Richard and Joan ’79 Fenton

Creation of an Endowed Scholarship

Dr. Richard and Joan Fenton have created an endowed scholarship to support undergraduate students planning to enter the field of education.

The Richard J. & Joan S. Fenton Scholarship will be awarded to students entering their junior or senior year and who will be studying at the College full time the following year. The recipients must have an interest in careers in the field of education and demonstrate a commitment to community service.

The Fentons were both educators. Joan taught at all levels of the public school system, spending the bulk of her career as a reading specialist in a middle school setting. Richard taught at all levels of college, as an economics professor in the Department of Business Administration and Economics and the College’s Delta College Program.  
 
The Fentons established the scholarship with the hope that it will help motivated, committed students to complete their undergraduate degree and immediately continue their education in graduate school.

First preference will be given to a student who has graduated from Brockport High School and is matriculated in the Department of Business Administration and Economics and/or is a student in Delta College.   

Joan said creating the scholarship was the couple’s way of helping future generations.

“It’s really a wonderful way to pass it forward—in the same way as others who helped me over the years did,” she said. “It is at least as enriching for us as it is for the recipients. We get a great deal out of our relationship with the students.”

Richard said creating the scholarship has allowed him “to continue the best part of what I did as a faculty member.”

“My greatest fear when I retired was I would lose contact with students. It was still the most rewarding part of my job,” he said. “We gain access to this whole community of scholars, not only our own award recipient, but others.”

Richard also noted the process of creating the scholarship was simple.
 

“I realized how easy it was to do this. The process of creating a scholarship could not be easier,” he said. “It really is relatively small compared to the things we do in our lives. For less than the amount that people spend on a new car, they can create a scholarship that will go on in perpetuity.”

 

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