Attorney Archer B. Battista of Lyon & Fitzpatrick, LLP, of Holyoke, has been selected a Massachusetts Super Lawyer and was among those featured in the November issue of Boston magazine. His practice focuses on general litigation for government/cities/municipalities. Also named as Super Lawyers were John J. Egan and Edward J. McDonough, Jr., Egan Flanagan and Cohen, business litigation and general litigation, respectively; David P. Hoose, Katz Sasson Hoose & Turnbull, criminal defense, and Ann I. Weber, Shatz Schwartz and Fentin, estate planning and probate. Weber was also named as one of the state’s top 50 women lawyers.
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George Kudla, of Companions & Homemakers in Enfield, Conn., has received the Better Business Bureau “Superior Service Award.” The award recognizes front-line employees who provide quality service to customers, enhance the positive reputation and public image of their firm, and take pride in their work.
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Richard Carey has joined the Seder Foods sales organization as an Account Development Manager.
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WMAS Radio in Springfield has appointed Craig D. Swimm as Director of Sales for the station.
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Gary Blanchard, a licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor in Ware, is now a credentialed substance abuse services provider for Fallon Community Health Plan.
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Days Inn in Chicopee announced the following:
• William T. Brown has been named Property General Manager;
• Sandy Taylor and Chris Dooley have been named to lead the Sales and Marketing Department.
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Ability Beyond Disability has recognized Dorothy Ayoo among the recipients of its Five Years of Service Award at a recent employee luncheon.
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H&R Block announced the following appointments in Springfield:
• Patricia Hendrick Lopez has been named Office Coordinator at the 485 Sumner Ave. branch;
• Janet Carlyle and Frances Richardson have been named Office Coordinators for the Sears Eastfield Mall branch;
• Melba Ryan has been named Office Coordinator of the Five Town Plaza branch, 350 Cooley St.;
• Jennifer Lee has been named Office Coordinator of the Wal-Mart branch at 1105 Boston Road, and
• Jeannette Zurc has been named Office Coordinator for the Breckwood Plaza branch, 455 Breckwood Blvd.
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Attorney Michael Gove of Lyon & Fitzpatrick, LLP in Holyoke has been appointed to the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA) by Gov. Deval Patrick. The MWRA provides water and sewer services to 2.5 million people in 61 communities throughout the state. Locally, the MWRA provides water to Chicopee, Wilbraham, and parts of South Hadley from Quabbin Reservoir by way of the Chicopee Valley Aqueduct.
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The Dunbar Community Center Inc. in Springfield has appointed six new members to its Board of Directors. They are:
• Andre L. Mack, a Procurement Quality Assurance Representative for the NASA-John F. Kennedy Space Center;
• Shirley A. Simolari, Director of Creative Solutions for NUVO Bank & Trust Company, and owner of Cozumel by the Sea, a vacation rental property company in Cozumel, Mexico;
• Renee B. Wroth, Esq., a Director and Attorney at Health New England, Inc., who also serves as the Compliance and Privacy Officer;
• James R. Whitley, Assistant Dean/Campus Director at Springfield College, School of Human Services;
• Brendan A. Greeley, Commercial Real Estate Broker, R. J. Greeley Co., LLC, and
• Theresa Hopkins-Staten, Director of Transmission Project Community Relations, Connecticut Light and Power Company.
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John M. O’Heir has been promoted to a Senior Vice President in Commercial Real Estate at TD Banknorth in Springfield. He will continue to serve as a commercial real estate lender as well as a team leader responsible for managing a team of lenders serving customers throughout the region.
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Paul Nicolai |
A peer review survey of the nation’s top attorneys selected Attorney Paul Nicolai for inclusion in the 25th anniversary edition of The Best Lawyers in America for 2008. The international publication will cite him in the field of commercial litigation, one of only four Springfield attorneys in that category, and one of only 73 statewide. Nicolai founded Nicolai Law Group in Springfield in 1988 after serving as company counsel and assistant clerk for Friendly Ice Cream Corporation.
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Spalding has named David J. Coradini as Director of Diamond Sports. He will be responsible for all marketing-related and product-management activities as they pertain to Spalding’s baseball and Dudley softball business.
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Brian Sullivan, P.E. has been named President of Tetra Tech Rizzo in Framingham.
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Patrick Gregorius, owner of Bay State Nissan, recently received a 25-year award from Nissan Corp., honoring him as the longest-serving Nissan dealer in the region. He established the dealership in 1982.
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Dr. Antonio Valentin has joined the Arthritis Treatment Center in Springfield.
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Berkshire Life Insurance Company of America in Pittsfield announced the following:
• Edward K. Kimball has been elected Counsel and will provide case management of potential and existing litigation for Berkshire Life, as well as legal counsel to all departments of the company;
• Laura E. Hahn has joined the company as the newly elected Director of Core Segment Marketing & Marketing Services. Her responsibilities include identifying strategic product, program, and service opportunities for expanding penetration into Berkshire Life’s core customer market. She also manages the company’s in-house creative team;
• Lawrence S. Hazzard has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Product & Marketing. Hazzard provides strategic marketing direction for three product lines – Individual Disability Insurance, Multi-Life Disability Insurance, and Long Term Care Insurance. He also collaborates with the Individual Markets profit center of Berkshire Life’s parent company, Guardian, with an eye to sharing resources across the enterprise;
• Margaret H. Donavan has been promoted from Associate Actuary to Second Vice President and Actuary. Donavan oversees the pricing of all of Berkshire Life’s product lines, identifies risks and solutions that mitigate those risks in the product-development cycle, and manages the company’s Actuarial Development program. In her new role, she will also have responsibility for actuarial financial management, including cash-flow testing, economic-capital analysis and asset-liability management.
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UMass Amherst announced the following:
• David B. Kittredge, Jr., Professor of Natural Resources Conservation, has been elected a Society of American Foresters Fellow by the group’s New England section;
• J. Eliot B. Moss, Professor of Computer Sciences, has been named a ACM Fellow by the Association of Computing Machinery;
• The Secret Powers of Naming, a poetry collection by Sara Littlecrow-Russell, Director of the Center for Educational Policy Advocacy, has been named one of 10 winners of the annual Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards;
• Robert Hyers, Associate Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award by the Society of Automotive Engineers;
• Professor Aura Ganz of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has been named a Fellow of the IEEE, the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology, and
• Michael A. Knodler Jr., Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, was elected to the Board of the New England section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He will serve as the board’s vice president in 2008 and president in 2009.
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Tim Thompson of Infinity Real Estate Group Inc. in Holyoke was recently awarded the Certified Commercial Investment Member, one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate associations.
