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City of Beverly pays tribute to former CPF managing trustee Following unanimous approval by the Beverly City Council, the Beverly School Committee voted in November 1997 to name the city’s new elementary school at Cummings Center the James L. McKeown Elementary School in honor of Cummings Properties’ late president and CPF’s former managing trustee.
Four days before he died of a sudden heart attack in November 1996, Mr. McKeown met with Beverly officials and arranged for Cummings Properties to donate most of the 6.5 acres of land needed for the new school. Later, Beverly’s then-Mayor William Scanlon proposed the McKeown name and the city adopted it. In September 1998, Beverly dedicated its new James L. McKeown Elementary School at the northwest corner of the complex. Elsewhere on the Cummings Center campus Beverly has appropriated funding to design a new police headquarters, to be built in 2004 on land also donated by the Company at the southeast corner of Cummings Center. Currently, Cummings Properties Foundation's primary charitable focus is the McKeown Scholars Program, named after James L. McKeown. The program awards 20 merit scholarships of $5,000 each year to high school students in communities where Cummings Properties operates, including Beverly.
For more information about Mr. McKeown and his tenure
as president of Cummings Properties, or more about McKeown Scholars
Program, click on Cummings
Foundation. For information on the major new Interstate 93 highway
interchange named in Mr. McKeown’s honor in his home town of Woburn,
Massachusetts, click here on “New
bridges will honor late Cummings Properties president.” Also see
Massachusetts
General Law, Chapter 92 of the Acts of 1999, which was signed by
Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci on October 1, 1999.
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| Beverly 978-922-9000 | Woburn 781-935-8000 |
Mr. McKeown was instrumental
in introducing Cummings Properties to Beverly in December 1994. He led
the company’s negotiations for and subsequent purchase of the former
United Shoe Machinery Corporation's headquarters from The Black & Decker
Corporation.
In addition to these
$5,000 scholarships, the McKeown Scholars Program created a special
$10,000 award to specifically benefit 10 Beverly High School graduates
each year, who completed their elementary school education at McKeown
Elementary School (or its predecessor the McKay School). The McKeown
School Award is shared by the top 10 ranked Beverly High seniors who
are alumni of the McKeown School. Additional, similar awards totalling
another $60,000 annually are allocated each year to graduates of seven
other elementary schools in Beverly, Marlborough, Medford, Somerville
and Woburn. Since its establishment, the program has already distributed
more than $1 million in scholarships.