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Salem State College Dedicates the Lynch Laboratory for Nursing and Occupational Therapy

February 7, 2007

Labs Named in Honor of Peter S. ’98H and Carolyn Lynch

Salem, Mass., On Saturday evening, February 3, Salem State College dedicated the Lynch Laboratory for Nursing and Occupational Therapy in honor of Peter and Carolyn Lynch.

In 2006, the Lynch Foundation offered Salem State College a challenge grant. If the college was able to raise $300,000 by December 31, 2006, the Lynch Foundation would match that amount with $400,000. The college successfully met the challenge and is using the gift to benefit its nursing and occupational therapy departments.

In specific, the college renovated the nursing skills laboratory and created a new occupational therapy laboratory, updated its computer software and hardware, purchased additional medical and clinical equipment and furniture, and converted classrooms into “Smart” classrooms to take advantage of the latest high-tech teaching aids.

According to Mary Farrell, director of Salem State College’s School of Nursing, “the Lynch gift will allow our nursing students access to some of the best—and most technologically advanced—educational tools currently available, thus ensuring the region of a continuing supply of highly skilled professionals.”

Among those in attendance at the dedication were Peter S. Lynch ’98H, Katie Everett, Mark Cohen and Marsha Wiggins of the Lynch Foundation, Representative John Keenan, Representative Mary Grant, North Shore Medical Center president Robert Norton, Salem State College trustees Lawrence McCully and James Hobin, Salem State College Foundation chair Jacob Segal and former trustee chair Karen Inman Morrissey.

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http://www.salemstate.edu/collegerelations/news/
2007/070207_lynch_laboratory.php