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Usifer is the first woman to join the board, joins a growing number of women in leadership at the employee-owned company
Vermont Business Magazine The employee owners of PC Construction announced today that Maureen Usifer of Colchester, Vermont, has been elected to the company’s six-member Board of Directors. Usifer is the first woman to join the board, and her election marks a significant milestone in the company’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Usifer joins a growing number of women in leadership at the South Burlington-based construction company.
“I’m incredibly honored to be joining the PC Construction team,” said Usifer. “This company has an impressive history, and an equally impressive resume of important and award-winning work. I’m eager to leverage my finance background to help the board to position PC for an exciting future.”
POTSDAM â Katherine Mary âKatyâ Hawelka â she was the peacemaker.
When Katy died in 1986, she was 19, the second oldest of four children raised in Central New York. Joe was 16, Carey 17, and Betsy 21.
âWhen somebodyâs passed, you always say these wonderful things about them,â Carey Hawelka Patton said. âBut theyâre true.â
The kind of sisters who are best friends, Carey and Katy were almost inseparable through adolescence at Henninger High School in Syracuse. Quarrels among the siblings were often broken up by Katy, whose smile was as exceptionally warm as her wit was sharp.
Graduating from Henninger, Katy headed 142 miles north to Clarkson University in Potsdam to study business. The day after arriving for her sophomore year in August 1986, Katy was attacked, beaten, raped and strangled outside the universityâs Walker Arena. She died three days later on Sept. 1, Watertown doctors declaring her brain dead and the Hawelka famil