Daemen College : About Daemen : Leadership : Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
Daemen’s Board of Trustees has full authority to manage and direct the property, affairs and business of the college. These powers and duties include, but are not limited to, the granting of degrees, appointments to and removals from offices, and approval of the annual budget.
Chair
Caroline Hassett Buerk, '59, of Counsel at Phillips Lytle, LLP
Vice Chair
Thomas E. Brydges Partner, Labor & Employment Practice Group, Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP
Secretary/Treasurer
Dale B. Demyanick, '79, Partner, Lumsden & McCormick, LLP
President/Ex Officio
Edwin G. Clausen, President, Daemen College
Members
Audre Bunis
Catherine M. LePage-Campbell, '84, Senior VP, Government Programs, BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York
Robert M. Chur, President & CEO, ElderWood Senior Care
Richard J. Day, Partner, Hiscock and Barclay, LLP
Jed E. Dietrich, Dietrich Funeral Homes, Inc.
Kristin M. Fries, Associate Professor, Natural Sciences, Daemen College
Marie E. Hare, VP, Philanthropy & Civic Affairs, Key Bank
Peter F. Hunt, Chairman and CEO, Hunt Real Estate Corporation
Donald B. Hutton, Director, New York New Jersey Rail, LLC
Roy Innis, National Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.)
Kathryn D. Karlic, Group Vice President, M&T Bank
Seymour H. Knox, IVBPG Consulting of New York
Jeffrey Meilman, MD Surgeon
Lynn S. Millane, Retired supervisor for the Town of Amherst
Dorothy Mueller, O.S.F., '66, Provincial Minister, Sisters of St. Francis
Gregory M. Oehler, COO, Hunt Commercial Real Estate
Robert A. Savarino, President of RAS Development Company
Thomas P. Stewart, Ph.D., '74, President & CCO, Gaymar Industries, Inc.
Connie Vari, Executive VP & Chief Operating Officer, Kaleida Health
D. Scott N. Warman, Executive Vice President and Treasurer of M&T Bank
Ellen White, Executive Director, Commercial Aftermarket, MOOG Aircraft Group
Wayne D. Wisbaum, Partner, Kavinoky Cook, LLP
Trustee Emeriti
Martin J. Anisman, President Emeriti
Thomas W. Bowen*
Adrian F. Dedecker, Jr.
Leonard Greenfield*
Edward P. Gueth, Jr.*
Nedra J. Harrison
William W. Kimmins, Jr.*
Charles L. Lumsden*
Milton Milstein*
Henry J. Nowak
Jean R. Oshei*
Joan Ellis Shatkin*
M. Angelice Vogt, OSF*
Paul A. Willax
* Deceased
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