TWO GRADUATES JOIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES Two Mercyhurst graduates were elected to the university’s Board of Trustees during its October meeting. Margaret “Peggy” Meagher Pietraszek ’68 is an Erie native who earned a degree in elementary education and served as editor of the Praeterita yearbook. She also holds a master’s degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Now retired, she was formerly a teacher and team leader in the Millcreek School District and Libertyville (Illinois) School District. She taught English in Tokyo and was a member of the board of directors for the American School in Japan for four years. She and her husband Henry spend summers in Chicago and winters in Naples, Florida. They have been major philanthropists to Mercyhurst, carrying on her parents’ long association with and support of the institution. Her father, the late Joseph E. Meagher, a veteran Erie newsman, was among the frst lay advisory board members at Mercyhurst, and her mother, Marie, was a member of the original Carpe Diem Society. Yvonne J. Maher ’93 , a native of Dungarvan, Waterford Co., Ireland, is the university’s frst international alumni Trustee. During the past 10 years, she has risen rapidly through the ranks at The Pittsburgh Foundation, where today she is vice president of development and donor services. Previously, she was a director of development in the Pennsylvania State University system. A communication major at Mercyhurst, she received the President’s Award for Excellence in Arts and Humanities and was hired by the college immediately upon graduation. She worked for fve years as assistant director of external relations and assistant director of the then newly opened Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.
She holds a master’s degree in communication studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She holds dual citizenship in the United States of America and Ireland. She has been a professional resource appointment to the board as a member of the Trustee Committee on Advancement and the Committee on Endowment Management and Investment.
- LANZILLO, NECASTRO NEXT LEADERS OF BOARD Trustee Richard A. Lanzillo was elected chair elect of the Mercyhurst University Board of Trustees and Trustee Joseph G. NeCastro was elected vice chair elect at the Trustees’ annual meeting on June 20. The two men, both Mercyhurst graduates, co chaired Mercyhurst’s recent presidential search. They’ll work closely this year with Trustee Marlene Mosco, who is completing her fnal term as chair, and will take ofce at the board’s annual meeting in 2016. Sister JoAnne Courneen remains vice chair. - - -
NGUYEN JOINS ADMINISTRATION Hoa Nguyen joined Mercyhurst in March as executive vice president for to Mercyhurst from Saint Joseph fnance and administration. He came College in Rensselaer, Indiana, where he was vice president for business afairs and treasurer to the board of trustees. Previously, he was executive vice president for administration and fnance at Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
They have three daughters.
While at Saint Joseph’s, he
implemented a new budget planning
Nguyen holds an
model, overhauled business
undergraduate degree in business administration from Aquinas College and an MBA from the University of Detroit Mercy, and is completing doctoral studies in education and human resource studies at Colorado State University.
implemented a tuition guarantee, oversaw campus-wide technology upgrades, and made decisions to improve campus infrastructure. A native of South Vietnam, he came practices, and identifed cost reduction strategies and key revenue enhancement opportunities. He also to the United States in 1975 as a refugee and settled in Okemos, Michigan, where he met his wife.
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