Officers

Rob Corcoran
PRESIDENT


Rob has longstanding ties to Keuka Lake. Both his father and grandfather were born and raised in Penn Yan. Rob was raised in Rochester, but spent all of his summers on Keuka Lake, where he now lives after having spent more than 31 years with Chemical Bank and its successor organization, J P Morgan Chase, both in New York City and overseas. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds an MBA from Wharton. In addition to being the current President of the Keuka Lake Association, he is also a director of the Finger Lakes Economic Development Center and Treasurer of Lakeside Country Club. Rob and his wife, Sharon, have two grown daughters.


Bill Laffin
PRESIDENT-ELECT


Bill and his wife Mary-Ellen have been on Keuka Lake since 1993. Following his retirement in 2001 from Mobil Oil Corporation, he and Mary-Ellen began planning their transition to Keuka Lake on a full time basis. In 2006, they relocated to Milo and became full time Keuka Lake residents. Since then he served on the Town of Milo Zoning Board of Appeals, was active on Milo's Comprehensive Plan subcommittees, attended LULA training and was active on the working group that drafted the Keuka Lake Watershed Land Use Guide. Bill is also a member of both the Milo and Yates County Republican Committees.

Bill has been on the KLA Board of Directors since 2003 and has chaired the Membership Committee. He is currently Chair of the Water Quality and Nominating Committees and is President Elect of the KLA.


Bebette Yunis
SECETARY


Bebette Yunis grew up on Keuka Lake and has spent every summer living on the lake. When not at Keuka, she lives in Syracuse, where she graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1989. Prior to that, she attended and graduated with a B.A. in politics from Ithaca College. She practiced law in Syracuse for several years before becoming the Director of the New York State Fair in 2005 through early 2007. Since that time, Bebette has worked in her family's commercial real estate business and retail liquor business in the Southern Tier (Horseheads, NY).

Bebette is active in the Keuka community - serving on the Board of Trustees at Keuka College since 2009, Keuka Lake Association since 2003 as director, and now an officer and a founding member and advisory board member of the recently formed Yates Community Endowment of Rochester Area Community Foundation. Bebette is also a member of the New York State Bar Association, Onondaga County Bar Association, Lakeside Country Club in Penn Yan, Lago Mar Beach Club in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Drumlins Tennis Club in Syracuse, NY. She enjoys golf, tennis, water skiing and boating on Keuka Lake.


John Webster
TREASURER


A native of Williamsport, PA, John taught high school mathematics at Hammondsport Central School for 34 years, retiring in 2002. He and his wife Beverly have three grown daughters, and reside in Hammondsport. In retirement, John drives a school bus, teaches part time in the mathematics department at SUNY Geneseo, and is active in town affairs. The Websters enjoy spending time on Keuka, and look forward to living on the lake someday.


Margo G. McTaggart
Administrative Assistant


Margo retired from education after 30 years, 3 years as an elementary teacher and 27 years as a reading specialist. She taught 7 years for Penn Yan Central School in Dresden & Branchport and then 20 years in Fairport. Margo grew up in Elmira and received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Elmira College. Her family has owned property on Keuka Lake for three generations, first on W. Lake Rd. and then her parents purchased property on E. Lake Rd. and ran a girls’ camp, called The Elms, for 10 years. After the majority of the property was sold, her family continued to live north of there until she and her husband, Fletch, sold it to move to Penn Yan and live close to the golf course – as they are both avid golfers.