Candace Cima
(President) - Owner of Horizon Villages a Senior Housing
Community in Ithaca, New York. She currently sits on the
Board of Directors of Hospicare and Palliative Care
Services of Tompkins County and serves on the
organizations Development Committee. She is a past
board member of the Auxiliary Board of Cayuga Medical
Center and is active in other community organizations.ccima@aol.com
Gloria Howell, retired
Registrar at Cornell University, with a long history of
volunteer service to people in need. She is the sister
of Alex Cima in whose memory Small Comforts was founded.
ghowell@twcny.rr.comWarren Belknap
(Secretary/Treasurer) - Retired corporate
executive long interested in the care of people with
chronic illness.
WarrenB659@aol.com
Laura J. Cima
- brings over 12 years experience as a professional in the
marketing and communications field. She also serves on
the board of the Ithaca Community Childcare Center and
is active in other community
organizations. Additionally, she was the child of a
chronically ill person and brings that perspective to
the board.
ljc14850@yahoo.com
Paul Banfield -
Vice President (Commercial
Banking) at Tompkins Trust Company. Recent and current
board memberships include: Hospicare of Tompkins County
(past president),. Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Inc.,.
Learning Web, Alpha House Foundation, Ithaca Sunrise
Rotary
PBanfield@tompkinstrust.com
David Banfield
-
Sr. Vice President of Tompkins Insurance Agencies
(formerly Banfield & Assoc.), Member of Board of
Directors of: Security Mutual Insurance Company,
Hospicare and Palliative Care Services of Tompkins
County, Hospicare Foundation (President), Tompkins
Charitable Gifts Foundation (Chairperson);
Life long resident of Ithaca.
dbanfield@tompkinsins.com
Elizabeth Hesson
-Long experience as a professional caregiver as a nurse in
dialysis service.
ehesson1@TWCNY.RR.COM
Stanley Biskup, Jr. - A special
talent in caring for people, especially seniors.
ldb5@cornell.edu
Linda
P. Wagenet is a Senior
Extension Associate at Cornell in the Department of
Development Sociology. Her research interests focus on
environment and community, i.e., how citizens can fit
into environmental management. Currently, she is on the
Water Resources Council of Tompkins County and the
Technical Committee of the Cayuga Lake Intermunicipal
Organization. She is a past Board member and past
President of the Board of Hospicare and Palliative Care
Services of Tompkins County, presently serving on the
Development Committee of that organization.LPW2@Cornell.edu
Margie Vohris is Secretary to the Principal at
Lansing Middle School, in Lansing, New York. She is a
past board member of the
Cayuga Medical Center Auxiliary Board and active in
Breast Cancer support and research.
Nina
Miller is recently retired as Executive Director of
the Hospicecare and Palliative Care Services ot Tompkins
County. Prior to that she lead Planned Parenthood
of Tompkins County; and served as Executive Director of
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services.
Martin Demarest - Psychologist with extensive clinical
and administrative experience in services for people
with chronic illness. demarest@clarityconnect.com
