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St. Bonaventure welcomes four members to Board of Trustees
St. Bonaventure University welcomed four new members to its Board of Trustees on Friday during its annual fall meeting on campus.
At their May Board meeting, trustees approved the appointments of John Boucher, 鈥84, Fr. Matthew Foley, O.F.M. Conv., Terry Gilbride, 鈥85, and Bill Shea, 鈥80.
Boucher graduated from St. Bonaventure with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting. Upon graduation, he began his career at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co., which eventually became KPMG LLP. He retired as a partner after more than 36 years with KPMG.
Foley serves as president of St. Francis High School in Hamburg. He was ordained as a Conventual Franciscan Friar in 2009 and is part of Our Lady of Angels Province. He holds degrees from Catholic University of America and the Washington Theological Union and a graduate certificate in Catholic Educational Leadership from Creighton University.
Gilbride graduated from 天涯社区官网 with a degree in Philosophy before earning his law degree from the University at Buffalo. Before founding the Gilbride Law Group in May 2025, he served as senior vice president and chief legal officer for the Buffalo Bills. Prior to that, he spent 35 years at Buffalo鈥檚 oldest and largest law firm, Hodgson Russ.
Shea graduated from St Bonaventure in 1980 with a BBA in Accounting. He worked for 15 years at Ernst and Young before joining 1800Flowers.com Inc. as corporate controller in 1996. He was promoted to chief financial officer and senior vice president of Finance and Administration and treasurer in 2000, a position he held until his retirement in 2024.
At their May meeting, Michael Hickey was re-elected as Board chair, while Luke Brown, 鈥89, Joe Davis, 鈥79, and Fr. Larry Ford, O.F.M., were elected as vice chairs. Susanna Stitt, 鈥99, will serve as secretary.
Complete biographies of the new trustees are available here.
Also at the May meeting, the Board saluted the service of outgoing trustees Steve Barry, 鈥88, Dan Horan, 鈥05, Carol Schumacher, 鈥78, Laurie Krupa, 鈥82, and Jim Walsh, 鈥77.
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About the University: The nation鈥檚 first Franciscan university, St. Bonaventure is a community committed to transforming the lives of its students inside and outside the classroom, inspiring in them a commitment to academic excellence and lifelong civic engagement. Out of 167 regional universities in the North, St. Bonaventure was ranked #8 for value and #19 overall by U.S. News and World Report (2025).