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Corporate Achievers program. Wilson joined the
AIC board of trustees in 1991, while serving as presi- dent of Milton Bradley. A graduate of the Harvard Advanced Management Program, he was vice presi- dent of Parker Brothers before joining Milton Brad- ley as manager in the game division in 1980. He was later promoted to senior vice president of Sales by Hasbro Industries, the parent company, before being named president, a title he held until his retirement in 2005. In June 2021, following 30 years of service to the institution, Wilson retired from the AIC board of trustees.
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Bulkley Richardson announced that 16 lawyers
from the firm were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in 2023 edition of Best Lawyers in America. They include: Peter Barry (in the practice areas of construction, education, healthcare); Kath- leen Bernardo (real estate); Michael Burke (medical malpractice law: defendants, personal injury litiga- tion: defendants); Mark Cress (banking and finance, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law, corporate); Francis Dibble Jr. (bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, criminal defense: white-collar, litigation: labor and employment, litigation: securities); Daniel Finnegan (administrative/regulatory law, construction, litiga- tion: construction); Scott Foster (business organi- zations, including LLCs and partnerships); Mary Jo Kennedy (employment); Kevin Maynard (commer- cial litigation, litigation: banking and finance, litiga- tion: construction); David Parke (corporate, mergers and acquisitions); Jeffrey Poindexter (commercial litigation, litigation: construction); John Pucci (bet- the-company litigation, criminal defense: general practice, criminal defense: white-collar); Jeffrey Rob- erts (corporate, trusts and estates); Michael Roundy (commercial litigation); Elizabeth Sillin (nonprofit/ charities law, trusts and estates); and Ronald Weiss (corporate, mergers and acquisitions, tax).
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UMassFive College Federal Credit Union recently intro- duced Emi Lee as the new-
est member of its expanding UMassFive Retirement Plan- ning and Investments team available through CUSO Finan- cialServices,LP.Leesupports two of the credit union’s CFS
financial advisors, Aimee Marden and Dana Graham. She schedules appointments, sends appointment reminders, and helps with advisor administrative duties and service work. As an advisor assistant, she is also now the primary contact for current and pro- spective clients looking to work with Marden and Graham. After joining UMassFive as a part-time member service representative in November 2019, Lee quickly transitioned into a full-time position as
a member service specialist at the Hadley branch in March 2020. In that role, she excelled at educating members financially and connecting them to the financial services most relevant to their needs. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in anthro- pology from Smith College.
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Community Access to the Arts (CATA) announced
the appointment of Kelly Galvin as program director. She joins current CATA staff members Jeff Gagnon and Kara Smith, who have been promoted to the program director position, to create a new, three- person arts leadership team at the nonprofit, report- ing to Executive Director Margaret Keller. CATA stra- tegically restructured staff roles to develop a shared program leadership model, following the retirement of long-time staff member Dawn Lane, coupled
with vigorous growth in CATA’s arts programs serv-
ing people with disabilities. The three-person arts leadership team will work closely with Keller to seize opportunities and provide inclusive arts programs for people with disabilities across the Berkshires and Columbia County. Galvin joins CATA as an accom- plished director, producer, and teaching artist. She has been a company member with Shakespeare & Company since 2008 and served as the artistic asso- ciate at WAM Theatre. As a director and producer, she has led acclaimed productions at Shakespeare & Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, the Theater at Woodshill, and Gloucester Stage, and assisted at regional theatres including the Guthrie and Asolo Repertory Theatre. She is the founder of the rig, an organization in Western Massachusetts working to create connections through the arts and to redis- tribute cultural resources to a larger portion of the community.
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Freedom Credit Union recently
announced the promotion of Charlene Smolkowicz from commercial credit manager to assistant vice president. She has been with Freedom since 2016 and is based in the main office in Springfield. In her role, she manages the Commercial
Credit department, underwriting process, and ana- lyst team for commercial and industrial, commercial mortgage/commercial real estate, and nonprofit borrowers. She is also responsible for maintaining sound portfolio credit quality and monitoring risk. Smolkowicz earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration at Northeastern University in Bos- ton and a graduate certificate in nonprofit manage- ment at Bay Path University. She also completed the Massachusetts Bankers Assoc. Advanced School of Commercial Lending at Babson College. Active in the community, she serves as treasurer and chairs the finance committee for the board of directors for Via- bility Inc., and participates in both the WIT (Women Innovators & Trailblazers) Mentor Match Program and the Springfield School Volunteers Read-Aloud program. She was recognized by United Way of Pio- neer Valley as Volunteer of the Year in 2012.
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St. Louis Blues President of Hockey Operations and
General Manager Doug Armstrong announced that the club hired Jordan Smith as an assistant coach
for the Blues’ AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunder- birds. Smith spent the last five years in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) as an associate coach with
the Sudbury Wolves (2017-18) and Soo Greyhounds (2018-22). He was on the same coaching staff as cur- rent Thunderbirds Goalie Coach Dan Stewart with the Greyhounds from 2018 to 2020. Smith reached the postseason with Soo in 2019 and 2022. Smith is now the third member of the Thunderbirds’ coaching staff with ties to the Soo organization. Head coach Drew Bannister served in the same position for the Greyhounds from 2015 to 2018. A native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Smith began his coaching career in 2012-13 with the Thunder Bay North Stars of the Superior International Junior Hockey League before serving four seasons as a head coach with the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League (2013-17), where he won four division titles and compiled a 176-29-10-3 record. In his playing career, Smith was a second-round selection by the Anaheim Ducks in 2004 but was forced to retire from professional hockey due to injury after two AHL seasons with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and Port- land Pirates. He also skated for the Greyhounds from 2001 to 2005, putting up 68 points in 211 games in the OHL. In addition, the Springfield Thunderbirds announced two staff promotions and two new hires
ahead of the 2022-23 season. Matthew McRobbie has been promoted to director of Business Development. An original member of the Thunderbirds’ front office, this is McRobbie’s third promotion within the organi- zation. He served as a senior account executive from 2016 to 2021 before taking on the role of manager of Ticket Sales last season, where he oversaw the Thun- derbirds’ team-record year in tickets sold and ticket revenue. In his new role, McRobbie, an alumnus of Springfield College, will be focused on working with local and national brands in the Thunderbirds’ Cor- porate Sales department. Additionally, John Jones, Jr. has been promoted to senior account executive. An alumnus of Florida State University, Jones has been
a member of the Thunderbirds’ Ticket Sales depart- ment since the 2018-19 season. The Thunderbirds have also announced the hires of Nate Lynch and Alana Mather as account executives in ticket sales. Lynch joins the Thunderbirds full-time after serving as an intern in the team’s Ticket Sales department. He graduated from Eastern Connecticut State Uni- versity in 2021. Mather joins the Thunderbirds after serving as an intern with the team for two seasons while a student at Western New England University.
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United Way of Pioneer Val- ley (UWPV ) announced two new appointments within the company. Longtime employee Megan Moynihan has been promoted to serve as UWPV’s chief operating officer. In this role, she will oversee all daily operations and fundrais-
ing. She previously held the positions of senior director
of Finance and manager of Finance & Operations, and she has been in UWPV’s Finance department since 2012. Moyni- han holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and administration from Salve Regina University and is a graduate of the Spring-
field Leadership Institute program. Sydney Brady joined UWPV in June as the call-center supervisor for the Call2Talk Center in Springfield. Call2Talk is United Way’s emotional-support and suicide-preven- tion hotline. Brady holds a bachelor’s degree from Lasell University and previously served as a Call2Talk intern. She is currently earning her master’s degree in Social Work at Springfield College.
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Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C., a labor and employ-
ment law firm serving employers in the Greater Springfield and Worcester areas, announced that one of its partners, Timothy Murphy, has been rec- ognized by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for 2023. He is listed in three fields: employ- ment law: management, labor law: management, and litigation: labor and employment. Focusing his practice on labor relations, union avoidance, collec- tive bargaining and arbitration, employment litiga- tion, and employment counseling, Murphy has been included in Best Lawyers in America every year since 2013, and was Lawyer of the Year in 2015, 2018, 2020, and 2022. Murphy is very active within the local community, sitting on boards of directors for sev- eral area organizations, such as the Human Service Forum and Community Legal Aid. He also is a mem- ber of the World Affairs Council.
  CHARLENE SMOLKOWICZ
  MEGAN MOYNIHAN
  SYDNEY BRADY
  EMI LEE
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