The board of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary reached outside the organisation yesterday by electing Boston Celtics co-owner Wycliffe Grousbeck as it's chairman.

Grousbeck, whose 17-year-old son has been blind since birth, has for years been involved with members of his family in helping to fund research and educational initiatives related to blindness and other conditions. Last fall, the Grousbeck Family Foundation donated $10 million to the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, where his son, Campbell, is a student.

Mass. Eye and Ear, a Harvard University teaching hospital founded in 1824, recruited Grousbeck after a year-and-a-half search to fill the seat of current board chairwoman Diane E. Kaneb, who is set to retire March 24. Grousbeck will become a board member immediately and take over as chairman when Kaneb departs. (Lees meer...)

Bron: Boston Globe - 27/1/2010

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