INDUCTED MEMBERS
ACADEMY OF DISTINGUISHED BOSTONIANS

Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

2008

MICHO SPRING
Chair, U.S. Corporate Practice & Weber Shandwick New England
Weber Shandwick Worldwide

TED CUTLER
Philanthropist & Vice President
The Interface Group - MA

LARRY FISH
Chairman, Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Chairman, RBS Americas

PETER MEADE
Former Executive Vice President
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.

2007

CHARLES GIFFORD
Chairman Emeritus
Bank of America

REV. GLORIA WHITE HAMMOND M.D.
Co-Pastor
Bethel AME Church

REV. RAY HAMMOND, M.D.
Senior Pastor
Bethel AME Church

PAUL LA CAMERA
General Manager
The WBUR Group

2006

JOE O'DONNELL
Chairman
The Boston Culinary Group

KEVIN PHELAN
Executive Vice President
Meredith & Grew

BENNIE WILEY
Immediate Past President
The Partnership, Inc.

2005

WAYNE BUDD
Senior Counsel
Goodwin Procter LLP

Gloria Larson, Esq.
Co-Chair, Government Strategies Group
Foley Hoag LLP

William Van Faasen
Chairman and CEO
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA

2004

The Honorable Kevin White
Mayor of Boston 1968-1983

2003

THE HONORABLE EDWARD M. KENNEDY
U.S. Senator

2002

JACK CONNORS
Chairman and CEO
Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc.

Bill Edgerly
Chairman Emeritus
State Street Corporation

FRIEDA GARCIA
Immediate Past Presidents
United South End Settlements

2001

HONORABLE J. JOSEPH MOAKLEY
U.S. Congressman

2000

WILLIAM FENTON RUSSELL
Boston Celtics Great

1999

MARIAN L. HEARD
President & CEO
The United Way of Massachusetts Bay

NORMAN B. LEVENTHAL
Chairman
The Beacon Companies

WILLIAM O. TAYLOR
Chairman Emeritus
The Boston Globe

1998

DIDDY CULLINANE
President & Founder
Black & White Boston Coming Together

JOHN J. CULLINANE
President
The Cullinane Group

SEIJI OZAWA
Music Director
Boston Symphony Orchestra

1997

CAROL AND AVRAM GOLDBERG
President and Chairman
AVCAR Group, Ltd.

ANNA FAITH JONES
President & CEO
The Boston Foundation

THE HONORABLE PAUL E. TSONGAS
U.S. Senator

1996

JULIA CHILD
Chef, author, teacher, television personality

AARON FEUERSTEIN
President and CEO
Malden Mills Industries, Inc.
Business and civic leader

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Ambassador, economist, author, educator

1995

HUBERT E. JONES
Senior Fellow, McCormack Institute of Public
Affairs, University of Massachusetts/Boston
Education and community activist

KENNETH H. OLSEN
Founder, Digital Equipment Corporation

HELEN BOWDOIN SPAULDING
Consultant to the Board of Trustees
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Civic and community leader

1994

S. JAMES COPPERSMITH
Retired President and General Manager
WCVB-TV
Civic, community leader

RUTH M. BATSON
Founder, Ruth M. Batson Foundation
Chair, Afro-American Museum
Education and community activist

JOHN P. LAWARE
Federal Reserve Bank Board Director
Former CEO, Shawmut Bank
Community leader

1993

ALDO CASTANEDA, M.D.
Surgeon in Chief
Children's Hospital
William E. Ladd Professor, Harvard         

PEGGY CHARREN
Founder, Action for Children's Television

JOHN G. McELWEE
Retired President
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Former Chamber Chairman

1992

RAYMOND G. ARMSTEAD
Boston policeman, counselor and foster parent for troubled you

FRANCIS P. BRENNAN
Former Chairman and CEO, Union Warren Savings
Bank, and Chairman, Massachusetts Business
Development Corporation

HELEN CHIN SCHLICHTE
Assistant to the Secretary, Mass. Office for
Administration & Finance, career public servant
and community activist      

JOHN LARKIN THOMPSON
President and CEO
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts

1991

THOMAS L. PHILLIPS
Chairman and CEO, Raytheon Company

HENRY HAMPTON
President, Blackside, Inc. and Producer
"Eye on the Prize"

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN
Author and Political Analyst

MORTIMER J. BUCKLEY, M.D.
Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital

JEAN R. YAWKEY
Chairman, JRY Corporation and Owner
Boston Red Sox

1990

ANTHONY ATHANAS
President, Anthony's Pier 4 Inc.

BILLY Y. CHIN
President, China Pearl Restaurant, Inc.

HARRY ELLIS DICKSON
Associate Conductor, Boston Pops

KENNETH I. GUSCOTT
General Partner, Long Bay Management Company

MARTINA S. HORNER
Retired President, Wellesley College

J. DONALD MONAN, S.J.
President, Boston College

BENJAMIN SACK
Founder, Sack Theaters

1989

FRANCIS H. BURR, ESQ.
Attorney, Ropes & Gray

PRISCILLA C. KIDDER
 President and Founder, Priscilla of Boston, Inc.

DAVID S. NELSON
United States District Judge, U.S. Federal Court

 KENNETH G. RYDER
President, Northeastern University

WILLIAM DAVIS TAYLOR
Director, Globe Newspaper Company

1988

JOHN A. KELLEY
Boston Marathon winner -- and still running
(annual runner for more than 40 years)

DAVID T.W. McCORD
Poet

GLENDORA M. PUTNAM, ESQ.
Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency

LEWIS H. WEINSTEIN
Of Counsel, Foley, Hoag & Eliot

1987

ARNOLD "RED" AUERBACH
Celtics Coach, 1950-1966, then Manager
and President

EDWARD L. BERNAYS
Father of Public Relations

SARAH CALDWELL
Conductor, Opera Producer and Director
The Opera Company of Boston

JAMES R. KILLIAN, JR.
Chairman, MIT

1986

THE HONORABLE THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR.
Speaker, U. S. House of Representative

1985

RICHARD D. HILL
Chairman of the Executive Committee and Director
Bank of Boston

EDWIN H. LAND
President and Director, the Rowland Institute of Science
Former Chairman and Founder
Polaroid Corporation

 ELMA LEWIS
Founder and Artistic Director, The National
Center of Afro-American Artists, Inc.

SIDNEY R. RABB
Chairman of the Board
 Stop & Shop Companies

AN WANG
Chairman of the Board and Founder
Wang Laboratories, Inc.

1984

JOHN F. COLLINS
Former Mayor, City of Boston
Professor of Urban Affairs, MIT

MURIEL S. AND O. PHILLIP SNOWDEN
Freedom House

THE HONORABLE JOHN A. VOLPE
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy
Former President, John A. Volpe Construction Company

1983

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
Former Chairman of the Board, Raytheon Company
Chairman of the Finance Committee and Director, Raytheon Company

LEO L. BERANEK
Former Chairman, Boston Broadcasters, Inc.
WCVB-Channel 5

 H. BRADFORD WASHBURN, JR.
Chairman of the Corporation, Museum of Science