Board Members

Paul Barbadoro, Esq.
Chair (September 2018 – Present)
Member of the Board (2010 – Present)

Paul Barbadoro, Esq. is a member of Quincy College’s Board of Governors. He serves as a partner at Baker, Braverman & Barbadoro, where he has represented clients in the areas of contract disputes, zoning and land use litigation, criminal defense, personal injury, probate litigation and election law for over 25 years. Mr. Barbadoro is a member of the Quincy Bar Association, of which he is a past president, and has previously served as legal counsel for the City of Quincy.

A former Quincy College student, Mr. Barbadoro continued his studies at UMass Boston, where he earned his bachelor’s degree, and later received his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. Mr. Barbadoro is a former adjunct instructor of business law and paralegal studies at Quincy College.

Joseph P. Shea
First Vice Chair (September 2018 – Present)
Member of the Board (2010 – Present)

Chairperson, Strategic Planning Committee
Member, By-laws Review Committee
Member, Compliance Committee
Member, Labor Relations Committee
Member, Personnel and Programs Committee

Joseph P. Shea is a Quincy College graduate. Mr. Shea is retired from the City of Quincy with 33 years as City Clerk, Clerk of the City Council, Chair of the Board of License Commissioners, and Chairman of the Board of Registrars. In November 2016, Mr. Shea was elected as a Norfolk County Commissioner for a four-year term. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Norfolk County Agricultural High School in Walpole, Massachusetts.

Mr. Shea earned his bachelor’s degree from Suffolk University and is a Certified Municipal Clerk (CMC) having attended the New England Municipal Clerks Institute & Academy at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island (2000-2003).

 

Carolyn O’Toole, R.N.
Second Vice Chair (September 2018 – Present)
Member of the Board (2012 – Present)

Chairperson, Personnel and Programs Committee
Member, By-laws Review Committee
Member, Nominating Committee

Carolyn O’Toole is a Quincy College graduate, a lifelong resident of Quincy and has an extensive health care background. She has held positions as a PPS/MDS Coordinator, a Charge Nurse and Nursing Supervisor. She has held the position of Director of Nursing Services at Marina Bay Skilled Nursing and Rehab Center in Quincy. She currently holds the position of Corporate Staff Educator for Alliance Health Management Services.

Governor O’Toole is a graduate of the LPN certificate program at Quincy College, and continued her education at Excelsior College in New York where she obtained her RN.

Eileen Bevivino-Lawton
Member of the Board (2014 – Present)

Chairperson, Labor Relations Committee
Member, Personnel & Programs Committee

Eileen Bevivino-Lawton joins the Quincy College Board of Governors with a career spanning four decades in the mental health and addictions field. She specializes in forensic assessment, mediation and child custody evaluations, bereavement support and critical stress debriefing/psychiatric emergency services.

A graduate of the Stonehill College and the Northeastern University Graduate School of Education, she is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor / Licensed Certified Social Worker and has held positions with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and Youth Services, the Plymouth County Court System, the Plymouth School Department and in a private practice.

A Diplomate of Clinical Forensic Counseling through the American College of Certified Forensic Counselors, Division of Psychology, she has also been part of the Organized Medical Staff of the Beth Israel Deaconess / Plymouth Hospital since 1985 as an Affiliate in the Department of Psychiatry.

In addition, Governor Bevivino-Lawton is a Justice of the Peace, an award winning Professional Photographer, a Realtor and an Amateur Softball Association Umpire.
Born and raised on the South Shore, she has resided in the town of Plymouth for 30 years.

Mary Jo Brogna
Member of the Board (2007-2016) (2018 – Present)

Chairperson, Finance & Facilities Committee
Member, Compliance Committee
Member, Nominating Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Committee

Mary Jo Brogna has joined the Board of Governors bringing over 25 years in nursing and nurse management experience. She is currently the Associate Chief Nurse for Throughput and Case Management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. Her expertise is in ambulatory, emergency and inpatient settings.

Governor Brogna holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Southeastern Massachusetts University and a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from the University of Massachusetts. She is a lifelong Quincy resident and has two daughters who have attended Quincy College.

Employer: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Christopher N. Carroll
Member of the Board (2018 – Present)

Chairperson, By-Laws Review Committee
Member, Finance & Facilities Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Committee

Christopher Carroll has joined the Board of Governors entering into 20 years of service for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the Division of Professional Licensure (“DPL”). Mr. Carroll has held four positions over the past 20 years at the DPL, of which he has extensive experience from the positions of Investigator, Board Counsel, Assistant Chief of Investigation and to his current positon of Chief of Investigations. Over the years he has worked closely with their 39 boards of registration and the Office of Private Occupational Schools.

Mr. Carroll earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Northeastern University, received his Master of Business Administration, and later received his J.D. from New England Law School and is a member of the Norfolk County Bar Association. He is a lifelong resident of Quincy.

Barbara Clarke
Member of the Board (2010 – Present)
Chairperson, Compliance Committee
Member, By-laws Review Committee
Member, Personnel & Programs Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Committee

Barbara Clarke brings to the Board of Governors a perspective based on broad experience in both public and private sectors. Ms. Clarke is a Certified Business Continuity Professional consulting on the development and execution of business continuity plans and strategies with businesses worldwide. Previously, Ms. Clarke worked for State Street Corporation. For 16 years she held positions in Continuity Planning and Corporate Training. She chaired North Quincy High School’s Business – School Partnership with State Street and Boston Financial for over 10 of those years. Prior to entering the private sector, Ms. Clarke spent 10 years as a Special Education teacher in the public school systems of Washington and California.

Ms. Clarke holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Pacific Lutheran University, and a Bachelor’s Degree from Whitman College.

Katherine P. Craven
Member of the Board (2018 – Present)

Member, Finance & Facilities Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Committee

Ms. Craven is the Chief Administrative and Financial Officer of Babson College.  The former Executive Director of the UMass Building Authority, she also served as the First Deputy State Treasurer, was the founding Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Building authority, and assisted in the writing of ten State budgets for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, with particular focus on hospital and education funding.

She has lectured on topics such as executive leadership and the state budget process at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Northeastern University, and the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts.

Katherine has been appointed to various government Transition Teams, serving as a co-chair for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s transition team in 2013, as a member of the transition teams for Governor Deval Patrick in 2006, State Treasurer Steven Grossman in 2010, and for both State Treasurer Deb Goldberg and Governor Charlie Baker in 2014.

Committed to community and public service, Katherine currently serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Board of Governors for the Harvard Club of Boston, is the Chairwoman of the Boston Public Facilities Commission, the Board of Directors of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, The Dorchester Boys’ and Girls’ Club, The ARC of Massachusetts, the Honorary Board for the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress, the Board of Incorporators for Partners Healthcare, Inc., is an associate member of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, the Pioneer Institute’s Shamie Center for Better Government, and is a former member of the Governor’s Commission on Mental Retardation and MassDevelopment.

A graduate of Harvard College and Boston Latin School, Ms. Craven resides in Brookline with her husband, Dr. Jim Kryzanski, and five children, Delia, Joseph, James, John Francis Xavier, and Fianna.

Thomas E. Fitzgerald, M.D.
Member of the Board (2012 – Present)

Member, Compliance Committee
Member, Finance and Facilities Committee
Member, Labor Relations Committee

Thomas E. Fitzgerald, M.D. was born and raised in Quincy and after completing his education he returned to Quincy to practice surgery. He has been in practice in Quincy for the past thirty years. During this time he has served as President of the Medical Staff at Quincy Medical Center and as a member of the Board of Governors during very tumultuous times in which they successfully secured the future of the hospital. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of a large surgical organization – Specialty Care, LLC.

Governor Fitzgerald is a graduate of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara School of Medicine and was a Fifth Pathway student at Boston University Medical School. After his fifth Pathway year with BU, he completed his surgical internship and residency through Tufts University at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. Governor Fitzgerald also served three years in the US army infantry, from 1969 to 1972. He holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Anselmo College.

Gregory M. Hanley
Member of the Board (2012 – Present)

Chairperson, Nominating Committee
Member, Compliance Committee
Member, Finance and Facilities Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Committee

With over 20 years of experience in Local and State government, Gregory M. Hanley, comes to the Quincy College Board of Governors with a diversified background in business and charitable public service.

A former Quincy City Councilor, Governor Hanley is employed as the General Manager of Commercial Sales for Economy Supply of Mattapan, MA and is a two-term Plymouth County Commissioner. He formerly served as a selectman in the Town of Plymouth and is a former member of the South Shore Work Investment Board, and the Massachusetts Board of Examiners for Plumbers and Gasfitters.

A 1987 graduate of Norwich University, Governor Hanley resides in the Town of Pembroke with his wife, Ann Marie and their 4 children.

Reverend James F. Hawker
Member of the Board (2012 – Present)

Member, Labor Relations Committee
Member, Nominating Committee
Member, Personnel and Programs Committee
Member, Strategic Planning Committee

Reverend James F. Hawker was born and raised in Boston’s South End. He was ordained a priest at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in 1963. Fr. Hawker was the Director of Religious Education for the 210 schools within the Archdiocese of Boston from 1973 to 1983. He was the Director of Religious Education – CCD for the 400 parishes with the Archdiocese from 1983 to 1993. Fr. Hawker represented the United States as a consultant to the Vatican in the area of education from 1990 to 1995.

He served in the Diocese of North Carolina from 1995 to 2008. During that period as the Diocesan Vicar for Education, Fr. Hawker was responsible for the seven educational agencies in the diocese. Fr. Hawker earned his Master’s Degree in both, Psychology and Theology during his period of formation at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton. He received his third Master’s Degree in Religious Education at Catholic University in Washington.

Presently Fr. Hawker volunteers at the Suffolk County House of Correction, ministers to heroin addicts, is involved in AA’s twelve-step program and assists at Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Parish in Waltham.

List of Board Members by Service Year