PROFILE: Mary ’85, P’18 and Pat ’83, P’18 Haveron
Accounting for Opportunity with Mary ’85, P’18 & Pat ’83, P’18 Haveron Alumni couple repays debt of gratitude with new opportunities for Scranton students.
Gratitude. Opportunity. The greater Scranton area. This is the connective tissue that inspires the philanthropy of Mary ’85, P’18 and Pat ’83, P’18 Haveron, two Royals who remain ever mindful of the many gifts The University of Scranton has bestowed upon them throughout their lives.
“We are so grateful for what Scranton gave us both individually and together,” said Pat, who started his career as a certified public accountant and who now serves as CEO and CFO of Maiden Reinsurance Ltd. “We’ve been very, very fortunate.
“I really feel like I became a different person,” said Mary, a certified public accountant who serves as the accounting and finance director of Tire Alliance Groupe, of her student years. “I mean, you talk about a transformational experience – I do feel like I had one.
“To be able to give back is not just a reflection of gratitude for what Scranton gave us, but for me, is also the realization of advice my dad gave me many years ago, to not forget what Scranton gave me and to give back what I could. It’s great advice we’ve tried to pass along to our children as well.”
“It was a whole new world that I saw.”
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