Four honored as "Distinguished Bostonians"
Business leaders Micho Spring, Ted Cutler, Lawrence K. Fish, and Peter Meade will be inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Bostonians at a May ceremony, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce said today.
Spring, who was chief of staff for former Boston Mayor Kevin White and deputy mayor, heads the New England office of Weber Shandwick, a public relations firm.
Cutler, president of GWV Vacations of Needham, is a noted philanthropist who currently serves as chairman of Hebrew College and has served as chairman for Emerson College, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and other organizations.
Fish is chairman of the Citizens Financial Group, a Providence company that operates Citizens Bank. Under his leadership, Citizens has grown into one of the largest banking operations in the country. Fish serves as a director of Citizens' parent company, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, as a member of the MIT Corp., and as an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Meade currently serves as chairman of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, which manages the parks created as a result of the Big Dig construction project. He is a former executive vice president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state's largest health insurer and, prior to that, hosted a talk show on WBZ-AM radio for a decade.
The chamber created the academy in 1983. Since then, 79 members have been inducted, ranging from sports figures such as Celtics greats Arnold "Red" Auerbach and Bill Russell to politicians such as US Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Paul E. Tsongas to business leaders such as business leaders such as Digital Equipment Corp. founder Kenneth Olsen.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
