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Wyoming Seminary Journal Fall 2010
Board of Trustees names six new members
The new members are Michael Apfelbaum, Lewisburg; Amy Valli Bennett ’94,
New Canaan, Conn.; Robert Friedman ’73, Dallas; Anthony Grosek ’74, Kingston;
Harry “Mike” Katerman ’71, Bloomsburg; and Catherine O’Donnell, Wilkes-Barre.
APFELBAUM is co-chair of the law firm of
Apfelbaum, Apfelbaum & Apfelbaum of Sunbury
and co-trustee of The Degenstein Foundation. He also
serves as the solicitor for The City of Sunbury and
the Northumberland County Airport Authority. He
is a member of the Board of Evangelical Community
Hospital and a member of the Board of Counselors
Michael Apfelbaum for the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. He is a
1982 graduate with Distinction and Special Honors in
Political Science from George Washington University and was named to
Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his law degree from the Dickinson School of
Law, with induction into the Order of Barristers for Trial Advocacy.
BENNETT has served as a development professional
at the Charles River School in Boston, the Collegiate
School in New York, N. Y., and for the Darien, Conn.
chapter of the American Red Cross. She also served
as a volunteer for several community organizations
such as the Young Womens League of New Canaan,
New Canaan Cares, the Hoyt Farm Association, and
several area schools. She has been an active member Amy Valli Bennett ’94
of the Wyoming Seminary President’s Council and a
class agent and reunion gift committee chair. She is a 1998 graduate of
Muhlenberg College. In October 2009 she received Sem’s Class of 1986
Outstanding Young Alumna Award in recognition of her professional
accomplishments and contributions to the school.
Robert Friedman ’73
FRIEDMAN is president of Friedman Electric of
Exeter and owner of the River Street Jazz Café in
Plains. He also is owner of Friedman Farms in Dallas.
He is a member of the King’s College Board of
Trustees, the Domestic Violence Service Center Board
of Directors, the Temple Israel Board of Directors and
the Jewish Federation Board of Directors. He received
a bachelor of science degree in 1977 from Franklin and
Marshall College.
GROSEK is the operator of his family’s Ramada Inn
on the Square in Wilkes-Barre and manages various
real estate holdings throughout Pennsylvania. He
currently serves as president of the Wyoming Seminary
Lower School Parents Association and previously
served as President of the Board of the Wyoming Valley
Montessori School. He received a bachelor of science
degree in finance in 1978 from Penn State University Anthony Grosek ’74
and a master of science degree in real estate and urban
affairs in 1987 from Georgia State University.
KATERMAN serves as the representative of
the Susquehanna Conference of the Methodist
Church to the Sem Board of Trustees. He is the
previous owner, president and CEO of Magee
Industrial Enterprises of Bloomsburg, a national
and international manufacturer of carpet
automotive systems, which included two radio
stations, the Hotel Magee, restaurant franchises “Mike” Katerman ’71
and a carpet distribution firm. He is a past
member of the Boy Scouts Board of Directors of Columbia-
Montour Counties, is a 15-year member of the Columbia
County United Way, served on the Geisinger Medical Center
Regional Advisory Board, is the chair of the Columbia
County chapter of the Tocqueville Society of the United Way
and is active in many other community service organizations.
In 2001 he served as the chair of the Bloomsburg Bicentennial
Committee. A previous member of the Sem Board of
Trustees, he received the Class of 1986 Outstanding Young
Alumnus Award in 1989 in recognition of his professional
accomplishments and contributions to the school. He is a
1975 graduate of Penn State University with a bachelor of
science degree in textile science.
O’DONNELL is a practicing attorney in
Kingston, specializing in the areas of estate
planning and administration, personal injury,
orphans court, product liability, workers’
compensation, business, corporate and municipal
law, municipal finance, elder law, Social Security
appeals and disability and supplemental security
income. She is a member of the Philadelphia, Catherine O’Donnell
Lackawanna County, Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations and has been
admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. She
has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for 2007, 2008
and 2009. She also is a member of the Wilkes-Barre Law and
Library Association, the American Association for Justice
and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice. She previously
served as the Wilkes-Barre Redevelopment Authority Solicitor
and as a District Justice. A previous member of the Sem
Board of Trustees, she currently serves as president of the
Wyoming Seminary Upper School Parents Association and is
active in St. Therese Church, Wilkes-Barre. She received her
bachelor’s degree, MBA and law degree from the University of
Pittsburgh and was named to Phi Beta Kappa.
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