct careers in wooden.”

Collective contributions from trade members cumulatively surpassed $20,000, thereby fulfilling eligibility standards for the NWFA’s Schooling & Analysis Basis (NERF) Named Scholarship, which honors those that make important and lasting contributions to the hardwood flooring trade.

NERF was established to supply trade analysis and educate future wooden flooring professionals. The NERF Named Scholarship program helps the NWFA preserve coaching prices to a minimal for contributors. By way of NERF, NWFA gives academic alternatives like hands-on coaching, NWFA College, NWFA Dwell Edge, and scholarships. Since 2014, NWFA has awarded scholarships totaling greater than $100,000. To study extra in regards to the NERF Named Scholarship program and different scholarships the NWFA gives, go to NWFA’s scholarship web page at https://www.nwfa.org/scholarships.