For Immediate Release

Contact: John M. Martino
Phone Number:  (215) 895-1186
Date: 02/12/01

University Of The Sciences In Philadelphia Names New Director of Planned Giving and Major Gifts

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia has recently named Kenneth J.D. Boyden, Esquire, of Haverford, Pa. (19041), as its new director of planned giving and major gifts. 

Before coming to USP, Boyden was the planned giving officer for Abington Memorial Hospital, where he solicited and stewarded major and planned gift prospects.  He also has spent the past 13 years working in the legal field.  He was an employee of the law offices of DiOrioi and Sereni, LLP, where he achieved Of Counsel status, providing services and counsel to various charitable organizations in the areas of fund-raising and major gift solicitations.  From 1988 to 2000, he served as Delaware County District Justice, retiring as a senior judge.

Boyden is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, American Trial Lawyers Association, American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania and Delaware County Bar Associations.

He received a B.S. criminal justice from West Chester University and a J.D. from The Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pa.

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