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Staff Writer
Telegram & Gazette
Mr. Burke

The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce recently appointed its board of directors for 2013. The officers are: Chairman Richard P. Burke, president of senior care services at Fallon Community Health Plan; Vice Chairman Susan Mailman, president, Coghlin Electrical Contractors; Treasurer John F. Merrill, president, Fidelity Bank; Clerk J. Kendall Huber, senior vice president/general counsel, Hanover Insurance Group Inc.; and chamber President and CEO Richard B. Kennedy.

The directors include new directors Sandy L. Dunn of the DCU Center and Cheryl Lapriore of UMass Memorial Health Care.

The returning directors are: Peter B. Alden, Bay State Savings Bank; Craig Blais, Worcester Business Development Corporation; Donald Bourque, president, Auburn Chamber; Jack P. Calareso, Anna Maria College; Louis M. Ciavarra, Bowditch & Dewey; Dr. Michael F. Collins, the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Timothy P. Crimmins Jr., People’s United Bank; Christopher Crowley, Polar Beverages; Ellen M. Cummings, Verizon Communications; Andrew B. Davis, Worcester Regional Airport; Joseph C. Deliso, chairman, Blackstone Valley Chamber; John J. DiPietro, Advanced Business Concepts/DiPietro; Richard Domaleski, Mansfield Holdings Group; James J. Donoghue, Tweed’s Pub Restaurant; Benjamin G. Duszlak, Sovereign Bank; Bruce Gaultney, Worcester Telegram & Gazette; Dennis F. Gorman, Fletcher Tilton PC; Robert E. Johnson, Becker College; Steven G. Joseph, Unum Group; William D. Kelleher IV, Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates; Deborah L. Larsen, UniBank; Alan Lavine, Percy’s Inc.; Richard T. Leahy, Webster Five Cents Savings Bank; Cheri MacKinney, president, Webster Dudley Oxford Chamber; Edward P. Madaus, The Guild of St. Agnes; Michael J. Malloy, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences; Kate McEvoy Zdonczyk, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; Joni J. Milluzzo, president, Holden Area Chamber; Demitrios M. Moschos, Mirick O’Connell; Michael A. Mudd, Worcester Sharks; Kip M. Paterson, Saint-Gobain Abrasives, N.A.; Bernie Rotman, Rotmans; John V. Sbrogna, Baystate Financial Services; Edwin T. Shea Jr., Bank of America; Marie M. Shepherd, Graham Shepherd P.C.; Daniel F. Shimkus Jr., TD Bank; Marvin S. Silver, Partridge Snow & Hahn; Peter R. Stanton, New England Business Media; Jean Sullivan, president, Central Mass South Chamber; David E. Surprenant, Mirick O’Connell; Robert L. Thomas, MLK, Jr. Business Empowerment Center; Brian W. Thompson, Commerce Bank.

United Bank of West Springfield has announced several changes in staffing.

Maureen Murray, a personal banker at United’s Chadwick Square branch in Worcester, has been selected to fill that position at the bank’s new branch in Northboro. Replacing Ms. Murry in Chadwick Square will be Kara Wiersma, a personal banker in the Whitinsville branch. And, Patricia Eisenhaur has been hired as the bank’s new Whitinsville personal banker.

Ms. Murray of Charlton served as manager of the Chadwick Square branch when it was part of Commonwealth National Bank before the merger with United Bank in 2009. She joined Commonwealth in 2001 as the original branch manager at the Waldo Street main office.

Ms. Wiersma of Whitinsville began her banking career with Flagship Bank. She joined Commonwealth National Bank’s Shrewsbury branch in 2003 and was named assistant branch manager in 2006. She moved to the bank’s Whitinsville branch as a personal banker following the 2009 merger.

Ms. Eisenhaur of Dudley joins United Bank from Sovereign Bank in Webster, where she served as senior personal banking representative for more than seven years.

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