Harold A. Smullen Jr. has been elected as the president of the board of directors at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford.
Smullen is the president of independent insurance agency, Smullen & Associates, and has been involved with ASD since 2004.
ASD also announced other appointments to its corporation and board of directors. New directors include: Barbara Cassin, state of CT rehabilitation counselor for the deaf; Hannah M. Dostal, assistant professor of literacy education in the Neag School of Education and research scientist for the Collaborative on Strategic Education Reform at UConn; Dennis R. Ferguson, attorney at Ferguson Law Offices, LLC; and Christopher G. Gent, president of the Gent Financial Group, LLC.
New to the corporation are: Kathy M. Darby, ASD alumna; Elena Koulidobrova, assistant professor in the Department of English at Central Connecticut State University; Laura K. Mauldin, assistant professor in the Human Development & Family Studies/Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut; Tracy C. Smith, teacher at Grace Academy; Janet Stuck, education consultant, special populations in the academic office of the Department of Education, and Arthur B. Sullivan, founding partner of Constitution Advisory Group, Lincoln Financial Securities.
