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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