Wyoming Seminary Welcomes New Board of Trustees Members

The Board of Trustees of Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School will install six new members during its fall meeting, George Sordoni, board chair, announced.

The new members are Charles Bufalino, III, Wyoming Seminary Class of 1978, Dallas; A. John Dimond, Class of 1957, Kingston; Joseph Kluger, Class of 1982, Allentown; Dorothy Darling, Class of 1968, Encinitas, Calif.; Erica Romanowski, West Pittston; and Richard Rose, Wilkes-Barre.

A 1982 graduate of Villanova University, Bufalino earned his law degree from Dickinson School of Law in 1985 and was admitted to the Luzerne County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. He is associated with his father, Charles J. Bufalino, Jr. ’48 and brothers Brian A. Bufalino ’87 and Mark W. Bufalino ’88 in the general practice of law in West Pittston and Dallas. He has served as a law clerk to Luzerne County Common Pleas Court Judge Gifford Cappellinni and Lycoming County Senior Judge Clinton Smith. Bufalino also serves as a court-appointed Guardian for minors in Children and Youth cases, and as a Master in Family Law matters for Luzerne County. He is the zoning solicitor for the borough of Dallas and is the solicitor of Community Counseling Services of NEPA.

Dimond received the Wyoming Seminary Alumni Association award for outstanding service to the school in 1997. A past president of the Wyoming Seminary Parents Association, Dimond previously served on the school’s Board of Trustees and on the President’s Council. A past member of the board of the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, he has also served as the president of the board of Temple B’nai B’rith and as a member of the board of the Jewish Federation. A past officer and member of the Board of Governors of the Westmoreland Club, he has served on the finance committee of the United Way of Wyoming Valley and the Board of Directors of the Susquehanna Savings & Loan. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Wilkes University in 1962 with a degree in economics.  He is the retired president of Bergman’s Department store in Kingston, where he worked for 30 years.

Kluger is a practicing attorney and a manager in the firm of Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, P.C., Kingston. He also has served as solicitor for Luzerne County Community College since 1992. He was an instructor at the American Institute of Banking in 1991 and served as Assistant District Attorney for Luzerne County in 1992. Kluger serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Greater Wilkes-Barre Development Corporation, King’s College, the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business & Industry and the Luzerne Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Luzerne Bank. Kluger graduated from Hamilton College in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in government, earning his law degree three years later from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, Washington, D.C.

Darling is owner and president of SOS Paralegal Services, located in San Diego. She has been a practicing paralegal since 1988 and started her own paralegal business in 1993. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Wilkes University and has been active in church-related activities associated with the Celebration Center for Conscious Living. Her grandmother, Dorothy Dickson Darte, was the first woman to sit on Sem’s board (1939-1967). Darling is the sixth generation and the seventh member of her family to sit on the Sem board. Darling graduated from Dickinson College in 1972 with a degree in history and earned her master’s degree in anthropology from San Diego University in 1985.

Romanowski is director of the Melberger Arts Center & Gallery in Scranton. From 1997 to 2005 she served as Vice President of Public Relations & Employee Relations for Diversified Information Technologies, Inc. of Scranton, where she also held positions in customer relations, operations and human resources. She has been a member of the Wyoming Seminary Lower School Parents Association since 2006, a member of the President’s Council and has served as co-chair of both the Holiday Tea and the Lower School/Upper School Auction. A graduate of the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in American Studies in 1989, she also earned her certification as a Web master from Pennsylvania State University in 2000.

Rose is president and owner of Petroleum Service Company (PSC), a multidimensional petroleum wholesaler and retailer as well as a nationally recognized supplier of paints, coatings and rust preventatives. He received a B.S. in business from Drexel University in 1984 and began his career in the healthcare field with US Healthcare, Chicago, IL, and later Digital Equipment Corporation’s new business development division. He is a past director of Pennsylvania Enterprises, PG Energy and Wyoming Valley Health Care System. Currently a director of Mountain Productions, Inc. and the Black Horse Foundation, he has also served as both a board member and past president of the Westmoreland Club.

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