Williams battles cancer
Doug Kitchen, the A.G. Williams Painting Company”™s Fairfield County account representative in Greenwich, helped raise money for New York-based Support Connection. Kitchen was joined on the walk in Westchester County, N.Y.”™s FDR Park by fellow employees Paul Viggiano, director of business administration and marketing, and Liane Rigano, account representative and color specialist. Viggiano, walking for the third consecutive year, received a company donation plus personal contributions from A.G. Williams President and CEO George P. Williams.
Support Connection provides numerous free services to those affected by ovarian and breast cancer.
Rosenberg to step down at CGC
After 26 years as the Child Guidance Center (CGC) of Southern Connecticut”™s clinical director, Dr. Larry Rosenberg has announced plans to step down this spring. CGC has launched a national search to fill the position.
Rosenberg has served as clinical director of this child and adolescent mental health agency since 1987, building the professional prominence of the nearly 60-year-old institution regionally and across the state. During his tenure, the center created a broad range of new programs based on emerging community needs and implemented innovative treatments based on the development of the latest and most effective options in childhood mental health diagnosis and treatment.
Divorce 101
Divorce is an arena that poses huge problems for the integrity of family life, as well as family resources. Few people come to the proverbial “divorce table” with the appropriate information needed to work effectively with divorce professionals. The mission of Fairfield County-based Divorce Information NOW L.L.C. is “to enable people to be masters of their own destiny.” The company has produced: “DIVORCEapedia: The Who, What, When, Where & How of Divorce,” a workbook covering topics that include “Financial Information,” “Interviewing, Choosing Lawyers,” “Division of Assets,” “Marital History,” “Parenting Through the Divorce Process” and “Alimony.” The website is DivorceInformationNOW.com. Pictured are Caroline Hirschfeld, left, and Victoria Melly, company principals.
New faceon AmeriCares board
Darien resident Robert Baylis, a trustee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and board member of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, was elected recently to the AmeriCares Board of Directors.
Stamford-based AmeriCares has worked in most of the world”™s countries ”” a total 164 ”” and has since its founding in 1982 dispensed more than $11 billion in aid.
“I have been a longtime supporter of AmeriCares and believe in its mission to help improve health and save lives,” Baylis said. “I am proud to deepen my commitment to an organization doing such great work all over the world.”
The hands-on AmeriCares board oversees all aspects of the organization”™s humanitarian aid programs, including its disaster response work and medical aid deliveries in the developing world. Last year, AmeriCares delivered medicines and relief supplies to 91 countries, including the U.S. where it supports health care for the uninsured and underinsured.
Sales ahoy!
The Progressive Insurance New York Boat Show cruises into the Javits Center in New York City Jan. 1-5. Thirty-four Fairfield County nautically themed businesses are among the exhibitors. The show hopes to boost sales and services “for the more than 530 recreational boating businesses in Connecticut.” The national industry reports a 5 percent upturn in boat sales in 2013 with another 5 percent to 7 percent gain expected in 2014.
It”™s a battle out there
Mary Ann Johnson, president of Johnson Custom Strategies Inc. participated in the inaugural Leadership Boot Camp for the Women of Wall Street last month at The Thayer Hotel at West Point on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy. The training is offered to elite professionals in the financial services industry who serve in critical decision-making roles.
Privately owned and Greenwich-based Johnson Custom Strategies Inc. was founded by Johnson in 1992 to provide customized investment services to institutions and individuals.
Aquarium chief to cast off
Jennifer Herring, president and CEO of The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, announced today she will retire in 2014. Herring will have served the Aquarium for more than 10 years, longer than any CEO in its 25-year history.
While the Aquarium Board of Trustees searches for a new president, Herring will continue at her post. “The last thing I want to become is a lame duck,” she said. “So I won”™t be quacking anytime soon.”
The board has begun forming a search committee to replace her headed by Sanders Davies, former chairman of the board and current vice chairman.
