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Tom Sexton
(day/month birth not given) Sexton was born in 1940 in Lowell Mass. graduating from Salem State in 1968 with a major in English. He then went on to get his masters at the University of Alaska and was hired after graduation to start a creative writing program there. He has publish 13 books of poetry and was named poet laureate of Alaska from 1995-2000
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John F. Tierney
Born in Salem in 1951 Tierney graduated from Salem State University in 1973 with a major in Political Science. From there he went on to study Law at Suffolk University in 1976. After his graduation he became a memebr of the Salem chamber of commerce from 1976- 1996. After a second attempt for a congress seat he won, holding the postion from Jan. 1997 to Jan. 3, 2015 when he resigned from office.
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Brian Lees
Lees grew up in Amesbury Mass. attending Salem State and graduating in 1975 with a degree in business. Earlier in his career as a politician he served as the Hampden County Clerk of Courts. He was the Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader while he held the senate seat for the First Hampden and Hampshire districts up until 2007.
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Richard "Dick" Lamby
Lamby went to Salem State for the first two years of his college career. He made the decision to transfer to Boston University finshing out his degree and playing hockey becoming a two-time All-American. In 1976 Lamby was selected to be on the US Olympic hockey team for the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
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Tom Thibodeau
Born in New Britain, Conn. in 1958 he graduated from Salem state in 1981 with a BA in counseling and later a MBA. After helping the SSU basketball team to it first NCAA tournament bid his senior year he came back after graduation as an assitant coach and then headcoach, leaving for an assitant postion at Harvard University shortly after. In 1989 he got his first NBA assitant coaching postion with the Minnesota Timerwolves, returning in 2016 as a headcoach. Source Photo Credit -
Mark Parisi
Parisi attented Salem State and graduated with a graphic design degree. He decided that he wanted to persue cartoons regardless of the little income they created. He created off the mark and in 2008 and 2011 it won the National Cartoonists Society award for Best Newspaper Comic Panel and has been nominated another four times.
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Kimberly Driscoll
Driscoll graduated from Salem State in 1989. She served two terms with the Salem City council and was the Chef legal counsel for the city of Chelsea Mass. before become Salem's Mayor. Driscoll was the city's first female mayor. She has been the mayor of Salem since 2006 and at one time was the president of the Massachusetts Mayors Association.
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Julie McNiven
McNiven grew up in Amherst Mass. and graduated from Salem State in 2003 with a BFA in Theater. Since her graduation she has filled resume with supporting, recurring, and lead roles in films, television and theater. She is most well-known for her recurring appearances on Supernatural and Mad Men.
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Siobhan Magnus
Magnus attended Salem State and later auditioned for American Idol and got a ticket to Hollywood making it to the top 10 on ninth season of America Idol in 2010. Since her American Idol experience she has written and released an album titled Moonbaby and performed in concerts all around Massachusetts.
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Heather Connell
(no birth date was found) Heather Connell graduted from Salem State University with a degrees in screenwriting and theater arts. In 2001 Connell uprooted from her home in Massachusettes to live in LA, there she founded Displaced Yankee Productions. Her first feature documentary Small Voices: The Stories of Cambodia's Children won multiple Festival awards. source
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