

On Wednesday, Nov. 9, the Annual Pottery Present and Sale will likely be held within the Multipurpose Room of the Williams Middle at SUNY Fredonia from 10 a.m. to three p.m.
Native potters will likely be promoting their handcrafted mugs, trays, bowls, and jewellery and donating a portion of their proceeds to learn the Well being Skilled Faculty Preparation Scholarship Fund.
Potters embrace Fredonia school and employees members Dr. Ted Lee from the Division of Biology, Professor Emeritus David Rudge from the Faculty of Music and College Police Chief Emeritus Ann Burns. Different potters who will likely be promoting their works are Michele Ballachino, former adjunct teacher Ann Janik, Debbie Kotar, Rhonda Lee, Carol Samuelson and Cynthia Fitzgerald.
The Well being Skilled Faculty Preparation Scholarship Fund was initiated in 2015 to offer help to college students getting ready for careers in medication, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medication, and different well being professions. The prices of making use of to those skilled faculties is excessive and a few college students do not need the monetary sources for all that’s wanted for his or her functions. The scholarship fund was established to offer monetary help to Fredonia college students who need to take preparatory programs for the skilled exams (such because the MCAT) required for admission, to assist cowl the prices of the exams, and for help with the prices of making use of to medical and different well being skilled faculties. Fredonia has college students who would profit significantly from the help to assist them understand their goals of turning into well being care professionals. The prices of taking an MCAT prep course, taking the MCAT examination and making use of to medical faculty might be 1000’s of {dollars}.
All the potters created their works on the pottery wheels at Mudslingers, a pottery studio in downtown Fredonia owned and operated by Fredonia alumnus Ron Nasca, who’s a powerful supporter and trainer of the potters.