Bank of Fairfield recently held a checking promotion that enabled new checking customers to designate a donation to a local charity.
Cap: Shown at the check presentation from left, Donna Twist, executive director of the Norma F. Pfriem Breast Care Center; Bank of Fairfield director of development Bob Hojnacki; Tina Varick, the Evelyn Kennedy Center; Kevin Simmons, assistant executive director, Wakeman Girls and Boys Club; Operation Hope Executive Director Carla Miklos; Bank of Fairfield President Bob Palermo; and Joe Carbone, president and CEO of The Workplace.
American College of Physicians ”“ Connecticut Chapter recently presented annual physicians living and practicing in Cheshire, Fairfield, Guilford, Hartford, New Haven, Norwalk, West Hartford and Woodbridge with the chapter”™s highest awards for distinguished service to their patients and their profession at the chapter”™s recent annual meeting in Southington. Award recipients included Eric M. Mazur of Norwalk and Stephen P. O”™Mahony of Fairfield.
McCarter & English L.L.P. recently hosted “An Evening of Fine Arts & Fine Wines” for friends and clients of the firm at its Hartford office to celebrate the leadership of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO) and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The guests of honor were Carolyn Kuan, music director of HSO; and Susan L. Talbott, director and CEO of the Wadsworth.
John L. Lahey, president of Quinnipiac University, was named Irish Person of the Year for his lifetime contributions to the Irish community and for spearheading the creation of Ireland”™s Great Hunger Museum, Músaem An Ghorta Mhóir, home to the world”™s largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed material relating to the Irish Famine. The museum is located at 3011 Whitney in Hamden, near Quinnipiac”™s Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses.
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Cap: Quinnipiac University president John L. Lahey, left, and Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts at the 2012 Irish Leaders of New England Awards at the Irish Consulate in Boston Oct. 11
