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Statewide scholarship recipients announced
We are proud to announce
the recipients of the 2018 Irving Flaumenbaum Memorial Scholarships, Pearl Insurance
and MetLife Insurance Company Scholarships. Each year, our
union presents the $1,000 Irving Flaumenbaum Memorial Scholarship to 18 graduating high school seniors who are dependents of CSEA members, three in each region.
The Pearl Insurance and MetLife Insurance Company Scholarships each total $2,500 and are each awarded to one eligible graduating high school senior.
Congratulations to all of the recipients!
Irving Flaumenbaum Memorial Scholarships:
Long Island Region:
Nicole Niemiec, whose mother, Andrea Niemiec is a teacher’s assistant at the Bayport-Blue Point Schools.
Matthew V. Pecoraro, whose mother, Lois Pecoraro, is a food server at the North Babylon Union Free School District.
Joseph Sammartano, whose mother, Jennifer Sammartano, is a principal typist-clerk at Oceanside UFSD.
Metropolitan Region:
Evan Brewi, whose mother, Wendy Stynes, is a principal court attorney at the NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 2nd Department.
Kiara Leon, whose mother,
Yesenia Castillo, is a motor vehicle representative at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Grace Mosley, whose mother, Diana Ceccacci, is a principal court attorney at the NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 2nd Department.
Southern Region:
Claudette Garcia, whose mother, Karen Garcia, is a senior account clerk at the Wappingers Central School District.
William B. Schiele, whose mother, Peggy Schiele, is a clerk typist at the Minisink Valley Central School District.
Gabrielle Santoro, whose mother, Marleen Santoro, is an aide at the Port Jervis City School District.
Capital Region:
Michaela Eppich, whose father, Joseph Eppich, is a plant utilities engineer at SUNY Cobleskill. Bridey R. Nolan, whose mother,
Monica JB Nolan, is a teacher aide at Cambridge Central School.
Leah TumSuden, whose father, John J. TumSuden is a bus driver at Shenendahowa Central School.
Central Region:
Hannah Holt, whose mother, Nanette Holt, is a teacher assistant at the Potsdam Central School District.
Kevin Stalder, whose mother, Michelle Stalder, is a teaching assistant at the DeRuyter Central School District.
Mary Jamison Teixeira, whose mother, Dawn Teixeira, is an attendance clerk at Skaneateles School District.
Western Region:
Erin Harrington, whose mother, Andrea Harrington, is an account clerical IV at Niagara County.
Hannah Lewis, whose father, James
Lewis, is an environmental chemist at the Monroe County Environmental Services.
Claire Zickl, whose father, William Zickl, is a court attorney at the NYS Office of Court Administration.
Pearl Insurance Scholarship (in memory of Charles Foster)
Skylar Hasseck, whose mother, Wanda Hasseck, is a school monitor at the Bellmore Public Schools.
MetLife Insurance Company Scholarship (in memory of Joseph D. Lochner)
Jessie Mae Brooks, whose
mother, Lisbeth Ann Brooks, is
a campground coordinator at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Munio is PEOPLE recruiter of the month
NORWICH — CSEA Broome Developmental Disabilities Services Office (DDSO) Local Vice President Lori Munio is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month for May.
Munio
representatives to make sure our voices are heard.”
PEOPLE also helps us secure protections for workers that go far beyond the workplace.
“I know that the PEOPLE program helped get legislation passed to get additional paid screening for mammograms,” Munio said. “Because of that benefit, PEOPLE has helped women who I know with early detection to make sure they stay healthy.”
CSEA’s PEOPLE program protects and improves our
jobs, benefits and pensions
in Washington, Albany and in your community. Your support and participation in PEOPLE strengthens CSEA’s clout in the workplace, in the legislature, in your community and in the labor movement.
— Mark M. Kotzin
“The PEOPLE program protects working people,” said Munio,
an agency program aide at the Broome DDSO’s Valley Ridge Center for Intensive Treatment. “[PEOPLE] fights to hold onto the rights that we have and to fight for new rights. I urge all my union brothers and sisters to become members of PEOPLE if they are not already. We need to remain a force to be reckoned with, so we can have the people to lobby our
“I’m sticking with our union because I have a baby on the way and I know that our union will make sure my benefits remain available, specifically our health insurance, which is so important to me with all the medical cost”s I will have in the near future.
— Leigh Masker, office assistant 2, Madison County Department of Social Services Support Collection Unit
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July-August 2018
Learn more about member- only scholarhip opportunities at cseany.org/education.