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Jacob S. Segal Elected Chairman of Salem State Board of Trustees
At its June 3 meeting, Salem State College's board of trustees elected Salem attorney Jacob S. Segal Esq. chairman. Segal, a resident of Marblehead, is managing partner of the Salem law firm Ronan, Segal and Harrington, and has served the college in a number of capacities over the years. President of the Salem State College Foundation's board of directors from 1993-1997 and from 1999-2000, he was re-elected to a third term in September 2000. He was elected to the board of trustees in 2007.
He and his wife have also established the Marilyn J. and Jacob S. Segal Scholarship at the college, which is presented annually to a female student who is a single parent.
Born in Lynn and educated in the Lynn Public Schools, Segal attended Boston College and subsequently received three degrees from Boston University. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1961 and, prior to becoming associated with his current firm in 1970, he worked with the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bureau of Corporations and Taxation (now the Department of Revenue) and in the tax department of Coven & Suttenberg, a large regional accounting firm which subsequently merged with Ernst & Ernst.Segal also taught taxation at Bryant & Stratton Junior College in Boston, and at the Boston University Metropolitan College.
An active member of the Rotary Club of Salem, which he has served as president, he is also a recipient of Rotary's prestigious Paul Harris Fellowship. Mr. Segal has been a board member of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, the North Shore Jewish Federation and the Jewish Rehabilitation Center, and has served on the board of trustees of Boston's Museum of Science.
Salem State, established in 1854 as Salem Normal School, is a comprehensive, publicly supported institution of higher learning located approximately 15 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts. The college enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students representing 27 states and 65 nations, and is one of the largest state colleges in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.