Palko receives foundation award
NEW YORK — Larry Palko, vice president of the National Football Foundation’s Schuylkill/Pottsville Chapter, has been named the East Region recipient of the NFF’s Chapter Leadership Award.
Palko, who received his award Tuesday at a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, was honored for his work for 25 years as head of the chapter’s scholar-athlete executive committee.
The chapter honors 14 area high school scholar-athletes yearly and recently held its 53rd annual Scholar-Athlete Banquet.
Palko was one of five Chapter Leadership Award recipients.