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Dorothy Presser |
Immediate Past President
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Dorothy Presser has served on the Lynnfield School Committee for twelve years and has served as Chair of the committee for eight years. During that time, Ms. Presser became active in MASC, serving as Secretary-Treasurer in 2009 and President-Elect in 2010. Prior to being elected to the Executive Board, she served as Chair of Division I for two years and as Vice Chair for one year. She has also served on the Legislative Committee and on the Joint Conference Planning Committee. During her tenure as Division I Chair, she worked to increase participation by division members by holding multiple meetings each year on various topics identified by members. She has also participated in four Federal Relations Network conferences, three NSBA national conferences and two Leadership Conferences.
In Lynnfield, Ms. Presser has participated in numerous subcommittees of her board. She was the School Committee Liaison to the Capital Needs Building Committee and the successor School Building Committee, which oversaw the construction of a new Lynnfield Middle School, renovation of the Lynnfield High School and renovations and additions to the town’s two elementary schools. She was instrumental in developing the district’s first strategic plan. She has also been a member of the Budget Subcommittee and Policy Subcommittee and served as liaison to other town boards and committees, including the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee, the Health Advisory Committee and the Community Schools Board.
Since 2004, she has been President of the Suburban Coalition, an organization of local officials that represents the issues of local government to Beacon Hill. She has worked to raise the profile of the organization, forge relationships with other organizations with similar objectives and increase attendance at its annual Legislative Breakfast. Prior to serving as President, she was Vice President of the organization for three years.
Before being elected to the Lynnfield School Committee, Ms. Presser was on the School Council at Summer Street Elementary School in Lynnfield. She has also been a member of the Lynnfield Business Coalition, a local service organization.
Professionally, Dorothy Presser was a Co-coordinator of the Education Policy Fellowship Program at Northeastern University in 2009 and she was a fellow in the program in 2006. She has consulted for two organizations on education-related projects, one involving district strategic planning and the other involving an enrichment program for academic high- achievers. A native of Schenectady, NY, she and her husband have lived in Lynnfield for the past twenty-three years, where they have raised their two sons. Her oldest son graduated from Lynnfield High School in 2009 and her youngest is a student at the high school. |
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