PITTSBURGH (June 8, 2005) - The Scholarship Committee met today and selected eight awardeess to be announced at the June 13^th membership meeting according to Committee Chair, Mark Roberts.

The AFTRA/Dan Mallinger Scholarship Fund was established to honor our longtime Executive Director, Dan Mallinger, and now memorializes him as well as many other AFTRA members and executives who cared about and contributed to the Union.

Scholarships are offered by the Fund to Pittsburgh AFTRAns and their dependent children for academic study in any field including broadcast, journalism and labor relations, or for professional training in the arts.