18 | theLAKER foundation update New scholarships honor Putt Moore, Kathleen Saxby Family and friends of the late Putt Moore, a professor and athletics director, and the late Kathleen Saxby ’78, a distinguished alumna, are honoring their memories with new scholarships. The Putt Moore Memorial Scholarship is a $1,000 award, given in the spring to a graduating student who plans to compete on an athletic team at a four-year school. Students earning degrees in physical education and exercise science, kinesiology and human performance, nutrition and dietetics, EMT-paramedic, and health care studies are eligible to apply. The scholarship funds are sent directly to the graduating student’s transfer school. Putt, a professor, coach, and foundational figure in the College’s history, passed away on Aug. 16, 2025. Putt joined FLCC in 1972, when classes were held in downtown Canandaigua storefronts, and dedicated more than 38 years to the College. He was FLCC’s first athletic director from 1991 to 2006, before returning to teaching until his retirement. The gym was renamed Putt Moore Court in his honor in January 2011. The Kathleen Saxby ’78 Memorial Scholarship is a $1,000 award to be given for the first time in fall 2026 to a full-time student who is also working part-time. Eligible majors are business administration and applied business studies. Kathleen received a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014 in recognition of her accomplishments in the fashion industry. After FLCC, she earned a second associate degree, in menswear design and marketing, from the Fashion Institute of Technology. After more than a dozen years in apparel design with companies like Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne and Macy’s Private Label, she launched Saxby Design Services. She passed away July 1, 2025, after a nearly seven-year battle with breast cancer. Viticulture student inquiry leads to donation A student seeking laboratory services as part of his Enology I class research project landed a $6,000 donation to the viticulture and wine technology program. Peter Wronski, a viticulture student who lives in Charlestown, R.I., and his lab partner, Daniel Shafer of Geneva, were experimenting with a different yeast strain. They sought advanced chemical analyses of the resulting wine. Peter reached out to ETS Laboratories in St. Helena, Calif., to ask about educational discounts. Instead, the company offered in-kind analytical services valued at up to $2,000 per year for three years. The donation will allow students to work with industrystandard data. Peter felt comfortable requesting a discount because his day job is directing the laboratory and research services for the nonprofit RIH Orthopaedic Foundation in Providence, R.I. He completes much of his coursework online and makes the 5 1/2-hour drive as needed for in-person labs and hands-on experiences. Peter and his wife, Jodi Frank, grow grapes on an acre of land near their home and started making wine as a hobby. “We got to the point where we just needed to stop learning everything the hard way,” Peter joked. He selected FLCC’s program for its mix of online learning and hands-on experience. “It suits my style of learning better,” he added. Putt Moore, with his wife, Catherine, and son, Grady, at the dedication of Putt Moore Court. Ethan Fogg ’00 poses with Kathleen Saxby ’78 after the Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony in May 2014.
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