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Greenfield Savings Bank (GSB) recently announced six employee appointments and promotions.
• Jocelyn Alvord was promoted to manager at the Shelburne Falls branch office. She will be responsible for overseeing the operations of the branch. She has been with GSB since 2015, starting as a teller and then quickly moving up to super banker in the new GSB office in Hadley. She was promoted
to assistant manager in the Hadley branch before moving back to Shelburne Falls, where she has been
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rent role. Bryant joined Baystate Health in 2015 as president of Baystate Noble Hospital. Previously, he was executive vice president and CEO for the Noble Hospital Health System. In 2018, he was promoted
to president of both Baystate Noble Hospital and Baystate Franklin Medical Center. He brings a wealth of leadership experience and a passion for positive change within the Western Mass. healthcare commu- nity. During his time as president of Baystate Noble Hospital in Westfield and Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, he successfully developed the strategic and operational plans for the two hospitals, comprised of 200 combined beds and nearly 1,800 team members. He will now oversee three hospitals with nearly 300 combined beds and more than 2,300 Baystate team members.
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Holyoke Community College (HCC) President Christina Royal will retire from the col- lege after the 2022-23 aca- demic year, she announced today. Her last day will be July 14, 2023. Royal, 50, said she is not leaving HCC for another job and has no specific plans. Royal started at HCC in Janu-
ary 2017. She is the fourth president in the 75-year history of HCC and not only the first woman to hold the position, but the first openly gay and first bi- racial person to serve HCC as president. Presidential search plans will begin immediately. Before coming to HCC, Royal served as provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Prior to that, she was associate vice president for E-learning and Innova- tion at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland and director of technology-assisted learning for the School of Graduate and Continuing Education at Marist College. She holds a PhD in education from Capella University and a master’s degree in educa- tional psychology and a bachelor’s degree in math from Marist. In her announcement, Royal cited some of the milestones of her tenure: working collabora- tively to develop HCC’s first strategic plan, advanc- ing equity across the institution, and investing in programs to support students’ basic needs, such as creating the President’s Student Emergency Fund (to provide grants to student facing immediate financial needs), opening Homestead Market (the first cam- pus store in Massachusetts to accept SNAP benefits), partnering with Holyoke Housing Authority (to help students find affordable housing), and launching
the Itsy Bitsy Child Watch Program (to provide HCC student-parents access to free, short-term care for their children). Other highlights include opening the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute on Race Street; reopening the HCC Campus Center after a two-year, $43.5 million renovation; establishing El Centro, a bilingual center dedicated to the needs of Latinx stu- dents; weathering a global pandemic; and celebrat- ing HCC’s 75th anniversary as the oldest two-year college in Massachusetts.
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With 22 years of experience as a certified safety
professional (CSP), Scott Smith has joined Tighe
& Bond as director of Safety and Health. Smith has worked on a global scale facilitating hazard analy- sis, reducing costs, risks, and recordable injuries for companies across North America, Canada, and Asia. As director of Health and Safety for Tighe & Bond, Smith will develop and maintain programs, procedures, policies, and training to mitigate safety and health hazards and risks to personnel. He will work closely with the firm’s safety steering commit- tee and lead a team of safety representatives across Tighe & Bond’s business lines and 12 offices. Smith
serving as assistant branch manager. Alvord actively participates in civic and charitable events such as Moonlight Magic and the Bridge of Flowers Road Races in Shelburne Falls and Monte’s March for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. She has vol- unteered at the Shelburne Falls Visitor Center and helped coordinate the Giving Tree Program with the Mary Lyons Foundation to provide holiday gifts to local educators.
• Sherie Lewis has been named vice president and Operations officer. In her new role, she oversees the Deposit and Loan Operations teams including deposit processing, opera- tions administration and qual- ity control, digital, and loan operations. She is leading a variety of projects to enhance
the bank’s use of technology, improve automation, and increase efficiency. In addition, she works closely with other departments of the bank to ensure seam- less operation and regulatory compliance. She joined GSB with more than 20 years of banking experience.
• Lisa McKenna has been pro- moted to assistant vice presi- dent and Conway branch man- ager. She has worked at GSB for more than 30 years, starting as a teller in 1988 at the main office in Greenfield. She then worked in GSB’s Customer Ser- vice department and was pre- viously manager of Greenfield
and South Deerfield. She was most recently assistant vice president and the branch manager for South Deerfield and Conway before shifting exclusively to Conway’s branch manager. McKenna is very active in the local community, volunteering for the Frank- lin County chapter of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, the Greenfield Kiwanis Club, and the South Deerfield Women’s Club.
• Josh Mozeleski has been named investment officer and Infinex investment executive. In his role as Infinex invest- ment executive, he will be able to offer access to insur- ance and investment products through Infinex Investments. He joins GSB as a securities registered investment execu-
tive with more than nine years in the banking indus- try. He obtained a Massachusetts individual pro- ducer license as well as both the FINRA Series 6 and Series 63 registrations, plus a Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry license. He is also a
a commissioner of Greenfield’s Human Rights Commission, a member of the Greenfield Cul- tural Council, and CEO of her nonprofit, UACSAM. She also produces the “Moving Mountains Media” program on Greenfield Community Television. She most recently organized Greenfield’s first annual Juneteenth cultural and youth event celebration.
• Finally, Kimberly Zabek has been promoted to Greenfield Savings Bank’s South Deerfield branch manager and officer.
In that role, she oversees the branch’s daily responsibili- ties, focusing on local business development. She has been in banking for more than 25 years and with Greenfield Savings
Bank for more than 10 years, most recently serving as the assistant branch manager in Hadley. In addition to her managerial role, Zabek has been featured in many of the bank’s advertisements, including voicing certain radio spots, in GSB Teller Connect/ATMs and e-statement promotional videos, and on the Teller Connect/ATM welcome screens. Recently, she voiced animated videos for a GSB career fair. She also repre- sents the bank at community events around the Pio- neer Valley, such as the Northampton and Greenfield Pride events, the Hot Chocolate Run in Northamp- ton, and Moonlight Magic in Shelburne Falls.
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Molly Gray, president and chief administrative
officer of the Baystate Health Eastern Region, has announced her retirement, effective Oct. 9. Ronald Bryant, president of Baystate Noble Hospital and Baystate Franklin Medical Center – Northern Region, will extend his role to become president of Baystate Health Regional Hospitals, which also includes Bay- state Wing Hospital in Palmer, which Gray currently serves as president and chief administrative officer of the Baystate Health Eastern Region. Gray has served Baystate Health and the community for 34 years.
She has held seven roles with progressive responsi- bility, culminating in her role as president and chief administrative officer for the Baystate Health East- ern Region, including Baystate Wing Hospital and Baystate Mary Lane Outpatient Center. She joined Baystate Health in 1988 as a professional nurse and transitioned to a managerial role as a level IV nurse manager, a unit manager, and then Women and Infants’ manager. An advocate for children’s health issues, Gray assumed the role of director of Women’s Services and Baystate Children’s Hospital in 2003. In 2013, she was promoted to vice president of Baystate Health Children’s Hospital, Women’s Services, Behav- ioral Health, Observation and Emergency Services. In 2016, she assumed the role of vice president and chief Nursing officer for the Baystate Health East- ern Region and was promoted in 2019 to her cur-
Massachusetts notary public. An active volunteer in the community, he has previously helped organize a food drive at Open Pantry Community Services in Springfield. Most recently, he helped run his local
Toys for Tots program.
• Vyeluv “Mpress” Nembhard
joined Greenfield Savings Bank (GSB) in May as a CRA ana- lyst and Community Outreach officer. She assists the vice president of Compliance/CRA officer in creating and updat- ing financial aid outreach pre- sentations to a wide range of
community partners, businesses, schools, and customers, focusing on low- to moder- ate-income applicants and minority/wom- en-owned businesses. Nembhard is active in the local community, including being
JOCELYN ALVORD
VYELUV NEMBHARD
CHRISTINA ROYAL
KIMBERLY ZABEK
SHERIE LEWIS
LISA MCKENNA
JOSHN MOZELESKI
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