Shakespeare & Company Elects Barry Shapiro as Vice Chair

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LENOX, Mass. — Barry R. Shapiro has been elected vice chair of Shakespeare & Company's Board of Trustees.

Shapiro has been a Shakespeare & Company Board Member since 2011 and has served on the Executive Committee for the past two years.
 
“I’ve enjoyed working with Barry as a member of our Executive Committee, and I welcome him assuming additional responsibilities as one of our two vice chairs,” said Board Chair Kenneth Werner.  "I’m looking forward to working together with Barry to build on what is proving to be a highly successful season as we move forward into next season.”
 


Shapiro retired at the end of 2014 as chair of the Corporate Practice Group at the law firm, Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, P.C. Deeply involved in community affairs, he serves as chairman of the Dr. Robert C. & Tina Sohn Foundation and as a director of The Viscardi Center, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Project Native, the New Marlborough Cultural Council and public television station WNET, where he was a vice chairman from 2003 through 2006. He previously served as chairman of public television station WLIW21, the Long Island Philharmonic and the New York College for Wholistic Health, Education and Research.

He is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and Hofstra University and resides in New Marlborough, where he was recently elected town moderator and serves as a journalist for the town paper, the Five Village News.
 
“Shakespeare & Company is one of my passions. It brings world-class performances to our community along with internationally renowned education and training programs," Shapiro said. "I’m looking forward to working with this great Company to expand its programs.”

 


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Lenox Girls Basketball Earns State Sportsmanship Award

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LOWELL, Mass. — For the first time in the team's history, the Lenox Memorial High School Girls Basketball team has won the MIAA Team Sportsmanship Award.
 
In 2024, the title was awarded to only two of 300 teams in Massachusetts.
 
The school team received the award during the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Basketball State Championships held at the Tsongas Center in Lowell on March 17.
 
"This is a big win for the entire Lenox community," Lenox Principal Jeremiah Ames said. "The Sportsmanship Award recognizes not only sportsmanship on the court, but service to the community and leadership at the school, and the members of our girls basketball team have done precisely that."
 
The team competes in Division 5 of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and earned the No. 3 seed in the recently completed state tournament.
 
"The girls have worked really hard both on and off the court for this award, and I am tremendously pleased that MIAA have recognized those efforts," Lenox Athletic Director Maggie Rivers said. "Let their achievement be a message to girls in Lenox, if you have a passion for the game, step up: because anything is possible."
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