The Cheshire Academy Board of Trustees precocious elected 4 caller trustees, including Dr. William A. Petit Jr.
Petit is presently serving his 3rd word arsenic Connecticut authorities typical of the 22nd District, representing the towns of Plainville and New Britain. From 2019-2002, Petit has served arsenic a ranking subordinate of the Public Health Committee, and arsenic a subordinate of the Education and Energy and Technology committees.
Petit has a wealthiness of cognition successful the aesculapian field, having antecedently operated a signifier successful Plainville from 1989-2007.
In 1997, Petit was chosen to go the aesculapian manager of the Joslin Diabetes Center astatine what is present the Central Hospital of Connecticut. He besides served arsenic Plainville’s manager of nationalist wellness from 1994-2008.
Petit has beardown ties to Cheshire Academy, arsenic his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, antecedently served arsenic the school’s co-director of the Richmond Health Center. After the nonaccomplishment of Jennifer and his 2 daughters, Hayley and Michaela, Dr. Petit — with the assistance of friends and household — formed the Petit Family Foundation successful their memory.
In summation to his nonrecreational and charitable work, Petit serves connected countless committees and boards for the sciences, home violence, education, and different efforts.
A postgraduate of Plainville High School, helium earned an undergraduate grade from Dartmouth University, a aesculapian grade from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and completed a fellowship successful endocrinology astatine the Yale School of Medicine. He presently lives successful Plainville.
The different caller trustees are Mitchell Herman, Suparna Mody and Todd Savage, with each bringing, “immense knowledge, skills, and acquisition from their nonrecreational and idiosyncratic lives,” according to the Academy.
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