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McDonough Scholarship Foundation

Meet our all-volunteer Board of Directors

Although the Board is well established, we are always interested to speak with anyone who would like to get involved.

William (Bill) Everett

Bill Everett
President
Laconia Country Club
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William (Bill) Krueger

William Krueger
Vice President
Concord Country Club
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Brian Hayward

Brian Hayward
Treasurer
Manchester Country Club
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Tyler Butler

Tyler Butler
Secretary
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Directors

Brian Boylan

Brian Boylan
Director
Concord Country Club
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Keith Boyle

Keith Boyle
Director
Laconia Country Club
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David Bussard

David Brussard
Director
Abenaqui Country Club
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Eileen Conway
Director
Derryfield Country Club
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Thomas Dionisio

Thomas M. Dionisio
Director
Intervale Country Club
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Jack Doykos

John Doykos
Director
Abenaqui Country Club
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Laurie Ethier
Director
Nashua Country Club
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Kevin Keyes

Kevin Keyes
Director
Bald Peak Colony Club
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Tom McCoy

Tom McCoy
Director
Laconia Country Club
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Jeff Rounsaville

Jeff Rounsaville
Director
Eastman Golf Links
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Peter Smith

Peter Smith
Director
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George Slyman

George Slyman
Director
The Shattuck Golf Club
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Tyler Walsh
Director
Manchester Country Club
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Glenn Walton

Glenn Walton
Director
Golf Club of New England
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Brett Wilson

Brett Wilson
Director
The Golf Club of New England
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John A. Wolkowski

John Wolkowski
Director
Derryfield Country Club
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Staff

Lisa M Kress

Lisa Kress
Director of Operations and Development

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2022 Committees

Executive Committee
Bill Everett, Chair
Bill Krueger
Tyler Butler
Brian Hayward
Glenn Walton
Tom McCoy
Lisa Kress

Club Relations & Annual Giving
Bill Krueger, Chair
Eileen Conway
Jack Doykos
Laurie Ethier
Lisa Kress
Tyler Walsh
Glenn Walton

Investment Committee
George Slyman, Chair
David Broussard
Brian Hayward
Kevin Keyes

Finance Committee
Brian Hayward, Chair
Kevin Keyes
Tyler Walsh

Governance Committee
Bill Everett, Chair
Tyler Butler
Bill Krueger
Pete Smith
John Wolkowski

Marketing & Alumni Relations Committee
Tom McCoy, Chair
Brian Boylan
Keith Boyle
Eileen Conway
Lisa Kress
George Slyman
John Wolkowski

Endowment Committee
Kevin Keyes, Chair
Jeff Rounsaville
George Slyman
Pete Smith
Brett Wilson

Scholarship Committee
Glenn Walton, Chair
Lisa Kress
Tom McCoy
Jeff Rounsaville

Tournament Committee
Bill Krueger, Co-Chair
Glenn Walton, Co-Chair

Brian Boylan
Laurie Ethier
Lisa Kress

McDonough Scholarship Foundation

McDonough Scholarship Foundation

61 North Street
Manchester, NH 03104

(603) 316-1494

mcdonoughscholarship@gmail.com

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    Bill Everett

    President

    Bill was born in Nashua, New Hampshire and has lived throughout New England. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1972 with a BA in Political Science. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with an MBA in 1977 and worked for eight years as a CPA for Price Waterhouse. He spent the majority of his professional career as a Chief Financial Officer for three publicly traded technology companies. He is currently a corporate board member of two companies, including Issuer Direct Corporation in Raleigh, NC, where he serves as Chairman of the Board.

    After spending eleven years in Raleigh NC, Bill and his wife Lin, returned to Hebron New Hampshire where they now live. He has been a member of Laconia Country Club for seven years where he has served on the greens committee and the strategic planning committee. He has been a frequent competitor in NHGA championships and is a past winner of the NHGA Senior Match Play and Players Invitational Championships. Bill’s initial contact with the McDonough Foundation was through his work establishing the DiFonzo Named Scholarship at Laconia Country Club. Bill joined the Board of the McDonough Foundation in July 2017 and has been primarily involved in managing and growing the McDonough Permanent Fund.

    William Krueger

    Vice President

    Bill joined the McDonough Board of Directors in 1996 and served as tournament chairman for a number of years. Bill was born in Camden, NJ in 1950 but moved at a very young age to Franklin, NH and graduated from Franklin High School in 1967. Bill played on the golf team all four years while in high school as the seventh man on a six-man team.

    Bill graduated from Case Institute of Technology in 1971 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has spent the majority of his career in the Pulp and Paper Industry working for various equipment manufacturers. Bill did take a few years off from Pulp and Paper as an owner of a packaged ice company and after selling that business the owner of a retail hardware and lumber yard. Bill currently covers the Northeast for a company out of the Cincinnati, Ohio area that provides equipment to recycled paper mills.

    After high school Bill did not play golf again until he sold his ice company in 1986. Eleven years into his marriage, Bill’s wife never knew Bill knew what a golf club was until he joined Concord Country Club in Concord, NH, Bill’s current hometown.

    Bill’s passion for the game grew quickly and at his best carried a 5 handicap. Bill realized that he wanted to give back to the game as much as he wanted to play. To this end he joined the Concord Country Club Board of Directors in 1992 and has served off and on since then. Bill also became a member of the NHGA Board of Directors in 2006 where he served as their President from 2012 to 2014. In 1992 Bill met Jim Kinhan, a long time McDonough Board member, and through that friendship joined the McDonough Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors. Bill was successful in getting Concord Country Club go to direct billing for McDonough making CCC one of the leading donors to McDonough. Bill continues to serve on the McDonough Board and promote McDonough throughout the state through his connections at the NHGA.

    Brian Hayward

    Treasurer

    Brian Hayward joined the McDonough board in the fall of 2012 as the Treasurer. He has been a sole proprietor Certified Public Accountant for the past 30 years specializing in small business taxation. Brian resides in Bedford, NH with his wife Linda. They have two grown children, Patrick and Lauren.

    Tyler Butler

    Secretary

    Tyler, a certified public accountant, is a past McDonough Scholar who became a Board Member in 2015. Tyler worked at several NH golf courses throughout his college years.  And the golf industry has deep roots in his family, going back to his grandfather, who was a PGA professional, and his father, who was a golf course superintendent. Tyler lives in Auburn, NH, with his wife, Angela, daughter, Caroline, and their family dog, Layla. In addition to a deep appreciation for all things golf, Tyler is an avid skier and sports enthusiast. Tyler currently serves as Board Secretary.

    Brian Boylan

    Director

    Brian is a past McDonough Scholar and joined the McDonough Board of Directors in 2015.  After completing his education and playing collegiate golf at the University of Hartford, he settled in the Boston area.  Brian is an active member of Concord Country Club and has served on the Board of Directors of the club since 2013.  He resides in Andover, MA with his wife, Katie and their two sons Finn and Liam.  In his spare time, while not playing golf, he enjoys playing hockey and spending time on Cape Cod.

    Keith Boyle

    Director

    Keith is an honored former McDonough scholarship recipient while attending Roger Williams University 2001 through 2006. He was proud to join the McDonough Board of Directors in 2015 to give back to the Foundation that helped support him through college.  He sits on the McDonough Marketing Committee.  As a youth, Keith grew up fascinated with the game of golf, which started with his first range season alongside his Dad when he was 10. This was further cemented with several years playing at Derryfield Country Club and then at Manchester Country Club for over 15 years. He was fortunate to be taught the game by Stan Lencki at the end of his legendary career at MCC.

    Keith is a Principal at CUBE 3, a nationally recognized Architecture, Interior Design, and Planning firm, with a demonstrated history of Business Development, Marketing, and Project Delivery. He is an avid golfer who regularly competes in New Hampshire Golf Association events throughout the summer. If he’s not in the office, you’ll probably find him on the golf course.

    David Brussard

    Director

    David joined the McDonough Scholarship Foundation Board in 2017. He graduated from Northeastern University in 1974 and received his MBA from Suffolk University in 1978. He spent over forty years in the Insurance industry, retiring in 2016 after seventeen years as President/CEO of Safety Insurance Company. David still serves as Safety’s Chairman of the Board of Directors. His Dad sent him off to caddy at the age of nine to a private golf club in Melrose, Massachusetts. The caddy experience influenced the choices he would make later in his life. David and his wife Ann have three children and four grandchildren. They spend summers in Hampton, NH, winters in Jupiter, Florida.

    Eileen Conway

    Director

    Eileen Conway lives in Manchester, NH.  She is a 35-year member of Derryfield Country Club and a long-time member of the New Hampshire Women’s Golf Association. The majority of her career has been in the payment processing industry, including 20 years with JPMorgan Chase.  She currently works remotely for a payments provider headquartered in North Carolina.

    Thomas DionisioThomas M. Dionisio

    Director

    Thomas joined SNHU in 2016 as Sr. VP Technology & Transformation. Prior to 2016, Thomas was a member of the SNHU Board of Trustees since 2008, and a Partner with the Boston Consulting Group for 17 years.

    As a Director and Managing Partner at BCG, Thomas managed BCG’s global Information Technology Services organization. Thomas was responsible for technology strategy and delivery across BCG’s 80+ global offices.

    In 2018, Thomas was profiled at the annual Gartner Symposium as a thought leader among CIO’s for his vision on future Information Technology Organization structures, strategies and methodologies.

    Thomas has accumulated thirty+ years of experience in the information technology industry. His experience spans the periods of mainframe computing, mini-computing, the PC revolution, the internet boom and bust, and the various iterations of business process engineering and modelling. In addition to technology management, Thomas has worked with some of the firm’s largest international clients in the areas of IT strategy, structure, and governance.

    Thomas has deep experience managing and delivering IT services in an international setting; including international sourcing, telecommunications, IT strategy, change management, and multicultural workface management.

    During his career Thomas has held roles as Senior Consulting Project Manager with IBM Professional Services; Systems Engineering; and Marketing with responsibility for the top five Boston based universities. Thomas has also worked as a technical supervisor and systems engineer with an international environmental controls company; and served as Chief Information Officer in the healthcare delivery sector for 15 years, and served on the board of the Manchester Community Health Services organization.

    Thomas holds a degree from Southern New Hampshire University in Management Information Systems, and a graduate degree in Information Technology Security from Brandeis University.

    He has also earned certification from the University Michigan in Emerging Information Technologies; Certification in Data modeling and design; Certification in Information Management JCHA; and Certification in Management of Professional Services Firms from Harvard Business School. He is a former member of the CIO advisory board for CISR (Canter for Information Systems Research), at MIT. He also holds several advisory positions with technology firm and telecommunications carriers.

    John Doykos

    Director

    After graduation from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine followed by a residency at Boston Childrens Hospital, Jack Doykos practiced Pediatric Dentistry and taught at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is honored to have been part of the McDonough Board for twenty years assisting scholars and their families defray their college education costs.

    Laurie Ethier

    Director

    Nashua Country Club and the sport of golf have had a life-long presence for Laurie.  She began playing at a young age, participating in numerous NHWGA and NEGA events.  She went on to play competitively at the collegiate level while at the University of South Carolina, and was still in college when she won 1985 NH Women’s State Amateur Championship.

    Laurie was the first volunteer coach for the First Tee Program at Nashua Country Club, where she taught golf to kids from the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua.   She is in her ninth season as Junior Varsity Golf Team Coach at Bishop Guertin High School.   Additionally, she is a long-time volunteer with Special Olympics in NH, has served on fundraising committees for local nonprofit organizations, and has held various positions on numerous membership committees at Nashua Country Club over the years.

    Laurie recently retired McNulty & Foley, her family’s catering business.  She is currently working with her husband Dan at his accounting firm, Dan Ethier, CPA.  Laurie, Dan, their daughter Megan and son Tommy live in Nashua.

    Her husband Dan is a past McDonough Scholar.

    Kevin Keyes

    Director

    Kevin joined the McDonough board in 2013. He has lived in New Hampshire since graduating from Holy Cross in 1979. One of the first things he did when he moved to the Manchester area was join the Manchester Country Club, where he belonged for many years while living in Bedford. In 2000 he and his wife Maura joined Bald Peak Colony Club.

    After raising their two oldest children in Bedford, Kevin and Maura, along with their youngest daughter Colleen and their dog Zuzu moved full time to Moultonborough, where Colleen attended High School before going on to UNH.

    Kevin is the owner of APPS Paramedical Services in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. He and Maura are also owners of DNA North America.

    Tom McCoy

    Director

    Tom joined the McDonough Board in 2019. He was selected as a McDonough Scholar in 1966 having worked as a caddie at Nashua Country Club and on the grounds crew at Green Meadow Golf Course in Hudson, NH. After graduation from the University of New Hampshire in 1970 he was commissioned in the United States Air Force (USAF). Upon completion of pilot training in 1971, he served in numerous assignments and retired in March 1997 at the rank of Colonel. He is currently President of McCoy Global Management, an international consulting and management company. Tom is an active member of Laconia Country Club and has served as Club President, Chairman of the Greens Committee and Chairman of the Membership Committee. He is also a member of the board of the Lakes Region Chapter for Veterans Count. He and his wife Nancy reside in Meredith, NH.

    Jeff Rounsaville

    Director

    Jeff Rounsaville joined the McDonough board in 2005. Jeff is a past Board Secretary and Scholarship Chair. He is presently leading an effort to endow a permanent scholarship at Eastman Golf Links. He retired from Ingersoll-Rand/GL&V Nashua after a 38-year career, having held positions in engineering, process development, sales support, and management. Additionally, he is active on the Slope Team for the NHGA and Golf Committee at Eastman Golf Links.

    Jeff and Leslie reside in Grantham, NH. They have a son, Todd, who is a McDonough alumnus, a daughter, Jamie, and three grandchildren.

    Peter Smith

    Director

    Pete Smith is a former President of McDonough and co-founder of the Foundation’s Permanent Fund. He is a Dartmouth College graduate and Ouimet Caddie Scholar. He grew up in Western Massachusetts and worked as a caddie, bag room attendant and pro shop assistant. His involvement with McDonough in some small way, pays back all that the game of golf has afforded him.

    Pete and his wife Kelly reside in Bedford, NH. They have three grown daughters.

    George Slyman

    Director

    George K Slyman is a Certified Financial Planner professional. He has been active coaching youth sports and sponsoring youth golf activities. He resides in the Monadnock Region with his wife Diane.

    Tyler Walsh

    Director

    Tyler grew up in Bedford, NH and learned to play golf at Manchester Country Club. He worked at MCC as a caddie through high school and during his time in college at the University of New Hampshire. Tyler graduated from UNH with a degree in Accounting and Finance and currently works in Ernst & Young’s Strategy and Transactions practice in Boston, MA. Tyler, an avid golfer, is a member of Manchester Country Club. You will most likely find him on the golf course when he’s not working. Tyler and his wife, Alyssa, currently reside in Hooksett, NH with their golden retriever, Jordan. He joined the McDonough Board in Spring of 2022.

    Glenn Walton

    Director

    Glenn has lived in New Hampshire since 1984 and graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a BS in Business Administration. He spent eight years in the military, primarily as an Airborne Ranger Infantryman in the 75th Ranger Regiment of the US Army’s Special Operations Command. Upon returning to New Hampshire, Glenn spent seven years in the golf industry. In 2001, he left the golf industry and spent 15 years working in management for a major national retailer at locations throughout New Hampshire. Now semi-retired, Walton spends most of his time on the golf course.

    Walton spent nearly 20 years as a member at Manchester Country Club, where he served on numerous committees and the Board of Directors. Glenn is currently a member of The Golf Club of New England and Portsmouth Country Club. He began volunteering with the New Hampshire Golf Association in 2007 as a member of the course rating team, joined the Board of Directors in 2010, served as President from 2016-2018 and retired from the board in 2020. Walton joined the board of the McDonough Scholarship Foundation in 2008 and chaired the Annual Pro-Am from 2008-2020.  Glenn has served as Secretary, Vice-President and President from 2018-2021.

    When he is not playing golf or working on McDonough Foundation projects, he enjoys volunteering as a starter at various NHGA Championships or helping with course ratings around the state. Glenn and his wife, Kathy, reside in Manchester, New Hampshire.

     

    Brett Wilson

    Director

    Brett joined the McDonough board in the Fall of 2019. He grew up in NH and learned to play golf at Cochecho Country Club in Dover. He worked at Cochecho through high school and college, attending the University of New Hampshire, graduating with a BS in Hospitality Management. He is an avid golfer who plays in many New Hampshire Golf Association events. Brett and his wife Nicole live in Dover with their three daughters.

    John A. Wolkowski

    Director

    John was an honored and proud recipient of the McDonough scholarship awards beginning in 1978 through his graduation from St. Anselm College in 1982. Thereafter, he attended the University Of New Hampshire School of Law (formally known as Franklin Pierce Law Center) and obtained his JD in 1986. He has been a practicing attorney in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for over 34 years. He is currently the managing partner at Backus, Meyer & Branch, LLP in Manchester, New Hampshire.

    In the early 90s, he was invited to join the Board of Directors as its first alumni director. He has served the Foundation ever since: as Chair as the Alumni Committee, being a member of the Governance and Finance Committee and, most importantly, 10 years as its president and received the Stan Lencki Distinguished Service Award in 2019. His long-standing commitment to McDonough is reflected from his interview days at the Highway Hotel in Concord to seeing the new students in various venues, including Zoom.

    He resides in Bedford with his wife Lisa and their incredible little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Hero.

    Lisa M KressLisa M Kress

    Director of Operations and Development

    While Lisa only joined the McDonough Foundation as a staff member in November of  2020, her tangential involvement with the McDonough Foundation began nearly three decades ago when she married McDonough Board Member, John Wolkowski. Lisa possesses strong organizational, computer, and communication skills and has the take-charge attitude necessary to provide a vast array of support services to the Foundation’s Board of Directors, as well as for the McDonough scholars.

    In addition to her work for McDonough, she practices as a licensed cosmetologist with an active clientele and is also a registered yoga instructor.  Lisa and her husband John share their home in Bedford with their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Hero.