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ROBERTSON NAMED DISTINGUISHED GRAD BY UCONN LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI GROUP
James K. Robertson Jr., an attorney with the Waterbury firm of Carmody & Torrance, has been honored with the Distinguished Graduate Award from The University of Connecticut Law School Alumni Association.
Robertson has practiced law at Carmody & Torrance for over 35 years and served as its managing partner for many years. He litigates intellectual property, commercial, product liability and employment disputes in state and federal and frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator in probate and corporate governance disputes.
He has served as a Superior Court judge, as chairman of the Connecticut Judicial Selection Commission and currently serves as the national moderator of the United Church of Christ. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Trial Advocates.
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HOUSATONIC TO HONOR 2 NEWINGTON GRADUATES
Two Newington residents — Fernando Goncalves Rosa and Patricia J. “Patty” Foley — will be inducted into the Housatonic Community College Foundation’s Alumni Hall of Fame on Nov. 19.
Rosa is deputy director of HEDCO, Inc., which provides area small businesses with alternative financing and additional support that might be otherwise unavailable or inadequate. After Housatonic, he then went on to Central Connecticut State University where he received his bachelor of science in accounting.
He is chairman of the board of PALCUS, the Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States; Connecticut director for the Portuguese American Citizenship Project; founder and a director of the Portuguese Foundation; director of Capital Workforce Partners and serves on the Newington Development Commission.
Foley, a certified public accountant, is the owner of her own business — Patricia J. Foley, CPA, and has been self-employed since 1998. She went on after graduating from Housatonic to receive her bachelor of science in accounting from Central Connecticut State University, and her MBA from the University of Hartford.
Recently, she became president of the New England Lace Group — a group begun almost 30 years ago to promote the making, collecting and preserving of lace throughout New England.
The ceremony will take place during the foundation’s third annual black tie gala, to be held in the college’s Beacon Hall Events Center on the Bridgeport campus.
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SKRZYNIARZ NAMED TO BOARD
Beth Skrzyniarz, vice president of human resources at Environmental Data Resources Inc. in Milford, has been appointed to the American Cancer Society’s Board of Advisors.
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