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Four Juniata College Alumni Receive Achievement Awards
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Photography by: our Juniata alumni received awards June 8, as part of Juniata’s Thomas Jordan ’14 “Alumni Weekend 2013.” Jayne Keirn Donahue ’75, executive vice (unless noted) president and general auditor for State Street Corporation, was awarded the Alumni Achievement Award; Frank Pote ’73, unit chief in the FBI’s Language Services Section, received the Harold B. Brumbaugh Alumni Service Award; Edward Richards ’73, social worker at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Northport, N.Y. received the William E. Swigart Jr. Alumni Humanitarian Award; and Brent A. Lightner ’00, founder and president of Taoti Creative, was awarded the Young Alumni Achievement Award. Jayne Keirn Donahue has been executive vice president and general auditor for State Street Corp., a Boston-based financial services company specializing in investment assets, since 2009. She joined the company in 1996 at the vice presidential level as deputy general auditor. In 2003, she was promoted to executive vice president, and 2006 she became the bank’s chief compliance officer.
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After working as an employee-relations intern for PPG Industries Inc. in 1975, Donahue started her business career in 1976 as an inspector for the U.S. Treasury Department in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, where she was a tax and compliance auditor. She moved into banking in 1978, working as vice president and senior audit manager for the Bank of New England. In 1991, she moved to the Bank of Boston as audit director for the bank’s Internal Audit Division. She became senior vice president and head of internal auditing at Citizens Financial Group in 1994. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and business in 1975 and earned certification as a Certified Bank Auditor in 1991. She also became a Certified Risk Professional in 1997. She also has been pro-active in gender equity issues. She is a member of State Street’s Global Advisory Council for the Global Professional Women’s Network and is a member of the company’s Leading Women Initiative.