Trustees of
New Horizons at Choate

Most of the Charter Trustees are also shown here in a photo taken at the October 1996 trustees' meeting. All persons who were board members of New Horizons at Choate, LLC (NHC) on January 1, 1996, and emeritus trustees who served prior to that date, were determined to be Charter Trustees. They and subsequent trustees are listed below with their dates of service.

Charter Trustees include, seated left to right: Rep. Carol Donovan, Kenneth Summers, Joyce Cummings, the late Janet Pavliska, and Chief Robert Doherty. Standing: The late James McKeown, Lawrence King, the late Dr. Arthur Veno, the late Dr. James McDonough, the late Marian Forsyth, Atty. Susan Brand, and William Cummings. Not shown are Msgr. Francis McGann, Judge Fred Gilgun, and Atty. James Mawn.

NHC is a sister corporation to New Horizons at Marlborough, LLC (NHM), one of the most inexpensive retirement living in Metro West Boston. Although the members of Cummings Foundation, Inc. actually appoint the trustees of NHC and NHM, new NHC and NHM trustees are typically nominated by the then current trustees, and then confirmed by Cummings Foundation. Trustees are usually well-known community leaders, and none receives any compensation for his or her service as a trustee.The Foundation's only other subsidiary is Veterinary School at Tufts LLC, which maintains a close working relationship with Tufts University.

William Cummings is president of New Horizons at Choate, LLC, Joyce Cummings is vice president and treasurer, and Joel Swets is clerk. Each officer also serves indefinitely as a House Trustee. Community Trustees typically serve single three-year terms. All trustees have equal authority as such.

 

NHC Board of Trustees

The following is a list of all individuals who have served or are currently serving on the Board of Trustees of NHC. (Listed alphabetically in order of service start date)

Joyce M. Cummings, Treas.
Winchester, 1989 -

William S. Cummings, Chair
Winchester, 1989 -

Marian E. Forsyth, RN (d.)
Woburn, 1989 - 2000

William J. Gustus, Esq.
Woburn, 1989 - 1993

James L. McKeown, Treas. (d.)
Winchester, 1989 - 1996


David E. Fitzpatrick, MD

Woburn, 1990 - 1992


Lawrence J. King
Rye Beach, NH, 1990 - 1998

Thomas M. Mawn, Esq. (d.)
Woburn, 1990 - 1995

James E. McDonough, MD (d.)
Winchester, 1990 - 1999


Mary Ann Outwater, RN

Winchester, 1990 - 1994

Janet M. Pavliska (d.)
Winchester, 1990 - 1998

Arthur A. Veno, Jr., MD (d.)
Woburn, 1990 - 1998

Carrol E. Stephens
Andover, 1991 - 1992

Kenneth R. Summers
Woburn, 1991 - 1999

Susan F. Brand, Esq.
Cambridge, 1994 - 2007

Hon. Frederick V. Gilgun
Woburn, 1994 - 1996

Chief Robert E. Doherty (Ret.)
Woburn, 1995 - 1998

Rep. Carol A. Donovan (Ret.)
Woburn, 1995 - 2000

Hon. Thomas M. Higgins (d.)
Woburn, 1995 - 1999

James F. Mawn, Esq.
Woburn, 1995 - 1999

Msgr. Francis J. McGann
Winchester, 1995 - 1998

Richard E. Holbrook
Lynn, 1998 - 2001

Joseph T. Crowley, Jr.
Woburn, 1999 - 2001

Chief Philip L. Mahoney
Woburn, 1999 - 2001

Pauline M. Froebel
Woburn, 2000 - 2002

Paul L. Haggerty
Woburn, 2000 - 2002

Peter J. Rotolo, MD
Winchester, 2000 - 2002

Anthony Imperioso
Woburn, 2001 - 2003

William Mulrenan
Woburn, 2001 - 2003

Rev. Wayne L. Belschner
Woburn, 2002 - 2004

Kathryn A. Martin
Woburn, 2002 - 2004

Everett J. Mawn (d.)
Woburn, 2002 - 2004

Marie B. Coady
Woburn, 2003 - 2005

Chief Leo McElhiney (d.)
Woburn, 2003 - 2004

Kenneth K. Tucker, MD
Lexington, 2003 -
2005

Joanne Campbell
Woburn, 2004 -
2006


Rep. Jay R. Kaufman
Lexington , 2004 - 2006

Rev. John Wesley Taylor
Winchester, 2004 - 2006

Joseph A. Abate, MD
Winchester, 2005 - 2007

Ida M. Boodakian
Winchester, 2005 - 2007

Hon. John C. Curran
Woburn, 2005 - 2007

Marie Johnson
Woburn, 2006 - 2008

Robert Norton
Woburn, 2006 - 2008

Joanne Collins
Woburn, 2007 - 2009

Charles T. Culhane
Woburn, 2007 - 2009

Denise P. McKeown
Winchester, 2007 - 2009

Elinor Quill
Winchester, 2007 - 2009

Joel B. Swets, Clerk
Winchester, 2007 - 2009

Peter Coakley, DDS
Woburn, 2008 - 2010

Robert Crisafi, Ph.D.
Winchester, 2008 - 2010

Rev. Deryk Richenburg
Woburn, 2008 - 2010

Michele A. Crage, MD
Dover, 2009 - 2011

Kathy Lucero
Woburn, 2009 - 2011

Harris Ghaus, MD
Arlington, 2010 - 2012

Robert Jamieson
Woburn, 2010 - 2012

Doris Lynch
Woburn, 2010 - 2012

d.=Deceased

 


Biography of Bill Cummings
Founder of Cummings Properties & New Horizons

For more information contact: 781- 935-8000

William S. Cummings was born in Somerville, MA in 1937 and grew up in nearby Medford, where he attended public schools and graduated from Tufts University in 1958. He has been married since 1966 to Joyce M. Cummings, a former hospital dietitian from Birmingham, Alabama, and they have four grown children.

Bill Cummings

Apart from his role as founder and chairman of Cummings Properties, LLC, Cummings is also the founder of Cummings Foundation, Inc. and president of New Horizons at Choate, LLC.

In 1989 New Horizons at Choate, Inc. created Choate Medical Center and New Horizons at Choate, a major assisted living center for 125 seniors in Woburn, MA. Cummings is a former overseer at Tufts Medical School, a director of Winchester Hospital, and founder and publisher emeritus of three community newspapers -- the Woburn Advocate, Stoneham Sun, and the former Winchester Town Crier.

Cummings is a trustee emeritus of Tufts University, and was chairman of Tufts' 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 25 years as a director of what is now Woburn Boys and Girls Club, Inc.

In 1998 Cummings was named New England Real Estate Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, LLP. He was also presented 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, MA was the subject of a laudatory October 2, 1997 feature in The Wall Street Journal by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. In 2006 he was awarded an Honarary Doctorate of Public Service degree by Tufts.


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Cummings' outside activities include golf and skiing, and he is an avid bicyclist. He also does considerable world traveling and bare boat ocean sailing with his wife, Joyce, and is a certified diver. In 1997 he and Patty Cummings both succumbed to what he describes as "the world's most exciting tourist trap" -- bungee jumping into 200' deep Korawa Gorge near Queenstown, New Zealand.


 
 
 
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