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The Salem News celebrates 100 people making a difference on the North Shore. This is the first annual edition and is 64 pages of profiles and portraits. The glossy magazine was published in April 2009.
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We asked and you responded. Nominations poured into the news-
room — by let-ter, by e-mail, by telephone — tell-ing us about your friends, family and co-workers who are making a dif-ference here on the North Shore. The stories were so
inspirational and important to tell. We at The Salem News are thrilled to
share with you our debut edition of North Shore 100, which we plan to publish annually each spring.
These are the stories of our top leaders and innovators who all share this impor-tant trait: They love the North Shore and work hard, day after day, to make our communities a better place.
Congratulations, North Shore 100, and sincere thanks for your leadership, cre-ativity and commitment to our wonderful North Shore.Sincerely,
Karen Andreas
The Rev. Joel AndeRle Community Covenant ChurCh 62
KyRiAKoS AndRinopouloSnew Brothers restaurant & Deli, Danvers 44
John ARcheRarCher insuranCe 20
RogeR BAKeRrehaB Five 64
emily BoulgeRtransitions Program at Danvers high sChool 62
RoBeRT BRAdfoRdPresiDent, north shore ChamBer oF CommerCe 58
JAne BRighThealthlink 43
BoB BRoudolanDmark sChool PresiDent anD heaDmaster 58
mATT BuchAnAnBriDge aCaDemy 57
WAyne BuRTonnorth shore Community College 21
veAnn cAmpBellst. JosePh’s FooD Pantry 39
geoRge cAReyowner oF Finz 60
R. JudSon cARlBeRgPresiDent, gorDon College 63
mARgo cASey north shore uniteD way 62
Tim collinSeBsCo PuBlishing 12
STephen J. connolly ivConnolly Brothers 45
BRiAn cRAnneyCranney ComPanies 23
Jim cRoSByCrosBy’s marketPlaCe 54
AndReW defRAnzAharBorlight Community Partners oF Beverly 10
Kelly delAneyCakes For oCCasions, Danvers 48
dee denniSPeaBoDy animal liFe savers 32
fRAn dichneRr&l assoCiates 14
BRAndi dionB&s Fitness 46
don doliBeRassistant PrinCiPal, masConomet regional high 61
neil douglASmorgan anD Douglas 61
STephen dRohoSKy viCe PresiDent oF Cummings ProPerties 58
eRic eASleyProPerty manager, Citizens For aDequate housing 59
TRevoR eATonhiggins miDDle sChool teaCher 36
STephen finemelanoma eDuCation FounDation, PeaBoDy 57
Alyce flemingvolunteer, north shore meDiCal Center 59
Jim geoRgeoPeration trooP suPPort 61
JAcK goodBeverly national Bank 63
pAul goRmAn leggs hill ymCa 59
Tom gouldtreaDwell’s iCe Cream 50
John hAll iisalem Five Bank 43
Annie hARRiSexeCutive DireCtor, essex national heritage Commission 63
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AlAn hAWRyluKsalem PhilharmoniC 48
JeAnne henneSSeylorraine roy Designer ColleCtion & BriDal Boutique 60
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michelle lipinSKinorthshore reCovery high sChool 22
The Rev. BeTh loughheAdFirst BaPtist ChurCh 33
KeRRy mAcKin iPswiCh river watersheD assoCiation, iPswiCh 62
Tom mARdenDanvers youth sPorts 20
WAyne mARquiSDanvers town manager 51
Jim mcAlliSTeRsalem historian 23
JeRRy mccARThynorth shore arC 57
STephAnie mcgeneywe are ameriCa ProDuCtions 57
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cARole moRAnmoran stuDios 57
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Julie muRphyBeverly BootstraPs 56
STephen neffJewish rehaBilitation Center 59
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AndReW oliveRBoarD PresiDent, salem mission 62
Ron pARSonSDanvers high sChool BanD DireCtor 61
Bill poWeRChairman oF the PeaBoDy historiCal Commission 63
don pReSTonhaBitat For humanity oF the north shore 63
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Fried clams, Crane Beach, Choate Bridge. Those were the images that came to mind when I used to think about the town of Ipswich.
After having the privilege of publish-ing this commemorative magazine, however, I now know there’s much more than meets the eye to “America’s Colo-nial Town.”
Here you’ll find Margaret’s home-made granola and blueberry pancakes at the Ipswich Inn, Foote Brothers’ rambling canoe rides along the Ipswich River, antique treasures at the majestic Turner Hill.
What does meet the eye, meanwhile, is nothing short of spectacular. Fifty-nine First Period homes grace Ipswich, more than any other town in the country. The Whipple House, open to the public, is quintessential New England and one
of the oldest standing structures in America. In the charming downtown you’ll find hearty clam chowder at Stone Soup, whimsical folk art at River Gal-lery, hand-designed pottery at Mimi.
Whether a longtime resident or curi-ous tourist, take time this year to explore the storied past and continued vitality of Ipswich, one of the North Shore’s most unique and historic communities.
Congratulations to all in town for celebrating your 375th anniversary. From your friends at The Salem News, we wish all of Ipswich much peace and prosperity during this milestone year, 2009, and in all years to come.
Best wishes,
KAREN ANDREASPublisher
Ipswich: A storied past and a modern vitality
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ABOUT THE COVER ILLUSTRATION
West Newbury artist Alan Pearsall won the contest to design a logo for Ipswich’s 375th Anniversary. It depicts the Choate Bridge, the town’s most iconic symbol.
Anyone who has ever tasted one of Mer-cury Brewing’s products, be it ale or soft drink, is familiar with Pearsall’s work. For the past 10 years, Pearsall has done all the graphics for the company.
In 2005, he was commissioned to create a mural for the back wall of one of EBSCO Publishing’s old mill buildings, portraying the history of Ipswich from its founding to the present day. The mural is prominently located along the Riverwalk, a pedestrian path that may eventually extend from the downtown to Crane Beach.
Pearsall has also written and illustrated “American Town: The History of Ipswich, Massachusetts,” a companion book to his mural that EBSCO is publishing this spring.
His works will be widely visible through-out the yearlong anniversary celebration,
on everything from T-shirts to a town bro-chure being printed for the occasion.
Logo designer has history with Ipswich
Alan Pearsall in front of the mural he created at EBSCO, depicting the town’s history.
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Taking the same approach as the doc-tors and nurses who work in his emergency department, Bob Norton’s first job when he took over as CEO of North Shore Medical Center was to stop the bleeding.
Two years into his tenure, the organiza-tion was losing almost $11 million per year. Low reimbursements from the government
for the cost of caring for unin-sured patients were killing the bottom line, and of f ic ia ls were considering clos-ing Union Hospi-tal in Lynn.
Today, NSMC is coming off a year in which it turned a $26 mil-lion profit and is about to open a sparkling new $100 million out-patient center in Danvers.
“Bob has done a remarkab le job,” said Richard Bane, a mem-ber of the North Shore Medical Center’s board of
trustees. “He has been a transforming influ-ence on health care on the North Shore.”
Norton accomplished the turnaround through a combination of cost-saving consolidations and revenue-generating growth, all backed by its owner, the giant Partners HealthCare system.
Since he became chief executive in 2001, North Shore Medical Center has opened a heart center, expanded its cancer center, enlarged the emergency departments at Salem and Union hospitals, and opened two new floors of inpatient rooms at Salem Hospital.
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robert nortonPresident & CeO, nOrth shOre MediCal Center
A ‘transforming influence’ on health care
By Paul Leighton
BIOAge: 58Job: CEO of North Shore Medical Center, which includes Salem Hospital, Union Hospital in Lynn, North Shore Children’s Hospital in Salem, NSMC Heart Center in Salem, NSMC Cancer Center in Peabody and NSMC Wom-en’s Center in Danvers.Family: Wife Dianne Savas-tano, two children and three grandchildrenTown: Manchester-by- the-SeaAchievements: Put North Shore Medical Center in the black, opened a heart center, expanded the cancer center and grew the emergency departments at Salem and Union hospitals; improved quality of care
Robert Norton made North Shore Medical Center profitable. Portrait by Matthew Viglianti
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While the brick-and-mortar changes are significant, Norton has also ushered in less visible, and perhaps more difficult, changes intended to improve the organization’s quality and efficiency.
He merged the medical staffs and busi-ness operations of Salem and Union hospitals, essentially creating a single organization that he says operates more efficiently.
North Shore Medical Center then took on the daunting task of putting all of its patients’ medical records into an elec-tronic system that can be accessed by all of its hospitals and doctors. As a member of Partners, New England’s largest health-care provider, the change involved literally hundreds of locations.
Now, Norton said, any doctor in the Partners system can immediately look up any patient’s medical history, including lab tests, X-rays and medication history. He said NSMC is among only 10 percent of hospitals in the country that have fully implemented an electronic medical records system.
“I can’t begin to describe the magnitude of that change,” Norton said. “Literally it was a redesign of almost every office we’re associated with.”
Raising the barUnder Norton, North Shore Medi-
cal Center has also created what he calls a “culture of quality.” The organization has implemented a system of reporting and measuring the quality of its work in hundreds of categories, he said, from the food in the cafeteria to the skill of its heart surgeons.
Norton said NSMC “compares very favor-ably” with its fellow Partners hospitals, which include Massachusetts General Hos-pital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Five years ago, North Shore Medical Cen-ter opened its Heart Center in collabora-tion with Mass. General. Norton said it’s the only place on the North Shore where patients can get “instantaneous access” to angioplasties to open clogged arteries.
“We have a 90-minute standard from door to ‘balloon time,’” he said, referring to the moment when the clogged artery is opened. “We’ve literally saved or improved hundreds of lives.”
Bane said all of the improvements attract more patients, and the higher volume brings in more revenue. Even more impres-sive than the financial turnaround, he said, is the fact that Norton has increased the quality, as well.
“He doesn’t measure himself singularly by financial success,” Bane said. “Bob has
brought in a quality culture that has really raised the bar for health care on the North Shore.”
Bane said health care can be a “ruthless business,” but Norton has succeeded with-out sacrificing his genuineness.
“He has managed to do his job in a nice way, and I find that to be refreshing,” Bane said. “At his core, he’s a nice man. His sense of humility and humanity is what sets him apart.”
Norton credited much of North Shore Medical Center’s turnaround to its
association with Partners HealthCare. Partners has propped up NSMC’s finances, provided access to the renowned specialists at Mass. General and Brigham and Wom-en’s, and is investing millions in the new outpatient center in Danvers.
“The decision to join Partners will go down in history as one of the best decisions our board of directors has ever made,” he said.
Norton says the new outpatient build-ing, which is scheduled to open in May, is “spectacular” and the partnership with Mass. General will “revolutionize how care is provided on the North Shore.”
“For the first time, people will have access to this specialized medicine without travel-ing off the North Shore,” he said.
North Shore Medical Center’s expansion to Danvers will allow it to reach patients in the North Shore’s more affluent com-munities and produce more revenue. Nor-ton said that will help compensate for the losses the organization incurs by caring for so many uninsured patients.
“We have never turned patients away,” he said.
Norton said there is still much work to be done, especially on the issue of making health care more affordable. He said he is glad he’s in a position to play a big role in such matters.
“I have the privilege of being the orches-tra conductor for a group of people who are smart, talented, committed, dedicated,” he said. “What more rewarding job is there than that?”
2004: Norton, kneeling at center, at the kickoff to the fundraising campaign for The Birthplace at Salem Hospital. From left, back row: Charlene Torrisi, director of maternal-newborn services; Dr. Leslie Kerzner, neonatologist; Tom McKiernan, a donor from Marblehead; Dr. Mitchell Rein, chief medical officer; Dr. Joel Heller, associate chief of the department of obstetrics and gynecology; and John Hooper, a donor.
2003: Norton, right, at the Peabody Essex Museum grand opening gala with attorney John Serafini and City Councilor Laura DeToma.
GROwTH aT NSMC 2003 2008Operating revenue $315 million $444 millionProfit/loss $11 million $26 million loss profitEmployees 2,639 2,923
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Even as a child, Sonia Schreiber Weitz had enemies, people she had never met who nevertheless decided to kill her and very nearly did.
Weitz was saved when the U.S. Army lib-erated Mauthausen death camp at the close of World War II. She was among a handful to survive the Nazi effort to kill every Jew they could find.
Most of her family, father and mother included, was murdered along with an esti-mated 6 million Jews and countless others marked for their ethnicity.
Weitz endured five camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
Just surviving such an ordeal would have been enough for most. But Weitz is a sin-gular individual, and at 80 she is still fight-ing back with a campaign to preserve the memory of the dead and sound an alarm about horrors like Darfur.
“There is nothing worse for the victim,” she says, “than to feel abandoned.”
Her efforts have earned an international reputation. With Harriet Wacks, Weitz runs The Holocaust Center, Boston North at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody. The center’s influence has been enhanced by the force of Weitz’s personality and eloquence.
“That lady really has a presence,” mar-vels Peabody Mayor Michael Bonfanti. “I remember the (poem) of her dancing with her father in the concentration camp. He knew he wasn’t going to survive. And he tried to get everything into that dance.”
Bonfanti wept when he heard it. The poem “Victory” is in Weitz’s book “I Prom-ised I Would Tell.” In it, she recalls the tem-porary safety of her father’s arms: “The ugly barracks disappeared/There was no hunger ... and no fear.”
Weitz’s mission grows more urgent. “We keep losing survivors every day. ... It’s a problem getting eyewitnesses to share their experiences.” Thus the Legacy Partners Project has survivors team with younger people to pass on what they saw.
“It’s to make sure that no one ever
forgets,” says daughter Sandy Weitz. She hopes to carry on her mother’s work but acknowledges Sonia’s potent legacy.
“There’s no way I can follow in her foot-steps,” says Sandy. Even so, she hails the Legacy Partners Project as a best option. “Somebody has to tell the story.”
“I no longer say ‘Never again’ because it is happening again,” says Sonia Weitz. The center embraces a sad surplus of victims from Rwanda to Cambodia.
“I’m not more pessimistic,” Weitz says. “I’m more realistic. I am a real optimist. We couldn’t be doing what we’re doing if we weren’t optimistic. ... The work is impor-tant. I wouldn’t give it up for anything.” But a speech to a school group now takes a toll requiring days of recovery.
“I’m getting tired,” Weitz admits.Once she imagined a finish, the world
understanding and stopping the hate that makes enemies of children. Now she looks around the center with its haunting posters and photos and concedes, “I don’t think it’s a job ever done.”
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Sonia weitzeduCatiOn direCtOr, hOlOCaust Center, bOstOn nOrth, PeabOdy
Sharing Holocaust lessons is a job never finishedBy Alan Burke
Sonia weitz, right, talks with Mary Kiley as they look through clippings at the Holocaust Center, Boston North in Peabody. Kiley, a religious studies teacher at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, works with weitz in the Legacy Partners Project.
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andrew deFranzaexeCutive direCtOr, harbOrlight COMMunity Partners Of beverly
Helping comes from the heart
Andrew DeFranza remembers his first job in the social services field.
“Second shift on weekends at the Atlantic City rescue mission,” he said. “It was pretty gritty.”
DeFranza soon discovered that “gritty” serves him just fine. He went on to work as a chaplain at a homeless shelter in Atlan-tic City, a counselor for at-risk youth at a Boys & Girls Club in Georgia, community outreach director for Bootstraps in Beverly and executive director of a large emergency shelter in Milwaukee.
The 35-year-old DeFranza returned to Beverly two years ago and is now executive director of Harborlight Community Part-ners, an affordable-housing agency affili-ated with First Baptist Church in Beverly.
The organization operates 177 subsidized
apartments for low-income seniors at Tur-tle Creek and Turtle Woods, as well as 35 assisted-living units at the Harborlight House in downtown Beverly. It also pro-vides homemaking and personal-care ser-vices for older people in the Beverly area.
After a recent reorganization, DeFranza said Harborlight Community Partners is ready to pursue more affordable-housing projects on the North Shore. The demand has never been greater, he said, especially in Essex County, where housing prices are so high.
“The need to do it is compelling,” he said.
DeFranza’s urge to help is rooted in his faith. He and his wife, Megan, who have two young daughters and live in Beverly, are both graduates of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton.
“I’m a mission-driven person,” DeFranza
said. “I think there’s a particular concern society has for people that are on the mar-gins. We measure the quality of our society by our ability to protect and care for and support those who are in some form of need.”
Neil Douglas, a member of the Har-borlight Community Partners board of directors, said DeFranza has had a “strong hand” in reshaping the nonprofit organiza-tion since he became executive director in October 2007.
Harborlight has increased productiv-ity and efficiency by consolidating from six separate corporations to three under DeFranza’s leadership, Douglas said.
“I have the highest regard for him,” Doug-las said. “I find him extremely capable with the ability to provide very effective leader-ship. He’s a passionate guy. He walks the walk, he talks the talk.”
By Paul Leighton
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ChriStine SullivanexeCutive direCtOr, enterPrise Center at saleM state COllege
Giving small businesses a boost
When Christine Sullivan left the mar-keting company she ran for 16 years, the entrepreneur and former cabinet secretary under former Gov. Michael Dukakis real-ized she had never written a résumé.
Then, she saw an ad in The Salem News for an opening as executive director of the Enterprise Center at Salem State College, a North Shore business incubator.
“If I’m ever going to do something else with my life, this is the perfect combina-tion of public policy and business,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan wrote her résumé and in January 2003 landed the position left vacant by the death of Lori Barton the year before.
Today, the center, housed in a former Syl-vania light bulb factory, has 46 small busi-nesses as tenants. It also gives North Shore business owners access to workshops on topics ranging from cash flow to attracting and retaining staff, among others. It even podcasts its programs.
“I’m really passionate that people be given the tools they need to make their lives better,” Sullivan said.
The center runs the 128 Venture North Breakfast, a regular gathering to bring together businesses and venture capital-ists, and collaborates on the annual North of Boston Business Plan Competition.
“All of these initiatives have come while Christine has been at the helm of the Enter-prise Center,” said Joel Whitman, chairman of the Salem State College Assistance Corp., which oversees the center.
Whitman described Sullivan as a big fan of Salem, too. She’s a member of the city’s Planning Board and is on a cabinet of advisers to Salem State College President Patricia Meservey.
“We are reaching several thousand busi-ness owners a year by offering them pro-grams to help them improve their business skills,” Sullivan said. “It’s important to do because in this economy many people start businesses.”
Sullivan started out working as the administrative assistant for former Con-gressman Michael Harrington. She settled
in Salem after graduating from the Ken-nedy School of Government. She was the secretary of consumer affairs for Dukakis from 1976 to 1978.
About that time, she got married and started a family. Later, she started a tour-ism magazine called Best of Salem. She became chairwoman of the communica-tions department at Endicott College, then started a marketing firm called Hawthorne
Associates, which she ran for 16 years.“The other piece of this that I particularly
like is it has a lot to do with the economic development of this region,” Sullivan said of the Enterprise Center. “And that’s really important to me. ... I’m absolutely crazy about the North Shore, and I think people ought to understand what a wonderful place this is, and that people ought to be able to work here.”
By Ethan Forman
Christine Sullivan, right, speaks with Cathy Julien, operations manager at the Enterprise Center.
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tim CollinSPresident and CeO, ebsCO, iPswiCh
Plotting a green course for publishing company
EBSCO Publishing’s commitment to environmental responsibility includes things as lowly as paper towels and as lofty as rooftop solar panels.
In between are recyclable silverware in the cafeteria, lights that shut off when no one is in the room and hybrid cars for the company fleet.
President and CEO Tim Collins co-founded an information-gathering service company with his stepfather while he was still in college at the University of New Hampshire.
Two years later, the Topsfield native and current resident sold the growing company to EBSCO Publishing. EBSCO provides libraries and universities worldwide with access to its immense database of books, journals, magazines and other reference works.
Collins, 45, said it is the most heavily vis-ited Internet site for libraries in the world, with 10.5 million searches every day and 1.5 billion page views each month.
The company bought the former Sylvania buildings alongside the Ipswich River in 1995. Although they were in sad shape, Col-lins said he saw the potential in them. They were renovated in a historically accurate manner and are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Collins said his interest in conservation was spurred by his wife’s concerns for the environment.
“Some of the things we’ve done have not been the best financial decision,” Collins said, but added the bottom line is about more than profit.
All employees who take the train to work — it’s a short walk from the Ipswich depot — have their T passes paid for by the company, at an annual cost of more than $100,000.
On the job, some of the employees vol-unteer for the Green Team, which meets regularly, on company time, to brainstorm thoughts for conservation.
“A lot of interesting things have come out of that,” Collins said.
Town Planner Glenn Gibbs said
enumerating EBSCO’s positive contribu-tions to the community makes for a long list. Several years ago, the state completed construction of a pedestrian bridge across the Ipswich River. It is part of a project called The Riverwalk, and EBSCO gave the town an easement across its parking lot that joins the bridge to the downtown.
A recent survey of shoppers and business owners cited The Riverwalk as one of the most important improvements in town.
Gibbs said the company is “always in the forefront” of searches for alternative energy sources.
A number of arrays of photovoltaic solar panels, 395 in all, provide some of the company’s electrical needs, and Col-lins said about three-quarters of EBSCO’s fleet of cars have been traded in for hybrid vehicles.
Attached to every paper towel dispenser in the building, and at other strategic loca-tions, green and white decals urge employ-ees and visitors to be thoughtful.
“Green Zone: Conserve Natural Resources,” they advise.
“That emphasis has become part of the culture” at EBSCO, Collins said.
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From an orphan in Greece to the CEO of a multimillion-dollar recruiting com-pany in Beverly, Fran Dichner is a business powerhouse who is devoted to helping other women succeed personally and professionally.
“My focus is on mentoring young women and turning them into future leaders,”
Dichner said.She was adopted
by a Greek-Amer-ican family from Lynn when she was 4. When she was 10, her adop-tive father died.
“I started to flounder,” Dichner said.
That’s when she joined Girls Inc., a national nonprofit that inspires girls to be strong, smart and bold. She’s now a role model for girls in the organization, as
well as a member of Big Sisters of America, and is working on the United Way’s Wom-en’s Initiative. That’s in between running R&L Associates, a professional placement firm, and Aries Group, a separate division that focuses on engineering recruitments and placements.
“I’m a survivor,” Dichner said. “I’m tough. But I’m caring about people. Having this amount of success is a way to influence people for the right reasons.”
Dichner has more than 100 employees out in the field and a core group of about 22 working in her Cummings Center office. Her local hires are often young women who have just graduated from college, or women with little experience who are looking for an opportunity. She’s a strong promoter of advancement within her company.
Krystle Cobb, 25, started more than three Fran Dichner, president of R&L Associates and the Aries Group in Beverly. Portrait by Matthew Viglianti
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Fran DichnerR&L AssociAtes, BeveRLy
Using her success to mentor other women in business
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BioAge: 54Town: MiddletonFamily: Husband and business partner Al DichnerBusinesses: R&L Associ-ates and Aries Group Inc. Achievements: President and CEO of one of the top recruiting firms in Mas-sachusetts; a female leader who’s an inspiration and mentor to many young girls, helping to shape their personal and professional lives
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years ago as a receptionist at the front desk and now works as a staffing coordinator for R&L. She met Dichner as a freshman at Salem State College.
“When I first started, I had no office experience whatsoever, and they really took a chance on me,” Cobb said. “Fran really has a way of providing a lot of training and mentoring for individuals at any level.”
Through her work with Dichner, she became comfortable in her own skin, espe-cially when it came to presenting herself at events and networking. After about a year, she was promoted to staffing coordinator, placing professionals in temporary or per-manent job positions.
“Fran has given me the ability to realize what I can accomplish in my life,” Cobb said.
Dichner’s mentoring efforts extend beyond her employees. Businessman Al Temkin, who met Dichner about 10 years ago through the Beverly Chamber of Com-merce, sent both his daughters to her when they graduated from college.
“She is probably one of the greatest net-workers I have ever seen in my life,” Temkin said.
Dichner took Temkin’s daughters under her wing and brought them around to events and promotions, teaching them the finer points of public relations, like how to work a crowd and build relationships.
She also takes on middle and high school students for job shadowing and career days and helps them improve skills such as public speaking, interviewing, dressing appropriately and fine-tuning an overall presentation. Getting to know the young girls fills a void in her life.
“Since Al (Dichner, her husband) and I don’t have children of our own, we try to support children,” she said. “I think I’m destined to do something very special with children.”
A teacher at heartFor Dichner, teaching comes naturally. She received a bachelor’s degree in
elementary education from Salem State College in 1976, where she formed strong bonds with many of her teachers and went on to teach in East Lynn.
She later got involved in banking through Fidelity Investments, and in the 1980s met her husband, Al, whose parents owned R&L. It was a small mom-and-pop com-pany at the time. About nine years ago, they took it over.
“We grew the company dramatically,” Dichner said. “When I took over as CEO, I decided to put a philanthropic spin on the company. I focused more on visibility and
positioned it as a top women-led business in Massachusetts.”
“It wasn’t good enough to make money,” she said. “I wanted to make a difference.”
She began volunteering for the American Cancer Society, putting together bouquets for its Daffodil Days campaign, and from there became involved in a wide range of community activities, including the American Red Cross, local chambers of commerce and the Kiwanis Club in Bev-erly, which focuses on improving the lives of children.
She’s been recognized as one of the Top 10 Recruiting Experts in Massachusetts by the Boston Women’s Journal for the past three years. In 2005, she was honored as the North of Boston Woman of the Year and the North Shore Women in Business Woman of the Year. In 2006, she received a national Stevie Award in mentoring.
The walls and shelves of her office are
covered in medals, trophies, plaques and pictures. But it’s the team she works with, she said, that has been essential for her company’s success. Her advice?
“Hire people that know more than you do, and let them do their thing,” she said. “Nurture them, and let them be the best they can be.”
At 54 years old, Dichner is far from done with her $15 million businesses. She’s plan-ning to expand into a national and world-wide market, and just went global last month, placing an engineer in Nigeria.
“We’re looking to have a $50 million company coming out of the recession,” she said.
But clearly she’s not all business. Her rough childhood made her grateful for all she has.
“I know how it is to live with nothing,” she said. “I appreciate everything.”
Fran Dichner, president of R&L Associates and Aries Group, is well-known for helping other women get their start in the business world. She’s pictured at the North Shore Women in Business luncheon at the Danversport Yacht Club.
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In 2005, Dichner was honored as the North of Boston Woman of the Year and the North Shore
Women in Business Woman of the Year. In 2006, she received a national Stevie Award in mentoring.
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When Diane Stringer arrived at Hospice of the North Shore, it had been operating as an all-volunteer organization.
One of three people hired to work part time, Stringer, a nurse with a master’s degree from Harvard School of Public Health, was brought on board in 1989 to help the organization become Medicare-certified, which she did.
Twenty years later, she is still president of Hospice — an organization that has grown to more than 200 employees and 255 volun-teers, and all the while revolutionizing the way many people die on the North Shore.
“She has been the backbone of this orga-nization,” said Gail Thompson, who retired from the HNS development office last year. Thompson started as a volunteer in 1980.
“Diane is the most brilliant person I’ve ever known,” Thompson said, “and she’s a really good businesswoman because Hos-pice grew from a grass-roots effort to what it is today. Without her business acumen and foresight, I don’t know where we’d be.”
Stringer said she never dreamed this is where her nursing career would take her.
“(When I took the job) I thought it would be a nice thing to do for a while when my children were young,” she recalled with a laugh. “It was just the beginning of an amazing journey for me, and here I am 20 years later.”
She was immediately drawn to Hospice of the North Shore’s mission: The not-for-profit organization provides special-ized medical care and support at the end of life. She hired the first part-time nurse and part-time social worker.
“It was really a field in its infancy then,” said Stringer, 55, “and the whole science of palliative care was burgeoning. ... We were kind of missionary in those days. It was about changing the way people died in our community.”
Stringer said she and her staff worked to educate people about what hospice care was.
“It was a bit outside of the mainstream, even in the medical field,” Stringer said. “There was a misconception that it was hand-holding and emotional support, which it is, of course, but there is a strong medical and clinical component in con-trolling people’s symptoms and managing pain.”
As Hospice of the North Shore grew, it opened the Center for Grief and Heal-ing, which served 1,705 people last year. A
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Diane Stringer: “There is a strong medical and clinical component in controlling people’s symptoms and managing pain.”
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Diane StringerpResident And ceo, Hospice of tHe noRtH sHoRe, dAnveRs
Changing end-of-life care
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major milestone was the opening of the 12-bed Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers in 2005, which is now slated for expansion.
Dr. Allen Smith is chairman of the board of Hospice. He praised Stringer’s skill for hiring talented staff and caregivers who work at the bedsides and with local fami-lies. Together, he said, they have worked to create one of the largest hospice organiza-tions in the state, one that is universally respected.
“Diane is remarkably resilient,” said Smith, of Topsfield. “There are very few CEOs who can take an organization in that many directions.”
Since Hospice was founded as a volunteer organization in 1978, it has served more than 25,000 patients and families. Cur-rently, it serves more than 2,500 people annually.
Thompson was one of those three origi-nal employees and enjoyed working for Stringer at the outset.
“Diane always had a vision of who we are and who we could be,” Thompson said, “and always stayed so locally focused to the kind of care we give to this community, and she carried us forward.”
Stringer and her husband, Jonathan, live in Wenham and have two children.
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gerarD MoynihanMoyniHAn LuMBeR, BeveRLy
Staying connected with student-athlete award program
Gerard Moynihan has a restless spirit.The owner of Moynihan Lumber in Bev-
erly, Moynihan, 67, could’ve retired years ago, but he still loves what he’s doing, and he can’t seem to do enough for high school athletes on the North Shore.
Nearly 20 years ago, he came up with the Moynihan Student-Athlete Award, which has monthly winners (one boy and one girl) from September through May and then yearly winners in June from participating schools throughout the North Shore and the Merrimack Valley. The overall winners at the end of the school year each receive a $1,000 scholarship.
The burst of inspiration for the award came from watching his own daughter, Kerry, play sports at Nazareth Academy in Wakefield.
“I would watch how hard Kerry and her teammates worked and how dedicated they were, both in school and playing sports,” said Moynihan, who has been in the lumber business for 35 years along with his broth-ers, Jack and Michael. “My thought was to
(create) something, an award that wouldn’t be just once a year but also highlight what these kids do every month of the school year.
“To me, these student-athletes are the real role models for other kids.”
Moynihan enlisted help from The Salem News and other local news outlets. The schools nominate the student-athletes, and representatives from the local media make the choices. Moynihan provides plaques for the winners and their schools on a monthly basis and the $1,000 scholarships at the annual banquet in June but otherwise has no say in the process.
Emily Lanois, 17, a senior at Hamilton-Wenham Regional, won the student-ath-lete award last year.
“I know that being nominated and then winning, it inspired me to continue to work hard both in sports and in the classroom,” Lanois said.
The four-year track standout is headed to Columbia University in the fall.
Moynihan, who grew up in Saugus and lives in North Reading, also sponsors a golf tournament at Meadowbrook in Reading to
benefit the Jimmy Fund.After his wife, Sandra, died of breast can-
cer in 2005, Moynihan, a father of three and a bladder cancer survivor himself, estab-lished the Sandra Fund at Tufts Medical Center in Boston to help patients, nurses, technicians or “anyone who has a recogniz-able need,” as he put it.
Still, the Moynihan Student-Athlete Award remains one of his favorite proj-ects. He recalls talking to two-time winner Shalane Flanagan of Marblehead and ask-ing her what her goals were.
“She said to me, ‘I would love to be an Olympian,’ and wouldn’t you know, she ended up making it,” Moynihan said of Flanagan, who won a bronze in the 10,000 meters at Beijing and recently blew away the American 5,000-meter record for women. “In many ways, Shalane is the embodiment of everything we do. We tell the kids, ‘Dream as much as you want.’”
Lanois said being part of the scholar-ship program made her feel connected to a North Shore sports tradition.
“It’s good to know that people are rooting for us,” she said.
By Mike Grenier
Gerard Moynihan of Moyniham Lumber in Beverly is generous with his time and money for the Moynihan Student-Athlete Award program.
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SiSter Julie KanenotRe dAMe de nAMuR, BeveRLy
A promoter of peace
Sister Julie Kane is the type of person who serves suppers to the needy in Beverly on Friday night and wakes up early to wave her multicolored peace flag at a vigil the next morning.
She brings Holy Communion to shut-ins and nursing home residents several times a week and routinely baby-sits for her grandniece and grandnephews, who happen to be 11-year-old quadruplets with lots of energy.
And did we mention she’s 80 years old?“She is a dynamo,” says Peter Stewart, a
local musician and member of the peace group Kane started in Beverly some 15 years ago. “Over the years, I have come to know her, and I respect her resolve to make this world a better place.”
Pax Christi, Latin for Peace of Christ, is an international Catholic organization that works to promote peace all over the world. Kane helps the 15 core members of the Bev-erly chapter think globally and act locally.
They organize soup suppers in Beverly to raise money for Oxfam America and hold concerts for the House of Peace in Ipswich, a home for refugees. They’ve planted a Jap-anese maple tree in downtown Beverly to honor the victims of Hiroshima and erected a peace pole on Beverly Common.
Always on a quest to understand pov-erty, they’ve met with Iraqi children being treated in Boston for horrific burns, as well as the director of the local homeless shel-ter. Last month, the group was scheduled to meet with a woman from Palestine to learn about the conflicts in her homeland.
“We help the poor and the oppressed,” Kane says. “Then we try to find out why they are poor and oppressed.”
Recently, the group wrote to President Obama to suggest what his priorities should be, she says, smiling.
As a sister of Notre Dame, Kane says her mission is to work for peace and justice by reaching out to the neglected. As a girl who grew up in Beverly, she also has a deep con-nection to the community.
Some of the people she visits in the nurs-ing homes were friends of her parents.
“I consider it an honor to bring Commu-nion to these dear, dear people,” Kane says. “These are the people who worked so hard for all of us, and now are all alone in this world. I get as much out of it as they do.”
Paula Piraino of Beverly joined Pax Christi five years ago and continues to be blown away by the quiet woman’s energy and devotion.
“She is the organizer, the mover and the shaker,” Piraino says. “She just goes and goes and goes.”
Even though she may be “retired” from
parish outreach and adult education at St. Mary Star of the Sea, she’s still reaching out to people. She’s the type of person, Piraino says, who pops a little note in the mail with a prayer when you’re sick or stops by with a hot meal.
As she walked into her father’s funeral, Piraino spotted Kane in the pews and felt a comfort come over her.
“She’s right there for people when you need them the most,” Piraino says. “And she does everything in this quiet, unassum-ing way.”
By Susan Flynn
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patricia zaidoSalem PartnerShiP
Salem’s Patricia Zaido is a living, breathing and working example of those individuals who make up the creative economy. Which is appropriate, since she is one of the people who gave rise to the concept and helped elevate this cluster to its current status
as one of the linchpins of the regional and state economy.
Not the retiring type, either socially or profes-sionally, Zaido was not about to take her pension and hurry south when she left her job as director of Salem State College’s Center for the Arts. Instead, she stayed put in her beloved home on Chestnut Street and accepted the challenge of serving as executive director of the Salem Partnership.
In that role she’s played an integral part in advanc-ing the ambitious “Port and Courts” initiative, which seeks to improve and expand Salem’s maritime and judicial facilities, both of which are critical to its eco-nomic fortunes. There have been many meetings to organize and legislative hearings to attend, and one recent winter morning found Zaido at Salem Depot asking commuters to sign a petition for a new park-ing garage that will service both the train station and the new J. Michael Ruane Judicial Center under construction across the street.
But wait, there’s more. Zaido, along with Enterprise Center boss Christine Sullivan, has spearheaded the effort to identify and promote the more than 2,200 enterprises that make up the creative economy on the North Shore. Among their major achievements to date is the founding of the Creative Economy Association of the North Shore. Its slogan: “Where innovation and art meet.”
— Nelson Benton
amy watkinsWeight-loSS blogger
As a single mother who had become too overweight to chase after her son, Amy Watkins was scared. She wanted a better life for both of them. In July of 2007, she underwent gastric bypass surgery at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, and would go
on to lose 135 pounds.All her life she made sense of things through
writing. This time would be no different, except her thoughts would be public with the creation of the first patient blog sponsored by the hospital.
The 40-year-old Danvers resident writes candidly about her struggles and successes following the surgery, everything from how she looks in a bath-ing suit to bad online dates to lingering feelings of self doubt.
Watkins says she writes the blog for herself, and is often surprised when people tell her they have read it, or better yet, tell her they find her words inspirational.
“It makes me happy to know,” Watkins says, “that maybe, somehow, other people feel less alone, more connected, by reading my experiences and being able to identify with them or learn from them.”
— Susan Flynn
tom mardenYouth SPortS coach
Tom Marden says there are two keys to his success as a youth sports coach in Danvers.
“I teach — and I don’t yell,” the 51-year-old said. “I always want to make it positive for the kids.”
Whether it’s coaching Danvers National Little League Baseball,
Danvers Youth Football, handling the equipment for Danvers Babe Ruth Baseball or getting back into Danvers Travel Basketball, teaching sports to the youngsters of Danvers comes naturally to Marden.
The former Wilmington High football, basketball and baseball player moved to town 16 years ago and began coaching when his son Dan, now 18, began playing sports at age 5.
“The more you do it, the more structured you become. I’m a much better coach now than I was 10 years ago,” Marden said. “I feel like I stay in good shape with all the running I do with the kids. And when you can make a difference and see a kid beam-ing because he’s done something well, you know you’re doing something right.”
— Phil Stacey
john archer‘ProfeSSional
volunteer’Whether he is rallying the troops to dive into the icy ocean for a charity polar plunge or lobby-ing against the demolition of Danvers State Hospital, John Archer is a familiar volunteer around the North Shore.
Archer, who owns Archer Insurance in downtown Beverly, serves on various nonprofit boards and is an outspoken Democrat, a historic preservationist and an advocate for the homeless. He was one of the founders of the River House homeless shelter in Beverly.
“It is the greatest group of people,” said Archer, a River House board member. “I view all of these non-profits with joy.”
A fan of the arts and humanities, Archer is chairman of the board of overseers of Opera Boston, teaches art classes to people with disabilities at North Shore Arc, plays piano at a local nursing home, loves to sing, is in a band called Just in Time and teaches English at Regis College.
Archer is also known for throwing many fundraiser soirees at his beautiful home in Danvers, where he lives with two beagles, a cat and chickens.
“It’s fun to help,” Archer said. “I always joke, ‘Then you have something to talk to people about.’”
Archer is active in animal-rights groups. He is a gardener who founded the Essex County Horticul-tural Organization.
“I’m just interested in many, many subjects,” said Archer, 58.
“He’s a completely selfless man and one of the most open-minded individuals I’ve ever met,” said Jo Broderick, dean of college relations and special assistant to the president at Montserrat College of Art. “Those of us who know him well joke that he’s a professional volunteer. If he’s not at the office, you know he’s volunteering somewhere.”
— Amanda McGregor
dr. hugh taylorviSitS all hiS PatientS
in hoSPitalDr. Hugh Taylor of Ipswich could be considered a throwback to family physicians of the past.
Taylor — a partner with Family Medicine Associates in Hamilton, Middleton and Man-chester-by-the-Sea — makes a point to visit all his patients at
Beverly Hospital, whether they are there for routine surgery or an emergency, on his own time.
“I’m not required to go there, but this is some-thing that I have chosen to do,” says Taylor, adding that he makes the trek to reassure his patients and touch base with their hospitalists. “I think it’s impor-tant for the patients so they have not lost that con-tinuity with me.”
Because of his “commitment to patients” and “out-standing care,” Taylor recently received the Philip D. Herrick Award from Northeast Health System, and was named 2007’s Family Physician of the Year by Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians.
Taylor sees patients of all ages at his Hamilton practice. One family has four generations under his care, from a 6-month-old infant to her 102-year-old great-grandmother.
“It’s a great profession,” Taylor, 58, said in a recent Salem News article. “It lets me stay in contact with a wide variety of people.”
— Larry Claflin Jr.
christopher swain
SWimS for the environment
Like anyone else, Christopher Swain sometimes leaves his dirty laundry on the floor or forgets to pay his cable bill. He insists he is just an ordinary guy who loves his two daughters and wants them to grow up in a healthy world.
The way he promotes environmental education, however, is anything but ordinary. This spring, Swain, 41, will dive into the Atlantic Ocean off Marblehead and begin a 1,000-plus-mile swim to Washington, D.C., as part of a campaign to protect the world’s oceans.
Along the way, Swain will give presentations in more than 2,000 classrooms along the East Coast to promote his cause. This swim is part of a larger project Swain calls TOXTOUR, with the goal of teaching people how to properly recycle used electronic devices, which contain toxins that can pollute waterways. He plans to collect and recycle a billion pounds of used electronics, including computers, TVs and telephones.
“I hope I can make an impression on the students I meet along the way,” Swain said, “not so much in what I say but what I do.”
Swain plans to finish the swim by December of 2010. If his goal seems lofty, keep in mind long-distance swimming is nothing new for Swain. In the past, he swam the entire lengths of several polluted waterways including the Columbia River, the Hudson River, the Charles River and Lake Champlain — all in support of clean water.
— Jonathan Phelps
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Al Temkin was sitting at home one night reading the news-paper when he spotted a story about a family that had lost its home when a chemical factory exploded in Danvers. The fam-ily, including three children and a mother in a wheelchair, was
staying in a hotel.Temkin was touched by the story. But since the
52-year-old Beverly resident’s natural tendency is to take action, he did more than sympathize. He picked up the phone and offered the family tickets to the Le Grand David magic show that he had purchased in a Beverly Rotary Club fundraiser.
“I got to meet the family and they just had a ball,” Temkin said.
The incident is just one example of the spirit of volunteerism that has marked Temkin’s life over the past decade. He has been or is a member of a host of local volunteer organizations, from Beverly Rotary to the American Red Cross to the Beverly and North Shore chambers of commerce. For six years, he served as president of the Beverly Homecoming committee.
Temkin said he made a big change in his life about 10 years ago when he decided to get out of the management end of his financial services career
and concentrate on one-on-one dealings with his clients. The change gave him more time to contrib-ute to the community, he said.
One volunteer gig soon led to another, and before he knew it he was knee-deep in board meetings and fundraisers and community events.
“I never had an inkling I would enjoy it as much as I do,” he said. “I just love it. My wife (Francine, who along with Al runs the Temkin Financial Group) and I have been able to enjoy a very nice life with a couple of terrific kids. It feels really good to be able to be involved in organizations that give back to people who unfortunately have had more difficult chal-lenges to face than we have had.”
— Paul Leighton
wayne burtonPreSident, north Shore
communitY collegeWayne Burton saw “a new civic spirit burning across this nation” when Deval Patrick was elected governor in 2006 and was even more convinced when Barack Obama was elected the coun-try’s first African-American presi-dent last November.
Promoting that spirit of civic engagement, along with providing opportunity for those who
previously had none, has been Burton’s life’s work. Today, he’s in a unique position to advance both missions as president of North Shore Community College and chairman of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce.
A Bowdoin College graduate and veteran of the Vietnam War, Burton has always been deter-mined to make a difference. As a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, he was among the first to press for the state to recognize Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a holiday. As dean of the business school at Salem State College, he dove into efforts to improve the quality of life for residents of the city’s Point neighborhood.
These days find him at City Hall in downtown Lynn, where his school maintains a campus, pro-moting anti-gang initiatives one day and walking the halls of Congress lobbying for money for autism research and education the next.
In recent years, he’s been a major player in efforts to consolidate the North Shore, Essex Aggie and Peabody vocational programs into a single institu-tion that he believes would greatly enhance career opportunities for the region’s students.
Speaking at the Danvers Committee on Diver-sity’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day dinner this past January, Burton acknowledged the progress made to date, adding, “We still have work to do. I urge everyone right now to not just say, ‘Yes, we can,’ but promise, ‘Yes, we will,’ so someday we can join together and say, ‘Yes, we did!’”
— Nelson Benton
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Michelle lipinskidirector, NorthShore recovery high School, Beverly
A leader and a friend
It only takes one walk down the hallway at Northshore Recovery High School along-side Director Michelle Lipinski to know just how much of an impact she has on her students’ lives.
Though kids in other schools try to avoid the principal’s office, many at Recovery High School seek out Lipinski’s attention. They gather around her in the hallway to laugh and joke with her, give her high-fives and hugs in passing, and visit her office to chat about how their day is going.
“I spend a large portion of my time inter-acting with the students,” said Lipinski, 42, who has been the director of the school since it opened in September 2006. “It’s a very informal relationship, not like a typi-cal relationship between a principal and their students.”
Recovery High School, a state-subsidized school that is run by the Northshore Edu-cation Consortium, is designed to help stu-dents who have struggled with substance abuse but have made a firm commitment to recovery. In the basement of the Memorial Building on Cabot Street in Beverly, it was
the first school of its kind in the state.Lipinski has been a large part of the
school’s success so far, and many students even credit her with helping them turn their lives around.
“She has such a huge influence on every-one’s lives here,” said Haley Jalbert, 16, of Beverly. “She saved my life. If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be alive right now.”
Dena Bowers, 18, of Peabody was the first student at the school. Although she has since graduated, she still stops by to visit Lipinski. She now has a full-time job and is looking to go to college.
“Michelle put up with me a lot; I used to get into a lot of trouble,” Bowers said. “I never thought I would ever get my high school diploma, let alone planning on going to college, until I met Michelle.”
Besides classes, students attend sobri-ety meetings and can express themselves through art and music. After-school pro-grams help keep them occupied — and safe.
“There are very few safe places for these students to go.” Lipinski said.
Lipinski began her career in education as a biology and chemistry teacher at Salem
High School and later was the director of the Alternative Program at the school for seven years. There, Lipinski realized teen-agers struggling with addiction needed a special program.
She was hired to helm Recovery High School three months before it opened.
“They gave me an empty building,” Lip-inski said. “I had no books, no students, no desks, no chairs, no phones, no computers and no staff … nothing.”
But Lipinski, along with her boss, Robert Gass, executive director of the Northshore Education Consortium, and a few volun-teers got everything done on time. When it opened, the school was fully equipped for the 10 students who were enrolled. About 40 students are now enrolled, Lipinski said.
Many students who have graduated from the school end up in the work force or go to college.
Lipinski lives in Dover, N.H., with her husband and three children.
“I love watching the students’ transfor-mation,” Lipinski said. “It is great to see them come in as one person and leave as another.”
By Jonathan Phelps
Michelle Lipinski, right, talks with Recovery High School student Haley Jalbert, 16, of Beverly. “If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be alive right now,” Jalbert said.
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brian cranneycranneY comPanieS
When Gayla Bartlett was looking for a new job, she looked for an employer who cared about the community.
She wound up as a manager at Cranney Self Storage in Danvers, working for Brian Cranney.
Turns out, Cranney, a Salem native, does more than run his companies, which also include Cranney Companies and Cranney Home Services, providers of electric, plumbing, heating and cooling services.
He and his workers have helped build two Habitat for Humanity homes in Salem. A longtime member of the Salem Rotary, Cranney serves on the boards of Danversbank and the North Shore Chamber of Com-merce, and he heads up logistics for the North Shore Cancer Walk, which he has been involved with for 19 years. He hosts young Catholics and Protestants from Northern Ireland at his home in New Hampshire as part of the Friends Forever program. He plans to rekindle friendships when he visits there in May.
“He doesn’t just say, ‘We support local businesses and organizations,’ he does what he says, he sup-ports them and he is behind them,” Bartlett said.
“To me, it’s all about being able to give back and move things forward,” Cranney said.
— Ethan Forman
jim mcallisterSalem hiStorian
He’s not a native of the city, but it’s a good bet nobody knows more about Salem’s history than Jim McAllister.
A N e w J e r s e y n a t i v e , McAllister knows his adopted city intimately both through his daily walks, in which he is almost
always accompanied by his dog, and his extensive research, much of which is accomplished pawing through antique shops for any discarded books, paintings or photographs that may have a North Shore connection.
His weekly column featuring colorful personali-ties and interesting anecdotes from the region’s past has been a staple on the Opinion page of The Salem News for 10 years now. And his frequent lectures usu-ally draw a crowd. During Haunted Happenings in October, you’ll find him leading daily tours of the city with a gaggle of out-of-town visitors eagerly in tow.
An avid photographer himself, McAllister’s images of Salem and other places have been featured in numerous publications.
History is both a love and a living for McAllister, and at the same time has won him many admirers. In 1997, he was the recipient of the Hawthorne Hotel’s prestigious Salem Preservation Award, and last year he was named the Essex National Heritage Commis-sion’s first Heritage Hero. — Nelson Benton
cindy quinnred croSS diSaSter
reSPonSe coordinatorThere’s no way to know when a fire might break out and leave a family homeless, or when an ice storm might paralyze a whole community. But Cindy Quinn and her team of volunteers are prepared to help.
As the director of disaster and emergency services for American Red Cross of Northeast Massachusetts, Quinn spends many hours with two volunteers planning how to respond to potential emergencies. These plans include setting up shelter contracts with schools, collecting clothing donations and training new volunteers.
“Cindy is totally devoted to her work and is dedi-cated to the mission of the Red Cross,” said Frederica Doeringer, the executive director of the Red Cross of Northeast Massachusetts. “She cares deeply for the people we serve.”
Quinn, 62, who lives in Ipswich, took the job after retiring as a schoolteacher in Essex and has held the position for the past four years. Even though this is a part-time job, she works hard to make sure her team is prepared and is always look-ing for ways to improve the services of the Red Cross.
Her favorite part of the job is training volunteers and being able to help victims in need.
— Jonathan Phelps
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Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency, Inc.152 Conant Street, Beverly, MA
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It’s hard to remember what life was like before all the developers came to Salem, before the restaurant boom, before the con-dominium explosion, before the Peabody Essex Museum expansion.
Before Dan Monroe.Monroe, the museum’s executive director
for the past 15 years, came here from Port-land, Ore., where he had been president of the Portland Art Museum. He was hired to help a 200-year-old cultural institution
find its way after the merger of The Essex Institute and The Peabody Museum.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing.
There were some scares along the way, like the talk of moving the museum to Bos-ton. And there were some rough patches, like the political fight over taking a city street. But when the battles were over and the museum marched forward with a $190 million capital cam-
paign and expansion, the city happily rode in its wake, powered by tens of millions of dollars in private investment.
The transformation of a museum was the catalyst to remake a city. Just ask the people who were there.
“It helped influence my decision to come to Salem,” said George Carey, owner of Finz, a restaurant on Pickering Wharf.
And it’s still that way today.“You talk to any of the developers who
want to come into the city, and the first thing they mention is the Peabody Essex,” said John Serafini, principal of a city law firm that has represented many of those developers.
This year, the museum won a Common-wealth Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for its role as a creative economy catalyst. PEM executive director and CEO Dan Monroe stands in the foyer of the museum.
Portrait by Ken Yuszkus
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Dan Monroeexecutive director aNd ceo, PeaBody eSSex MuSeuM, SaleM
The hand that guides the PEMBy Tom Dalton
BIOAge: 65Town: EssexFamily: Married to Catherine Wygant; father of Tyson, 35, and Robert, 33; grand-father of fiveBusiness: Execu-tive director and CEO, Peabody Essex MuseumAchievement: Over-saw museum’s $190 million expansion
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Neither the museum nor Monroe can take all the credit for the evolution of a city, but they played key roles.
There is little question, though, that Monroe has been the guiding hand, some say visionary, in the transformation of an old China Trade and maritime museum into what is now generally regarded as one of the country’s leading museums of art and culture.
In 2003, the Peabody Essex added a dozen new galleries and turned a former city street into a cathedral-like entrance and atrium. And, along the way, it added a 200-year-old Chinese house, Yin Yu Tang, that had to be moved from a remote vil-lage in China and put back together on the museum grounds, stick by stick, by Chi-nese craftsmen.
‘Best museum so far’The new Peabody Essex Museum, the
creation of noted architect Moshe Safdie, has received rave reviews since its opening in 2003.
“(Monroe) has built one of the really extraordinary museum buildings in New England,” said Anne Hawley, the Norma Jean Calderwood director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
“He has just an amazing leadership abil-ity. He can get people to do things they did not know they could do. I think this is Moshe Safdie’s best building; this is his best museum so far.”
Safdie also designed the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and The National Gallery of Canada.
The museum numbers also tell a story.Since Monroe’s arrival, attendance has
more than doubled to 200,000-plus visitors a year; the endowment has grown from $23 million to a peak (before the stock market collapse) of $170 million; the number of museum members has climbed from 2,500 to 8,500; and the operating budget has increased from $3.7 million to $21 million.
The only thing that hasn’t grown is the muse-um’s name, which was shortened to “PEM” in a rebranding aimed at placing it in the same company as the MFA (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston). To many museumgoers outside the North Shore, the museum is now the “PEM.”
Whatever the name, most of Monroe’s moves seem to have worked.
“The man has been amazing,” said Patri-cia Zaido, executive director of The Salem Partnership, a business lobby. “He took a sleepy little maritime museum and made it into (one of the) largest museums in the country.”
Monroe, in many ways, is an atypical leader. He is not a public face and seems
more comfortable putting the museum out front rather than himself. He was once a commercial fisherman, an unusual pedigree for museum directors. He also is a former falconer who kept his own birds of prey.
Maybe, in some way, that all adds up to a man who took over a seaside museum with his eye fixed on the horizon.
“The opportunity that existed here was extraordinary, but it was also very high risk,” Monroe said.
The challenges were many: merging two ancient institutions; unearthing a massive art collection, most of which lay buried in storage; and reconnecting a museum with the legacy of its founders, making oth-ers see that what was once a cutting-edge museum displaying contemporary art and culture from around the world could be
that again.Monroe said he wanted to create a
museum “that reconnects art and culture in creative ways” and provides an experi-ence that “significantly impacts people’s lives.”
That lofty language may have been real-ized in 2004 when Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world’s great cellists, came to the PEM for a week with his Silk Road Project. It was the perfect union, Ma said, of the performing arts with objects of arts, from all corners of the globe.
On the wall of his office, Monroe has a photo of himself sitting with Safdie and Ma that week, all cradling musical instru-ments. That photo may say it all.
“It was a transformative experience for a lot of people,” Monroe said.
2003: Moshe Safdie, architect of the new Peabody Essex Museum, addresses the crowd during the museum’s opening ceremony.
2004: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays at the Yin Yu Tang house, which is part of the Peabody Essex Museum. As Ma played, the Chinese family whose ancestors lived in the house entered the exhibit.
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Beth O’GradyBoys & Girls CluB of Greater salem,
o’Grady sCholarship foundation
Keeper of a brother’s legacy
The news that Steve O’Grady had been killed by a drunken driver knocked Salem to its knees in 1999.
Barely 30, the executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem had helped resurrect the shuttered youth organization and also managed the Reds, a Salem Little League dynasty. The crowd at his funeral spilled out of Immaculate Conception Church.
Shortly before his death, O’Grady had bought a two-family house, which he shared with his older sister, Beth. For the siblings, separated by nine years, it was a chance to reconnect.
Those two events, one happy and one tragic, changed Beth O’Grady’s life. Unlike her younger brother, she was not comfort-able in the spotlight and yet stepped for-ward after his death to support his causes and preserve his legacy.
“She picked up where Steve left off,” said Rosie Cross, a close family friend. “She fig-ured that was something he would want her to do. She just went crazy with it.”
A nonrunner, Beth O’Grady pledged to run 10 marathons by the 10th anniversary of her brother’s death. This year’s Boston Marathon was her 10th. She has been to Chicago, San Diego, Baltimore, Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C. She recruited friends to run as part of “Steve’s Team,” who together raised more than $30,000.
With other friends, she started the Ste-phen M. O’Grady Scholarship Foundation, which holds an annual golf tournament and dance and has awarded more than 90 college scholarships totaling more than $67,000 to boys and girls who played in Salem Little League.
O’Grady joined the board of the Boys & Girls Club, served as president, launched a club newspaper and this year inspired more than 90 young club members to raise $2,620 by collectively running the equiva-lent of a marathon inside their gym and on Salem Common.
“I can’t say enough about Beth,” said Joanne Scott, executive director of the club. “I don’t even know where to start — her
dedication is so heartfelt, and deep, and true and unselfish and driven by this won-derful memory of her brother. ...”
O’Grady was part of a small group that huddled with former GE Chairman Jack Welch inside his Beacon Hill condo in 2005, hammering out the details of his $600,000 pledge, the largest in club history. She takes no credit for it, saying Welch makes his own decisions.
A note from Welch is on the wall of her
office at the Boston Herald, where she is clas-sified advertising manager. It reads: “Salem is lucky to have a good citizen like you.”
Even today, O’Grady tears up when talk-ing about her brother, missing him terribly, but knowing that his memory and legacy live on and that, in death, he has given her a gift she can never repay.
“I was one of those people who honestly didn’t know I could make a difference,” she said.
By Tom Dalton
Beth O’Grady races Victor Acosta, 10, of Salem at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem.
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heleNa SturNickpresident, montserrat ColleGe, Beverly
Rescued Montserrat College of Art
In less than two years, Helena Sturnick has transformed Montserrat College of Art, once struggling to survive, into a nationally known art school that’s improving down-town Beverly as it grows.
Enrollment is steadily rising, students and staff are becoming more involved in the downtown, and construction is under-way on four apartment-style dormitories, dubbed “The Village.” The $8 million complex will create a quad that should be finished by August and is a major step in uniting the campus and the community.
“I have never worked in an environment so charged with creative energy,” said Sturnick, the college president, who will be leaving in December. “Beverly loves this college. They appreciate the blue hair and the nose rings. It’s part of the energy and individuality.”
At local organizations including the Bev-erly Public Library, Beverly Rotary Club, and the Beverly and North Shore chambers of commerce, Sturnick is constantly talking about changes at the college, its importance to the area and education in general.
“She has really been a breath of fresh air,” Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon said. “A lot of people were down about the college and where it was heading.”
She swooped in and turned it around, he said.
“When she goes into a room, she just infuses everyone with optimism,” Scanlon said.
This is Sturnick’s fifth presidency, and she has a history of taking on challenging colleges and making a major shift. In addi-tion to working with the United Nations to present leadership programs for developing nations, she raised more than $50 million for the construction of five new buildings at Keene State College in New Hampshire and merged Vermont College in Montpe-lier with the Union Institute in Ohio.
When she started at Montserrat in June 2007, her first initiative was to help the college redefine and brand itself. Now, she said, the benefits of becoming a nationally recognized small arts school extend to the whole region.
“We are not just an art college in Beverly,” Sturnick said. “We’re the North Shore’s art college.”
Sturnick has been a driving force behind local art initiatives and establishing rela-tionships between Montserrat faculty and staff and community leaders.
For instance, Jo Broderick, dean of col-lege relations and special assistant to the president, is heavily involved with Beverly Main Streets, the city’s downtown busi-nesses organization.
Executive Director Gin Wallace said Broderick and the college have been a great resource, especially when it comes to pro-moting the creative economy.
“Every time we ask for help from them, they say yes,” Wallace said.
Currently, she’s talking to students about ways to brighten up the downtown through improvements to the streetscape and by painting murals. Montserrat also partici-pates in Beverly’s Arts Fest every year, and Sturnick is always ready to lend support, Wallace said.
“She’s such a dynamic leader and has really stepped up to the plate.”
Sturnick announced last month she’ll leave the college at the end of the year.
“We’ve gotten to a place where she feels like things are settled,” Broderick said.
By Cate Lecuyer
Helena Sturnick turned Montserrat into a
nationally known art school with a new,
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Mike rOckett salem Waterfront
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Since captaining successful hockey teams at Marblehead High School in the early 1980s, Mike Rockett has remained in a leadership role on the North Shore.
Rockett, 44, who lives in Marblehead with his wife, Tricia, and their two children, serves as vice president at Rockett Reality and Village Construction in his hometown. He is also a trustee and part-owner of Pickering Wharf in Salem, and he’s president of the Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites, which his family built.
Rockett has personally donated money and time to projects in Marblehead, such as rebuilding fields and score-boards at Gatchell playground, and he was also integral to seeing through construction projects at Veterans Middle School and Village School.
Salem State College’s hockey rink is named Rockett Arena, courtesy of his family, and the hotel donates to North Shore Medical Center’s cancer walk, HAWC and other causes on the North Shore.
dee deNNiSpeaBody animal
life saversDee Dennis is something like a real-life superhero, seem-
ingly swooping in to rescue four-legged friends and making two-legged friends in the process.
“She’s a tireless worker for the welfare of all the ani-mals on the North Shore,” says Judy Gianareles, the media
coordinator for Peabody Animal Life Savers. “She’s been doing this over 20 years, she’s a rescuer, she’s a foster-care person for cats and dogs. She goes out on a moment’s notice to pick these animals up if they’re in jeopardy or distressed.”
Dennis, a Swampscott resident, mostly works with
Winthrop-based MassPAWS. But that job puts her beside other people and organizations all trying to make life bet-ter for animals.
Gianareles says Dennis screens people closely to make sure they’ll be the right fit for pet adoption. In the process, Dennis often becomes a friend.
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MIKE ROCKEtt of the Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites and Rockett Realty speaks to local officials and residents about the waterfront expansion.
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“Dee, I’m sure, has made a huge difference with the ani-mals she’s taken in and helped, and people as well,” says Gianareles. “She finds good homes for the animals and she makes good friends.”
the rev. Beth lOuGhhead
first Baptist ChurCh, Beverly
The Rev. Loughhead has been a minister for the past 20 years at First Baptist, a socially active church in downtown Beverly that provides affordable housing for senior citizens and helped start the Beverly Boot-straps food pantry and the River House homeless shelter.
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CounCil, BeverlyLyn Kaplan is president of the
Technology Council, a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of the North Shore’s growing technol-ogy industries.
During her presidenc y, the council started a pair of special interest groups that resulted
in two business incubators, one for biotech at the
Cummings Center, and another in Lynn that focuses on “clean tech” — green technology and renewable energy.
The Technology Council has grown by about 30 percent under her guidance, said John Colucci, who serves on the council.
“Lyn is a strong leader who works very hard to get input from all the directors and members before making a major decision,” said Colucci, an attorney with the firm Colucci Norman LLP at the Cummings Center.
tOdd laMperttodd’s sportinG Goods,
BeverlyTodd Lampert has been involved in the family business of
selling sporting goods for all of his adult life. A Beverly resi-dent, Lampert graduated from Beverly High in 1969 and was a college hockey goaltender in New Hampshire.
Lampert runs his business with the help of his two sons, Jamie and Matt. The store is the place to go for tens of thou-sands of kids playing youth sports in the city. Whenever the high school athletic department needs four dozen boxes of baseballs, scorebooks, field hockey balls, referees’ whistles or anything else, they turn to Lampert.
For years he has volunteered his time by coaching hockey and soccer at Beverly High; has been involved in coaching and administration in both Beverly Youth Hockey, Beverly Little League, and the Beverly Girls Softball League; and gives his own time (and often his own money) to help all sorts of youth programs.
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Hired as the farm’s general manager in 2002, Andrew Rodgers oversees one of just two community supported agriculture programs on the North Shore.
The organic farm, owned by Joanne Patton, offers resi-dents the chance to buy shares of the crops, making them eligible for a regular supply of fresh vegetables, fruits, flow-ers and meats. The vegetable shares sold out last year and continue to grow in size every year.
Green Meadows offers a variety of community events, giving people the chance to see a farm in action. It also donates shares, providing food to the poor.
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It is probably too soon to call CinemaSa-lem a success.
It has been around less than three years and doesn’t draw big crowds like the mega-plexes. Technically, it doesn’t even make a profit.
But everyone keeps raving about the place and its public face — co-owner Paul Van Ness of Beverly.
“He’s amazing,” said Jennie Cudmore, owner of Crunchy Granola Baby, a natural baby store in Salem. She wanted to show a documentary, “The Business of Being Born,” but didn’t know where to begin. So she called the movie house.
“They didn’t even hesitate,” she said. “They did everything. ... It is so community-friendly.”
As soon as it opened, CinemaSalem started donating $1,000 a month to chari-ties. It was part of the business plan.
In January, Van Ness invited the public in for free to witness a historic event: the swear-ing-in of Barack Obama. Even the owner was surprised by the hundreds who came.
CinemaSalem, for the record, is a for-profit theater showing first-run movies. But it seems to have caught the commu-nity bug.
It is one of the driving forces behind the Salem Film Fest, which drew more than 2,000 fans to watch more than 20 docu-mentaries on one of the deadest weekends of the winter.
A dozen directors talked with festival audiences inside the theater and at down-town cafés into the wee hours.
“What he is trying to do with something that is one of the loves of his life is cre-ate a community,” said Rinus Oosthoek, executive director of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. “If he can make a little money, that would be great, but I don’t think that is his first priority.”
Van Ness, 57, is the owner of Van Ness Creative Group, a film and video produc-tion company in Beverly. He shoots TV commercials and corporate videos and, on occasion, makes his own films.
That was the case a few years ago when he went to the Philippines to shoot a docu-mentary about an orphanage supported by
his church, Union Congregational Church in Magnolia.
That trip triggered another Van Ness event — he painted 70 scenes of the orphanage and its children, which he sold for $70 each to benefit the 70 children who live at a mission founded by a graduate of Gordon College in Wenham, his alma mater.
The man who makes movies and paints pictures once played lead guitar in a rock band. He since graduated to piano.
“He’s a da Vinci type,” said Oosthoek, a close friend.
“He seamlessly blends a business owner, a citizen, an artist ... as well as a Christian,” said Bob Murphy of Beverly, a real estate appraiser who has acted in some of Van Ness’ commercials.
As for CinemaSalem, Van Ness says he is trying to create a new theater for the 21st century, part film-lovers haven, part com-munity center, a place that will make a dif-ference and, if he’s lucky, a buck or two.
“This isn’t a hobby,” he said with a grin. “I hope (my daughter) can go to college on the profits from this place.”
By Tom Dalton
Paul Van ness hosts the Salem Film Fest and a number of other community events at CinemaSalem.
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david MitchellmasConomet history teaCher, tri-toWn
Masco’s Mitchell makes history
There was no Twittering in the Federalist Era, no video games, no flashing electron-ics, no Britney.
The modern world in all its seductive flash and dazzle might be why youngsters can’t be bothered with history. Or it might just be they haven’t had the right teacher to show how the past is a path leading from the Federalist Era right to them.
In his class at Masconomet Regional High School in Topsfield, David Mitchell, 39, seems a little offended at the notion that kids don’t care about history. You couldn’t prove it by his room, which is wall to wall with sharply fashioned posters of past pres-idents, all provided by his students.
“I’m not pessimistic,” Mitchell declares. If you challenge students with the right question or fact, “You get the ball rolling.” He’s worked to present history in a way kids understand.
Mitchell’s approach is relentlessly visual, from a box of World War II memorabilia to political cartoons on Teddy Roosevelt. “Increasingly,” he explains, “it’s a world of interaction and visual interaction. ... The textbook is much more background.”
“He tends to use a great deal of primary source material,” comments Assistant Prin-cipal Don Doliber, meaning the actual doc-uments and objects of the past. “That puts meat on the bones. Helps the kids under-stand that these are real people. ... He’s an outstanding teacher.”
Mitchell is known for his high standards, Doliber adds, as well as for his kindness.
Masco students often write family biog-raphies. “I’m pretty proud of what they’ve done,” Mitchell says, thumbing through a 40-page booklet. These bring into focus the history surrounding grandfathers and grandmothers. “It’s putting kids in the his-torical moment,” he explains.
Teachers might dream of recognition and applause for all this. Realistically, that sort of thing is reserved for celebrities. Except it happened to Mitchell. Last October, first lady Laura Bush presented him the 2008 Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year award.
“I was stunned,” he says. “There are so many gifted teachers just in this build-ing.” For that matter, he adds, much of his work is built on a foundation established by others.
Born in Baltimore, Mitchell moved to Massachusetts and attended the Whitman-Hanson schools before going to Holy Cross and Loyola. He next put his Jesuit training to work at inner-city Los Angeles.
“That experience without question made me the type of teacher I am
today,” he says.His wife, Deborah, is a clinical social
worker and visiting lecturer at Framingham State College. He came to Masconomet in 1995.
“I think the students who graduate from here are going on to do significant things,” Mitchell said. Along the way, he believes, he’s done more than merely present them with bits of history. He’s given them the ability to explore the past on their own and decide the truth for themselves.
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Trevor Eaton, 32, of Peabody struggled to read as a kid because of a late diagnosis of dyslexia.
“When I was going through school, a lot of people kept tell-ing me I wasn’t going to make it,” he said.
Now, the Higgins Middle School teacher uses his story to inspire his students to overcome their own obstacles.
The computer technology teacher holds a master’s degree from Salem State and is an adviser in Higgins’ peer mediation program, where kids help each other work out conflicts or classroom troubles.
“I’m most proud I am able to help other kids,” he said.
He’s more than a teacher. The athletically inclined Eaton serves as head coach of Salem State’s lacrosse team and plays on an adult men’s recreation team. He has coached swimmers, too.
“I try to do a little bit of everything, anything to do with keeping people active and keeping kids off the street,” he said. “That’s one of my big things.”
— Stacie N. Galang
peter hersee‘What rotarY iS all about’
Every Thursday for the past 10 years, Peter Hersee has picked up former Beverly health direc-tor Jay Walsh and taken him to the Beverly Rotary meeting at the Danversport Yacht Club.
Walsh suffers from medical problems and can’t get there on
his own. Hersee also goes through the buffet and gets Walsh’s meal and cuts up his food before get-ting his own.
“Peter is a unique person,” Walsh said. “He likes to volunteer. He’s what the Rotary Club is all about.”
The 74-year-old Wenham resident moved to the North Shore as a banker and has made a career of helping people.
“When I came to Beverly, I was taught by a gentle-man who said banks have to give back to the com-munity,” he said. “He used to say, ‘You owe it to the community to get involved.’ It becomes a way of life, I think.”
He’s served on a long list of boards, including the Wenham Board of Selectmen for six terms. Yes, the committees and accomplishments are important, said friend Jack Good, executive vice president of Beverly National Bank. But Hersee really deserves recognition for the caring person he is, which he demonstrates every week when he takes Walsh to Rotary.
“Peter just takes him under his wing,” Good said. “This is the small stuff, and that really defines the man.”
— Cate Lecuyer
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BriaN kellyKelly automotive, Beverly
Carrying on a family tradition
When Brian Kelly purchased his father’s car dealership in 1980, he knew he’d be working in the shadow of a respected businessman.
His father, Roland, started the business in 1965 on Rantoul Street in Beverly as a small repair shop and used-automobile dealership that quickly became a well-known business. In 1968, the company expanded to offer the Datsun (now Nis-san) brand.
But Kelly had worked at the dealership alongside his father for nine years and learned everything he needed to know about running a successful local business. He didn’t just learn how to sell cars; he learned the importance of caring for his customers, treating his employees right and being a good steward to the community.
“It’s hard to live up to his reputation,” Kelly said. “He set the bar really high to do the right thing for his customers and employees.”
Since buying the business three decades ago, Kelly has expanded it into a consor-tium of six dealerships known as the Kelly Automotive Group.
Although the business has grown, Kelly, 57, has stayed true to the values that his father taught him. He now employs about 350 people and is committed to giving back to the community even though the auto-mobile industry has been hit hard by the economy. He’s had to lay off a few people, he said.
“This is the toughest I’ve ever seen,” Kelly said. “I am working harder than I ever have.”
Kelly grew up in Danvers and has fond memories of playing Little League base-ball and Pee Wee football. He graduated from the Beverly Trade School in 1970 after studying automotive maintenance and ser-vice on a business level.
Though his company supports the YMCA, the Jimmy Fund, local Little League teams and Veterans of Foreign Wars, among other organizations, Kelly downplays these contributions.
“When you run a business in the
community that you grew up in, you want to give back,” he said. “I’ve been lucky my whole life, I’ve been healthy, my family has been healthy and I feel like I am obliged to give.”
He has supported the YMCA of the North Shore’s annual gala for the past eight years and is a former board member.
“Brian really understands the local com-munity,” said Beth Francis, the organiza-tion’s chief development officer. “Many local kids and families here on the North Shore greatly benefit from his support of the YMCA.”
Kelly has always been committed to his
employees, he said, and gives them oppor-tunities to advance.
“I believe in taking care of my employ-ees, and they will take care of the custom-ers,” Kelly said. “That’s how you grow a business.”
After all these years, Kelly Automotive is still a family-run business. Two of his brothers and a sister work with him, and his son-in-law Brian Heney, 34, is the gen-eral manager at Kelly Infiniti in Danvers.
“I try to give my customers their mon-ey’s worth,” Kelly said. “My name is on the building, and I am here every day work-ing.”
By Jonathan Phelps
Brian Kelly took over his father’s car business and transformed it into the six-dealership Kelly Automotive Group, which employs about 350 people.
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MarviN wilSONGordon ColleGe professor, Wenham
Bringing religions together an act of faith
When Marvin Wilson first began teach-ing, he was frustrated at the dearth of knowledge of their Jewish roots his Chris-tian students and fellow instructors had.
“So few Christians seemed to have a genuine appreciation for or understand-ing of the Jewish people who bequeathed to them, in many ways, their faith,” Wilson said.
Over the past 52 years, the Gordon Col-lege professor has authored or coauthored five books examining the ties between the two faiths, along with more than 200 schol-arly articles and reviews.
He also believes in the importance of face-to-face dialogue, and the value of immersion. As such he has conducted more than 400 field trips by Christians into the Jewish community of the North Shore, including attending synagogues and taking part in Passover seders.
In addition, he has brought many local Jews to Christian services and celebrations,
and taken more than 1,000 people on trips to Israel to study modern Jewish culture.
Also, more than 30 of his students have undertaken internships at the Holocaust Center, Boston North in Peabody.
He was recognized for his bridge-build-ing efforts with the Leonard P. Zakim Award in 2004.
His most well-known publication is “Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith,” which is in its 22nd print-ing. It was the basis of the public television documentary “Jews & Christians: A Journey of Faith,” which was released in 2001.
Wilson has been teaching at Gordon Col-lege since 1971. He was appointed to the Harold J. Ockenga Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies, which is named for Gordon’s former president.
Wilson said the goal of his efforts is reconciliation.
“For the most part, there is very bad his-tory between the two communities,” he said. “Only since World War II have a lot of these issues been begun to be addressed.”
The two religions do have some “pro-found theological differences,” Wilson said.
“But there are many areas where we need to come together in mutual respect.”
Roger Green, professor of biblical and theological studies at Gordon, has known Wilson for more than 30 years. He said Wilson’s most popular course is “Modern Jewish Culture,” which includes 11 field trips.
“I think that’s where the students who have never been exposed to it catch his enthusiasm,” Green said. He also noted Wilson is often called upon to speak at international conferences.
Beyond reconciliation, Wilson is also dedicated to eradicating hate.
“Anti-Semitism isn’t a Jewish problem, it’s everyone’s problem,” he said.
And he think’s there’s been progress.“The North Shore, to me, has been a
wonderful place to see how wonderful the relationship between Jews and Christians can be.”
By Steve Landwehr
Gordon College professor Marvin Wilson speaks with junior Elizabeth Fisher, a teacher’s assistant.
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veaNN caMpBellvolunteer direCtor, st. Joseph’s food pantry
Built up Salem food pantry with sweat and tears
It started with the donation of a simple jar of spaghetti sauce.
Today, VeAnn Campbell is the volunteer director of St. Joseph’s Food Pantry, which she’s built into a thriving haven for the region’s poorest, serving more than 2,000 people a month and distributing 22,000 pounds of food.
For 10 years, Campbell has kept a watch-ful eye over the food pantry, developing a successful organization out of nothing, surviving a church closure and a relocation, and enduring the pantry’s darkest days — after thieves broke in and stole $4,000 worth of computer equipment and $600 in food vouchers in April 2006.
One day in 1998, Campbell and her hus-band donated pasta sauce to the pantry.
Later, she offered to be secretary of the modest pantry so it could start receiving donations from the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Then she took it upon herself to trans-form the filthy, rundown basement of the former St. Joseph Church into the pantry’s headquarters. A carpenter offered to volun-teer her services for a month, if Campbell could provide the supplies.
So Campbell went to Home Depot, spent $600 on materials and charged it to the church — then she set out on a fundraising campaign to reimburse the money.
She was remarkably successful — in three weeks, she raised $8,000.
“Only one person said no,” Campbell said. “I’d say, ‘Could you give $25 please? Just $25.’ What are you going to say if I’m begging you?”
Campbell has dozens of little stories like that one.
Like the time the pantry had to move to Immaculate Conception Church after St. Joseph’s closed in 2004. Facing a diffi-cult and arduous move, Campbell drove through the streets of Salem and began, as she puts it, “looking for men.”
“We went to The Point, I jumped out of the car and said, ‘What are you doing right now? We need you,’” Campbell said.
That’s when Campbell met Ramon Deleon, who is now the store manager, the only paying position at the pantry.
Even though Campbell’s work is a full-time endeavor, she doesn’t take a salary.
“To use everything for the people,” Camp-bell said.
But her dedication to St. Joseph’s faced its deepest challenge three years ago when robbers broke in and stole thousands of dollars in office equipment, computers and food vouchers, including some items she had charged to her own credit card.
When she discovered the burglary, she cried. When she had to turn away people looking for food, she cried again.
“I was so devastated that I didn’t want to go on anymore.”
Then a group of second-graders at
Saltonstall School came in with bags of pennies and a flower — hardly enough to recover the lost equipment, but it was a signal to Campbell that she had to keep working.
“I told them, ‘Your 98 cents means more to me than a million,’” Campbell said. “‘Because of you, I can go on.’”
Campbell’s been honored numerous times for her work, and the Greater Bos-ton Food Bank gave the pantry its Partner Agency of the Year award five years ago.
“Simply one of the most extraordinary people I’ve ever met,” said the Rev. John Sheridan of St. James Parish. “It’s incred-ible selflessness. She does not do it for the attention or glory or anything but out of her love and her will that this will suc-ceed.”
By Chris Cassidy
Under VeAnn Campbell’s passionate leadership, St. Joseph’s Food Pantry now serves 2,000 people a month.
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Maureen McKinnon-Tucker at the Piers Park Sailing Center in East Boston, where she works as adaptive sailing instructor.
Portrait by Matthew Viglianti
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Maureen McKinnon-TucKerparalympic sailor, advocate for disabled, marblehead
Inspiring and empowering people with disabilities
Sailing is not a hobby for Maureen McKinnon-Tucker. It’s not a sport for the wealthy and the privileged who frequent yacht clubs in preppy pants.
From where she sits, sailing restores the soul.
After a freak fall 13 years ago that left McKinnon-Tucker paralyzed from the waist down, sailing gave her the chance to feel equal again. Through racing, she felt free
and conf ident and strong.
“ M y b e l i e f is that sailing is a uniquely empowering sport for people with disabi l i -ties,” says McK-innon-Tucker, a Marblehead resident. “Sail-ing has been very important in my
life and can be a real stepping stone to big-ger and greater things.”
In September, McKinnon-Tucker and her sailing partner, Nick Scandone, won a gold medal competing in the Paralym-pics in Beijing. She was the first woman to medal in the 12-year history of the Para-lympic Games.
Now the 44-year-old mother of two plans to parlay her Olympic success into a new venture — the launch of sailing pro-grams for the disabled up and down the East Coast. She has created a nonprofit — Sail, Challenge, Inspire — and has sched-uled the organization’s first two clinics in Salem this summer thanks to the award of a $10,000 grant.
“We will be teaching disabled people how to sail aboard boats that have been set up to inspire them,” she says. “My boat — the SKUD 18 — is the perfect boat for that.”
McKinnon-Tucker will work closely with Sail Salem, a new educational non-profit working to introduce kids and
By Susan Flynn
BioAge: 44Town: MarbleheadFamily: Husband, Dan, and two children, Dana, 9, and Trent, 3Achievements: Advocate for the disabled, 2008 Paralympic gold medal winner in sailing, founder of Sail, Challenge, Inspire
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adults to the sport. Sail Salem board member David Smith
says he is lucky to have a gold medal win-ner on his advisory board. The two have known each other for 10 years, and he says he’s been amazed at McKinnon-Tucker and her husband Dan’s determination to live life on their terms.
“Maureen is a remarkable person,” Smith says. “People are genuinely floored by what she accomplishes in life. She’s driven to help promote sailing for the disabled.”
For her day job, McKinnon-Tucker works for Piers Park Sailing Center in East Boston as the adaptive sailing coordinator. She also serves on the Marblehead Disabilities Com-mission, provides counseling to new patients with spinal cord injuries, and has been an outspoken advocate for stem cell research.
Sharing her passionSince the Olympic win, McKinnon-
Tucker has been busy speaking at schools, churches and meetings of community groups about her experiences, showing the medal to anyone who asks.
In mid-January, she traveled to Newport Beach, Calif., to attend the funeral ser-vice for Scandone, her sailing partner and friend. A competitive sailor his whole life, he had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease several years earlier and an Olym-pic medal became his final goal.
The service was held oceanside at the Balboa Yacht Club, with the duo’s sailboat at the dock and an American flag draped over Scandone’s seat.
“There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people there,” McKin-non-Tucker says. “I couldn’t even look at the boat. It was too much for me. ... I can assure you that he passed away after fulfill-ing his dream. He turned a death sentence into an opportunity.”
As for the Paralympic Games in Lon-don in 2012, McKinnon-Tucker is still
weighing her options, still looking for the right team.
Jack Harris, co-chairman of the Salem Commission on Disabilities, met McKin-non-Tucker when she called with a question about a city’s obligation to remove snow from sidewalks. He followed her Olympic success and is a big supporter of the new sailing clinics for the disabled coming to Salem this summer.
He also was thrilled to learn that
McKinnon-Tucker plans to help launch a wheelchair basketball league Sunday after-noons at the new Leggs Hill YMCA on the Marblehead-Salem line.
“Sailing is certainly a sport a lot of dis-abled people never thought they could do, but she has opened it up to many disabled people. She certainly is a role model as well as a model of a great deal of strength,” Har-ris says. “She has the heart and soul of a per-son who knows life moves forward.”
Maureen McKinnon-Tucker shows off her olympic gold medal during a parade in her honor in Marblehead last September. Tucker was driven in a red Corvette through the streets of downtown ending with a ceremony at Fort Sewall.
2003: McKinnon-Tucker, right, looks to pass in a game of wheelchair basketball at the YMCA Sterling Center in Beverly. Looking on, from left, are Amy Baudistel, Bill Alpine and Kate Murray, all of Beverly. McKinnon-Tucker is hoping to start a wheelchair basketball league at the new Leggs Hill YMCA.
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juli lederhaus
runS haWthorne hotelIt’s hard to imagine anyone with more energy than Juli Leder-haus, the general manager of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem.
As if running an 89-room his-toric hotel isn’t enough, Leder-haus has served as president of the Salem Rotary, the Salem
Chamber of Commerce and Destination Salem, the city’s tourism office.
“I don’t know how she does it all,” said Rinus Oost-hoek, executive director of the Salem Chamber.
“The best description I could think of for her would be ‘whirlwind,’” said state Rep. John Keenan.
Lederhaus has a reputation for saying “yes” when asked to help. That was her answer when the Salem Common Neighborhood Association came looking for a meeting place and when an employee asked if the hotel could host a fundraiser for the victims of the 2004 tsunami.
She is a born leader, local officials say, a trait she apparently developed a few thousand miles away.
“When I was in Alaska, I missed a board meeting and ended up president of the restaurant associa-tion,” she said. “It was ‘Katie, bar the door!’ after that because I actually enjoyed it.”
— Tom Dalton
glen st. cyrrebuilt danverS
butcherYWatching the Danvers Butchery burn down early one August morning in 2002, owner Glen St. Cyr vowed to rebuild, only not on the same spot.
He was sitting on a milk crate talking to an employee.
“I said, ‘We’ve outgrown this facility.’ ... We pretty much made the decision that night we were not going to rebuild there.”
The business — a butcher shop and market — survived because its production plant was on Pine Street, separate from the old barn on Donegal Lane that was set ablaze by an arsonist. The family also operated a butchery in Newbury, and local markets continued to carry their meats.
St. Cyr rebuilt, but it took a year to find a location across town on North Street, just off Route 1. The new, 29,000-square-foot location was big enough to roll the production plant and store into one, offer beer and wine, and be open on Sundays.
St. Cyr, 52, a 1975 graduate of Danvers High, took over from his father, Norman, a business consultant who had taken over the market after its former own-ers abandoned it. St. Cyr had been studying mar-keting and business at Merrimack College when his father asked him to join him.
Has the decision paid off?“We’ve been here (in existence) for 31 years. Oh
yeah,” St. Cyr said.— Ethan Forman
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The Salem Partnership began advocating for a new downtown courthouse 14 years ago. The state announced it would fund the $106 million project while John Hall II was president of the Partnership.
“I can’t claim ownership, but I am proud it was announced
during my presidency,” says Hall, who notes the courthouse supports a large legal community that is “a terrific economic engine for the city of Salem.”
Hall, a senior vice president at Salem Five, has been one of the most visible faces in the city for the bank, which tasked him both with building a commercial banking division and improving the communities the bank serves. This year, in a tough economic climate, Hall led a North Shore Chamber of Commerce drive that signed up another 300 members.
“It’s a home run,” said Hall, a Hamilton native who now lives in Beverly.
After starting at the bank 13 years ago, some of Hall’s first work involved making sure The House of the Seven Gables was on a strong financial foundation.
“There’s a dramatic need in the nonprofit world for qualified board members, and especially people with a financial background,” he said.
— Mike Stucka
jane brightforce behind healthlink
The 1997 study did more than highlight elevated cancer rates in Marblehead.
It energized Jane Bright.She joined with concerned neigh-
bors to form HealthLink, a group that raises awareness about the health risks of pollution from power plants
and promotes the virtues of renewable energy. Bright has been a tireless force behind an organi-
zation that has put the Salem power plant under a microscope. HealthLink’s advocacy helped compel the plant to generate fewer toxic emissions and to start addressing greenhouse gases.
A career in the corporate world preceded Bright’s activism. She served as a human resources executive at Gillette and Fidelity.
She is now the chief operating officer and project manager for Brightwork Inc., a company she helped found with her husband, Nelson.
Brightwork fuels the fledgling but vital pieces of the region’s economy by creating Web sites for small businesses and nonprofits. Its products are designed for “non-techies” to use.
Since turning her focus to the environment, Bright’s patience has been tested by how long it has taken for alternative energy sources, like wind and solar power, to gain traction.
“It sometimes astonishes me that it takes so much effort to do what is so obviously the right thing,” she said.
But Bright’s effort has proven to be worth it.“The general public is starting to realize that we
can do better. We have to do better,” she said. “I think, as a country, that we’re starting to inch toward the right direction.” — Matthew K. Roy
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KyriaKoS andrinopouloSco-owner, new brothers restaurant & deli, danvers
A shop where everybody knows you
Kyriakos Andrinopoulos could have wound up a retired factory worker instead of the co-owner of New Brothers Restau-rant & Deli in Danvers Square, where he feeds hungry regulars and celebrity din-ers alike a repast of heaping portions.
After coming to Peabody from Greece in 1972, Andrinopoulos had spent 16 years working at a Sylvania plant in Salem when his brother-in-law, Ted Kougianos, approached him about opening the first New Brothers deli in downtown Peabody.
Kougianos had married Andrinopo-ulos’ wife’s sister, and he knew about the restaurant business.
“When my partner asked me to do that, we talked with my wife, we decided to take a chance,” Andrinopoulos said.
Their cafeteria-style restaurant became a fixture in Peabody for 15 years. In 1999, their rent increased, so they bought a building in Danvers Square and reopened.
Kougianos has since branched out to open an upscale strip mall and Broth-ers North Restaurant in Hampton, N.H., while Andrinopoulos works seven days a
week at the Danvers location, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary.
Some credit New Brothers for bring-ing new life to Danvers Square, attracting more restaurants to the area.
“It’s changed the whole f lavor of the downtown,” said state Rep. Ted Speliotis of Danvers, one of the hundreds of locals who are pictured on the wall of the restaurant.
Andrinopoulos, or “Kary,” as he’s known to his many regulars, is the chief-greeter at his eatery. He shakes hands from behind the counter, and later prowls the floor, bouncing from table to table to introduce newcomers.
“We try to remember to know the cus-tomers, if not all the names, at least all the faces, and say ‘hello’ to everybody,” said Andrinopoulos. “We try to fill the customers like houseguests.”
New Brothers employs a dozen full-time and seven part-time workers who serve up dishes of Greek and American food. You can get breakfast any time of the day, along with plenty of deli and club sandwiches, seafood, and a host of Greek dishes, from lamb shish kebab to stuffed peppers.
Andrinopoulos, 66, and his wife, Patri-cia, both of Peabody, work together and have been married 38 years. They met in Greece.
“In 1970, she came to Greece,” Kary Andrinopoulos said. “She looked for a Greek god, and she found me at my cousin’s wedding.”
The pair have two sons, Elias and George, who also work at New Brothers.
“It’s an everyday, all-the-time business, so it’s something you have to work at con-stantly,” said Elias Andrinopoulos, 36, who has worked for his dad since he was 13.
Pictures on the wall show the brothers-in-law, Kougianos and Andrinopoulos, standing with movie stars, sports heroes, local politicians, high school football teams. Among the celebrities are former Gov. Michael Dukakis, Sen. John Kerry, and Tori Spelling, who came in a few times when she was married to her first husband, Peabody’s Charlie Shanian.
“They are important, but they are not important here,” Kary Andrinopoulos said of the celebrities who have passed through. The regulars are the real stars, he says.
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Kyriakos “Kary “ Andrinopoulos prepares a plate for a customer during lunchtime at New Brothers Restaurant & Deli.
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STephen J. connolly iVconnolly brothers, beverly
Took a risk, built a gem
The story of Connolly Brothers in Beverly is proof that there is a way through a down economy.
The design and construction company has been in business for nearly 130 years. Its longevity was built on a sturdy foundation set by Connolly’s founders — four broth-ers, all Irish immigrants.
Today, the great-grandson of one of them is in charge. Stephen J. Connolly IV came to work for his father in 1971 and never left.
Connolly, 60, last fall earned praise from his colleagues in the North Shore Chamber of Commerce for doing what others typi-cally avoid during tough times — he took a risk. He went forward with construction of a 65,000-square-foot office building along Route 128 without a tenant to occupy it.
The measured leap of faith was justi-fied when Wachovia Securities agreed to lease 20 percent of the building at the Danvers-Beverly line on Conant Street. The remaining space is available to attract new businesses and generate new jobs for the area. When full, the building could accom-modate up to 260 employees working for various companies.
“I feel pretty good about it,” Connolly said. “It’s one of the nicest buildings on the North Shore.”
Construction of the four-story, $11 million structure wrapped up in October. It boasts a red granite facade; secure, underground parking for 55 cars; and corridors and an atrium featuring cherry-wood panels. The steel, concrete and glass building also con-tains amenities like a gym, showers and a small cafeteria on the first floor.
It is visible from the highway and easily accessed from nearby exits.
“There’s really nothing that compares to it,” Connolly said.
Wayne Burton, president of North Shore Community College and chairman of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce, said the project serves two vital purposes — it increases the commercial tax base, which helps alleviate pressure on homeowners, and adds much needed office space.
“We need space,” Burton said. “We’re not
space-rich here on the North Shore.”The building will benefit a region Con-
nolly has always called home. He grew up in Marblehead, settled there and raised a son and daughter. His youngest child, Jay, a recent graduate of Boston College, has joined the family business. A company brochure includes a picture of three gen-erations of Connollys, including Stephen’s
father, on Jay’s first day of work.Though it is a source of pride for Con-
nolly, the company’s history does not guar-antee present-day success. It is for that reason that he focuses more on the future than the past.
“I think it’s of interest that the company has lasted a long time, not a lot of compa-nies have,” he said. “But it’s not something that I dwell on.”
His focus is on satisfying a diverse list of clients that includes Harvard University, Salem Hospital and the Beverly YMCA. Seventy percent of Connolly’s annual con-struction volume is repeat business.
“We work very hard to make sure we’re invited back to do the next job that some-body’s going to do,” Connolly said. “That’s our primary objective.”
Three or four suitors are interested in the new space on Conant Street. Connolly is confident that it will be filled, that the risk will reap a reward for his company and the North Shore.
“It’s going to work fine,” he said.
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Stephen J. Connolly iV is president and owner of Connolly Brothers. His building at 152 Conant St. is in the background.
Wayne Burton, president of North Shore Community College and chairman of the North Shore Chamber
of Commerce, said the Conant Street project serves
two vital purposes — it increases the commercial tax base, and adds much
needed office space.
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Brandi Dion has trained the lazy, the out-of-shape and the hopelessly uncoordinated.
Actually, that’s her target demographic.Over the past five years, Dion has per-
suaded thousands of the North Shore’s unathletic to sign up for a class with an intimidating name — boot camp.
They meet at a central loca-t ion in their hometowns — like Salem Common or the Marblehead Community Center — often b e f o r e m o s t sane people are awa ke . T h e y en d u re what would otherwise b e u n i m a g i -nable: running laps, counting push-ups or per-forming exer-
cises with funny names. “Our target market are the people who
are not active and all of a sudden are like, ‘I’ve got to do something,’” Dion said. “The gym’s just not working for them. They need more structure, more motivation. They need that kind of personal touch.”
Dion is half of B&S Fitness, a company she started five years ago with her hus-band, Steven Dion. They now operate out of their 10,700-square-foot gym, a former warehouse at Shetland Park. The company offers boot camps in about a half-dozen North Shore communities, triathlon train-ing programs, and corporate and personal training.
The boot camps have a large and loyal following, and many “recruits” have been enrolled for years.
“I’m 40 years old, and I feel better than I did when I was 25,” said Duncan Hsu of Salem, who has been attending boot camp for six years. “Without a doubt, I can Brandi Dion at Forest River Park in Salem.
Portrait by Matthew Viglianti
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Brandi dionB&S FitneSS, Salem
Whipping the North Shore into shapeBy Chris Cassidy
BioAge: 34City: SalemFamily: Husband, Steven; daughter, Mackenzie Business: B&S Fitness ProgramsAchievements: Whipped the North Shore into shape through a series of popular boot camps in about a half-dozen communities. Dion also helped organize the Wicked 1/2 Marathon in Salem and Marblehead and youth triath-lons and endurance swims in Salem.
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outrun my 25-year-old self. This is the best I’ve ever felt in my entire life.”
Through the boot camps alone, Dion has trained people as young as 11 and as old as 73. She’s had one who is blind and a few with one arm.
Two years ago, Perry McIntosh of Salem had been enrolled in boot camp when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She still kept going each morning — even while undergoing chemo.
“Sometimes all I felt up to was walking around Salem Common,” said McIntosh, 57. “But it really meant a lot to me to keep going. All the research you read, people who keep up exercise programs through chemo feel a lot better. I think it made a huge difference, and Brandi and Steve were so great.”
Dion has also seen her fair share of recruits who simply aren’t motivated, including many who have never been on an exercise program in their lives. But by the end of the four- and five-week sessions, most have stories with happy endings.
“We’ve never had somebody not improve,” Dion said. “Some people are coming into boot camp not being able to do a push-up. By the end of boot camp, they’re doing 10, 15, close to 20.
“That’s why people come back,” she said. “They say, ‘Geez, now I can do push-ups’ or ‘Now I can carry my groceries with four or five bags on each arm.’”
Dion usually participates in the boot camps that she teaches (Hsu remembers a day when she beat the entire class in a race around Salem Common — while six months pregnant).
And she has always been into sports.Dion grew up in Danvers and was a
three-sport athlete for the Falcons, playing
varsity soccer, basketball and softball from freshman year on. She played soccer for a national championship-winning Franklin Pierce University team.
After working at a YMCA in Roanoke, Va., she came back to the North Shore and took over programming at the Salem YMCA.
Dion drew groups of 30 or more for her YMCA classes and started to realize she had found a niche.
She then partnered with local recre-ation departments, starting with Salem’s. She’d run the boot camps, the city would market them and both would receive the money.
Around the same time, Doug Bollen,
Salem’s park and recreation direc-tor, began organizing a variety of short- and long-distance road races, which have each grown in popularity every year.
In 2007, Dion and Bollen helped launch the Wicked 1/2 Marathon, a 13.1-mile trek through Salem and Marblehead that attracted 500 runners the first year and has grown since.
Together, Bollen’s race series and Dion’s youth triathlons and 1- and 2-mile endurance swims have created an explosion of interest, even drawing first-time partici-pants to long-distance events.
“I think Brandi and all of us have made a major impact on the overall enthusiasm and fitness level in the city through these
types of programs,” Bollen said. “When I step back, I think we’ve created a definite enthusiasm and awareness for fitness.”
Before, North Shore residents might never have thought about attempting a sprint triathlon or a half-marathon. Now, they’re practically surrounded by outdoor boot camps, swims, races and long-distance events.
“If there’s something in your backyard, you’re very likely to think to yourself, ‘I’d really like to do one, but I don’t think I can,’” Dion said. “Then eventually, after they get past ‘I don’t think I can,’ they say, ‘Well, my friend did it and she’s not any better than me. I bet I can do it.’ So it’s taking this local event and making it a community event and getting more people involved.”
“We’ve never had somebody not
improve. Some people are coming into boot camp not being able to do a push-up. By
the end of boot camp, they’re doing 10, 15, close to 20.”Brandi Dion
Brandi Dion, left, of B&S Fitness leads her boot camp class.
With her focus on fitness, Dion has helped launch the Wicked 1/2 Marathon, along with a road race series, youth triathlons and 1- and 2-mile endurance swims.
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kelly delaney
cakeS for occaSionSCakes for Occasions is known for its delectable sweets and fancy wedding cakes, but there is more to the downtown Danvers bakery than meets the eye.
Since opening the store 15 years ago, owner Kelly Delaney
has contributed to various causes.“When you open up a retail business, you get
flooded with donation requests,” Delaney said. “You’ll give $25 here and $25 there, and while it’s great, you don’t feel like you’re making a difference.”
That conundrum inspired her to dream up a new concept last winter, which she named “Cakes for Caring.”
“I talked it through with my staff and my hus-band,” she recalled, “and we said, ‘Let’s pick 12 dif-ferent charities throughout the year and focus on one per month.’”
Now, each month, Delaney sells theme cupcakes for $2.50, of which $1 goes to the charity. She said the remaining profit covers ingredients and labor and foots the cost of advertising for subsequent Cakes for Caring recipients.
Windrush Farm in Boxford was Cakes for Car-ing’s first charity last spring. Windrush is a non-profit horse farm specializing in teaching disabled
children and adults to ride and work with horses.“Kelly and her team whipped up a bunch of
beautiful horse cupcakes to sell during the month,” said Jennifer Tartaglia, director of development at Windrush.
Cakes for Caring has since partnered with vari-ous local nonprofits, including North Shore Arc, North Shore Medical Center and the Shiyanne Thor-nell Memorial Fund to rebuild the Endicott Park playground.
“It’s creative and fun,” Delaney said, “and the response has been great.”
Delaney, who grew up in Marblehead, lives in Danvers with her husband, Frank Delaney, and their two daughters, Holly, 4, and Sarah, 3.
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alan hawryluk
inSPireS Young muSicianS
Mary Fabiszewski’s high school music teacher, Alan Hawryluk, always ferried the students to competitions and rehearsals and even came into school in the summer to work with the young musicians.
Hawryluk taught music in the Salem schools for 34 years and inspired generations
of local children to take up string instruments.“He’s literally the person for whom you couldn’t
do too much, because he just gave everything for his students,” Fabiszewski said.
Hawryluk retired from the schools in 1999 after a career teaching music in grades four to 12. He still teaches more than 45 private students, but his mark on the North Shore music scene is far-reaching.
For 39 years, he has directed the Salem Philhar-monic orchestra, which is a popular free concert series believed to be one of the oldest in the coun-try, having recently concluded its 109th season.
“Music is just a continuing thing, and you hope you can do it long into your late years,” said Hawry-luk, 66, who also taught music part time at Gordon College for 16 years.
Hawryluk conducts the Symphony by the Sea Youth Orchestra; he is the concert master of the Cape Ann Symphony and the Melrose Symphony; and he plays with the Hillyer Festival Orchestra.
Fabiszewski still plays violin for Hawryluk as a member of the Salem Philharmonic.
“It’s so nice now to run into former students,” said Hawryluk, of Salem, “who come along and thank me for doing what I did. ... It’s always nice to know they continued.”
Cynthia Napierkowski, director of music in the Salem schools, was hired by Hawryluk 22 years ago.
“He loves music, and he cares about kids,” she said. “And that is a recipe for a really wonderful teacher.”
— Amanda McGregor
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SuSan MickeyBiology teacher, community Service learning inStructor,
Salem high School
Midlife change: From teeth to teaching
Susan Mickey was a dental hygienist for two decades when she took a major turn in life.
It wasn’t a bad job, but there was a void. Plus, her husband is a dentist, and she was tired of being known only as “Dr. Mickey’s wife”; she wanted her own identity.
“I felt like I wasn’t making a difference,” Mickey said. “I wanted something more.”
So she went to graduate school at Salem State College and realized a longtime aspi-ration: to become a teacher.
“It was a huge decision — and a huge decision for the family,” said Mickey, who has two teenage children.
She is now in her fifth year of teaching biology at Salem High School, and the midlife career change has proved more challenging and exciting than she ever imagined.
“How can you say ‘No’ to a kid who’s really passionate about something and wants to accomplish something?” said Mickey, 44. “But they need (encouragement) con-stantly. I always expect more, but I think that’s why I get things done.”
Mickey’s enthusiasm has proved to be
an asset beyond the biology laboratory, according to Salem High School Principal David Angeramo.
He praised Mickey’s work with the Community Service Learning program at the high school. She has overseen dozens of student projects, from the construc-tion of an outdoor classroom and the creation of a summer field hockey clinic, to rehabbing a small gymnasium at the high school and acquiring donated exer-cise equipment.
“What makes her special,” Angeramo said, “is also what she does beyond the classroom walls. Salem is very lucky to have her.”
“I had no intention of teaching service learning,” Mickey said, “and now it’s a huge part of my job.”
For students like Kaitlyn Benjamin, who had “Ms. Mickey” as both a science instructor and a service learning teacher, the impact is clear.
“She went so much further than any other teacher or professor I’ve ever had,” said Benjamin, now a freshman in college. “She cares so much about her job and her students, and she’ll do anything to see them succeed.”
Mickey teaches four sections of freshman
biology and one service-learning class.“Her students are her first priority,”
Angeramo said, “and she goes out of her way to mentor other teachers.”
Mickey is also a champion of technology and has secured various grants and dona-tions for laptops, Smart Boards, micro-scopes and more.
Mickey said she was motivated by her high school biology teacher, who was “the first person to make me feel smart.” And she vowed never to be like her high school guidance counselor, who discour-aged her interest in dentistry and ortho-dontics and said to become a hygienist instead.
“One thing I really try to do with the kids is never let them feel they can’t do some-thing,” Mickey said. “When you build per-sonal relationships with the students, the barriers melt away.”
Mickey lives in Reading with her hus-band, Eugene, and their son, Sam, a junior at Pingree School in Hamilton. Their daughter, Ethel, is a freshman at Vander-bilt University.
“It’s funny,” Mickey said. “Now my hus-band comes to events with me, and they say, ‘Oh, you’re Ms. Mickey’s husband.’”
By Amanda McGregor
Salem High teacher Susan Mickey in her freshman honors biology class. “What makes her special is also what she does beyond the classroom,” said SHS Principal David Angeramo. “Salem is very lucky to have her.”
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ToM Gouldtreadwell’S ice cream, PeaBody
Making lives a little sweeter
Eighteen years ago, Tom Gould had his last drink.
“When I got sober, the whole world opened up,” he said.
Gould, now the owner of Treadwell’s Ice Cream in Peabody, has since made the world sweeter.
Around the time of his sobriety, he became the volunteer coach of Challenger Baseball, for kids with special needs. His wife, Sharon, and two children, Cortney, 25, and Michael, 23, have helped, too.
Later, they started Challenger Basket-ball. Gould has coached youth basketball at St. Vasilios Greek Orthodox Church in Peabody for 18 years.
In 2000, Gould, then an engineer for General Electric, and his wife decided to buy much-loved Treadwell’s.
“I went from making jet engines to scoop-ing ice cream,” he said.
The opportunity to own and run his
business let Gould be himself and build relationships, he said. But it also presented him with the chance to give back.
He has shared his trademark ice cream with charitable causes across the North Shore. From local schools to hospitals, the ice cream has put smiles on faces and helped raise money for many a nonprofit in the process.
For the past six years, he has brought ice cream once a month to patients and staff at the North Shore Medical Center’s Cancer Center in Peabody.
“I do it because this is how my mother and father raised me,” Gould said. “It’s all about giving back.”
The “wall of fame” in the entry of Treadwell’s is covered with plaques and thank-yous to the business, Gould and his family for all their good deeds.
A large note from the cancer center is covered with kind messages of thanks. A photo of schoolchildren holding letters spells out “thank you.”
Peabody High senior Kayla Bentas is a
neighbor of Gould. He has been instru-mental in helping her with her own char-ity: Kayla’s Vision.
“He’s very nice,” said Kayla, who lost her sight at age 9. “Whatever ice cream social needs some type of assistance, he’s always there for us.”
Gould is president of her charity, which provides funds and help to the visually impaired.
Last year, when Gould gave the keynote address to the National Honor Society at Peabody High, he spoke about his sobriety. The room fell silent, he said.
Afterward, two men in the audience approached Gould. His story inspired them to stop drinking, he said.
Gould said one of those guys stops by Treadwell’s to share his sobriety, now eight months.
“When I got my life turned around, I was able to put together something, to dream,” Gould said.
He has helped others dream, too.
By Stacie N. Galang
Tom Gould leads warm-ups during the Challenger Basketball program at Carroll School in Peabody.
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wayne marquis
danverS toWn manager
Even after 30 years, Danvers Town Manager Wayne Mar-quis does not have all the answers.
And it is his willingness to acknowledge that, embrace it even, that partly explains his success. Marquis is one
of the most effective and respected municipal leaders on the North Shore and beyond.
“You can’t allow yourself to become stuck in your ways,” he said.
Marquis thrives on new ideas and challenges his staff to be creative.
“The goal isn’t not to rock the boat,” Marquis said. “Change is a good thing, not a bad thing.”
But any change must be closely examined before it is enacted. Marquis prides himself on being a good lis-tener. He also asks a lot of questions.
“M y s t a f f h a s come to expect that they’ll be questioned when they come in with anything,” he said. “That style has served me well.”
Proof that he is willing to adapt is his temporary office in the town’s former middle school. Pub-
lic Works Director David Lane persuaded an initially resistant Marquis to relocate Danvers’ operations there while the Town Hall building is renovated.
Marquis, 56, is a proud product of the town he manages. He grew up here and graduated from Danvers High School in 1971. As a boy, he became an Eagle Scout with Troop 16.
He started as an intern with the town in 1975. He became assistant town manager in 1977 and took over for his mentor, Bob Curtis, in 1979. He and his wife, Nancy, have raised two daughters.
The job stays fresh because around every corner is another challenge. Danvers needed a new middle school. The Crane and Porter Riv-ers had to be dredged. Two years ago, the town responded to a chemical plant explosion.
Now, the struggling economy is putting unprecedented strain on the town’s resources and budget. And a new high school needs to be planned and built. “You are constantly facing unique opportunities,” Marquis said.
— Matthew K. Roy
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“ My staff has come to expect that they’ll be
questioned when they
come in with anything. That style has served me well.”
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Kiana Hawley8-year-old fundraiser in PMC Kids ride, Marblehead
Raising thousands to fight cancer
Kiana Hawley has raised more than $25,000 for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute by pedaling her bicycle in four Pan-Massachusetts Chal-lenge rides.
While others have raised more in the nearly 30 years the 198-mile charity ride has been around, few have done so before the age of 8.
Hawley, a second-grader at Marblehead’s Bell School, is one of the top fundraisers in the much shorter children’s version, Kids PMC, and she has a reason for riding: Her uncle David Schmitt has Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He’s battled the disease four times, and the effects of chemotherapy and radiation have led to a rare condition called Bleomy-cin pulmonary toxicity, which Schmitt, 35, said has attacked his lungs and weakened him. Still, Schmitt is thankful for all his niece has accomplished.
“She amazes me every day I see her,” Schmitt said. “She has a heart of gold, just like her mom (Tanya, Schmitt’s sister), and all she wants to do is make the world a bet-ter place.”
Kiana has been riding in the Marblehead Kids PMC Ride every year since she was 31⁄2, before her training wheels came off.
“They are trying to make medicine with the money we already raised,” Kiana said. “He thinks I’m doing a good job. He likes it. But a lot of times it’s a big thing for him to get up and go.”
During her first ride, Kiana was just looking to stay upright while helping her uncle.
“Well, he got sick before I was born,” Kiana said, “and then when my mom sort of explained how the PMC works, I wanted to try and ride my bike in it and be a part of it for my uncle. ... When I got a little older, I wanted to make it happen, like take off my training wheels and then ride, but my bike was too small, so I had to get a big
bike with no training wheels.”That first year she raised $1,000.“The second year, she liked the whole
experience and then she wanted to be more involved in it,” said Tanya Hawley, who’s now the chairwoman for the Marblehead ride.
Kiana was even brave enough to speak at a community meeting at school in front of 500 people to ask kids to join the ride, her mom said. She raised $5,000 the second year, $10,000 her third year and last June, she raised $9,000, with her baby brother, Andualem, taking part for the first time.
Schmitt, who lives in Boston, says he vis-its Kiana as often as he can and marvels at how she goes out of her way to help others. Schmitt said it’s important adults teach kids of the need to help others.
“It’s not just the children,” Schmitt said, “Billy Starr (who started the PMC in 1980) talks about this, too. It’s a culture of teach-ing and showing the kids what they can do, and not just limiting them.”
By Ethan Forman
Kiana Hawley has raised thousands of dollars for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute by riding in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Kids Ride.
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patricia meserveySalem State
college PreSident
Patricia Meservey didn’t have to wait long to face her first major challenge at Salem State College.Within weeks of assuming the presidency of the region’s lead-ing institution of higher educa-tion, she learned the school’s
library suffered serious structural defects and was a hazard to students and workers.
The new president moved quickly, shuttering the building and moving the library to another part of campus. Plans are now in the works for a new library, a building utilizing green technology and offering modern library services.
Such a challenge so early on might have forced others to abandon competing priorities.
Under Meservey’s leadership, however, Salem State continues to move forward with plans to build a new dormitory as well as remake the Weir prop-erty, a former industrial area, into a mixture of shops, offices and college space.
Meservey, who played leadership roles at North-eastern and Suffolk universities before becoming Salem State’s 13th president, has made it clear her vision extends beyond bricks and mortar.
Recent initiatives include the establishment of the North Shore Economic Alliance and the Center for Economic Development and Sustainability. The former has been charged with establishing a unique identity for the region, while the latter’s mission is to become “the central repository for research ... on the economic, environmental and social sustain-ability” of the region. Meservey also wants to see the college’s Bertolon School of Business become a major player in advancing the region’s economic fortunes.
The college’s growth in size and stature has it on the verge of university status. But Meservey, like her predecessor, Nancy Harrington, has not lost sight of Salem State’s central mission — providing access to higher education for all, regardless of income.
The former nursing student said it best herself on the day of her inauguration last spring:
Knowledge, Meservey said, is “the most powerful tonic ever created,” one “that can change a single life and — in turn — move the entire world.”
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Meservey wants to see SSC’s Bertolon
School of Business become a major player
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The First Baptist Church in Beverly celebratesRev. Beth Loughhead�s 20 years of leadershipand encouragement, helping us all to be lightsin the world. Congratulations, Beth, on beinghonored in the North Shore 100. We love youand are so proud of you! Keep on shiningthat light of yours for years to come!
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Jim CroSbyCrosby’s MarKetPlaCe
Marketing groceries and goodwill
He’s helped feed a goodly portion of the North Shore. So, it’s almost too appropriate that Jim Crosby’s working career started on a Danvers farm at age 9.
His family had been abandoned by his father. “He was not exactly my role model,” Crosby says. Young Jim relied on his mother and grandmother for inspiration.
“My grandmother wouldn’t take Social Security because she thought it was char-ity,” he recalls. “And food was something you didn’t take for granted.”
He inherited a work ethic that carried him through Danvers High, a Northeast-ern co-op and an MBA at Babson. Later, he worked for grocery stores, Stop & Shop and Star Market.
“I always felt I wanted to work in that field,” he says, contributing something basic and vital.
By the 1980s, Star Market was selling smaller stores, and Crosby saw an oppor-tunity to own a market in Concord. “I spent 15 years working my way up the ladder. Then, I thought it was appropriate to own the ladder.”
It wasn’t an easy decision. “We had five children. I had a responsible position. I was in charge of 32 stores. ... The next day I find myself bagging groceries and collect-ing carts in the parking lot. And I’m asking, ‘What have I done?’”
Today, he owns six Crosby’s Marketplace stores, in Concord, Salem, Marblehead, Georgetown, Hamilton and Manchester-by-the-Sea.
Meanwhile, his family and Roman Cath-olic faith keep him grounded. “I married the right person,” he says of wife Patri-cia, his high school sweetheart. Three of his kids work for him. He has seven grandchildren.
His 7-year-old granddaughter Allison died of meningitis a few years ago. Her photo, with all the other grandchildren, remains on his desk. “It shouldn’t be,” he says of the tragedy. “But it is.”
He muses that so many worries never come to pass. Yet, he never imagined this, couldn’t account for it. Then someone
advised him to see Allison’s life as a gift. “What you really should say is, ‘Thank God for the time she was here,’” he decided.
Crosby regards his 400 workers as family too — with some on the payroll 20 years. Further, he’s watched the part-timers grow, moving from Salem High School to Salem State.
His Canal Street office, above the Salem store, is filled with photos and plaques hon-oring his donations to charities. The food he doesn’t sell goes to homeless shelters.
He does more than donate, says Salem Mission board president Andrew Oli-ver. First, he researched what the shelter provided. “The key for Jim — is it a good cause? Are we making a difference in these people’s lives?”
True to his own ethic, Crosby wants his efforts to encourage the best in people. “If Jim Crosby supports you,” Oliver says, “you have the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.”
Moving up and down the food aisles, consulting with his staff, Crosby is remark-ably in his element. “After all these years,” he says, “I still get up in the morning want-ing to come to work.”
By Alan Burke
Jim Crosby, shown in his Salem store, regards his 400 workers as family — with some on the payroll 20 years.
Crosby’s Canal Street office, above the Salem
store, is filled with photos and plaques honoring his
donations to charities. The food he doesn’t sell
goes to homeless shelters.
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ron urnettaexecutive chef,
turner hill
Ron Urnetta first came to Turner Hill in Ipswich as a hospitality consultant. He was so impressed with the club’s grounds, mansion and award-winning golf course, he took a job as director of club-house operations and executive chef in July 2008.
In that short time, Urnetta, 50, has helped trans-form the formerly seasonal club into a year-round destination for members and the public alike.
Urnetta — with the help and encouragement of club President Robert Talbot — opened the Mansion Club restaurant and lounge and the Members Grille, built a culinary and service team, and designed new menus.
“We provided a greater dining experience with a more versatile menu” said Urnetta, a Culinary Insti-tute of America graduate who serves all-natural fish, poultry, beef, fowl and pork at both restaurants.
He also had a hand in opening an ice-skating rink with a heated patio and helped bring cross-country skiing and snowshoeing to Turner Hill’s 311-acre estate.
The public is welcome to dine at Turner Hill and can also take part in club activities with the new Dinner Club Membership, another wrinkle Urnetta
helped add.“One goal was to create a lot more interest as a
player in the community, and I feel we’ve hit all the marks,” Urnetta said. “One of the things that was important to me was putting together a strong culi-nary team and quality staff ... to bring a best-possible experience to our members and guests.”
— Larry Claflin Jr.
richard wylieendicott college
PreSidentWithin a year after Richard Wylie became the president of Endi-cott College in 1987, he had many of the “No Trespassing” signs that were posted around the campus taken down.
“We wanted to be more open to the community,” said Wylie,
67, the fifth and current president of the college. “We opened our beach and tennis courts to our neighbors and started to encourage people to visit the campus.”
The removal of the signs is one of many changes Wylie has made over the past 22 years. He has overseen the school’s transformation from an obscure two-year women’s college into a four-year
coeducational institution offering bachelor’s and graduate degrees.
Enrollment at the undergraduate college has nearly tripled to about 2,000 full-time stu-dents, and more than 1,100 students are now enrolled in graduate programs, which opened in 1996.
The campus has doubled its landmass in the past 10 years, and Wylie had a huge part in adding and renovating many of the buildings. The most recent was the $17 million Center for Visual and Performing Arts, which opened in January.
Wylie, who is known as “Doc” around the campus, encourages students to be involved in the North Shore community. He leads by example, serving on numerous boards including the Beverly Co-Opera-tive Bank, Beverly Chamber of Commerce and the Beverly School for the Deaf.
— Jonathan Phelps
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beverlY bootStraPSTwelve years ago, as a volun-teer with Beverly Bootstraps Community Services, Julie Murphy created the nonprof-it’s successful Adopt-a-Family program.
“I wanted to do something within the community,” said
Murphy, 58, a lifelong Beverly resident, about the holiday program in which community members provide families with gifts.
In 2005, Murphy took a full-time position with Bootstraps. She’s now employed as an outreach coordinator, assisting North Shore families who need a hand.
“Every day ... Julie shows her compassion and her commitment to helping people,” wrote Sue Gabriel, executive director of Beverly Bootstraps. “She is organized and energetic. She is a creative thinker and has a wonderful sense of humor.”
Murphy eschewed praise, instead deflecting it back to the organization.
“I really don’t like a lot of spotlight,” said Murphy, who has also worked in advertising and real estate. “I’m humbled and honored to be part of the organi-zation. They are the ones responsible for the good work that’s done in our community.”
— Larry Claflin Jr
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marBleheadA Salem resident, Moran is an active member of the retail
committee for the Marblehead Chamber of Commerce and president of Moran Studios.
NOMiNatiON“Prior to moving her business to Marblehead, Carole
was called ‘Salem’s economic engine’ by former Mayor Stan Usovicz.”
— Philip Moran, husband
caNdace waldrON
exeCutive direCtor, haWC, salem
For more than eight years Waldron has worked tirelessly to support and educate residents of the North Shore on the issue of domestic violence.
NOMiNatiON“Because of her dedication, the community knows there
is help for victims of domestic violence.”— Nancy Kieran
StephaNie McGeNey
exeCutive direCtor of We are ameriCa
produCtions, peaBody
Founder of the popular Tanner City Idol singing competition.
NOMiNatiON“Stephanie McGeney always has and continues to be
very dedicated to helping others reach their personal suc-cesses, conquer their fears and create an opportunity right in Peabody in the area of performing arts.”
— Nancy Finnegan
StepheN FiNe
melanoma eduCation foundation, peaBody
Fine has traveled to more than 300 high schools and mid-dle schools throughout New England to train health teachers to introduce a skin cancer unit in their curriculum.
NOMiNatiON“Steve has worked tirelessly over the last 10 years to
prevent our tragedy of losing a son to melanoma from hap-pening to anyone else.”
— Gail Fine
Matt BuchaNaNBridGe aCademy,
salemLead teacher of the Bridge Academy at Salem High
School, formerly know as the Alternative School, Matt Buch-anan works hard to keep students in school who are at risk of dropping out. Graduation rates have increased during his six-year tenure with the program, the last two years as lead teacher. He is known for his mentorship and dedication.
“Graduation is huge,” Buchanan told The Salem News
about watching 17 seniors graduate from the program last June. “It’s not all we care about, but we just push the gradu-ation and college.”
Besides teaching them in the classroom, Buchanan also helps students find employment — real-life experience.
“I see my kids go across the stage, knowing their strug-gles, knowing the background and knowing the families so intimately, it’s a very special day,” he said of graduation.
dr. carl JOhNSONledGeWood rehaBilitation
and sKilled nursinG Center, Beverly
In 2008, Johnson gave up his private practice to work full time at Ledgewood, where he is known for his holistic approach and bed-side manner.
NOMiNatiON“His progressive approach to
medical care, coupled with his warmth and compassion for others, are tremendous assets to the North Shore.” — Laurie Roberto
Jerry Mccarthynorth shore arC, peaBody
Has served three decades as executive director of North Shore Arc, which provides lifelong support to people living with developmental, cognitive or physical disabilities.
NOMiNatiON“A lifetime of dedication to
improving lives of disadvantaged citizens — enough said! And he’s a nice guy, too.”
— Rob Cronin
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CAROlE MORAn at Moran Studios, 50 Atlantic Ave., Marblehead.
CAndACE WAldROn of HAWC, which helps victims of domestic violence.
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BOB BrOudOlandmarK sChool
president and headmaster, Beverly
Beverly native is head of the largest school in the country serving students with language-based learning disabilities.
NOMiNatiON“The focus and unrelenting support that Bob has given to
the school’s mission and management — both philosophical and fiscal — are unmatched in Landmark’s history.”
— Jan Ross
StepheN drOhOSky viCe president of CumminGs
properties, Beverly
In less than four years, Drohosky has grown the office park from 350 businesses to 500, providing an esti-mated 3,500 jobs and numerous ser-vices. He spearheaded the effort to draw one-person micro businesses, and saw the park’s health-care com-
munity double, with more than 90 doctors.NOMiNatiON
“Steve’s progressive approach and open mind to bringing atypical ‘office park’ businesses to Cummings Center ... have contributed to Cummings Center’s reputation for innovative success.” — Ellen Flanagan Kenny
rOBert BradFOrd
president, north shore ChamBer of CommerCe,
BeverlyUnder his leadership, the North Shore Chamber of Com-
merce now has more than 1,600 members, ranking it as one of the largest regional business organizations in the state.
NOMiNatiON“With an appreciation of the community that he lives
and works in, Bob fosters and stewards the necessary rela-tionships to move forward the mission of the North Shore Chamber.” — Wayne Burton
patricia purdy
oWner, BanBury Cross Children’s BooKshop,
Wenham
Keeping the thrill of reading alive among the youth of the North Shore through a dedication to literacy.
NOMiNatiON“She has the most extensive and extraordinary knowledge
of children’s literature of any librarian I have ever known or heard of. Many librarians will recommend what they have heard is good, but with Pat she has read it. ... You cannot fool children. They know if you have read a book or not.”
— Annette Janes
BOB BROUdO is the headmaster at landmark School.
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paul GOrMaN leGGs hill ymCa
As director, Gorman oversaw construction of the $17 million Y, a gleaming exercise palace atop Leggs Hill Road on the Salem/Marblehead line. Membership has more than doubled, from 3,000 to 10,000.
StepheN NeFFJeWish rehaBilitation Center, sWampsCott
Has overseen the growth of the Jewish Rehabilitation Centers for Living, including the addition of home care.
NOMiNatiON“He is a strong leader who not only believes in our mission,
but in the ability of his staff to carry it out on a daily basis.”— Lina Reha
alyce FleMiNGvolunteer, north shore mediCal Center, salem
90-year-old has logged more than 1,000 hours over the past seven years as a volunteer in the president’s office at the North Shore Medical Center.
NOMiNatiON“I hope I am lucky enough to live to the age of 90 and be as
active and have the memory that Alyce possesses.”— Nancy Donovan
eric eaSleyproperty manaGer, Citizens
for adequate housinG, peaBody
A busy property owner in Salem, also provides mainte-nance for Citizens for Adequate Housing’s seven buildings and
serves as property manager for its 16 rental units.NOMiNatiON
“Eric is an ethical, honest and forthright person, a shrewd businessperson, and yet very compassionate. Eric never says ‘no.’ He is funny and patient with our myriad of requests for help.” — Nancy Crowder
PAUl GORMAn: YMCA director is enjoying a booming business at the new leggs Hill Road facility on the Marblehead/Salem line.
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JeaNNe heNNeSSey
lorraine roy desiGner ColleCtion & Bridal
Boutique Longtime town resident and owner of Lorraine Roy
Designer Collection and Bridal Boutique, founded DEEP Ball, and driving force behind the Danvers Cultural Enrichment Consortium.
NOMiNatiON“Jeanne is an outstanding example of the North Shore’s
finest and one of the nicest people you could possibly know. She has had a long-lasting impact on the community and everyone she has touched.” — Sue Tabb
thad SieMaSkO siemasKo & verBridGe arChiteChture firm,
Beverly
Founder of the influential architectural firm behind the design of many of the region’s residential and commercial structures.
NOMiNatiON“Thad is a role model who is changing the North Shore
for the better – quite literally its landscape and the people who inhabit it.”
— Mark Helman
GeOrGe careyoWner of finz, salem
George Carey, the owner of Finz, is one of the pio-neers in Salem’s downtown restaurant boom. He turned
his waterfront restaurant into a hot spot for political and charity events, is a past president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce and a current executive board member of The Salem Partnership.
JEAnnE HEnnESSEY is owner of lorraine Roy designer Collection & Bridal Boutique.
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rON parSONSdanvers hiGh sChool
Band direCtor
Under Parsons’ leadership, the Falcons were the only Mas-sachusetts band to march twice in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. They’re currently preparing for a third trip.
JiM GeOrGeoperation troop support,
danvers
Has committed himself to stand in Danvers Square each Saturday from April to December to collect money for the troops until he dies or the troops come home.
GiN wallaceexeCutive direCtor,
Beverly main streets
Has revitalized the organization aimed at bringing business to down-town Beverly.
NOMiNatiON“She has been responsible
for many creative ideas ... which have made so many long overdue
improvements to downtown Beverly.”— Bill Buttimer
Neil dOuGlaSmorGan and douGlas,
Beverly
A driving force in the changing face of the North Shore as a board member of or adviser to such groups as North Shore ARC, the Beverly YMCA, The Anchorage and Harborlight Com-munity Partners. An urban design expert, Douglas assisted in placing many North Shore banks and supermarkets.
NOMiNatiON“While significant, Neil’s business success pales against his
incredible ability to juggle meaningful contribution among many nonprofit/social services organizations on the North Shore.”
— Brian Gregory
Mark whitMOre exeCutive direCtor of north shore Career
Centers
Oversees career centers in Salem, Lynn and Gloucester, helping people find jobs.
NOMiNatiON“Exceptional leader. Innova-
tive. Dedicated to quality customer
service for job seekers and employers. Strong commitment to youth.”
— Marilyn Foster
dON dOliBerassistant prinCipal,
masConomet reGional hiGh,
honors sCholar dinner
Chairman
The driving force behind the North Shore Chamber of Commerce’s Honors Scholars Din-ner, which recognizes the cream of the academic crop at local high schools.
ROn PARSOnS, director of the danvers High School band, gives a thumbs-up as the band gets ready to march in the tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 2, 2006.
JIM GEORGE wears a Christmas hat given to him by Jacquelyn Beeman as he collects donations for Operation troop Support in danvers Square on Christmas morning 2008.
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north shore 100 profileseMily BOulGer
transitions proGram at danvers hiGh sChool
Emily Boulger is in her fourth year teaching the Transitions Program at Danvers High School for students with disabilities. She incorporates art into the classroom and was named 2008 Special Education Art
Educator of the Year by the Massachusetts Art Education Association.
Mary SarriSnorth shore WorKforCe
investment Board
The agency’s career training cen-ters in Salem and elsewhere have become a lifeline for those seeking employment. Currently mentoring a similar organization that serves the whole state of Iowa.
deaN lahikaiNeN peaBody essex museum,
salem
The curator of American decorative art, he organized the blockbuster Samuel McIntire exhibit at the museum and won Historic New England’s Book Prize for the exhibition
catalogue, “Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style.” He is one of the country’s leading McIntire scholars.
the rev. JOel
aNderle Community Covenant
ChurCh, West peaBody
Progressive pastor who has sparked interest in fair trade and reaches out to his congregation through regular podcasts.
MarGO caSey
north shore united Way,
BeverlyExecutive director of one of the
region’s top fundraising and com-munity advocacy organizations.
chriS SilvaoWner, front
street Coffeehouse,
salem Opened one of Salem’s first cof-
feehouses in 1996. Donates time and supplies to city’s business and cultural events.
aNdrew OliverBoard president,
salem mission
Marblehead resident has taken a leading role in the effort to end homelessness in Massachusetts.
kerry MackiN,
ipsWiCh river Watershed
assoCiation, ipsWiCh
Since 1993, has led the way in numerous efforts to protect the region’s most important source of drinking water.
AndREW OlIVER of Marblehead stands in the basement of a shelter built on Margin Street in 2005.
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MarJOrie kittredGe
founder of Windrush farm therapeutiC equitation,
BoxfordKittredge turned her lifelong love of horses into a thera-
peutic riding facility that serves 100 riders a week with emo-tional, mental and physical disabilities.
aNNie harriSexeCutive direCtor, essex
national heritaGe Commission
In her former role as director of The Salem Partner-ship, Harris spear-headed the effort to expand the role of the National Park Service in Salem, which resulted in
the construction of a new visitor center in the former Salem Armory and the acquisition of the Friendship, now a fixture at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
dON kelley
Wayside trailers, peaBody
The velvet-voiced master of cer-emonies at countless fundraisers also serves on several non-profit boards, including the North Shore Music Theatre.
Jack GOOdBeverly
national BanK
Longtime spokesman for Beverly Hospital before going into the banking business, Good is known for his numer-
ous charitable endeavors for organizations throughout the region.
r. JudSON carlBerG
president, Gordon ColleGe,
Wenham
Under Carlberg’s tenure, the col-lege has seen significant growth, including a new athletic center, music center, theater facility, residence halls and the 80,000-square-foot Ken Olsen Science Center.
dON preStONhaBitat for humanity —
north shoreCo-owner of Casa de Moda on Cabot Street, Preston
has played a key role in the revitalization of Beverly’s downtown.
liNda SariS
direCtor of salem
CyBerspaCe
Dedicated to eliminating the digital divide between rich and poor, she has helped hundreds of low-income youths and adults gain computer literacy along with English literacy, expanding their academic and career opportunities.
Bill pOwer
Chairman of the peaBody historiCal Commission
From protecting cemeteries to spearheading a leather museum, Power is committed to preserv-ing the city’s history. Also serves on the committee that reviews applications for Community Preservation Act funding in the city.
MARJORIE KIttREdGE of Windrush, which specializes in “theraputic equitation” in which people with disabilities ride for therapy to help them develop socially, physically and emotionally.
dOn PREStOn, president of Habitat for Humanity-north Shore, describes the renovations to come at 1 Harrison Ave., shown in this 2007 photo.
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rOGer BakerrehaB five, peaBody
For almost 25 years, Baker, a volunteer, has raced to fires and other disasters on the North Shore to provide food and shelter to firefighters and other responders on the scene.
alaN M. yOuNGBioloGy
professor, salem state
ColleGeAs president of Salem Sound
Coastwatch, has worked to pro-tect and enhance the environ-
mental quality of the Salem Sound watershed.
Bill tiNtitinti, quinn,
Grover & frey, salem
As a member of the Salem Redevelopment Authority in the 1970s, he put in motion many of the policies that have made
downtown Salem an urban success story today. Still active in local development activities and Democratic politics, he is one of Gov. Deval Patrick’s key supporters on the North Shore.
rich wilSON
sailor, marBlehead
When Wilson single-handedly sailed around the world in the Vendée Globe race, he brought countless schoolchil-dren along for the ride through an educational program he founded called sitesALIVE!
ROGER BAKER is shown in 2006 with one of the vehicles he uses to help firefighters with food, shelter and water.
RICH WIlSOn waves after completing the Vendée Globe.
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