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Ipswich: A storied past From the and a modern vitality publisher The Rev. Joel Anderle

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Mary Kerry Mackin Kyriakos Eric Easley Ipswich River Watershed Sarris Association, Ipswich 62 property manager, Citizens North Shore Workforce Andrinopoulos We asked and you responded. Fried clams, Crane Beach, Choate of the oldest standing structures in Board 62 for Adequate Housing 59 Investment New Brothers Restaurant Tom Marden Nominations poured into the news- Bridge. & Deli, Danvers 44 the images that Those were America. In the charming downtown Trevor Eaton Danvers youth sports 20 Thad room — by let- came to Middle School you’ll find hearty clam chowder mind when I used toHiggins think at Stone John Archer Siemasko Wayne Marquis teacher 36 Archer Insurance 20 Siemasko & Verbridge ter, by e-mail, by about the town of Ipswich. Town Manager Soup,Danvers whimsical folk51art at architechture River Gal-firm 60 Fine lery, hand-designed pottery at Mimi. Roger Baker telephone — tell- After having the privilege Stephen of publishJim McAllister Melanoma Education Rehab Five 64 Chris Silva Salem historian 23 ing us about your ing this commemorative magazine, Foundation, Peabody 57 Front or Street Coffeehouse 62 Whether a longtime resident curiEmily Boulger Jerry McCarthy friends, family andhowever, I now knowat there’sAlyce muchFleming more ous tourist, take time this year to explore Transitions Program Glen St. Cyr North Shore ARC 57 Volunteer, North Shore Danvers High School 62 Danvers Butchery 42 co-workers who than meets the eye to “America’s the storied past and continued vitality of MedicalColoCenter 59 Stephanie Robert Diane most are making a dif- nial Town.” Ipswich, one of the North Shore’s McGeney Jim George Bradford Stringer We Are America ference here on Operation Here you’llNorth find Margaret’s home-troop support 61 unique and historic communities. president, Hospice of the North Shore 16 Productions 57 Chamber of blueberryJack the North Shore. made Shore Good granola and pancakes Congratulations to all in town for Helena Commerce 58 Maureen Beverly National Bank 63 Sturnick The stories were soat the Ipswich Inn, Foote Brothers’ celebrating your 375th anniversary. McKinnonJane Bright Montserrat College of Art 31 Paul GormaN FromTucker inspirational and important to tell. rambling canoe your friends at The Salem News, HealthLink 43 rides along the LeggsIpswich Hill YMCA 59 Paralympic sailor 40 Christine We at The Salem News are thrilled to River,Bob antique treasures at the majestic we wish all of Ipswich much peace and Broudo Sullivan Tom Gould Patricia Landmark School president share with you our debut edition of NorthTurner Hill. Enterprise Center at Salem Treadwell’s Ice Cream 50 prosperity during this milestone year, and headmaster 58 Meservey State college 11 Shore 100, which we plan to publish 53 to come. What does meet the eye, meanwhile, isII 2009,Salem andState in College all years John Hall Matt Buchanan Christopher Five Bank 43 annually each spring. nothing short of 57 spectacular.Salem Fifty-nine Best wishes, Bridge Academy Susan Mickey Swain Salem High School teacher 49 Annie Harris These are the stories of our top leaders First Period ToxTour 20 grace Ipswich, more Waynehomes Burton executive director, Northother Shore Community David Mitchell and innovators who all share this impor- than any town in the country. The Essex National Heritage Dr. Hugh College 21 Masconomet history Taylor tant trait: They love the North Shore andWhipple House, open to theCommission public,63is teacher 35 Family Medicine VeAnn Campbell Kiana Hawley KAREN ANDREAS work hard, day after day, to make our Publisher Associates 20 quintessential New England and one St. Joseph’s Food Pantry 39 fundraiser in PMC Kids Ride 52 Dan Monroe Peabody Essex Museum 26 communities a better place. Al Temkin George Carey Alan Hawryluk Temkin Financial Group 21 Owner of Finz 60 Carole Moran Congratulations, North Shore 100, and Salem Philharmonic 48 Moran Studios 57 Bill Tinti R. Judson sincere thanks for your leadership, creJeanne Tinti, Quinn, Grover & Frey 64 Gerard Carlberg Hennessey ativity and commitment to our wonderful College 63 Moynihan ABOUT president, THE Gordon COVER ILLUSTRATION LORRAINE ROY DESIGNER Ron Urnetta Moynihan Lumber 18 North Shore. COLLECTION & BRIDAL Turner Hill 55 Margo Casey BOUTIQUE 60 North Shore Julie Murphy Sincerely, Paul Van Ness United Way 62 Beverly Bootstraps 56 Peter Hersee CinemaSalem 34 beverly rotary club 36 Tim Collins Stephen Neff Candace EBSCO Publishing 12 Jewish Rehabilitation Dr. Carl Waldron Center 59 Karen Andreas executive director, Johnson Stephen J. HAWC 57 Ledgewood Rehabilitation Robert Norton West Newbury artist Alan Pearsall won Connolly IV and Skilled Nursing Center 57 North Shore Medical Connolly Brothers 45 Gin Wallace the contest to design a logo for Ipswich’s Sister Julie Kane Center 6 executive director, Brian Cranney 375th Anniversary. It depicts the Choate Beverly Main Streets 61 Notre Dame Beth O’Grady Cranney Companies 23 Publisher de Namur 19 boys & girls club of greater Bridge, the town’s most iconic symbol. Amy Watkins Karen Andreas Jim Crosby salem, o’grady scholarship Lyn Kaplan weight-loss blogger 20 Anyone who has ever tasted one of MerCrosby’s foundation 30 North Shore Technology Marketplace 54 Sonia Weitz editor cury Brewing’s products, be it ale or soft Council 33 Andrew Oliver Holocaust Center, Andrew board president, David Olson drink, is familiar with Pearsall’s work. For Boston North 8 Don Kelley Salem Mission 62 DeFranza Wayside Trailers 63 the past 10 years, Pearsall hasE done all the Harborlight Community Mark Associate ditor Ron Parsons Partners of Beverly 10 Brian Kelly Whitmore graphics for the company. Danvers High School band Ben Adelman Kelly Automotive 37 executive director of North director 61 Kelly Delaney In 2005, he was commissioned to create Shore Career Centers 61 Cakes for Occasions, Design Director Marjorie Bill Power a mural for the back wall of one of EBSCO Danvers 48 Marvin Kittredge Dan Ryan chairman of the Peabody founder of Windrush Farm Publishing’s old mill buildings, portraying Wilson Historical Commission 63 Dee Dennis Therapeutic Equitation 63 Gordon College 38 Photo Editor Peabody Animal the history of Ipswich from its founding to Don Preston Life Savers 32 Matthew Viglianti Dean Lahikainen Rich Wilson Habitat for Humanity the present day. The mural is prominently Peabody Essex Museum 62 around-the-world sailor 64 of the North Shore 63 Fran Dichner Sales Director located along the Riverwalk, a pedestrian R&L Associates 14 Todd Lampert Richard Wylie Patricia Purdy Bob MacDonald Todd’s Sporting path that may eventually extend from the Endicott College 55 Brandi Dion owner, Banbury Cross Goods 33 Children’s Bookshop 58 B&S Fitness 46 downtown to Crane Beach. Alan M. 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robert norton

President & CEO, North Shore Medical Center

A ‘transforming influence’ on health care By Paul Leighton Taking the same approach as the doctors 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 organization was losing almost $11 million per year. Low reimbursements from the government for the cost of BIO caring for uninAge: 58 sured patients Job: CEO of North Shore were killing the Medical Center, which bottom line, and includes Salem Hospital, o f f i c i a l s we re Union Hospital in Lynn, North considering closShore Children’s Hospital in ing Union HospiSalem, NSMC Heart Center in tal in Lynn. Salem, NSMC Cancer Center Today, NSMC in Peabody and NSMC Womis coming off a en’s Center in Danvers. year in which it Family: Wife Dianne Savasturned a $26 miltano, two children and three lion profit and grandchildren is about to open Town: Manchester-bya sparkling new the-Sea $100 million outAchievements: Put North patient center in Shore Medical Center in the Danvers. black, opened a heart center, “Bob has done expanded the cancer center a remarkable and grew the emergency job,” said Richard departments at Salem and Bane, a memUnion hospitals; improved ber of the North quality of care Shore Medical Center’s board of trustees. “He has been a transforming influence 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. 6

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Robert Norton made North Shore Medical Center profitable. Portrait by Matthew Viglianti

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 business 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 electronic system that can be accessed by all of its hospitals and doctors. As a member of Partners, New England’s largest healthcare 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 bar Under Norton, North Shore Medical 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 favorably” with its fellow Partners hospitals, which include Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Five years ago, North Shore Medical Center opened its Heart Center in collaboration 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 impressive 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

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 2008 Operating revenue $315 million $444 million Profit/loss $11 million $26 million loss profit Employees 2,639 2,923 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 without 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 Women’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 building, 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 traveling 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 communities and produce more revenue. Norton 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 orchestra conductor for a group of people who are smart, talented, committed, dedicated,” he said. “What more rewarding job is there than that?”  North Shore 100

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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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sonia weitz

education director, Holocaust Center, boston north, peabody

Sharing Holocaust lessons is a job never finished By Alan Burke 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 liberated 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 estimated 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 singular individual, and at 80 she is still fighting 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.” 8

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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,” marvels 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 Promised I Would Tell.” In it, she recalls the temporary 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 footsteps,” 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 important. 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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Andrew DeFranza executive director, Harborlight Community Partners of Beverly

Helping comes from the heart By Paul Leighton 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 Atlantic 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 Partners, an affordable-housing agency affiliated with First Baptist Church in Beverly. The organization operates 177 subsidized 10

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apartments for low-income seniors at Turtle Creek and Turtle Woods, as well as 35 assisted-living units at the Harborlight House in downtown Beverly. It also provides homemaking and personal-care services 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 margins. 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 Harborlight Community Partners board of directors, said DeFranza has had a “strong hand” in reshaping the nonprofit organization since he became executive director in October 2007. Harborlight has increased productivity and efficiency by consolidating from six separate corporations to three under DeFranza’s leadership, Douglas said. “I have the highest regard for him,” Douglas said. “I find him extremely capable with the ability to provide very effective leadership. He’s a passionate guy. He walks the walk, he talks the talk.” 

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Christine Sullivan

executive director, Enterprise Center at Salem State college

Giving small businesses a boost When Christine Sullivan left the marketing company she ran for 16 years, the entrepreneur and former cabinet secretary under former Gov. Michael Dukakis realized 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 combination 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 Sylvania light bulb factory, has 46 small businesses 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 capitalists, 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 Enterprise 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 business owners a year by offering them programs 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 Congressman Michael Harrington. She settled

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Christine Sullivan, right, speaks with Cathy Julien, operations manager at the Enterprise Center.

in Salem after graduating from the Kennedy 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 tourism magazine called Best of Salem. She became chairwoman of the communications 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.”  North Shore 100

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Tim Collins

president 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 cofounded 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 visited 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, Collins 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 volunteer 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 12

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Tim Collins, EBSCO Publishing CEO, talks with staff members in his office.

enumerating EBSCO’s positive contributions 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 Collins 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 locations, green and white decals urge employees and visitors to be thoughtful. “Green Zone: Conser ve Natural Resources,” they advise. “That emphasis has become part of the culture” at EBSCO, Collins said. 

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Fran Dichner R&L Associates, Beverly

Using her success to mentor other women in business By Cate Lecuyer From an orphan in Greece to the CEO of a multimillion-dollar recruiting company 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 Bio by a Greek-AmerAge: 54 ican family from Town: Middleton Lynn when she Family: Husband and was 4. When she business partner Al Dichner was 10, her adopBusinesses: R&L Associtive father died. ates and Aries Group Inc. “I started to Achievements: President flounder,” Dichner and CEO of one of the top said. recruiting firms in MasThat’s when she sachusetts; a female leader joined Girls Inc., a who’s an inspiration and national nonprofit mentor to many young that inspires girls girls, helping to shape to be strong, smart their personal and and bold. She’s professional lives 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 Women’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 14

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Fran Dichner, president of R&L Associates and the Aries Group in Beverly. Portrait by Matthew Viglianti

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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, especially 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 permanent 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 Commerce, sent both his daughters to her when they graduated from college. “She is probably one of the greatest networkers 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 heart For 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 company 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

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.

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. 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 Beverly, 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 planning to expand into a national and worldwide 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.”  North Shore 100

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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 Stringer

president and CEO, Hospice of the North Shore, danvers

Changing end-of-life care By Amanda McGregor 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 Medicarecertified, which she did. Twenty years later, she is still president of Hospice — an organization that has grown to more than 200 employees and 255 volunteers, and all the while revolutionizing the way many people die on the North Shore. “She has been the backbone of this organization,” said Gail Thompson, who retired from the HNS development office last year. Thompson started as a volunteer in 1980. 16

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“Diane is the most brilliant person I’ve ever known,” Thompson said, “and she’s a really good businesswoman because Hospice 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 notfor-profit organization provides specialized 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 controlling people’s symptoms and managing pain.” As Hospice of the North Shore grew, it opened the Center for Grief and Healing, which served 1,705 people last year. A

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 families. Together, he said, they have worked to create one of the largest hospice organizations 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. Currently, it serves more than 2,500 people annually. Thompson was one of those three original 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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Staying connected with student-athlete award program By Mike Grenier Gerard Moynihan has a restless spirit. The owner of Moynihan Lumber in Beverly, 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 brothers, Jack and Michael. “My thought was to 18

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(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 HamiltonWenham Regional, won the student-athlete 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 cancer in 2005, Moynihan, a father of three and a bladder cancer survivor himself, established the Sandra Fund at Tufts Medical Center in Boston to help patients, nurses, technicians or “anyone who has a recognizable need,” as he put it. Still, the Moynihan Student-Athlete Award remains one of his favorite projects. He recalls talking to two-time winner Shalane Flanagan of Marblehead and asking 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 scholarship program made her feel connected to a North Shore sports tradition. “It’s good to know that people are rooting for us,” she said. 

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Sister Julie Kane Notre 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 shutins 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 Beverly 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 Japanese 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 poverty, they’ve met with Iraqi children being treated in Boston for horrific burns, as well as the director of the local homeless shelter. 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 connection to the community. Some of the people she visits in the nursing homes were friends of her parents.

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Sister Julie Kane gives Communion to residents at The Landmark at Oceanview.

“I consider it an honor to bring Communion 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, unassuming way.”  North Shore 100

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north shore 100 profiles patricia zaido

tom marden

Salem Partnership

Youth sports coach

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 professionally, 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 advancing 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 economic 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 parking 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.”

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 beaming because he’s done something well, you know you’re doing something right.”

— Nelson Benton

amy watkins

Weight-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 bathing 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 

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john archer ‘professional volunteer’

Whether he is rallying the troops to dive into the icy ocean for a charity polar plunge or lobbying 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 nonprofits 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 Horticultural 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

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visits all his patients in hospital Dr. 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 Manchester-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 something 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 important for the patients so they have not lost that continuity with me.” Because of his “commitment to patients” and “outstanding 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 longdistance 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

north shore 100 profiles al temkin

temkin financial group Al Temkin was sitting at home one night reading the newspaper when he spotted a story about a family that had lost its home when a chemical factory exploded in Danvers. The family, 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 contribute 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 challenges to face than we have had.” — Paul Leighton

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president, north shore community college Wayne 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 country’s first African-American president 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 determined 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, promoting 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 institution that he believes would greatly enhance career opportunities for the region’s students. Speaking at the Danvers Committee on Diversity’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 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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director, NorthShore Recovery High School, Beverly

A leader and a friend By Jonathan Phelps It only takes one walk down the hallway at Northshore Recovery High School alongside 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 interacting 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 typical relationship between a principal and their students.” Recovery High School, a state-subsidized school that is run by the Northshore Education Consortium, is designed to help students 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 22

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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 everyone’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 sobriety meetings and can express themselves through art and music. After-school programs 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 teenagers 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,” Lipinski 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 volunteers 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’ transformation,” Lipinski said. “It is great to see them come in as one person and leave as another.” 

north shore 100 profiles brian cranney

jim mcallister

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 Commerce, 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 supports 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.

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 personalities 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 usually 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 Commission’s first Heritage Hero.  — Nelson Benton

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red cross disaster response coordinator There’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 dedicated 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 looking 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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Dan Monroe

Executive director and CEO, Peabody Essex Museum, salem

The hand that guides the PEM By Tom Dalton It’s hard to remember what life was like before all the developers came to Salem, before the restaurant boom, before the condominium explosion, before the Peabody Essex Museum expansion. Before Dan Monroe. Monroe, the museum’s executive director for the past 15 years, came here from Portland, 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 BIO Institute and The Age: 65 Peabody Museum. Town: Essex It wasn’t all smooth Family: Married to sailing. Catherine Wygant; There were some father of Tyson, 35, scares along the way, and Robert, 33; grand- like the talk of moving father of five the museum to BosBusiness: Executon. And there were tive director and some rough patches, CEO, Peabody Essex like the political fight Museum over taking a city Achievement: Overstreet. But when the saw museum’s $190 battles were over and million expansion the museum marched forward with a $190 million capital campaign 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 Commonwealth Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for its role as a creative economy catalyst. 26

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PEM executive director and CEO Dan Monroe stands in the foyer of the museum. Portrait by Ken Yuszkus

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 village in China and put back together on the museum grounds, stick by stick, by Chinese 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 ability. 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 museum’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 Patricia 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

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.

2003: Moshe Safdie, architect of the new Peabody Essex Museum, addresses the crowd during the museum’s opening ceremony.

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 others 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 experience that “significantly impacts people’s lives.” That lofty language may have been realized 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 instruments. That photo may say it all. “It was a transformative experience for a lot of people,” Monroe said.  North Shore 100

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Beth O’Grady

Boys & 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 comfortable in the spotlight and yet stepped forward 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 figured 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 Stephen 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 equivalent 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 30

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Beth O’Grady races Victor Acosta, 10, of Salem at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem.

dedication is so heartfelt, and deep, and true and unselfish and driven by this wonderful 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 classified advertising manager. It reads: “Salem is lucky to have a good citizen like you.” Even today, O’Grady tears up when talking 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. 

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Helena Sturnick

president, Montserrat College, Beverly

Rescued Montserrat College of Art By Cate Lecuyer Helena Sturnick turned Montserrat into a nationally known art school with a new, $8 million dormitory complex in downtown Beverly.

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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 downtown Beverly as it grows. Enrollment is steadily rising, students and staff are becoming more involved in the downtown, and construction is underway 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 Beverly 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 addition 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 Montpelier 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 relationships between Montserrat faculty and staff and community leaders. For instance, Jo Broderick, dean of college relations and special assistant to the president, is heavily involved with Beverly Main Streets, the city’s downtown businesses organization. Executive Director Gin Wallace said Broderick and the college have been a great resource, especially when it comes to promoting 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 participates 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.  North Shore 100

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north shore 100 profiles Mike Rockett Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites

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 scoreboards 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 Dennis Peabody Animal Life Savers

Dee Dennis is something like a real-life superhero, seemingly 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 animals on the North Shore,” says Judy Gianareles, the media

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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.

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 better 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.

north shore 100 profiles “Dee, I’m sure, has made a huge difference with the animals 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 Bootstraps food pantry and the River House homeless shelter.

Lyn Kaplan

North Shore Technology Council, Beverly Lyn Kaplan is president of the Technology Council, a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of the North Shore’s growing technology industries. During her presidency, 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 Lampert

Todd’s Sporting Goods, Beverly Todd Lampert has been involved in the family business of selling sporting goods for all of his adult life. A Beverly resident, 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 thousands 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.

Andrew Rodgers of Green Meadows Farm brings in the harvest.

Andrew Rodgers Green MeadowS Farm, Hamilton

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 residents the chance to buy shares of the crops, making them eligible for a regular supply of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers 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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Paul Van Ness hosts the Salem Film Fest and a number of other community events at CinemaSalem.

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Paul Van Ness CinemaSalem, Salem

Real community theater By Tom Dalton It is probably too soon to call CinemaSalem a success. It has been around less than three years and doesn’t draw big crowds like the megaplexes. 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 communityfriendly.” As soon as it opened, CinemaSalem started donating $1,000 a month to charities. It was part of the business plan. In January, Van Ness invited the public in for free to witness a historic event: the swearing-in of Barack Obama. Even the owner was surprised by the hundreds who came. 34

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CinemaSalem, for the record, is a forprofit theater showing first-run movies. But it seems to have caught the community 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 documentaries on one of the deadest weekends of the winter. A dozen directors talked with festival audiences inside the theater and at downtown cafés into the wee hours. “What he is trying to do with something that is one of the loves of his life is create 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 production 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 documentary 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 community center, a place that will make a difference 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.” 

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David Mitchell

Masconomet history teacher, Tri-Town

Masco’s Mitchell makes history There was no Twittering in the Federalist Era, no video games, no flashing electronics, 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 presidents, 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 Principal Don Doliber, meaning the actual documents and objects of the past. “That puts meat on the bones. Helps the kids understand 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 biographies. “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 historical 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.

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David Mitchell, teacher at Masconomet Regional High School, and history teacher of the year.

“I was stunned,” he says. “There are so many gifted teachers just in this building.” 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 WhitmanHanson 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.  North Shore 100

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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 telling 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 director 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 getting 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 gentleman who said banks have to give back to the community,” 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 Kelly

Kelly 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 wellknown business. In 1968, the company expanded to offer the Datsun (now Nissan) 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 consortium 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 automobile 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 baseball and Pee Wee football. He graduated from the Beverly Trade School in 1970 after studying automotive maintenance and service 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

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Brian Kelly took over his father’s car business and transformed it into the six-dealership Kelly Automotive Group, which employs about 350 people.

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 community,” said Beth Francis, the organization’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 opportunities to advance. “I believe in taking care of my employees, and they will take care of the customers,” 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 general manager at Kelly Infiniti in Danvers. “I try to give my customers their money’s worth,” Kelly said. “My name is on the building, and I am here every day working.”  North Shore 100

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Gordon College professor Marvin Wilson speaks with junior Elizabeth Fisher, a teacher’s assistant.

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Marvin Wilson

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Bringing religions together an act of faith By Steve Landwehr When Marvin Wilson first began teaching, he was frustrated at the dearth of knowledge of their Jewish roots his Christian students and fellow instructors had. “So few Christians seemed to have a genuine appreciation for or understanding of the Jewish people who bequeathed to them, in many ways, their faith,” Wilson said. Over the past 52 years, the Gordon College professor has authored or coauthored five books examining the ties between the two faiths, along with more than 200 scholarly 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, 38

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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-building 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 printing. 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 College 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 history 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 “profound 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.” 

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VeAnn Campbell

volunteer 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 watchful 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 husband 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 transform the filthy, rundown basement of the former St. Joseph Church into the pantry’s headquarters. A carpenter offered to volunteer 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 difficult 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.

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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 fulltime endeavor, she doesn’t take a salary. “To use everything for the people,” Campbell 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 Boston 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 incredible selflessness. She does not do it for the attention or glory or anything but out of her love and her will that this will succeed.”  North Shore 100

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Maureen McKinnon-Tucker

paralympic sailor, advocate for disabled, Marblehead

Inspiring and empowering people with disabilities By Susan Flynn 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. bio Age: 44 “My belief Town: Marblehead is that sailing Family: Husband, Dan, i s a u n i q u e ly and two children, Dana, 9, empowering and Trent, 3 sport for people Achievements: Advocate with disabilifor the disabled, 2008 ties,” says McKParalympic gold medal innon-Tucker, winner in sailing, founder a Ma rb l e h e a d of Sail, Challenge, resident. “SailInspire ing has been very important in my life and can be a real stepping stone to bigger and greater things.” In September, McKinnon-Tucker and her sailing partner, Nick Scandone, won a gold medal competing in the Paralympics in Beijing. She was the first woman to medal in the 12-year history of the Paralympic Games. Now the 44-year-old mother of two plans to parlay her Olympic success into a new venture — the launch of sailing programs for the disabled up and down the East Coast. She has created a nonprofit — Sail, Challenge, Inspire — and has scheduled 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 nonprofit working to introduce kids and 40

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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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adults to the sport. Sail Salem board member David Smith says he is lucky to have a gold medal winner 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 Commission, provides counseling to new patients with spinal cord injuries, and has been an outspoken advocate for stem cell research. Sharing her passion Since the Olympic win, McKinnonTucker 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 service 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 Olympic 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,” McKinnon-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 fulfilling his dream. He turned a death sentence into an opportunity.” As for the Paralympic Games in London in 2012, McKinnon-Tucker is still

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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.

weighing her options, still looking for the right team. Jack Harris, co-chairman of the Salem Commission on Disabilities, met McKinnon-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 afternoons at the new Leggs Hill YMCA on the Marblehead-Salem line. “Sailing is certainly a sport a lot of disabled 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,” Harris says. “She has the heart and soul of a person who knows life moves forward.”  North Shore 100

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runs hawthorne hotel It’s hard to imagine anyone with more energy than Juli Lederhaus, the general manager of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem. As if running an 89-room historic hotel isn’t enough, Lederhaus 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 Oosthoek, 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 association,” she said. “It was ‘Katie, bar the door!’ after that because I actually enjoyed it.” — Tom Dalton

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Watching 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 owners abandoned it. St. Cyr had been studying marketing 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

north shore 100 profiles John Hall II

Salem Five bank 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

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The 1997 study did more than highlight elevated cancer rates in Marblehead. It energized Jane Bright. She joined with concerned neighbors 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 organization 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 — Matthew K. Roy right direction.”

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Kyriakos Andrinopoulos

co-owner, new Brothers Restaurant & deli, Danvers

A shop where everybody knows you By Ethan Forman Kyriakos Andrinopoulos could have wound up a retired factory worker instead of the co-owner of New Brothers Restaurant & Deli in Danvers Square, where he feeds hungry regulars and celebrity diners 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 Andrinopoulos’ 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 Brothers North Restaurant in Hampton, N.H., while Andrinopoulos works seven days a 44

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week at the Danvers location, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. Some credit New Brothers for bringing 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 chiefgreeter 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 customers, 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 fulltime 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, Patricia, 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 constantly,” said Elias Andrinopoulos, 36, who has worked for his dad since he was 13. Pictures on the wall show the brothersin-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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Stephen J. Connolly IV Connolly 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 brothers, 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 typically 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 justified 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 accommodate 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 contains 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

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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. space-rich here on the North Shore.” The building will benefit a region Connolly 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 generations of Connollys, including Stephen’s

father, on Jay’s first day of work. Though it is a source of pride for Connolly, the company’s history does not guarantee 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 companies 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 construction volume is repeat business. “We work very hard to make sure we’re invited back to do the next job that somebody’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.  North Shore 100

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Brandi Dion B&S Fitness, Salem

Whipping the North Shore into shape By Chris Cassidy 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 persuaded thousands of the North Shore’s unathletic to sign up for a class with an intimidating name — boot camp. They meet at bio a central locaAge: 34 tion in their City: Salem hometowns Family: Husband, Steven; — like Salem daughter, Mackenzie Common or the Business: B&S Fitness Marblehead Programs Community Achievements: Whipped Center — often the North Shore into shape before most through a series of popular sane people are boot camps in about a halfawake. They dozen communities. Dion also e n d u r e w h a t helped organize the Wicked would otherwise 1/2 Marathon in Salem and be unimagiMarblehead and youth triath- nable: running lons and endurance swims laps, counting in Salem. push-ups or performing exercises 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 husband, 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 training 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 46

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Brandi Dion at Forest River Park in Salem. Portrait by Matthew Viglianti

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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

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Brandi Dion, left, of B&S Fitness leads her boot camp class.

Salem’s park and recreation director, 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 1and 2-mile endurance swims have created an explosion of interest, even drawing first-time participants 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 With her focus on fitness, Dion has helped launch the types of programs,” Bollen said. Wicked 1/2 Marathon, along with a road race series, youth “When I step back, I think we’ve triathlons and 1- and 2-mile endurance swims. created a definite enthusiasm and varsity soccer, basketball and softball from awareness for fitness.” freshman year on. She played soccer for a Before, North Shore residents might national championship-winning Franklin never have thought about attempting a Pierce University team. sprint triathlon or a half-marathon. Now, After working at a YMCA in Roanoke, Va., they’re practically surrounded by outdoor she came back to the North Shore and took boot camps, swims, races and long-distance over programming at the Salem YMCA. events. Dion drew groups of 30 or more for her “If there’s something in your backyard, YMCA classes and started to realize she you’re very likely to think to yourself, ‘I’d had found a niche. really like to do one, but I don’t think I can,’” She then partnered with local recreDion said. “Then eventually, after they get ation departments, starting with Salem’s. past ‘I don’t think I can,’ they say, ‘Well, my She’d run the boot camps, the city would friend did it and she’s not any better than market them and both would receive the me. I bet I can do it.’ So it’s taking this local money. event and making it a community event Around the same time, Doug Bollen, and getting more people involved.”  North Shore 100

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cakes for occasions Cakes 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 husband,” she recalled, “and we said, ‘Let’s pick 12 different 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 Caring’s first charity last spring. Windrush is a nonprofit 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 various local nonprofits, including North Shore Arc, North Shore Medical Center and the Shiyanne Thornell 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. — Amanda McGregor

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 farreaching. For 39 years, he has directed the Salem Philharmonic orchestra, which is a popular free concert series believed to be one of the oldest in the country, 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 Hawryluk, 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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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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Susan Mickey

biology teacher, Community Service Learning instructor, Salem High School

Midlife change: From teeth to teaching By Amanda McGregor 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 aspiration: 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) constantly. 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 construction 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 exercise 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 donations for laptops, Smart Boards, microscopes 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 discouraged her interest in dentistry and orthodontics 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 something,” Mickey said. “When you build personal relationships with the students, the barriers melt away.” Mickey lives in Reading with her husband, Eugene, and their son, Sam, a junior at Pingree School in Hamilton. Their daughter, Ethel, is a freshman at Vanderbilt University. “It’s funny,” Mickey said. “Now my husband comes to events with me, and they say, ‘Oh, you’re Ms. Mickey’s husband.’”  North Shore 100

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Tom Gould leads warm-ups during the Challenger Basketball program at Carroll School in Peabody.

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Tom Gould

Treadwell’s Ice Cream, Peabody

Making lives a little sweeter By Stacie N. Galang 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 Basketball. 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 scooping ice cream,” he said. The opportunity to own and run his 50

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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 instrumental in helping her with her own charity: 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. 

north shore 100 profiles wayne marquis

danvers town manager Even after 30 years, Danvers Town Manager Wayne Marquis 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 listener. He also asks a lot of questions. “M y staff has 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 Wayne Marquis in the town’s former middle school. Public 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 Rivers 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.

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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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Kiana Hawley

8-year-old fundraiser in PMC KIDS RIDe, Marblehead

Raising thousands to fight cancer By Ethan Forman Kiana Hawley has raised more than $25,000 for the Jimmy Fund and the DanaFarber Cancer Institute by pedaling her bicycle in four Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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 Bleomycin pulmonary toxicity, which Schmitt, 35, said has attacked his lungs and weakened him. Still, Schmitt is thankful for all his niece has accomplished. 52

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“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 better 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 visits 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 teaching and showing the kids what they can do, and not just limiting them.” 

north shore 100 profiles Meservey wants to see SSC’s Bertolon School of Business become a major player in advancing the region’s economic fortunes. patricia meservey salem 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 leading institution of higher education, 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 property, a former industrial area, into a mixture of shops, offices and college space. Meservey, who played leadership roles at Northeastern 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 sustainability” 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.” — Nelson Benton

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Jim Crosby

Crosby’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 charity,” he recalls. “And food was something you didn’t take for granted.” He inherited a work ethic that carried him through Danvers High, a Northeastern 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 opportunity 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 collecting 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 Manchesterby-the-Sea. Meanwhile, his family and Roman Catholic faith keep him grounded. “I married the right person,” he says of wife Patricia, 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 54

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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. 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 honoring 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 Oliver. 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 remarkably in his element. “After all these years,” he says, “I still get up in the morning wanting to come to work.” 

north shore 100 profiles ron urnetta executive 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 clubhouse operations and executive chef in July 2008. In that short time, Urnetta, 50, has helped transform 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 Institute 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 culinary team and quality staff ... to bring a best-possible experience to our members and guests.” — Larry Claflin Jr.

richard wylie endicott college president

Within a year after Richard Wylie became the president of Endicott 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

The Endicott campus has doubled its landmass in the past 10 years, and Wylie had a huge part in adding and renovating many of the buildings. coeducational institution offering bachelor’s and graduate degrees. Enrollment at the undergraduate college has nearly tripled to about 2,000 full-time students, 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-Operative Bank, Beverly Chamber of Commerce and the Beverly School for the Deaf. — Jonathan Phelps

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Carole Moran at Moran Studios, 50 Atlantic Ave., Marblehead.

Carole Moran Moran Studios, Marblehead

A Salem resident, Moran is an active member of the retail committee for the Marblehead Chamber of Commerce and president of Moran Studios.

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“Prior to moving her business to Marblehead, Carole was called ‘Salem’s economic engine’ by former Mayor Stan Usovicz.” — Philip Moran, husband

Stephanie McGeney

executive director of We Are America Productions, Peabody Founder of the popular Tanner City Idol singing competition.

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“Stephanie McGeney always has and continues to be very dedicated to helping others reach their personal successes, 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 middle schools throughout New England to train health teachers to introduce a skin cancer unit in their curriculum. Candace Waldron of HAWC, which helps victims of domestic violence.

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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.

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“Because of her dedication, the community knows there is help for victims of domestic violence.” — Nancy Kieran

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“Steve has worked tirelessly over the last 10 years to prevent our tragedy of losing a son to melanoma from happening to anyone else.” — Gail Fine

Matt Buchanan Bridge Academy, Salem

Lead teacher of the Bridge Academy at Salem High School, formerly know as the Alternative School, Matt Buchanan 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 graduation 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 struggles, knowing the background and knowing the families so intimately, it’s a very special day,” he said of graduation.

Dr. Carl Johnson Ledgewood 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 bedside manner.

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“His progressive approach to medical care, coupled with his warmth and compassion for others, are tremendous assets to the North Shore.”  — Laurie Roberto

Jerry McCarthy North 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.

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Landmark 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 estimated 3,500 jobs and numerous services. He spearheaded the effort to draw one-person micro businesses, and saw the park’s health-care community double, with more than 90 doctors.

Nomination Bob Broudo is the headmaster at Landmark School.

“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 — Ellen Flanagan Kenny success.”

Robert Bradford

president, North Shore Chamber of Commerce, Beverly Under his leadership, the North Shore Chamber of Commerce 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 relationships to move forward the mission of the North Shore — Wayne Burton Chamber.”

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

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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 Neff

Jewish 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 Fleming

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Paul Gorman: YMCA director is enjoying a booming business at the new Leggs Hill Road facility on the Marblehead/Salem line.

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 Easley

property manager, Citizens for Adequate Housing, Peabody A busy property owner in Salem, also provides maintenance for Citizens for Adequate Housing’s seven buildings and

serves as property manager for its 16 rental units.

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north shore 100 profiles 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

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Jeanne Hennessey is owner of Lorraine Roy Designer Collection & Bridal Boutique.

George Carey Owner of Finz, salem

George Carey, the owner of Finz, is one of the pioneers 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.

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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.

Ron Parsons

Danvers High School band director Under Parsons’ leadership, the Falcons were the only Massachusetts band to march twice in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. They’re currently preparing for a third trip.

Jim George

Operation 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 Wallace

executive director, Beverly Main Streets Has revitalized the organization aimed at bringing business to downtown Beverly.

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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.

“She has been responsible for many creative ideas ... which have made so many long overdue improvements to downtown Beverly.”

incredible ability to juggle meaningful contribution among many nonprofit/social services organizations on the North Shore.”

— Bill Buttimer

— Brian Gregory

Neil Douglas

Morgan 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 Community 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

Mark Whitmore executive director of North Shore Career Centers

Oversees career centers in Salem, Lynn and Gloucester, helping people find jobs.

Nomination “Exceptional leader. Innovative. Dedicated to quality customer

service for job seekers and employers. Strong commitment to youth.” — Marilyn Foster

Don Doliber

assistant principal, Masconomet Regional High, Honors Scholar Dinner chairman

The driving force behind the North Shore Chamber of Commerce’s Honors Scholars Dinner, which recognizes the cream of the academic crop at local high schools.

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north shore 100 profiles Emily Boulger

catalogue, “Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style.” He is one of the country’s leading McIntire scholars.

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 Sarris

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 Workforce Investment Board The agency’s career training centers in Salem and elsewhere have become a lifeline for those seeking employment. Currently mentoring a similar organization that serves the whole state of Iowa.

North Shore United Way, Beverly

Executive director of one of the region’s top fundraising and community advocacy organizations.

Andrew Oliver board president, Salem Mission

Marblehead resident has taken a leading role in the effort to end homelessness in Massachusetts.

Kerry Mackin,

Chris Silva owner, Front Street Coffeehouse, Salem

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

Andrew Oliver of Marblehead stands in the basement of a shelter built on Margin Street in 2005.

Opened one of Salem’s first coffeehouses in 1996. Donates time and supplies to city’s business and cultural events.

“comfortable, sophisticated style” —Boston Globe (March 2008)

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.

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north shore 100 profiles Marjorie Kittredge

founder of Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation, Boxford

Kittredge turned her lifelong love of horses into a therapeutic riding facility that serves 100 riders a week with emotional, mental and physical disabilities.

Annie Harris

executive director, Essex National Heritage Commission In her former role as director of The Salem Partnership, Harris spearheaded 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.

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 Kelley Wayside Trailers, Peabody

The velvet-voiced master of ceremonies at countless fundraisers also serves on several nonprofit boards, including the North Shore Music Theatre.

Jack Good Beverly National Bank

Longtime spokesman for Beverly Hospital before going into the banking business, Good is known for his numerous charitable endeavors for organizations throughout the region.

R. Judson Carlberg

president, Gordon College, Wenham Under Carlberg’s tenure, the college 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 Preston

Habitat for Humanity — North Shore

Co-owner of Casa de Moda on Cabot Street, Preston has played a key role in the revitalization of Beverly’s downtown.

Don Preston, president of Habitat for Humanity-North Shore, describes the renovations to come at 1 Harrison Ave., shown in this 2007 photo.

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 preserving the city’s history. Also serves on the committee that reviews applications for Community Preservation Act funding in the city.

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north shore 100 profiles Roger Baker

Rehab 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. Young

biology professor, Salem State College

As president of Salem Sound Coastwatch, has worked to protect and enhance the environmental quality of the Salem Sound watershed.

Bill Tinti

Tinti, Quinn, Grover & Frey, salem

Roger Baker is shown in 2006 with one of the vehicles he uses to help firefighters with food, shelter and water.

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 waves after completing the Vendée Globe.

Rich Wilson

sailor, Marblehead When Wilson single-handedly sailed around the world in the Vendée Globe race, he brought countless schoolchildren along for the ride through an educational program he founded called sitesALIVE!

Seaport Credit Union wishes to congratulate

Patricia Meservey

President, Salem State College

Christine Sullivan

Salem State, Enterprise Center

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