DeWITT — Leadership Greater Syracuse (LGS), a nonprofit offering a yearlong civic-engagement training program, has announced its 55-person class of 2017. LGS held its annual Holiday Social event on Dec. 8 at the Palace Theater in Eastwood to welcome this class, its 27th. The participants represent a cross-section of local business, education, and nonprofit organizations. […]
DeWITT — Leadership Greater Syracuse (LGS), a nonprofit offering a yearlong civic-engagement training program, has announced its 55-person class of 2017.
LGS held its annual Holiday Social event on Dec. 8 at the Palace Theater in Eastwood to welcome this class, its 27th.
The participants represent a cross-section of local business, education, and nonprofit organizations. LGS says it teaches participants about community leadership, empowerment, group dynamics, community opportunities, and trends.
“Central New Yorkers look to LGS for personal development and professional connections to serve the greater good,” Pam Brunet, LGS executive director and graduate of the LGS Class of 1998, said in a news release. “This year is even more remarkable because the applicant pool was the largest we’ve seen since we have been tracking.”
The organization noted that a recent survey found that 72 percent of all LGS graduates are still living in Central New York and have held more than 750 volunteer positions. “We are preventing the brain drain,” Brunet contended.
The LGS Class of 2017 includes:
- Thomas Anelli, Anelli Xavier, PC
- Ryan Aylward, Madison County Personnel & Civil Service Department
- Nathan T. Bradley, OneGroup
- James Branche, United Radio
- Randy R. Brown, Anchor QEA
- Trymeter Carter, SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Megan Cavallaro, AXA
- Nicole Chidsey, Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists
- Brandon Claps, Loretto Health Care
- Kevin Connolly, DoubleTree by Hilton Syracuse
- Michael Cummings, KeyBank
- Christopher Daniel, Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC
- Kevin W. Devaney, SRC, Inc.
- Amy Dobrovech, National Grid
- Brian R. Donner, C&S Companies
- Maureen Fang, Lockheed Martin
- Donald W. Farrington, Visual Technologies
- Timothy Ferlito, United Way of Central New York
- Michael Ferony, United Parcel Services
- Kathleen Ford, Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office
- Sarah Fraley-Russell, Empower Federal Credit Union
- Kathleen Paice Froio, SUNY Upstate Medical University
- John Grabau, Northland Communications
- Eleanor M. Hanna, CenterState CEO
- Aaron D. Jackson, Turner Construction
- Elizabeth Kapfer, Annese & Associates, Inc.
- Ocesa Keaton, City of Syracuse
- Adrienne M. Kelley, Francis House
- David A. Kilpatrick, CNY Community Foundation
- Wendy Knight, Central New York Care Collaborative
- Katherine Kramer, Syracuse Media Group
- Marc W. Kutik, Lockheed Martin
- Michael Lane, Brown & Brown Empire State
- Jaime A. Lawlor, Cumulus Media
- Frank H. Mancuso, Loretto
- Davanna R. Marks, Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Elizabeth A. Meyer, M&T Insurance Agency
- Cory A. Murray, Riccelli-Northern, LLC
- Robert Neimeier, O’Brien & Gere
- Judy A. Papenfus, Lockheed Martin
- Debra Person, Exodus 3 Ministries
- Christianne R. Radziewicz, VIP Structures
- Charla Roth, Dannible & McKee, LLP
- Robert Sauda, Welch Allyn
- Sarah Stephens, Synapse Property Resources
- Michael Thompson, Carrier Corporation Phoenix
- Mari Ukleya, OCM BOCES Clay
- Erin M. Vaccaro, Onondaga Community College
- Jamie T. VanDerVeeken, Dairy Farmers of America
- Melissa M. Vassenelli, Time Warner Cable Media
- MaryLou Watson, SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Andrew Weiss, Onondaga Co Water Authority
- Joshua S. Werbeck, Bousquet Holstein PLLC
- Takeya A. Williams, 174 Attack Wing
- Stephanie A. Wright, Pyramid Management Group
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