Tom Finan

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Married to Mary Kay (Kelly) Finan, a retired professor of Education at Frostburg State University. They are the parents of two children: Patrick and Kelly.

Education

• Mount St. Mary’s University: B.S. in Business with a minor in Economics, 1964.
• Frostburg State University: Master of Science in Management (M.S.M), 1973.
• Johns Hopkins University: Master of Liberal Arts (M.L.A.), 1979.

Work Experience

• 1967-1969 Peace Corps Volunteer, Bolivia, South America
• 1969-1987 Times and Alleganian Company, Cumberland, Md; Vice President, Business Manager, and an owner of the Times-News, Cumberland’s daily newspaper until it was sold in 1986.
• 1987-2015 Private Investor. Retired since 2015

Civic Affairs

• Member of the board of Allegany College from 1970 until 1994 and was chairman of the board from 1988 to 1994.
• Served on the board of Mount St. Mary’s University from 1987 to 1994.
• Was a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland from 1995 to 2007.
• Served on the board of the Memorial Hospital and was its chairman in 1996 when Memorial and Sacred Heart Hospitals formed an affiliation to create the Western Maryland
  Health System.

• Currently a member of the Western Maryland Health System Foundation board.
• Member of the Allegany County Library board. Founding member of the Greater Cumberland Committee.
• Past member board of the Liberty Trust Company and its successor banks, the American Trust Bank and Keystone Financial of Harrisburg when it was acquired by the M&T
  Bank.

• Past member of the grants committee for the Allegany Arts Council.

Awards and Recognition

• 1997 Allegany County Chamber of Commerce Individual of the Year. For co-chairing the Committee which made recommendations to the boards of Memorial Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital to bring them into an affiliation creating the Western Maryland Health System.
• 2017 The Greater Cumberland Committee - The Greater Good Award.

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