Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for the financial management of all activities of The Woman's Club. It meets the third Monday of every month. Board members are elected to two-year terms. Board officers (President, President Elect, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer) are elected to one-year terms.

Janet Nardolillo joined the Board in July 2022. She grew up in Syracuse and came to the Capital Region after graduating from Smith College.

She was employed in administrative positions for the Girl Scouts and the Albany YWCA, and as an academic advisor at Excelsior College.

She served on boards for Mercy House and St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry. Now retired, she volunteers at Ronald McDonald House breakfast kitchen, St. Vincent’s Food Pantry and the Shaker Heritage Society gardens.

For most of her working life, Debbie was a professor of engineering at RPI. It was a demanding job, requiring frequent presentations and proposal writing, both skills that are useful in the WCA. She also served on numerous committees and filled leadership roles, such as President of the Faculty Senate and Director of Core Engineering.

She joined the WCA about seven years ago. She served on the Board for four years and was Treasurer for three of those years. She currently participates in several committees, including Finance, Development, Archives and Rentals. In Archives, she drafted the text that we included on the Pillars website pages.

In Development, she spearheaded an effort to win a grant for air conditioning, and with the help of many members, submitted a winning proposal. She enjoys working with the outstanding people she has met at the WCA and wishes to continue to work with them by serving on the Board.

Pattie Beeler has been involved with the WCA since 2003. She was president from 2013 to 2015, subsequently served as treasurer and termed off the Board in 2020.

She completed a short-term director’s seat created by an unexpected vacancy and was elected to a full term in June 2022. Pattie serves on the Governance and Rental committees and chairs the Building Committee.

Previously chief clerk of Rensselaer County Family Court, Pattie is involved in many Town of Bethlehem issues, including open space and farmland and forest preservation work. She co-leads Bethlehem Tomorrow, a community advocacy organization, and serves on Bethlehem’s Conservation Easement Review Board.

Jolene has been a member of the WCA for six years. She attends Together Women Rise, is active in the gardening group, assists with the garage sale, Tulip and Holiday Teas and co-chaired the 2024 Glitz and Glam event. 

Now retired, Jolene was an advanced oncology nurse specialist at St Peter’s Health Partners for over 20 years and director of the Cancer Care Center. She later worked in oncology clinical research for Bristol Myers Squibb. Throughout her career she was a mentor for nurses, facilitated patient/family support groups and taught courses in clinical research and pain management across the U.S.

An Albany County Medical Reserve Corps volunteer, Jolene received a ‘beyond the call’ COVID-19 Award from the Albany County Legislature. As an International Medical Mission volunteer, she led a group of medical volunteers to South Africa. She served on a volunteer medical team in Guatemala in 2010.

Jolene was president of the Sage College of Albany Alumni Association and received the 2021 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award. She served six years as a board trustee of the Friends of Pruyn House, and is currently an associate board member. She is vice president of Vanguard and volunteers at Proctor's Theater and Capital Rep. 

Linda Fasano has been a member of WCA for four years, two of which were spent as Program Committee chair.

Now a retired school librarian, she has had many opportunities to participate in and lead committees to ensure success of the students and communities she served. She spent over 30 years in public and school libraries, as well as 10-plus years teaching in the School Library Media Program at the graduate level at the University at Albany.

While a school librarian, she founded and developed a STEAM-based makerspace. Students could come during their free time to “tinker,” collaborate and think critically while creating, making, inventing, etc.

Pat Glennon has lived her life in the Capital Region graduating from Mercy High School in Albany and earning her bachelor of science degree in elementary education from The College of Saint Rose and her master of science degree from Russell Sage College.

She was married for 42 years until her husband’s death in 2015 and is the mother of three daughters.

She taught in elementary schools in Albany and Guilderland for nearly 40 years, at times serving as a building union representative and building union president.

Pat has been an active volunteer in the community, including over 20 years at the Altamont Community Food Pantry, also serving as director from 2007 to 2013. She has also volunteered at the Food Pantries of the Capital District and as a docent at the Mabee Farms Historic Site.

As a member of the Woman’s Club of Albany, she is active on the Community Service Committee, which she currently co-chairs.

Pat was born and raised in Central New York where lake effect snow is a thing. She got her bachelor's degree at SUNY Albany (1979-1983) where there is way less snow and much more sun, so she made her home here after college, also because her sister lives here. 

She briefly taught high school English then began working for New York State as a typist and worked her way up to computer programmer which she did for 26 years for Higher Education Services. She supervised on occasion and ended her career as the head of two units that were combined into one. 

She is single, having lost her partner, Jeff, in 2018. She enjoys traveling and theater, especially Broadway musicals. Her craft room has way more supplies than she will probably ever use but one can never have too much paper or rubber stamps or any of the tools that go with them. Her kitty recently went over the rainbow bridge, so she is looking into fostering cats/kittens for Kitten Angels. She works out with a trainer at the JCC twice a week for mental and physical health. She considers it a privilege that she has seen her nieces and nephews grow up and now gets to spoil their children.