Pitt-Bradford Announces New
Advisory Board Members

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has named five new members to its Advisory Board and reappointed 18 members.

Newly elected to the board is John M. Marasco. Sara Andrews, Eric Bridges, Linda Devlin and state Rep. Matt Gabler, R.-DuBois, were named ex officio members.

Also, former Congressman John E. Peterson was moved from ex officio to honorary status. All of the appointments were made by University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg.

Marasco, who lives in Bradford, is senior vice president with Anderson & Kime Employee Benefits Inc. in Ridgway. He has been in the employee benefits profession for the last 17 years, starting with Blue Cross of Western New York, then working with Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Pennsylvania.

He joined Anderson & Kime in 1999 and was promoted to senior vice president in 2001. He has been an active fundraising volunteer for the Bradford Family YMCA, the American Cancer Society and the Zachary Vigliotta Scholarship Fund.

Andrews is an alumna of Pitt-Bradford and the executive director for the City of Bradford Office of Economic and Community Development.







Bridges is the executive director of the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission.





Devlin is the executive director of the Allegheny National Forest Vacation Bureau.








Gabler is the representative for the 75th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, which consists of Elk and part of Clearfield counties.







Peterson, who lives in Pleasantville, is a speaker, consultant and former representative of Pennsylvania’s 5th district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Eighteen members were also reappointed to three-year terms: state Superior Court Judge John M. Cleland, a member since 1985; George B. Duke, a member since 2000; Howard L. Fesenmyer a member since 1991; James D. Guelfi, a member since 1991; Richard S. Johnson a member since 1999; William J. Krieg, a member since 2006; Dennis W. Lowery, a member since 1984; Dr. Sandra Macfarlane, a member since 2008; J. Michael Mitchell, a member since 1986; James E. O’Mara, a member since 1994; John R. Osborne Jr., a member since 1976; Dr. Jill M. Owens, a member since 2007; Lester Rice, a member since 1986; John H. Satterwhite, a member since 1990; Robert L. Saunders, a member since 2007; Susan H. Silvestri, a member since 2003; William P. Slivinski, a member since 1998; and Hilton L. “Woody” Woodruff, a member since 1995.

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