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DeLuca Elected to Marine Life Center Trustees
For immediate release: July 15, 2004
Contact: S. Riggs 508 743-9888
Jean M. DeLuca, a Partner with Mirick O'Connell, has been elected
a Trustee of the National Marine Life Center, Townsend Hornor, the
chair of the board announced recently.
Ms. DeLuca specializes in public law with a primary focus on municipal
finance, alternative public project delivery systems and privatization.
"Jean brings to our board a depth of experience that is extremely
helpful at this stage in our development," Mr. Hornor noted.
Ms. DeLuca is a resident of Falmouth and Cambridge. She earned
a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University and a Juris Doctor from
the Boston University School of Law.
She has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriters'
counsel for such tax exempt bond issuers as The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, MA Development Finance Agency, MA Health and Education
Facilities Authority, MA Port Authority, MA Water Resources Authority,
and the City of Boston. She has participated in multip[le financings
for non-profit organizations such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution and the New England Aquarium.
Prior to joining Mirick O'Connell, Ms. DeLuca was a partner in
the public law department of Palmer & Dodge.
The NMLC's mission is to provide medical care and then to release
stranded marine animals, and to advance science knowledge and education.
It operates an interim facility with two 12-foot diameter tanks
for cold-stunned turtles and stranded seals and a summer-time exhibit
center. It is raising funds to renovate its 17,000 square foot building
to create a hospital that can provide care for the full range of
animals that strand and a marine animal discovery center. The Trustees
are leading a campaign that includes funds from private and public
sources as well as financing.
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