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Columbia Memorial Health announced the appointment of three new members of the organization’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Carlee Drummer, Ellen Con- dliffe Lage- mann and William Benjamin Palmer.
Drummer began her tenure as the sixth President of Columbia-Greene Community College on July 1, 2019. Prior to relocating to New York, she was the President of Quinebaug Valley Community College in Connecticut. Additionally, she served in numerous leadership posts in colleges in Wisconsin, Illinois and New York.
A graduate of Wittenberg University, Drummer earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She also studied at the University of Exeter in Devon, England, and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Seminar for New Presidents. Drummer and her husband Michael have been married for 45 years and live in Malden Bridge.
Lagemann is a Distinguished Scholar in the Steinhardt School at New York University. She was formerly the Levy Institute Research Professor at Bard College and the Distinguished Fellow at the Bard Prison Initiative. Lagemann has been president of the National Academy of Education and the History of Education Society, and has served on the boards of numerous nonprofit and philan- thropic or- ganizations in New York and Massachusetts. She received her A.B. from Smith College; her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University; and her Ph.D. in History and Education from Columbia University. She lives in Ghent, with her husband.
Palmer served for nearly four decades in the banking industry, most recently as Senior Vice President, Senior Banker of KeyBank’s Middle Market Commer- cial Bank- ing team, where he was responsible for managing a diversified portfolio of large corporate clients, including not for profit and healthcare organizations. A lifelong resident of Athens, Palmer received his B.S. in Business Administration/Finance at SUNY Oswego. He and his wife, Suzanne, have two
grown children, Jonathan and Audrey.
••• Dan Gagnon is the new vice president of The Hudson Valley Center for Veteran Reintegration, a nonprofit that “works to empower our military men and women to live successful, fulfilling lives.”
••• Ryan Hawthorne has been appointed Assistant Vice President of Electric Engineering and Operations for Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation.
Hawthorne will oversee engineering functions and field operations of the electric system for Central
Hudson, and he will provide oversight of the utility’s annual capital budget of more than $200 million.
Hawthorne joined Central Hudson as an Electric Operations Engineer in 2008, and he was quickly promoted to Operating Supervisor and Electric Transmission and Distribution Superintendent. In 2014, Hawthorne was again promoted to Director of Dispatch Operations, and in 2017 was promoted to Director of Distribution System Operations. In 2019, Hawthorne was promoted to Director of Transmission and Distribution Operations.
He earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Electrical Engineering and Computer & Systems Engineering in 2008, and a Master of Science degree in Electric Power Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2016.
Hawthorne serves as a board member and past board president of the Children’s Home of Kingston, and volunteers for the United Way. He resides in the Town of Ulster.
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