Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School Taps New Development Director

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School welcomes Edward Brozman as director of development.

Brozman brings extensive experience in higher education, development and community building to the school. Most recently, Brozman was the Chief Advancement Officer at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. He has also served as vice president for Institutional Advancement at Saint Joseph’s College (Standish, Maine) and executive director of Development and Alumni Relations at Hartwick College (Oneonta, N.Y.). 
In the corporate sector, Brozman has been a sales and marketing executive for companies including Winfield Industries (San Diego), Anchor Systems Group (Providence, R.I.), Shared Medical Systems and Haemonetics (Boston) and Baxter Healthcare (Chicago).

Brozman is an alumnus of The State University of New York at Oswego, and also attended executive education at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.


"We are delighted to welcome Ed Brozman as director of development," said Tom Sternal, president of the Steiner School's Board of Trustees. "His experience and expertise add great strength to our school. This is the next step in the evolution of Steiner. As we near a half century in the Berkshires, we plan to energetically engage the community, especially our alumni/ae, parents and aligned organizations. Ed will work hard to cultivate awareness and support for the institution and strengthen our core values."

"The educational philosophy and the commitment of the faculty, staff and Board of Trustees are the key motivating factors that brought me to the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School," Brozman said. "I look forward to contributing to the ongoing success at Steiner and helping to enhance the culture of philanthropy here."

The Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School is currently accepting student applications for the 2017-18 school year, and welcomes the Berkshires community to a spring fundraising event on May 20.


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Governor Healey Announces $2M Boost for Pittsfield Tech Hub

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass.— Governor Maura Healey visited the Berkshire Innovation Center on Wednesday to see where millions in state funding will help build a tech hub for advanced optics. 

On the same day, her administration announced a $2 million award to the BIC for its upcoming Advanced Manufacturing for Advanced Optics Lab.  This is on top of $5 million from the MA Tech Hub designation and a total of $1 million from the city’s economic development funds

"This is so inspiring to be at this site to look out at what was and to see how it's coming back to life in a new and even better form," Healey said, looking over at the former "moonscape" surface of Site 9 that is now greened over, a $10 million effort. 

"…One thing that we've leaned into as an administration is innovation. It's been core to who we are." 

An 8,000-square-foot addition is planned for the BIC to welcome a new company, Myrias Optics Inc. Myrias, a meta-optics producer, has a partnership with BIC tenant Electro Magnetic Applications for testing and simulation services, and the two companies will be able to work side by side once the expansion is complete. 

Project funding has been closed with this award, and shovels will be in the ground in the fall. Myrias will bring up to 55 employees to Pittsfield with an average salary of $110,000.

Patrick Larkin, founder and director of the Innovation Institute, the economic development division of the MassTech Collaborative, said this was only possible through the Tech Hub program that has "really catalyzed communities."

"This region has captured advanced optics. It’s where they want to build an economy," he reported. 

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