13 November, 2019
The Hopkinton High School Top of the Hill Program honors alumni for their exceptional achievements and contributions to society. This program is brought to you by The Hopkinton Parent Teacher Association, The Hopkinton Education Foundation, and the Hopkinton High School.
Induction Ceremony Tuesday November 26th @ 7pm
Hopkinton High School Auditorium
Ceremony & Light Refreshments
Class of 2019 Inductees:
Jean Scarlata - 1947 Dr. Patrick Lynch - 1977 Sam Sennott - 1996 Missy (MacDonald) Sadler - 2000 Matt Ellam - 2006
Thoughtful words from Tom Burke representing his relatives George V. And Walter A. Brown at the Top of the Hill Ceremony November 22nd 2016: “Tonight I can’t help but recall the words of President John F. Kennedy – ‘We must judge a country not only by the men it produces. But by the men it honors. By the men it remembers.’ In remembering these distinguished honorees , Hopkinton tells the world, These are our beloved sons and daughters. We nurtured them. We sent them forth. By honoring them, we bring honor to ourselves and all that we stand for.”
Class of 2019 Inductees:
Jean Scarlata - 1947
Jean Scarlata has always led by example and has made many contributions, both to her family and the entire community. She has been and continues to be a good role model for women.
Born and raised in Hopkinton, Ms. Scarlata lived on Fenton Street (in a home now owned by her daughter, Mary Scarlata Rowe) and spent summers in a cottage her parents built on 32 acres at what is now the end of Oakhurst Road. She attended Center School and Hopkinton High School when it occupied the building at 85 Main Street.
Growing up, Ms. Scarlata worked at Brown and Smith's, located at the bottom of Main Street. After graduating from high school, she attended the Fannie Farmer Cooking School, riding the bus from Hopkinton to the Ashland train station and then commuting by rail into Boston. After completing that program, she worked at the Veterans Administration at Cushing General Hospital complex in Framingham and then continued to work at the VA Medical Center when it relocated to West Roxbury. She loved traveling to her job there and enjoyed the atmosphere. She then took a job in the loan department at Framingham National Bank, eventually leaving that position to stay home and raise her family.
All three of her children attended the Hopkinton Public Schools. Ms. Scarlata volunteered in the classroom and transported them to their extra-curricular activities. She also taught religious education at St. John the Evangelist Church.
As her three children grew older, she took a part-time position as a bank teller. In 1981, she was recruited to work full-time at the Town of Hopkinton Water Department, from which she retired in 2015. Ms. Scarlata has been a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. John the Evangelist Parish since the 1990s and continues to serve as the treasurer.
Patrick Lynch, MD - 1977
"We played Dover-Sherborn in our third game [of the season] and Pat, a defensive back, broke his neck and was paralyzed," said classmate Aubrey Doyle in a December 7, 2008, article published in The MetroWest Daily News. "We had 30 guys on the team and after Pat got hurt some decided not to play. I remember there was a debate about whether we were going to continue the season... We didn't win a game the rest of the year. David Stickney and I were the captains and we somehow all hung in there. It was a very rough time. Pat would have been an all-league player if he hadn't gotten hurt. We all learned at a pretty young age that there are some things that are out of your control. You just have to learn to deal with them.”
Although confined to a wheelchair, Dr. Lynch graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1985, completed an internship in internal medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1986, and concluded his education with a residency in diagnostic radiology at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, in 1990.
Dr. Lynch has had an impressive professional journey. He has amassed knowledge and unrivaled expertise in women’s imaging, including ultrasonography, mammography, and breast MRI. As a radiologist, he has dedicated training and unique experience in diagnosing and treating disease and injury through the use of medical imaging techniques such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET), fusion imaging, and ultrasound. Throughout his many years of experience, Dr. Lynch has upheld a steadfast commitment to the ethical and professional standards of his practice, as evidenced by his sterling record, and ensures an impeccable degree of patient satisfaction in all facets of his work.
Dr. Lynch is certified with the American Board of Radiology and is a member of the American College of Radiology. He practices at CNY Diagnostic Imaging Associates, the first multimodality out-patient imaging center in Central New York, and lives in the Syracuse, New York, area.
Samuel Sennott - 1996
After graduating from Hopkinton High School, Dr. Sennott, who was captain of the football team, enrolled at Gordon College. He took a break from higher education after his freshman year and discovered his passion and career path through volunteering at the Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center. “It really changed my life,” Dr. Sennott said in a September 19, 2009, article published in The MetroWest Daily News. “It’s just a place filled with love and true compassion. That experience really changed my heart and my mind.”
Dr. Sennott returned to Gordon to complete his B.S. in Special Education, Elementary Education, and History and worked a series of jobs assisting children with disabilities. With their communication limitations in mind, he enrolled in an assistive and adaptive technology program at Simmons College (now University), earning a M.S. in Assistive Special Education Technology.
In 2009, Dr. Sennott co-created and launched the original Proloquo2Go, an iPhone program that takes on-screen text and reads it electronically. The iOS application helps people who have difficulty speaking due to a range of disabilities such as autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, and has been featured on the front page of The New York Times, by ABC News, and on 60 Minutes.
Dr. Sennott earned his Ph.D. in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Assistive Technology, and Special Education from Penn State University in 2013. Since then, he has been an assistant professor of special education at Portland State University’s Graduate School of Education. His clinical, research and development, and advocacy work continues to focus on assistive technology, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), language and literacy, and universal design.
Missy (MacDonald) Sadler - 2000
As a high school student, Ms. Sadler excelled at field hockey, basketball, and softball, serving as captain of each team. In addition to her athletic prowess, she was vice president of her class and president of the HHS chapter of the National Honor Society. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in psychology from Fairfield University in 2004, where she was the starter at 3rd base on their Division I softball team.
Ms. Sadler returned to Hopkinton to begin her career at EMC Corporation in their highly-regarded sales training program. She graduated at the top of her class and was promoted to field account executive in 2006, which took her to Southern California where she consistently over-achieved her sales quotas. Two years later, she returned to the Hopkinton area as a manager in the same sales training program from which she graduated, giving back to the program that helped make her successful. In 2010, she pursued a new challenge as a major account executive in Fairfield, Connecticut, where she was recognized as a top sales performer in the Americas.
Ms. Sadler also served as vice president of the EMC Field Women’s Leadership Forum, which sought to encourage greater female participation in a traditionally male dominated tech industry. In 2012, she once again felt the pull of home and decided to relocate back to the metro-Boston area as a senior account executive, managing the second- largest account for EMC in the New England region.
Ms. Sadler married in 2014 and, upon the birth of her second child in 2016, decided to temporarily trade in her sales career for work as a stay-at-home-mom. She continues to give back to the community by donating her time with several local organizations and leveraging her athletic expertise as a volunteer coach for the Medfield High School softball team. She currently resides in Medfield, Massachusetts, with her husband Steve, daughter Samantha (age 4) and son Jack (age 3).
Matt Ellam - 2006
Mr. Ellam graduated from Hopkinton High School in 2006 where he founded the Hiller Grillers, a tailgating fan club that has been grillin’ since 2004. A fourth-generation native of Hopkinton, he returned to Massachusetts after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 with a B.A. in Africana Studies and History.
As an undergraduate, Mr. Ellam conducted research on racial disparities in incarceration rates and the history of American drug policy while completing fieldwork inside of Pennsylvania correctional facilities. He then worked as a paralegal for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston where he investigated some of the largest and most complicated health care fraud cases in the United States. Hoping to uplift those individuals directly impacted by the criminal justice system, he continued his education at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2012, earning a B.S. and an M.S. in Nursing to become a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.
Since then, Mr. Ellam has devoted his academic and clinical time to promoting access to mental health care and substance abuse treatment in underserved and compromised populations, especially recent immigrants and formerly incarcerated people. He has designed, implemented, and managed nurse-run medication assisted treatment programs for opioid and alcohol use disorders in East Boston and Brockton, and provided comprehensive psychiatric care in English, Spanish, and Portuguese at community health centers in Worcester, Framingham, and Roxbury.
Currently, Mr. Ellam sees patients at a group private practice in Brookline while focusing on the growth of various projects to support equitable mental health care for all people regardless of ability to pay or speak English. In his spare time, he has volunteered as an English teacher at the Massachusetts Association for Portuguese Speakers.
Mr. Ellam lives in Boston, and he enjoys traveling locally and internationally to practice foreign languages, to eat sandwiches and other local cuisines, and to support the Celtics and Patriots wherever he goes.
