Duke University 7/1/10: Duke Names New Trustee Members. Laurene M. Sperling will join the Duke University Board of Trustees next month. Sperling, of Wayland, Mass., is president of the Sperling Family Charitable Foundation, where she plays an active role investing in the social service sector. Her prior professional experience was in corporate finance and investment banking at Paine Webber, Inc. and Cowen and Co., and accounting for Ernst and Young. She is chair of the Bell Foundation, a national leader in after-school and summer programs for children at risk. In addition, she serves on the Board of Dean's Advisors for Harvard Business School, the Board of New Profit, Inc., the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Women's Cancers Visiting Committee, the Brigham and Women's Hospital Women's Health Leadership Council, and the Wayland Public Schools Foundation. She was a member of the Duke University Library Advisory Board from 1997 until 2010, serving as chair from 2006 through 2010. She earned a degree in accounting from Duke in 1978 and an MBA from Harvard in 1982.

Hofstra Athletics 5/5/10: Cassara named Hofstra's Men's Basketball Head Coach. Wayland resident Mo Cassara was named the new Hofstra University head men's basketball coach, it was announced today by Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz and Director of Athletics Jack Hayes. He has agreed to a multi-year deal with the University.

Two other articles on the hiring:

• ESPN 5/6/10: Hofstra moved quickly to replace Welsh
• FoxSports.com 5/7/10: After wild week Cassara benefits in end

Wayland Town Crier 4/30/10: Wayland resident named finalist for Big Brother of the Year. Many kids have big brothers whom they credit for mentoring and…

Wayland Town Crier 3/24/10: Wayland resident to perform classic songs in Watertown. Few adults can say that they are engaged in anything like the things they dreamed of as kids. Fewer still can say they are living their childhood dreams. But Steven SanSoucie of Wayland is one of these. "I wanted to be a singer ever since I was a kid," SanSoucie explained, having grown up listening (and singing along) to the music of the ’70s such as the Monkees and the Supremes. Now, over 20 years later, he is indeed performing the very same songs by the bands he idolized.

Wayland Town Crier 3/16/10: Residents win Partners in Excellence Awards. Partners HealthCare presented its 14th annual Partners in Excellence Awards to employees of Partners-affiliated institutions in December 2009 and January 2010. Award recipients are nominated by their colleagues and are selected on the basis of contributions "above and beyond the call of duty" in the areas of quality treatment and service, leadership and innovation, teamwork, operational efficiency and outstanding community contributions.

PRESS RELEASE   MASHANTUCKET, CT (February 9, 2010) –Foxwoods Resort Casino today announced that professional poker player and media personality Bernard Lee has been named…

Wayland attorneys Lawrence M. Green and Edward F. Perlman were both named 2009 “Massachusetts Super Lawyers” by Massachusetts Super Lawyers magazine.  Massachusetts Super Lawyers identifies…