Rabbi Summit has been invited to lecture at congregations around the country and at many universities, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago. He also co-directed a project funded by the Department of Homeland Security establishing Muslim/Jewish/Christian dialogues and inter-religious education on five university campuses.

Rabbi Summit was awarded B'nai B'rith's Jacob Burns Prize for the Promotion of Ethics on Campus and has been named an Exemplar of Excellence by Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. He has also received the Benjamin J. Shevach Memorial Award for distinguished achievement in Jewish educational leadership, Hebrew College's highest academic award. Rabbi Summit is past-president of the National Hillel Professional Association and is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the National Board of Directors of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.

Barbara M. Swartz

Barbara M. Swartz received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Boston University School of Education. Since 1971, she has been involved in a variety of educational endeavors. Barbara was an instructor of education at Curry College in Milton, MA and Dean College in Franklin, MA, prior to teaching at Boston University School of Education from 1973 to 1990. While at Boston University, Barbara supervised student teachers and facilitated seminars regarding field experiences, curriculum development, and the philosophy of education.

Barbara went on to become the Educational Coordinator for World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc. (WATCH), a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational foundation that focuses on alerting the public about children's safety issues. She developed a bilingual curriculum based on the work of Attorney Edward M. Swartz's books "Toys That Don't Care" and "Toys That Kill." This program, known as "Toys, You and the Real World," teaches children critical thinking skills through instruction on consumerism, participatory democracy, and other lessons encouraging independent thinking. Through the program, children are enlightened about the world and taught to develop opinions and confidence in the belief that their voices can make a difference. Barbara introduced this program to school administrators, teachers, and city politicians, and it was subsequently implemented in Massachusetts, New York City, and Wisconsin public elementary schools.

Barbara is a member of the Board of Visitors at the Brimmer May School in Chestnut Hill, MA, from which she graduated high school. She continues to be involved with WATCH as an Officer, and is also very active on various committees at the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, MA.

Patricia A. Cummings, Psy. D.

A 1997 graduate of Tufts University and native of Winchester, MA, Patricia A. Cummings was a full-time employee of New Horizons at Marlborough, LLC in Marlborough, Massachusetts for eight years through August 2005. In addition, she still serves in the volunteer role of trustee and chairman of New Horizons at Marlborough and executive vice president of Cummings Foundation, Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts.

Beginning in October 2005, she served for two years as Assistant Dean of the Orthodox Hebrew Academy of San Francisco. She recently completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at California School of Professional Psychology, and is employed at Psychological Services Center in Oakland, CA.

Cummings is active in the Tufts University Alumni Admissions program, interviewing applicants for undergraduate admission. She is a former 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 (MA) Hospital Foundation. She is an accomplished pianist and clarinet player, and is a former downhill skiing instructor in New Hampshire.

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. She then served for seven years as a pediatric intensive-care physician at Children's Hospital of New York (Columbia Presbyterian).

Morris is now an Associate Professor, at Columbia University School of Medicine and serves as chair of Columbia University Medical Center's Institutional Review Board, #1, and is Medical Director of the Clinical Trials office. She has a special interest in the ethical and pragmatic aspects of conducting clinical research in medical emergency situations, and is a trustee of Institute for World Justice.

Morris has two children, and in 2007, she earned a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia.

Joyce M. and William S. Cummings

Born in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1937, Bill Cummings grew up in nearby Medford, where he attended public schools and, in 1958, graduated from Tufts University. Bill was thereafter employed in sales and marketing positions with Vick Chemical Company (Vaporub, etc.) of Greensboro, North Carolina, and Gortons of Gloucester, Inc., and he served in the U.S. Army Reserves. Subsequently, he acquired, built up, and sold a very old Medford, Massachusetts food products manufacturer, Wilmot H. Simonson Company.

Since 1970, Bill has been very successful in buying, building, and managing mostly commercial real estate in eastern Massachusetts. His firm has built or restored dozens of large or very large structures totaling 10 million square feet. Cummings Properties, LLC (CPL) currently provides business homes for more than 2,000 Massachusetts businesses and organizations. Apart from his role as founder of CPL, Bill is also the founder of Cummings Foundation, Inc. and New Horizons not-for-profit assisted and independent living communities in Woburn and Marlborough, MA, which currently provide homes for more than 500 seniors.

Bill's wife, Joyce, is a director of CPL and a trustee of Cummings Foundation, Inc. She is a former trustee of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, where she once served as hospital dietician, and where she and Bill met. Joyce served two years as women's golf chair at Winchester Country Club, and is a past president of Winchester's EnKa Society, and a director of Winchester Community Music School and VNA Hospice Care, Inc. of Woburn. Bill and Joyce have four grown children.

Bill served 10 years as a charter trustee of Tufts University and is a former overseer of Tufts Medical School, director of Winchester Hospital, and founder and former publisher of three community newspapers-the Woburn Advocate, Stoneham Sun and Winchester Town Crier. He is still a trustee emeritus of Tufts University, and was chairman of Tufts' property-holding corporation (Walnut Hill Properties), as well as a bank director, and elected member and chairman of the Winchester Planning Board. He has worked as a licensed real estate broker, a licensed auctioneer, and even as a Massachusetts Justice of the Peace. Other outside activities include many philanthropic involvements, and several decades as a director and honorary director of Woburn Boys and Girls Club, Inc.

Bill was named 1998 Real Estate Entrepreneur of the Year for New England by Ernst & Young, LLP, and 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.

Bill was awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree by Tufts University in May 2006, and was named one of the "50 most influential Bostonians" by the Boston Business Journal in 2011. He is a golfer and a former director of Winchester Country Club, is an avid ocean sailor, and a licensed Scuba diver. In May 2011, he and Joyce joined a national philanthropic organization known as "The Giving Pledge." Later that year, they were named runners-up in the Boston Globe's annual "Bostonian of the Year" selection.