Empire State College Foundation Officers and Directors, 2007- 2008

Morton Bahr '83 '95
(former head of 700,000-member union in telecommunications and other industries)
President Emeritus
Communications Workers of America
Washington, DC

Phillip Catchings
(organizational management consultant)
Senior Vice President - retired
The Boston Consulting Group
Boston, MA

John J. Corrou `94
(specialist in pressure-sensitive adhesives)
Sales Representative, Franklin International
Saratoga Springs, NY

Dr. Joyce Elliott
Interim President
Empire State College
Saratoga Springs, NY

Robert Johnson ’96
(retired, owner of nationally-ranked automobile dealerships)
Sarasota, FL

James G. Karcher ’79
(retired owner of national manufacturing and commercial services firm)
Old Field, NY

James R. Keane
(retired, national director of workforce development, Verizon Communications)
Lexington, VA

James W. Lytle, Esq.
(attorney, health law and government relations, Secretary of the Empire State College Foundation Board of Directors)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Albany, NY

James R. Malanson
(responsible for corporation’s technical training, worldwide)
Vice President – Technical Development, HP Learning & Development
Hewlett Packard Corporation
Littleton, MA

Stephen Keep Mills ‘89
(writer, actor, independent film producer and director)
Triskelion Entertainment
Topanga, CA

William H. Parker, ’85
(national experience in retail products and services)
President and CEO
L. A. Fairchild Denim Bar
Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Vincent A. Roberti
(leader in entertainment industry, with background in real estate and public service)
Chairman and CEO
Palisades Pictures
New York, NY

Brigadier General F. David Sheppard
Director
New York State Office of Homeland Security
Albany, NY

David L. Smith
(head of financial services, investment, brokerage firm, Chair of the Empire State College Foundation Board of Directors)
President
McGinn, Smith & Company
Albany, NY

Lorraine Power Tharp, Esq.
(attorney specializing in real estate, banking law and commercial lending, President of the New York State Bar Association, 2002-2004, Vice Chair of the Empire State College Foundation Board of Directors)
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Albany, NY

Robert J. Thrasher
(senior telecommunications executive – retired)
Naples, FL

Melba Tolliver ’98
(retired, 30-year career as award-winning journalist in television, newspapers and magazines)
Bangor, PA

Monte I. Trammer
(long-time Gannett Corporation publisher)
President and Publisher, the Star Gazette and the Ithaca Journal
Elmira, NY

Lewis P. Trippett, Esq.
(attorney, commercial litigator)
Higgins & Trippett
White Plains, NY

Susan H. Turben '72
(philanthropist and nationally regarded expert on families and child development)
President
Turben Developmental Services
Beachwood, OH

T. Urling Walker
(philanthropist, real estate developer, former mayor of Watertown)
Watertown, NY

Evelyn Hall Wells, MSW
Academic Program Director – Prague
Center for International Programs
Empire State College
Prague, Czech Republic

Stephen P. Wink, Esq. '83
(attorney specializing in securities laws and regulation)
Cahill/Wink LLP
Saratoga Springs, NY

William C. Ferrero
(Treasurer of the Foundation)
Vice President for Administration
Empire State College
Saratoga Springs, NY