Award-winning sports writer and columnist for the Hartford Courant for the past three decades. Has covered a variety of sports from women’s college basketball, high school athletics, professional tennis, running and marathons and Olympic sports from curling and luge in the winter to equestrian sports in the summer. My goal is to get people who don’t read the sports page to read it. Experienced in social media, digital journalism and on TV and radio.
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Speaker programs at Wednesday DMA Meetings
Megan Clark Torrey is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the World Affairs Council of CT. Megan became the Executive Director in March 2014, after having served as Program Director since 2003. She oversees the development and delivery of world class programming that educates the community on global affairs. Recently, Megan implemented a nation-wide World Affairs Council series focused on global women’s health, helped pilot a leadership mission to Brazil and produced a mini-documentary on Henry Kissinger that featured several former Secretaries of State. Megan has facilitated the visits of several world leaders to the Council in Hartford. During her time at CTWAC, the Council has expanded the scope and reach of its programming by implementing new technology and communications initiatives.
Ms. Torrey has two degrees in international relations and diplomacy. Her research interests include inclusive security and the role of women in post-conflict situations and citizen participation in foreign policy. Before joining the World Affairs Council in 2003, she worked with UNESCO’s International Year for the Culture of Peace at the headquarters in Paris and at the United Nations International Training Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. A member of several professional organizations, Megan has traveled extensively all over the world.
As part of the Town of West Hartford’s commitment to increase the emergency preparedness of the community, a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) was re-established on March 3, 2021.
West Hartford CERT is a group of local volunteers from different neighborhoods that receive special training to enhance their ability to recognize, respond to, and recover from a major emergency or disaster situation. As an organized team, individuals can provide vital services in the absence of and while waiting for the arrival of emergency responders; they often also assist once responders arrive.
The team is considered an integral part of the Town’s Office of Emergency Management which is under the direction of Fire Chief Greg Priest.
CERT training consists of a basic standardized 20-hour course followed by additional training in shelter management, first aid and disaster preparedness. Teams are trained by professional responders in areas that will help them take care of themselves and others before, during and after a major emergency. CERT members will also take an online FEMA training course.
Here are the slides from his presentation:Bob MCue Jan 30 2024
Prior to founding Mullaney & Associates in 1994 (forerunner to Mullaney, Keating & Wright) he was Executive Vice President of Shawmut Banks (CT and MA) and Business Line Manager for Investment Services (investment management and related fiduciary services for $12+ billion in personal, endowment and employee benefit assets) and for Capital Markets (bond dealer, discount brokerage and government finance). Earlier, Tom was Vice President of The First National Bank of Chicago.
He is a graduate of Beloit College (BA), Northwestern University (MA-Economics) where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and the University of Chicago (MBA-Finance). Tom served to LT (jg) in the U.S. Navy and participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis and Operation Deepfreeze.
Active in civic organizations, Tom is past Chairman of Riverfront Recapture and was a director of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Tom is the past president of The 1892 Club. He is a former Chairman of Capitol Housing Corporation and has served as a director of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the Connecticut Development Authority, where he was vice chairman, and the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council. He chairs the investment committee of the American School for the Deaf. He is a Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.
He has been registered as General Securities Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, Financial Operations Principal and Uniform State Securities Agent.
Tom lives in West Hartford. He has two adult children.
Here are the slides Tom used in his presentation: OLD T Mullaney GUARD PRESENTATION 23 JAN 24
Dana R. Bucin is a partner and chair of Murtha Cullina’s Immigration practice.
She represents businesses and individual clients on a wide range of immigration matters, including green card applications, work visas, student visas, foreign investor visas, asylum, naturalization, religious work visas, as well as various other employment and family-based immigration matters.
As an immigration attorney with a business/corporate legal background, Dana’s experience includes counseling foreign investors and entrepreneurs on setting up businesses in the U.S. or investing in existing U.S. ventures and obtaining a visa or green card based on such investment or entrepreneurship pursuant to the E-2, L-1 “new office”, H-1B “entrepreneur” and EB-5 visa options.
Dana regularly provides multilingual legal representation in English, Spanish, French and Romanian. She also has a basic knowledge of Italian, German, Hungarian and Latin. She is often quoted as an expert by publications such as Bloomberg/BusinessWeek and the Hartford Business Journal on immigration law topics.
Dana serves as Murtha Cullina’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee chair, where she is responsible for the oversight of the firm’s diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices.
In addition, Dana handles a variety of cases to assist immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs.
To better accomplish the Honor Flight mission and serve our military veterans of the State of Connecticut, in April of 2019, Honor Flight Connecticut was formed as an official hub of the National Honor Flight Network. The Honor Flight Connecticut mission is to honor our veterans by transporting them to Washington, DC to visit and reflect at their memorials. Honor Flight Connecticut proudly joins with 131 other Honor Flight Hubs in 45 other states sharing in that same mission.
Steve has written four nonfiction books: Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor, about Joseph C. Grew; A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham; A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa, about the African explorer Heinrich Barth; and Code Name Ginger, about Dean Kamen and the invention of the Segway.
He has written for many national publications, including Smithsonian, National Geographic, and the Wall Street Journal.
He has been an adjunct professor at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. I also have taught writing and literature at Fairfield University and the University of Connecticut, and has spoken at many conferences about journalism, writing, and the subjects of his books.
Giustina Lamoureux is a tax director in the Firm’s Hartford, Connecticut office. She has experience in tax compliance, accounting, and consulting for closely held businesses and individuals. Her proactive approach to the implementation of new tax legislation allows her to provide practical solutions for her clients. She also has experience in providing tax compliance and planning services in a variety of industries, including real estate, manufacturing and distribution, and professional services.
Nathan has been the Executive Director of the Greater Hartford Community Foundation, Inc. and the Tournament Director of the Travelers Championship, Connecticut’s PGA TOUR event, since 2005. During this time, the tournament has generated more than $20 million for charity and has been recognized by the PGA TOUR for numerous awards.
In addition to receiving the “Players Choice” award in 2017 and 2018, the Travelers Championship was named “Tournament of the Year” by the PGA TOUR in 2017 and has now won 14 TOUR awards since 2009. Others include “Most Fan Friendly Event” (2010, 2012, 2017), “Best Title Sponsor Integration” (2009, 2010, 2012), “Best Marketing Program” (2011), “Best Use of Players” (2012), “Best Charity Integration” (2013), “Best Special Event” (2016, when it hosted the Bruce Edwards Foundation Dinner) and “Best Tournament Sales” (2017). He is also a Class ‘A’ member of the PGA of America and an active member of the Connecticut Section of the PGA.
After graduating from Auburn University in 1996 with a degree in Mass Communications, Nathan worked for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Academy of Golf as an instructor through 2001 while playing professional golf on various tours throughout the Southeast. He then went to work for the Bruno Event Team from 2001-2004 where he was the Executive Director of The First Tee of Greater Birmingham and worked on all four major professional golf tours in the United States, including serving as Tournament Director for the Southern Farm Bureau Classic.
Nathan resides in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife, Carmen, and their two children.
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Nathan has been the Executive Director of the Greater Hartford Community Foundation, Inc. and the Tournament Director of the Travelers Championship, Connecticut’s PGA TOUR event, since 2005. During this time, the tournament has generated more than $20 million for charity and has been recognized by the PGA TOUR for numerous awards. In addition to receiving the “Players Choice” award in 2017 and 2018, the Travelers Championship was named “Tournament of the Year” by the PGA TOUR in 2017 and has now won 14 TOUR awards since 2009. Others include “Most Fan Friendly Event” (2010, 2012, 2017), “Best Title Sponsor Integration” (2009, 2010, 2012), “Best Marketing Program” (2011), “Best Use of Players” (2012), “Best Charity Integration” (2013), “Best Special Event” (2016, when it hosted the Bruce Edwards Foundation Dinner) and “Best Tournament Sales” (2017). He is also a Class ‘A’ member of the PGA of America and an active member of the Connecticut Section of the PGA. After graduating from Auburn University in 1996 with a degree in Mass Communications, Nathan worked for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Academy of Golf as an instructor through 2001 while playing professional golf on various tours throughout the Southeast. He then went to work for the Bruno Event Team from 2001-2004 where he was the Executive Director of The First Tee of Greater Birmingham and worked on all four major professional golf tours in the United States, including serving as Tournament Director for the Southern Farm Bureau Classic. Nathan resides in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife, Carmen, and their two children.
Nathan explained how the Traveler’s Golf Tournament has given back to the community. Last year donations exceeded $3,000,000 to 180 charities throughout CT. He gave a history of growth of this tournament from 2005 and how the Traveler’s became a 2024 signature event for the PGA Tour.
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“A Very Short History of the Typewriter and Hartford’s Role in That History”
Rick Voigt, retired attorney now a lecturer U Hart on topics in modern art and manufacturing.
Rick was a federal prosecutor under the Occupational Safety and Health Act in Washington, D.C. then moved to Hartford and entered practice as a labor and employment lawyer. At time of his retirement was a partner with McCarter & English in Hartford, Selected for Best Lawyers in America and Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year. Also severed as a Para judicial officer for the U.S. District Court for Connecticut.
