Immediate Openings in the Board of Directors!

These three positions on the Board of Directors are currently vacant and are in need of an immediate appointment, no election process is necessary. Since these positions are vital to the continuing operation of this organization, you will be immediately appointed to the position with board approval. To review the duties of these positions, if you are interested, please CLICK HERE. A more detailed list of duties during the year by position will be posted through this same link later today.


1st Vice President, three consecutive terms:

ALso Serves as Annual Banquet Chairperson.
Half-way Through Initial Term,
STEPS UP EVERY 2 YEARS:

to PRESIDENT in 2023
to PAST PRESIDENT in 2025
POSITION CURRENTLY VACANT


2nd Vice President, four consecutive terms:

ALso Serves as Membership Committee Chairperson.
Half-way Through Initial Term,
STEPS UP EVERY 2 YEARS:
TO 1ST VICE PRESIDENT in 2023
to PRESIDENT in 2025
to PAST PRESIDENT in 2027
POSITION CURRENTLY VACANT


Director: Membership, 3 year term

POSITION CURRENTLY VACANT


If you are interested in working in one of these positions for the Camden Alumni Association, please contact our president by CLICKING HERE or by mail using the information below:

Kimberly Boardman Dean, President
Camden Alumni Association
PO Box 7
Taberg, NY 13471-0007

Seeking Nominations for 2022-2023 Board of Directors

In accordance with the Camden Alumni Association Constitution and By-Laws, we are seeking nominations from current active members in good standing for positions on the Camden Alumni Board of Directors for the 2022 elections.

A member in good standing is considered an alumnus who is currently up to date on dues payments. If you are interested in one of these board positions, and your dues are not up to date, just fill out the membership form found here and mail it to the address indicated along with a check for $5 to cover the 2021-2022 annual dues.

Nominations shall be by petition from the candidate seeking office. The petition must be endorsed by at least two other dues paying members for the last two years. The petition shall be submitted to the President by February 15th. You can find a nomination petition form here.

It is the responsibility of all board members to attend a majority of the board meetings held, usually numbering 3 or 4 meetings annually [COVID-19 Permitting!]. The remaining duties specific to any position are available on the alumni website.

With the exception of the presidential offices, there are no term limits for any board of director positions. Incumbents can continue to run for office as long as they wish to hold the position. As of this notice, we do not know if any incumbents wish to withdraw from office, but election nominations are open to any qualified alumni willing to run for office and fulfill the duties of the position for which they are nominated.

Duties for all the Board of Directors positions can be found by CLICKING HERE. A more complete list of duties, by position and date during the year will be posted later today, linked through the page linked above.

For the 2022 Camden Alumni Association Board of Directors Elections, we are seeking nominations for the positions below. The positions are currently held by the listed incumbent, if any, but any active member of the Camden Alumni Association is welcome to submit their nomination for any of these positions to run in an election against the incumbent, if the incumbent is still interested in maintaining the position once another alumni is also interested in holding the position. We are always looking for new alumni to join the board of directors and help with the management of this organization.


Registrar, 1 year term.

INCUMBENT: LANCE WILLIAMS, CLASS OF 1979
[Likely Resigning in June 2022 after 17 years]

The position of Registrar is most likely the most important position on the alumni board, as the registrar maintains the membership database, records dues paid and scholarship donations and also the annual banquet reservations. If Lance resigns in June, as is highly likely, it will leave a big hole in the management of this organization, so a replacement registrar is needed above all else. Lance has agreed to help train a new registrar and be available to answer any questions the new registrar may have in his/her duties.


Secretary, 1 year term

INCUMBENT: SHERRY PETYAK SOUVA, CLASS OF 1981


Treasurer, 1 year term.

INCUMBENT: DEANNE VANDRESAR SUITS, CLASS OF 1979


Scholarship Chairperson, 1 year term.

INCUMBENT: CHELSEA MELLON MUTCH, CLASS OF 2004


Director: Banquet, 3 year term

INCUMBENT: Gail Buffalo McEntire, CLASS OF 1974


Director: Membership, 3 year term

POSITION CURRENTLY VACANT


Director: Scholarship, 3 year term

INCUMBENT: Cathy Cole Platt, CLASS OF 1977


If you are interested in working in one of these positions for the Camden Alumni Association, please send your completed nomination form by February 15, 2022 to:

Kimberly Boardman Dean, President
Camden Alumni Association
PO Box 7
Taberg, NY 13471-0007

In lieu of the online nomination form, send a letter listing your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address (if you have one), graduation year, position you are seeking for nomination and the name and signatures of at least two Camden Alumni graduates whose have paid their $5 dues for the current membership year.

Board Member Resignation….

At this time we wish to announce the resignation of our 1st Vice President and 2022/2023 Banquet Chairperson, Nancy Fox Prusack, Class of 1979 from the Camden Alumni Association Board of Directors.  Nancy has served on the board of directors since 2017, but made the decision to resign her new post at 1st Vice President a couple weeks ago.

The Camden Alumni Association is in dire need of three people to fill vacant board positions. It would be preferable for existing board members to take on the roles of 1st Vice President/Banquet Chairperson and 2nd Vice President/Membership Chairperson, as some experience with board activities makes the jobs easier. These two VP positions automatically move up through the presidency every two years, making it an eight year commitment for the 2nd Vice President, serving 2 years each through the position of “Past President”. However, as it stands, we will consider any Camden Alumni member who lives in the nearby area who is willing to serve on the board of directors.  Please contact our president, Kimberly Boardman Dean if you are interested.

In Search of a Registrar Trainee…

After seventeen years on the Camden Alumni Association Board of Directors, serving the past five years as Registrar, including the current term, I am looking to prepare for a reduction in my role and duties on the Board of Directors. I have served for twelve years as a Membership Director before moving up to Registrar with the sudden resignation of Scott Souva due to health and work concerns in 2017.

And with this addition of the duties of being the Registrar, the things I had been doing for the Camden Alumni Association as a Membership Director still remained within my domain, mostly because of my own doing, I will admit. So, since the Registrar duties are the easiest for me to pass on to another, that is what I am thinking I need to do.

It is time for me to think towards the future and find someone to train to take on the role of Registrar for either the 2022-2023 term or for the 2023-2024 term at the latest. The plan ahead is to find a qualified alumni volunteer to step up to the role of one of the three Membership Directors, where we currently have a vacancy, and from that point, work with me, learning the ins and outs of how we process all the alumni data, dues payments, scholarship donations and banquet reservations.

After one year, my hope is that we can then switch roles, my protégé will become the Registrar and I will once again return to the position of Membership Director for at minimum one more term, whatever number of years are remaining of the three year term I will occupy.

The duties of the Registrar consist of:

  1. Carrying out tasks assigned by the Board or the President.
  2. Maintaining an up-to-date record of all active and inactive members of the Association, including:
    1. Requesting a list of recent graduates with contact information from the High School Guidance Office every August.
    2. Tracking local obituaries and death notices received from other alumni and making note of deaths in the database records.
  3. Performing the registration tasks for the Association Annual Meeting and Banquet and maintain a record of donations to the Alumni Scholarship Fund by:
    1. Processing all incoming mailed and online dues and scholarship donations.
    2. Preparing monthly or semi-monthly deposits for the Treasurer.
  4. Assisting the 1st Vice President in the process of organizing and conducting the Annual Meeting and Banquet.
  5. Work on increasing active membership in the Association, in cooperation with the 2nd Vice President and Membership Directors.

From Mid-April until the Annual Meeting & Banquet in Mid-June is the busiest time for the Registrar, handling both postal mail and online dues, scholarship donations and banquet reservations. You can expect to process anywhere from 15 to 50 payments a week, and if you do it on a weekly basis, plan on it taking several hours of your time each week. If you can handle them on a day by day basis, it might be 30-60 minutes a day depending on the daily volume…

The remainder of the year is much less busy, handling the occasional payment and reviewing obituaries. I get email updates from all the local funeral homes, and just look to see if anyone is listed as a Camden graduate, and update the database as necessary.

You do need to be comfortable working on computer databases, we use FileMaker Pro for maintaining our database and handling many of the forms and output needed for both the Banquet and contacting our alumni membership. Even if you have no experience with FileMaker Pro, but are comfortable working on a computer, the plan is for you to work with me until you are comfortable with the program yourself. As a Membership Director, I will also be accessing the FileMaker Pro database once positions are swapped, so I will still be there for assistance and questions…

The only requirements to be considered for the role of Registrar are:

    • You are a Camden Graduate/Alumni.
    • Are an active member, paying your $5 annual dues.
      [You can pay your dues immediately to fulfill this requirement, if you are not up-to-date on your dues!]
    • You live in the local Camden/Rome/Oneida area, so you can easily attend the 3-4 in person board meetings per year and deliver deposits to the Treasurer.

If you are interested, or know of another Camden Alumni who might be interested, in this opportunity to assist in the management of the Camden Alumni Association and are willing to commit to a few years working as the Registrar, please let us know.

Lance Williams, Registrar
Class of 1979
Camden Alumni Association
15 Selden Drive
Rome, New York 13440
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Digital Yearbooks Online!


The Camden High School & Camden Central Yearbooks from 1944 up to 2018 are currently online for viewing on the Camden District website at the following link:

Camden Online Yearbooks



Other Photo Archive Items, like:

  • Whole Class Photographs from 1889 through 1956
  • Annual Banquet Photos from 2003 through 2019
  • Florida/Camden Winter Reunion Photos from 2005 through 2018
  • Individual Class Reunion Photo Albums for 1950, 1953 & 1969
    [1979 coming soon, along with anyone else who wishes to start a class reunion photo album.]

All of these photo albums can found on our own alumni website at:

Camden Alumni Association Photo Albums