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July 29, 2008

Business Briefcase

Milestones

Orthopaedics Plus has been selected for the 2008 Best of Beverly Award in the Physical Therapists category by the U.S. Local Business Association.

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Susan Jacobs, associate editor of the Jewish Journal Boston North in Salem, was given the American Jewish Press Association's Simon Rockower Award for excellence in journalism, for a story about Salem artist Valerie Rosenberg.

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The Peabody Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed New England Homes for the Deaf at 154-160 Water St. in Danvers as a new member.

Giving

All Danversbank branches are accepting donations to a school supply drive for the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless until Aug. 15. Backpacks, pencils, pens, rulers, staplers, folders, notebooks and any new school supplies are welcome.

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RE/MAX Village Properties of Topsfield has joined the Children's Miracle Network. RE/MAX associates will donate a portion of every commission they earn to the Network, which gives the funds to Children's Hospital Boston.

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Beverly Bootstraps' Summer is for Reading program, which provides free books for Beverly children, recently received a donation of 480 books from students in readiness through grade 5 at Shore Country Day School, Beverly. Shore students donated the cost of at least one book from the Scholastic Book Club and collected gently used books for the program.

People

Cynthia Merkle of Swampscott was recently promoted to executive vice president for customer service, including the corporate call center, and the compliance and operational risk department, at Eastern Bank.

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Joseph Riley of Peabody was recently promoted to executive vice president for retail banking, overseeing all aspects of sales, service and branch operations, at Eastern Bank.

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Beth Zschau of Manchester, a horticulturist, has accepted the position of horticultural educator for the Trustees of Reservations' northeast region.

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Donald Bowen Jr. of Meridian Associates in Beverly, Anthony Fusco of Glovsky and Glovsky in Beverly, and Brenda Smith of Brenda J. Smith Consulting in Marblehead, were recently elected as new corporators at Beverly Cooperative Bank.

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Mary Lou Crane was recently appointed elder care adviser at SeniorCare Inc., a social service agency serving Beverly, Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Topsfield, Rockport and Wenham.

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Donna Stanton of Salem has been named an assistant/receptionist for Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts.

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Dr. John A. Patti of the North Shore Medical Center was elected vice chairman of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors during the ACR's 85th annual meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

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Dennis Wassung Jr. was recently hired as an equity analyst at Cabot Money Management, an independent fee-only wealth management firm based in Salem.

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Andrew Carpentier, a recent graduate of Fitchburg State College, has joined Cummings Architects of Ipswich.

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Carolanne Cavalieri, Marblehead resident and business owner of Marketing and PR Solutions, has been named public relations/public education liaison for the Licensed Private Detectives Association of Massachusetts, a not-for-profit organization.

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Erin Cyr, owner of Whole Soul Healing in Beverly, will graduate from Goddard College this summer with a bachelor's degree in health arts and sciences.

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Kevin T. Bottomley, president of Danversbank, was recently elected chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Bankers Association for a one-year term.

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Robert Rosen, who was previously vice president of commercial lending at the North Shore Bank in Peabody, was recently named the new senior loan officer at the Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corp.

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John Fletcher and Claudia Kaufman of Marblehead, and Jim Regis of Salem were elected new members of the Board of Directors at the annual meeting of the Marblehead Arts Association on June 18 in the King Hooper Garden.

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Marianne Rutter of Boxford was recently elected chair of the First Essex-Middlesex Coalition, a collaborative of representatives from Democratic town and city committees in the First Essex and Middlesex district in the state Senate. The coalition shares best practices among the town committees to increase interest and membership in party activities, helps elect Democrats to public office, and strengthens the Democratic Party's presence in the district.

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Danvers attorney Lawrence B. Morse recently made a presentation to SCORE Chapter 411, a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration, on "Choice of Business Entity" for start-up businesses.

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