Rubacka elected as Emerson Foundation board president

AUBURN, N.Y. — The Fred L. Emerson Foundation announced that its board of directors recently elected Kristen E. Rubacka to serve as the eighth president of the foundation.

Rubacka, of Manlius, is the great-granddaughter of Fred L. Emerson, the foundation’s founder, and will be the first female president to lead the organization. She has served as a director of the foundation since 1991.

“I am excited to lead our fifth-generation family foundation and carry on the good work started by Fred L. Emerson over eighty-five years ago,” Rubacka said in a foundation news release. “Our board cares deeply about the communities we serve. I look forward to the opportunity to partner closely with the many wonderful charitable organizations that are doing important work throughout the region.”

Rubacka was elected to succeed Anthony D. Franceschelli as part of an “orderly process to provide for the foundation’s continued betterment,” the release stated. Franceschelli, who has served as president of the foundation since 2007, will continue to serve on the board of the foundation.

The foundation also announced that W. Gary Emerson has been elected to serve as VP and treasurer, and Heather A. Emerson has been elected to serve as secretary.

The Fred L. Emerson Foundation is a private family foundation established in 1932. It provides funding to numerous educational, community, and charitable organizations in the Auburn area and throughout upstate New York, where its founder lived and worked.

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