Business leader earns university alumni award

JOHNSTOWN Local businesswoman Jeanne Wolford McKelvey, who graduated from Pitt-Johnstown in 1965, has been named the universitys 2013-2014 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

McKelvey will receive her award at the annual Alumni Association Gala to be held March 29 in Heritage Hall at the Living Learning Center on the schools Richland Township campus.

The award is the highest honor Pitt-Johnstown bestows on its more than 20,000 alumni, recognizing them for individual achievements, leadership in their professions, service to their community and loyalty to their alma mater.

Im very honored, McKelvey said when she learned of her selection.

McKelvey is owner, director, vice president and legal counsel for McKelvey Oil Co. Inc., which serves a six-county area of west-central Pennsylvania from its base along Eisenhower Boulevard in Stonycreek Township.

She also is an owner and director for MountainTop Technologies Inc., a Johnstown-based technology company specializing in computer and Internet-based learning programs for military, government and private companies. In the past, she also served as senior vice president and general counsel for the company.

Before her current positions, McKelvey was a medical technologist and chief technologist at Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital; a chief technologist at the Johnstown Regional Blood Center; an allied health training program coordinator and assistant director of public affairs at Pitt-Johnstown; director, owner, secretary and legal counsel for Highland Financial Ltd.; and an instructor for business law at St. Francis College in Loretto.

In her community, McKelvey is an initiator of the Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center for Windber Medical Center. She also has served as secretary of the board of directors, executive committee member and immediate past chairwoman of the finance and personnel committee.

McKelvey is board treasurer, incorporator and trustee for Windber Research Institute; vice chairwoman, director and board secretary for 1st Summit Bank; and a member of the Hiram G. Andrews Center Special Planning Task Force.

She is a 15-year breast cancer survivor, and reached stage four in 2008.

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Business leader earns university alumni award

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