At its meeting on June 12, 2024, the Oneida County Board of Legislators reappointed David Mathis ’70 and William S. Calli, Jr., to the Mohawk Valley Community College Board of Trustees for seven-year terms.

David Mathis has served as an MVCC Trustee successively since his appointment by Oneida County in 1977, acting as Vice Chair for two terms and as Chair for three terms. He also is the Chair of the MVCC Dormitory Corporation Board of Directors and President of the MVCC Alumni Association Board of Directors. Mathis served as the 2021 Association of Community College Trustees’ Board Chair, representing more than 6,500 elected and appointed trustees at over 1,200 community, technical, and junior colleges in the U.S. and beyond.

Incredibly active in the community, Mathis sits on a variety of boards for organizations including the Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency; Stanley Center for the Arts; New York State Workforce Investment Board; The Arc, Oneida-Lewis Chapter; and the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES School & Business Alliance Program. He has received many awards for his community involvement. Among them are the United Way “Hero Award,” Oneida County NAACP Achievement Award, Utica College Outstanding Alumnus Award, Mohawk Valley Community College Alumni of Merit Award, New York State Governor’s African Americans of Distinction Award, American Red Cross-President’s Fund Award for Cultural Diversity, Association of Community College Trustees Northeast Leadership Award, the M. Dale Ensign Trustee Leadership Award, the Joseph R. Carucci Legacy Award, and the Anne M. Bushnell Memorial Award for Special Achievement. He also was named an Oneida County Historical Society Living Legend.

William S. Calli, Jr., has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2003, when he was appointed by Gov. George Pataki. He was appointed again in 2010 and 2017 by Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr. He served as Board Chair from 2008-2010 and 2015-2018, and as Vice Chair from 2006-2008 and 2013-2015.

Calli is an attorney and partner in his family’s law firm of over 100 years, Calli, Calli & Cully. His primary areas of practice include real property, banking, wills/estates, and corporate law. He also has been involved with several organizations, including the Oneida County Board of Ethics and the Oneida County Bar Association, serving as the latter’s President in 2021 and as a long-standing Chair of its Real Property Committee. Calli is a recipient of the 2012 NYCCT Marvin A. Rapp Distinguished Trustee Award. He is a 1989 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and earned his Juris Doctor from the New England School of Law in Boston in 1992.