UTICA — The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties has approved three new trustees and its 2019-2020 officers. The foundation’s new members of the board of trustees are: Harrison J. Hummel IV. He currently serves as chief operating officer at Hummel’s Office Plus, where he has held a number of roles since 1998. Hummel […]
UTICA — The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties has approved three new trustees and its 2019-2020 officers.
The foundation’s new members of the board of trustees are:
Harrison J. Hummel IV. He currently serves as chief operating officer at Hummel’s Office Plus, where he has held a number of roles since 1998. Hummel holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Georgia Tech, and has been an active member of the community, having served on multiple organizational boards.
Rev. Joseph A. Salerno. He serves as pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Utica and Our Lady of the Rosary in New Hartford. Salerno holds a master of divinity degree from the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto, Canada, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Maryknoll College in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His community involvement has included work on multiple community boards.
Bradley Waters. He is associate publisher at Rome Sentinel Company, where he has served in a number of roles since 2010. Waters received a bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism, and general business from St. John Fisher College in Pittsford.
The 2019-2020 Community Foundation officers are:
David Manzelmann — Chair. Manzelmann is Utica market president and team lead for business and professional banking at M&T Bank. He serves on a number of community boards and committees. He previously worked at KeyBank and NBT Bank and received a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the College of Wooster in Ohio.
Kirk Hinman — Chair-elect. Hinman worked nearly 40 years at Rome Steel Strip Company, serving as president from 1989 to 2015. As a CPA, Hinman previously worked for Coopers and Lybrand CPAs in Syracuse. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and serves on multiple community boards.
L. Michael Fitzgerald — Secretary/Treasurer. Fitzgerald is a certified public accountant (CPA) at Fitzgerald, DePietro and Wojnas, CPAs. He holds a master’s degree in accounting from Northeastern University in Boston, and a bachelor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University in Olean.
The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties said the other members of its volunteer board of trustees are: Laura Casamento, Ronald Cuccaro, Timothy Daly, Burt Danovitz, Lisa DeFrees-Lovett, James A. Engler, Jr., Cathleen C. McColgin, Gregory B. McLean, Cheryl Minor, Jawwaad Rasheed, Eve Van de Wal, Randy VanWagoner, James W. Wallace, Jr., and Bonnie Woods.