Wellington CEO honored by her alma mater, Fontbonne Academy, helping to raise $400,000 for school
In particular, Hynes singled out the late Mary McCready, a math teacher at Fontbonne who died in 2013. McCready helped Hynes realize how much she enjoyed the subject, which set her on the path to a career in finance. 'She made math exciting,' Hynes said.
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Hynes grew up in Milton, the daughter of two Irish immigrants who both believed in the benefits of Catholic school. She attended Saint Agatha School before going to Fontbonne, and then went to college at Wellesley College. She essentially spent her entire career at Wellington, getting in the door by landing an administrative assistant job there in 1991 after graduating from Wellesley.
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Hynes was one of three Fontbonne alums to be honored at the gala, along with Melissa Nelson, chief midwife at Mass. General Hospital, and Arielle Gaines, a teacher at the
Match Community Day
school in Hyde Park.
The fund-raising gala drew some 400 people. Fontbonne previously held this event every 10 years but this one, recognizing the school's 70th anniversary, was such a success that the school will now make it an annual event. (In other years, the school would hold smaller fund-raising dinners.)
Maura Spignesi, Fontbonne's head of school, said in honoring Hynes that Fontbonne leaders wanted to give the students an example of the leadership approaches they could take as they eventually advance in their own careers.
'When you're engaging with people and you care about what they're investing in, … that to me is the perfect role model for our 'servant leadership' that we teach here at Fontbonne,' Spignesi said. 'You're achieving things in your own life but how do you now turn around and do good in the world?.'
This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene.
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