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Joseph
Abate, M.D. |
Dr. Joseph Abate, an orthopedic surgeon, founded and operates
North Suburban Orthopedic Associates, a medical practice concentrating
in orthopedic surgery, sports medicine and physical therapy. A
native of Medford, MA, Abate is a 1958 graduate of Tufts University,
and a 1962 graduate of Tufts University Medical School. Abate
completed post-graduate training at Boston City Hospital from
1962-64 and at Boston V.A. Medical Center from 1964-67.
In addition to operating a successful medical practice for more
than 30 years, Abate has been active in a number of charitable
endeavors. He served as the Chairman of the Friends of the Whidden
Memorial Hospital Coalition, was a founder and director of Metropolitan
Bank, a trustee at Cummings Foundation's New Horizons at Choate,
and was awarded a special Distinguished Service Award by the Eastern
Middlesex Association for Retarded Citizens.
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Lawrence
S. Bacow, J.D., Ph.D. |
A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard
Law School, and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government,
Lawrence S. Bacow, J.D., Ph.D., became the 12th president of Tufts
University in September 2001.
Before assuming the presidency at Tufts, he served as chancellor
of MIT. As a member of the MIT faculty beginning in 1977, Bacow
was the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies,
as well as the former chair of the MIT faculty, chair of the MIT
Council on the Environment and a member of the boards of the Media
Lab Europe and the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Bacow has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad,
and has served as a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam,
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Politecnico di Torino
(Italy), the University of Bari (Italy) and Gabriela Mistral University
(Chile). He was a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute of
Economics and a member of the Program on Negotiation of Harvard
Law School.
He has served as an advisor to the Ministry of the Environment
for the State of Israel and to the Cross Israel Highway Commission.
Bacow chaired the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority and served a term as a gubernatorial
appointee to the Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety
Council. From 1985 to 1987, he served as chief operating officer
of the Spaulding Investment Company. He is a director of the Jewish
Community Housing for the Elderly and a trustee of Wheaton College
and Hebrew College.
Bacow is an economist, attorney and recognized expert in real
estate and non-adjudicatory approaches to the resolution of environmental
disputes, and has authored four books and numerous articles. In
October 2003, Bacow was inducted into the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. He is an avid skier, ocean sailor, and runner.
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The
Honorable Margot Botsford |
Born in New York City, Associate Justice Margot Botsford was
first appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court (Suffolk County)
in 1989 by former Governor Michael Dukakis. She is a graduate
of Barnard College (B.A.) and Northeastern University School of
Law (J.D.), and brings extensive experience to Cummings Foundation's
board of trustees. Justice Botsford is the editor/co-editor of
several publications, including an early work entitled "Protecting
the Rights of Elderly Clients."
On July 26, 2007, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick nominated
Her Honor to serve on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,
the oldest appellate court in continuous existence in the Western
Hemisphere. She was then confirmed by the Governor's Council on
August 31, and on September 4, 2007 was sworn in before a thousand
enthusiastic friends and supporters inside the grand rotunda of
Boston's beautiful John Adams Courthouse, where she will serve.
Justice Botsford began her notable career as a law clerk for
Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis J. Quirico. In the private
sector, she served as an associate at Hill & Barlow and later
was a partner at Boston-based Rosenfeld, Botsford & Krokidas.
Before her appointment to the Superior Court, she served as Assistant
District Attorney (Chief of the Appeals Bureau) in Middlesex County,
and as an Assistant Attorney General (Government Bureau &
Chief of Opinions).
Justice Botsford currently serves on the board of trustees for
Northeastern University and chairs its committee on graduate education.
She served as a member of the Commission on Judicial Conduct and
is a trustee for the Katherine Gibbs School and the Massachusetts
Civil Liberties Union.
Additionally, Botsford has worked extensively with the Boston
educational outreach group, Citizens Schools, in helping
to expand its services to inner city students, and has held innumerable
other appointed and elected positions as well.
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Rep.
Paul C. Casey |
State Representative Paul C. Casey is a graduate of Harvard University,
with a Masters in Public Administration from Suffolk University
and an MBA from Boston University. He has been a very active
participant in state government and numerous community and charitable
organizations since the mid-1980s. Mr. Casey also serves
on Cummings Foundation's Finance Committee.
Casey previously served as chairperson for the House Committee
on Taxation and on the Advisory Committee on Consolidated Health
Care Financing and Delivery. In his limited free time, he
serves as a professional boxing referee.
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Rep.
Carol A. Donovan (ret.) |
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After earning her bachelor's and master's degrees
from Regis College, Carol A. Donovan served as a teacher in the
Woburn public school system for 25 years. A Woburn resident,
she recently retired after serving seven terms in the Massachusetts
House of Representatives. She served as president of the 1991
Class of Legislators and on the Energy and Personnel & Administration
Committees. Donovan was a member of the Special Committee
on Foster Care, Treasurer for the Massachusetts Caucus of Women
Legislators, and member of the Legislative Caucus of Older Citizens
Concerns, the Massachusetts Legislative Children's Caucus (Steering
Committee) and the Legislative Tobacco Control Caucus.
Donovan was recognized as "Legislator of the
Year" and as an "Outstanding Legislator," numerous
times throughout her career by many state-wide organizations. She
was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Visiting Nurses
Association-Middlesex East and was appointed to the Governor's Commission
on Sexual and Domestic Violence, in recognition of her excellent
advocacy on behalf of both those issues during her tenure as a State
Representative. Donovan is also a trustee emerita of
New Horizons at Choate, LLC.
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Deborah
T. Kochevar, D.V.M., Ph.D. |
Dr. Deborah T. Kochevar is the dean of Cummings
School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, as well as the
Henry and Lois Foster Professor of Biomedical Sciences. Prior to
her appointment as dean in 2006, she was on the faculty of Texas
A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences from 1987-2006, serving two stints as acting dean in 2004
and 2005.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rice University, Kochevar received
a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Texas A&M University,
and a Ph.D. degree in cellular and molecular biology from the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Her research
focus is molecular pharmacology.
Veterinary medical education and teaching are priorities and
Dr. Kochevar has received grants for science and math curriculum
development and has won several teaching awards, including the
Norden Distinguished Teacher Award and the Student American Veterinary
Medical Association National Teaching Award in Basic Science.
Kochevar is a national leader in veterinary medical education
and is past chair of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Council on Education, the Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary
Medical Graduates and past president of the American College of
Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. Kochevar and her husband, John,
have two grown children, Chris and Steven, of whom she is very
proud.
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Jason
Z. Morris, Ph.D. |
A 1991 summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, Jason
Z. Morris earned a masters degree at Harvard University and then
a Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard Medical School in 1997. He
worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Skirball Institute of
Biomolecular Medicine at New York University, where he held an
American Cancer Society fellowship and a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Fellowship and was published in NATURE.
In 2003, Morris joined the faculty of Fordham University as
an Assistant Professor of Biology. He is also the father of Joyce
and Bill Cummings two grandchildren.
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Marilyn
Cummings Morris, MD, M.P.H. |
A 1992 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, Marilyn
C. Morris is also a 1997 graduate of Tufts University School of
Medicine. She completed her internship at Mount Sinai Hospital
in New York, and a fellowship in pediatric critical care at Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia.
Morris is currently a pediatric intensive-care physician at Children's
Hospital of New York (Columbia Presbyterian) and serves as an
assistant professor at Columbia University School of Medicine.
She has a special interest in the ethical and pragmatic aspects
of conducting clinical research in medical emergency situations.
In 2007, she earned a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia.
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Richard
C. Ockerbloom |
The retired president and chief operating officer of The Boston
Globe, Richard C. (Dick) Ockerbloom began his career at the
Globe as a Northeastern University co-op student/worker 50 years
earlier. After graduating from Northeastern in 1952, he went on
to serve the University, as well, over the decades, and is now
vice chairman emeritus of Northeastern's Board of Trustees. Additionally,
Ockerbloom serves on Cummings Foundation's Finance Committee.
Ockerbloom also holds an honorary doctoral degree from Northeastern,
and was recently named to the Arlington (MA) High School Hall
of Fame. He has served in a wide range of important public service
positions throughout the Boston area. He is also a long-time member
of Winchester Country Club, where he reportedly sometimes enjoys
working for four hours on Saturday mornings to win two dollars
from Bill Cummings.
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Janet
M. Pavliska |
Jan Pavliska was appointed president and CEO of BankFive for
Savings of Arlington, MA, in 1975, where she served until her
retirement in 1991. In taking such position, Pavliska became the
first woman in the commonwealth of Massachusetts to serve as the
president of a banking operation.
Pavliska completed her undergraduate education at Suffolk University
and Northeastern University, followed by graduate degree work
at Harvard Business School. Quite active in banking industry groups,
Pavliska served as the chairperson of the Savings Bank Association
of Massachusetts, the National Council of Community Banks and
the Savings Bank Life Insurance Board, respectively.
Pavliska has also served in leadership roles in many community
service organizations. She was a director of Volunteers of America,
the Woburn Boys and Girls Club and Visiting Nurses and Health
Care organization, as well as a trustee of Cummings Foundation's
New Horizons at Choate. Due to her advanced expertise in financial
matters, Pavliska was offered and accepted an appointment to Cummings
Foundation's Finance Committee.
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Joyce
M. Cummings |
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Joyce M. Cummings graduated in 1960 from University
of Alabama, then completed a dietetic internship at Massachusetts
General Hospital. She worked professionally as a hospital
dietitian at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary during the mid
1960s.
Cummings has been a trustee of Cummings Foundation
since its founding in February 1986, and has been a trustee and
treasurer of New Horizons at Choate, LLC, also since its founding
in 1990. She served as a trustee of Massachusetts Eye and
Ear Infirmary and is a former director of HospiceCare, Inc. and
of of Cummings Properties, LLC, as well as of Winchester Community
Music School.
She is also a past EnKa Fair chair and president
of Winchester's EnKa Society, and past co-chair of Winchester Friends
of HospiceCare, Inc. and Women's golf chairperson at Winchester
Country Club. She has four grown children.
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Patricia
A. Cummings |
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A 1997 graduate of Tufts University, Patricia A.
Cummings was a full-time employee of New Horizons at Marlborough,
LLC for eight years through August 2005. In addition, she
still serves in the volunteer role of trustee and chairman of New
Horizons at Marlborough. In October 2005, she accepted a position
as Assistant Dean of the Orthodox Hebrew Academy of San Francisco
and relocated there.
Cummings is active in the Tufts University Alumni
Admissions program, interviewing applicants for undergraduate admission.
She is an overseer of Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
at Tufts University. She has also served as a director-at-large
of Middlesex Concert Band, Inc., and on the board of directors of
Marlborough Hospital Foundation.
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William
S. Cummings |
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Born in Somerville, Massachusetts,
Bill Cummings grew up in nearby Medford, where he attended public
schools and graduated from Tufts University in 1958. Since
1970 he has been primarily involved in buying, building, and managing
mostly commercial real estate in eastern Massachusetts.
His firm has built or restored 83
large or very large structures totaling almost 9 million square
feet. Cummings Properties, LLC (CPL) currently provides business
homes for approximately 1,860 Massachusetts businesses and other
organizations. Apart from his role as founder of CPL, Cummings
is also founder of Cummings Foundation, Inc., as well as not-for-profit
New Horizons assisted living community for 500 residents in Woburn
and Marlborough Massachusetts.
Bill Cummings is a trustee emeritus
of Tufts University, and was formerly an overseer of Tufts Medical
School and director of Winchester Hospital and Winchester Country
Club. He was also founder and publisher of three community
newspapers - the Woburn Advocate, Stoneham Sun and Winchester Town
Crier. Cummings was also chairman of Tufts University's property-holding
corporation (Walnut Hill Properties), as well as a bank director,
and an elected member and chairman of the Winchester Planning Board.
Other outside activities include many philanthropic involvements,
and 30 years as a director of the Woburn Boys and Girls Club, Inc.
In 1998 Cummings was named Real
Estate Entrepreneur of the Year for New England by Ernst & Young,
LLP. He was also awarded Tufts University's Distinguished
Service Award "for service to Tufts, his community and his
profession." His firm's restoration of the historic United
Shoe Machinery Corp. complex in Beverly, Massachusetts was the subject
of a very laudatory October 2, 1997 feature story in The Wall
Street Journal by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic
Ada Louise Huxtable. Cummings received an honorary Doctor of Public
Service degree from Tufts University in 2006.
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Robert
F. P. Nigro |
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Robert F. P. Nigro graduated from University of
Pennsylvania in 1989, with a degree in Social Psychology. He is
a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, having served on active duty as
an intelligence officer, foreign civil affairs liaison, and general's
aide-de-camp in the U.S., Germany, Iceland, and Guatemala. Most
recently, his civilian career was interrupted to serve a 16-month
tour of active Army duty with U.S. Forces Command, ending in May
2004.
In addition to serving as a volunteer trustee,
Nigro is also the full-time executive director of New Horizons at
Choate, LLC. He has been with the Cummings organization since 1994,
when he began duty as associate executive director of New Horizons
at Marlborough. He has administered Cummings Foundation's scholarship
programs, including the McKeown Scholars Program, since their inception
in 1996. Nigro has been a volunteer instructor for Junior Achievement
since 1998, an active volunteer with Big Brothers of Massachusetts
Bay since 2000, and is also a volunteer with the USO.
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Robert
D. O'Connor |
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Robert D. O'Connor serves as the executive director
of New Horizons at Marlborough (NHM), an independent and assisted
living facility for seniors in Marlborough, MA. A graduate of Boston
College, O'Connor has been with NHM since its construction in 1993.
O'Connor has more than 20 years of managerial experience
in the long-term care industry, and was previously employed for
10 years in the nursing home and retirement living division of the
Flatley Company. In addition to his role as primary administrator
for NHM, O'Connor served as chairman of the board of St. Joseph's
Home from 1985 to 1999, a not-for-profit skilled nursing facility
for seniors in Dorchester, MA, and a member of the Caritas Christi
Health Care System. O'Connor resides in Marlborough.
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Dennis
A. Clarke |
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Dennis Clarke grew up in Winchester
and graduated from Winchester High School and then Harvard University
in 1990. He served as a licensed commercial insurance broker
for a subsidiary of London-based Jardine-Matheson, and then as a
marketing coordinator for Gordon Brothers Partners, Inc. In
1992 he became general manager of a small newspaper chain, Community
Weeklies, Inc., under Cummings Properties, LLC's former ownership.
In 1996 Clarke left the Fidelity
organization, which purchased the newspaper group, and returned
to Cummings Properties, LLC as its operations manager. He
became vice president-operations in November 1996 and co-president
in 1999. He was appointed president and CEO in 2004.
Clarke is actively involved in both
the Woburn and Winchester communities as a past director of Winchester
Chamber of Commerce, director of Woburn Business Association, trustee
of Cummings Foundation, and a corporator of Winchester Hospital.
He is married to Alicia (Angeles), also a Winchester native,
and they have four children. A former athlete, Clarke was
a New England Golden Gloves boxing champion and a Boston Globe Football
All-Scholastic designee.
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William
F. Grant |
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Bill Grant grew up in Chelmsford,
Massachusetts, and received his undergraduate degree in accounting
in 1972 and masters in accounting in 1977 from Bentley College.
He also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard
Business School in 1989. Prior to joining Cummings Properties
in May 1998, Grant held several senior management positions at Tweeter,
etc. from 1982 to 1989, and was Chief Financial Officer at Rich's
department stores from 1989 to 1998.
Previously active in town youth
sports, Grant was a member of the executive committee of the Merrimack
Valley Pirates Swim Team, and also served as that organization's
treasurer for three years. He currently resides in Andover
with his wife, Kathy, of 24 years. They have two adult children,
Tracie and Keith.
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Philip
C. Kosch, D.V.M., Ph.D. |
Dr. Philip C. Kosch, D.V.M., Ph.D. is the retired dean of Cummings
School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, as well as the
Henry & Lois Foster Professor of Comparative Medicine and president
of Tufts Biotechnology Corporation, a for-profit subsidiary of Tufts
University.
Dean Kosch earned a D.V.M. from The Ohio State University and a
Ph.D. in physiology from University of California at Davis. He worked
as a research veterinarian while serving with the U.S. Army at the
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Kosch joined the faculty at University of Florida's Veterinary
School in 1979, where he held professorships in the Department
of Physiological Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine,
and in the Departments of Physiology and Pediatrics in the College
of Medicine. He also served as University of Florida's associate
dean for research and graduate studies before joining the faculty
at Tufts in 1996.
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