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Batavia Business and Professional Women’s Club holds its Annual 2025 Awards Banquet

By Steve Ognibene
 Fourteen seniors were presented one-thousand dollar scholarships at the annual Batavia Business and Professional Womens Club awards banquet at Batavia Country Club Thursday evening.  Photo by Steve Ognibene
 Fourteen seniors were presented one-thousand dollar scholarships at the annual Batavia Business and Professional Womens Club awards banquet at Batavia Country Club Thursday evening.  Photo by Steve Ognibene

President Danielle Torcello, along with committee chair Vicki Wolak and her team of Susan Boyle, Brenda Bennion and Diane Fioentino, awarded 13 scholarships to Genesee County students from various high schools.  Each student was presented with an award certificate and received a thousand-dollar scholarship. They are:

  • Allison Pullybank, LeRoy, Nursing
  • Ava Anderson, Batavia, Journalism/Marketing
  • Emily Yager, Pembroke, Music Education
  • Emily Pietrzykowski, Alexander, Nursing
  • Grace Nickerson, LeRoy, English / Psychology
  • Kaitlin Kratz, Notre Dame, Nursing
  • Kelsey Kirkwood, Batavia, Biology
  • Lillian Szymkowiak, Alexander, Biology
  • Molly Osterman, LeRoy, Law/Political Science
  • Norah Manurung, Pavilion, Social Media Marketing
  • Piper Hyde, Oakfield-Alabama, Nursing
  • Rose Wilson, Byron Bergen, Nursing
  • Anna Panepento, Notre-Dame, Biomedical Engineering
  • Sue Sherman, All Babies Cherished
  • Jennifer Schaffer, Crossroads House
  • Frances McNaulty, Genesee Senior Living and Office of the Aging
  • Susan Maniace, Liv Luv Breathe
  • Carl Hyde Jr., Western New York Cemetery Honor Guard

Alex Doty, LeRoy, Business Management, was presented the Jill Spence Memorial Scholarship Fund award.

Vicki Wolak, committee chair, and her team of Susan Boyle, Brenda Bennion and Diane Fioentino presented service awards to the following non-profit organizations in Genesee County. Each received a check for $400.

Joy Hume received the 2024 Woman of the Year award. 

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Non-Profit service organizations received four hundered dollars awards.  Photo by Steve Ognibene
Non-Profit service organizations received four hundered dollars awards.  Photo by Steve Ognibene
President Danielle Torcello (left) presented BBPWC Woman of the Year to Joy Hume (right)  Photo by Steve Ognibene
President Danielle Torcello (left) presented BBPWC Woman of the Year to Joy Hume (right)  Photo by Steve Ognibene

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