PAMELA SPEAR of New London was appointed director of the Baird Health and Counseling Center at Colby-Sawyer College. Spear worked at Haemonetics Corporation in Braintree, Mass, for 21 years and held a number of positions including manager of donor center operations at New England Medical Center Hospital, director of disposable manufacturing and, for the last seven years, vice president of quality systems.

KATHARINE CRAWFORD has opened a new general practice law firm, Crawford Law. She will be traveling around the area to meet at the convenience of her clients.

JOHN ARNOLD of Manchester and MICHAEL CRETELLA of Concord have joined the law firm of Orr and Reno in Concord as general practitioners. Arnold was a judicial intern for Judge Nathaniel Gorton in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Arnold worked at the firm as a summer associate and also interned in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Concord. Cretella completed a judicial externship with Chief Justice Paul Reiber of the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier, Vt., and was a summer associate at the firm.

ADAM RICK of Concord has joined Preti Flaherty as an associate based in the firm's Concord office. Rick practices primarily with the firm's litigation group. Before joining the firm, he externed with Judge Jeffrey Howard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

ROBERT DIETEL of Concord has joined the law firm of Gallagher, Callahan and Gartrell of Concord as an associate. Dietel is a member of the firm's multidisciplinary team, concentrating in land use, estate planning and general corporate and commercial law. Dietel was an advertising manager with SAIL magazine in Boston. While in law school, Dietel served as a judicial intern to Judge Gordon Piper of the Massachusetts Land Court.

CHARLES BAUER of Concord, MICHAEL CALLAHAN of Henniker, W. JOHN FUNK of Gilmanton and MATTHEW CAIRNS of Hopkinton, attorneys with the firm of Gallagher, Callahan and Gartrell of Concord, have been selected for the 2009 edition of New England Super Lawyers. Funk also received the Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser award given by the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Northern New England Chapter.

TUPPER KINDER of Goffstown, RICHARD LEVINE of Boston, PETER MOSSEAU of Contoocook, RICHARD NELSON of Concord and WILLIAM SATURLEY of Concord, attorneys with the firm of Nelson, Kinder Mosseau and Saturley of Manchester, have been selected for the 2009 edition of New England Super Lawyers.

Fourteen attorneys with the firm of Devine Millimet in Manchester have been selected for the 2009 edition of New England Super Lawyers: DAVID BARNES, PETER BEESON, MARK BROTH, DANIEL CALLAGHAN, STEVEN COHEN, FREDERICK COOLBROTH, ANDREW DUNN, CHARLES GIACOPELLI, NEWTON KERSHAW JR., GEORGE MOORE, ANU MULLIKIN, DAVID PHILLIPS, PAUL REMUS and ALEXANDER WALKER JR.

LINDA DAUER of Plymouth has been appointed associate vice president for finance and administration at Plymouth State University. Dauer has served as the director of budget and financial planning since 2006. Before joining the university, she worked as a financial forecasting analyst at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative and for 11 years at Kennedy and Coe, a regional CPA firm in Colorado.

PAM SULLIVAN of Dunbarton, owner of Sullivan Creative in Concord and Newton, Mass., and past president of the New England Direct Marketing Association, was the chairperson of the New England Direct Marketing Association's 60th anniversary celebration and scholarship foundation event last week in Boston. The foundation annually gives scholarships to two students from New England pursuing a career in direct marketing.

STEPHEN DUPREY, CLAUDIA WALKER and PETER ELLINWOOD will again co-chair the Merrimack County Savings Bank Rock 'n' Race that benefits Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care. The eighth annual 5K run/walk will be held May 19.