Lackawanna Bar Association
LeeAnn Munley, Lackawanna Bar Association (SUBMITTED)
Lackawanna Bar Association Executive Director LeeAnn Munley has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Arthur J. Birdsall Award.
The Conference of County Bar Leaders, a standing committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association composed of leaders from county bar associations throughout the state, periodically presents the Birdsall Award. This distinguished award recognizes a bar executive who has been a “faithful steward of bar traditions, committed to the success of his or her bar association and who puts himself or herself second to the needs of the Association.”
She was honored at the Conference of County Bar Leaders at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in State College.
United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania
Terilynn Brechtel, UNC (SUBMITTED)
Audrey Golosky, UNC (SUBMITTED)
UNC has announced the promotion of Terilynn Brechtel, LCSW, to chief operating officer.
Brechtel joined UNC in 2011 as a service coordinator in community services and soon advanced to housing counselor, focusing on foreclosure prevention. During that time, she also taught first-time homebuyer classes and served as a certified HIV prevention counselor.
She later worked within UNC’s Community Development Corporation and Community Education programs, supporting individuals pursuing citizenship. She went on to serve in the Family Literacy program, where she taught English as a second language, provided case management and continued assisting individuals through the citizenship process. Over time, she advanced into leadership roles, ultimately serving as director of community education.
Throughout her tenure, Brechtel has played a key role in expanding programs and strengthening services to meet the evolving needs of the community.
As chief operating officer, Brechtel will focus on strengthening collaboration across departments, supporting staff, and guiding UNC’s continued growth and impact.
UNC has announced the promotion of Audrey Golosky to director of community education.
Golosky began her journey with the organization in 2008 as a volunteer with the SCOLA program and officially joined UNC in 2019 as a family literacy instructor, tutor coordinator and case manager for the Refugee Resettlement Program. She brings extensive experience teaching English as a second language across public schools, higher education and community-based settings.
At UNC, Golosky has been instrumental in expanding English as a second language and citizenship programs, which served more than 670 students from over 50 countries, speaking more than 20 languages, in 2025.
Golosky has played a key role in supporting individuals and families new to the community, expanding programs such as Job Readiness and school-aged tutoring, and strengthening services through her work in refugee resettlement. She also completed immigration law training to assist clients with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services documentation.
For the past three years, she has served as assistant director. In her new role, Golosky will continue to foster a welcoming, supportive environment where individuals can access services and feel empowered to succeed.
University of Scranton
Douglas Boyle, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
Daniel Haggerty, University of Scranton (SUBMITTED)
Douglas M. Boyle, DBA ’88, professor and chair of accounting, and Daniel P. Haggerty, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, are two of the three authors of an article that earned this year’s Curt Verschoor Ethics Feature of the Year Award from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
Their article, “Fraud and the Capital Vices: Pride, Envy and Greed,” was published in the IMA’s flagship publication, Strategic Finance. Their article examines how the vices of pride, envy and greed contribute to fraud risk. It also provides organizations with practical strategies to strengthen ethical culture and prevent fraud by addressing these behavioral drivers.
In addition to serving as professor and chair in the Department of Accounting, Boyle is the director of the university’s Ph.D. program in accounting. A certified public accountant and certified management accountant, he brings 30-plus years of executive experience, having held positions as CEO, CFO and COO. He currently serves as board chair for Allied Services Healthcare System and is ranked No. 1 worldwide for publication productivity in top accounting education journals and No. 1 nationally in practice-focused accounting journals. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Scranton, an MBA from Columbia University and a doctorate from Kennesaw State.
Beyond serving as professor in the Department of Philosophy, Haggerty directs the university’s Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program. His research focuses on moral psychology, ethics and epistemology, examining how virtue, reasoning and emotions influence decision-making and ethical behaviors. He has published extensively on classical and contemporary philosophy and has received university awards including Teacher of the Year — from Scranton’s graduating class in 2018 and also from Alpha Sigma Nu in 2011 — and the 2016 Magis Award. He earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s University and a doctorate from Syracuse University.
Boyle has authored four Verschoor award-winning articles, while Haggerty has authored two. The article’s third author, Dana R. Hermanson, Ph.D., is an accounting professor at Kennesaw State University.