Swift appoints 3 new trustees

lumni of the Boston and Dartmouth campuses have been appointed by Acting Gov. Jane Swift to fill three vacancies on the 22-member Board of Trustees.
The new board members are Dennis G. Austin, director of state government relations for Raytheon Company; Lawrence Boyle, senior partner at the Boston law firm of Morrison, Mahoney & Miller; and James J. Karam, president and founder of First Bristol Corporation, a property development and management firm in Fall River.

     The new trustees fill seats vacated by Daniel E. Bogan, Robert S. Karam and Peter K. Lewenberg.

     In his post at Raytheon's Lexington headquarters, Austin is responsible for communicating the company's priorities to local, county and state government officials. A resident of Duxbury, he is a graduate of UMass Boston and Suffolk University School of Law.

     Boyle is also an alumnus of the Boston campus and Suffolk Law School and currently lives in Milton. He is a member of his law firm's management committee and a former adjunct faculty member at Stonehill College and Boston University.

     A resident of Tiverton, Rhode Island, Karam graduated from UMass Dartmouth in 1971, which also awarded him an honorary doctorate. Since 2000, he has served on the Investments Committee of the University of Massachusetts Foundation. He is the brother of former Board of Trustees chair Robert S. Karam.