Look Who Is Running for the Citizen's Nominating Committee

The election for the Citizen’s Nominating Committee is just weeks away. Voting will be held at Scarsdale Village Hall on Tuesday November 15th, 2011, from 7 - 9:30 A.M. and 2 - 9 P.M.

Qualified voters must be18 years of age or older, a Village resident for 30 days prior to the election and a U.S. citizen. You do not need to be a NYS registered voter to vote in the Citizens Nominating Committee Election.

If you won’t be in town on the 15th, or for physical reasons cannot get to the polls, you can vote by absentee ballot. Absentee ballots will be available on the Procedure Committee web site at www.ScarsdaleProcedureCommittee.org, at the Scarsdale Public Library and at Scarsdale Village Hall or can be requested from Michelle Lichtenberg, Chair, The Procedure Committee, (914-725-6545). Absentee ballots must be received by the Scarsdale Post Office by 5PM Monday, November 14th.

The ballot will include the names of the candidates as well as proposed amendments to the Non-Partisan resolution. You can see them on the Procedure committee website and we will also publish them on the site next week for your consideration.

Below are the bios of the residents who are running for the Nominating Committee. Each of Scarsdale’s five districts will elect two nominators, with the exception of Greenacres, where three slots are open.

EDGEWOOD (Vote for up to 2)

Nathan M. Barotz, 272 Madison Road Years of Residency: 11

Education: Duke University, BA, cum laude (‘87); George Washington University Law School, JD (‘91)

Occupation: Attorney (principal in Nathan M. Barotz, PLLC)

Professional activities: Member, Judicial Advisory Committee, Village of Scarsdale (’08- ); Member, New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, Committee on Real Estate Financing (’09- ) and Committee on Condominium and Cooperatives (’09- ); Arbitrator, Civil Court of the City of New York, Small Claims Division (’02- ); Arbitrator, Unified Court System of the State of New York, First Judicial District (’98-)

Current civic activities: Chairman, Board of Governors, Interfaith Hospital, Brooklyn, New York (September 2011); Member, Board of Governors, Interfaith Hospital, Brooklyn, New York (January 2011)

Betsy Bush, 980 Post Road Years of Residency: 12

Education: New York University, BFA (‘82); MA (‘88)

Occupation: Nonprofit grant writer; consultant

Professional activities: Program Officer, Westchester Community Foundation (‘05–‘11); Adjunct Professor, Pace University Graduate MPA program; Business owner, Drosselmeier’s, Inc. (‘98–‘05); Perlman & Perlman LLC, Government Affairs Specialist, (‘90–‘95)

Current civic activities: Hitchcock Church (’02- ): Session; Board of Deacons; community outreach committee; pastor search committee; Friends of Scarsdale Parks, 2011

Michael Duncanson, 8 Sprague Road Years of Residency: 23

Education: Brooklyn College, BS; New York University, MA

Occupation: Director of Planning and Operations, Family Court Mental Health Services, NYC/HHC

Current civic activities: Scarsdale Transfer Education Program (STEP) Board Member, (’99- ); Chair (’03-’05); STEP host parent; I.E. Scarsdale Tri-County Basketball League (’05- ); Village of Scarsdale Advisory Council on Human Relations (’08- ); IAABO Basketball Official (’95- ); Member-at-Large for Westchester Putnam Women’s Board of Basketball Officials (WPWBOA) (’08- ); member/leadership, Ridgeway Alliance Church

Previous civic activities: Scarsdale Bowl Committee (‘05-‘06); Coach, Scarsdale Youth Soccer Club (‘00-‘04); Special Assistant, Camp Winadu (‘00-‘09)

Ken Kehoe, 6 Southwoods Years of Residency: 15

Education: SUNY Oneonta, BA in Political Science

Occupation: Director Eastern Advertising Sales, Barron’s

Professional activities: Twenty-five years in Financial Advertising Sales including The Wall Street Journal (8 years) Barron’s Magazine, Barrons.com and Conference Event Sales; Member (’92- ), Financial Communication Society, an industry organization dedicated to raising funds benefiting three important children’s charities: Hope and Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund, Downey Side Adoption Agency and the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Vermont

Previous civic activities: Coach in Scarsdale Recreation Basketball, Soccer and Little League (‘99-‘06)

FOX MEADOW (Vote for up to 2)

Linda Blair, 11 Fox Meadow Road Years of Residency: 34

Education: Ohio State University, Goucher College, BA cum laude; University of Bridgeport, MA; New York School of Interior Design, Associate Degree

Occupation: Interior Design, commercial & residential, president of Blair Interiors Group and LBD Construction Management

Professional activities: President, American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), NY Metro chapter (‘04-‘05) and (‘95-‘96); Media Spokesperson, ASID National Society (’06- ); Arbiter, Construction American Arbitration Assn. (‘05- ); bylined columnist, New York Post; author, Design Sense, Wiley & Sons; Adjunct Professor, Pace University, NY School of Interior Design and Parsons

Current civic activities: Board member, Scarsdale Historical Society (’94- ); Member, Village of Scarsdale Historical Preservation Committee (’07- )

Previous civic activities: Member, Village of Scarsdale Board of Architectural Review (BAR) (‘95-‘01); Chair, BAR (‘00-‘01); Board member, United Way of Scarsdale-Edgemont (‘03-‘05); Member, Village of Scarsdale Special Ethics Board (‘92-‘94); Pro Bono design work: Show house for Scarsdale Woman’s Club (‘05), Scott & Dickenson Rooms, Scarsdale Library (‘03-‘04), Children’s Advocacy Center, Valhalla

Anita Mann, 28 Overhill Road Years of Residency: 8

Education: Baruch College, BBA Computer Information Systems (‘87)

Occupation: Currently stay-at-home mom with two sons attending Fox Meadow Elementary school. Fifteen-year professional career in Information Technology management; technical sales and consulting to financial services industry with Microsoft (‘99-‘02); various network and infrastructure technology management roles at MetLife (‘88-‘92) and (‘95-‘99) and at AIG (‘92-‘94)

Current civic activities: Active in the Fox Meadow PTA; Co-Chair, Junior League of Central Westchester nutrition project (‘09-‘10) and Chair, “Let’s Save the Earth” committee (‘11-‘12)

Previous civic activities: Fox Meadow Elementary School class mother; Board member, Overhill Neighborhood Association; Scarsdale New Residents Club officer, serving as Secretary and Newsletter Editor; Board member, Wilmot Woods Neighborhood Association; Hoff-Barthelson pre-school class mother and fund-raising activities; Hitchcock Presbyterian pre-school class mother

Salvatore Rao, 3 Chateaux Circle Years of Residency: 9

Education: Fordham University, majors in Philosophy and English

Occupation: Official Court Reporter (retired) in the NYC Civil Court and NYS Supreme Court; also took arbitrations at the NY Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and American Arbitration Association; fiction writer

Professional activities: Vice President of the Supreme Court Reporters Association within the City of New York (‘77-‘79); served on committees of the NYS Court Reporters Association investigating sound recording and computer-aided transcription

Current civic activities: President of the Board of Directors at the Scarsdale Chateaux (’08- )

Theodore Tyberg, MD, 55 Old Orchard Lane Years of Residency: 20

Education: CCNY, BS; Rush Medical College, MD; Cornell Residency, Yale Cardiology Fellowship

Occupation: Cardiologist with NY Cardiology Associates; Attending Staff at NY Presbyterian for 30 years

Professional activities: Secretary/Treasurer of NY State ACC (American College of Cardiology); served as President of the Attending Staff, Chairman's Advisory Board and General Faculty Counsel at NY Hospital; Founder/President of NY Cardiology; Rogosin Institute Consultant/Researcher

Current civic activities: Board of Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El (SSTTE) (second term); Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation fundraiser

Previous civic activities: Board and several committees of SSTTE; Host parent of STEP student; various philanthropies

GREENACRES (Vote for up to 3)

Glenn I. Fishman, MD, 13 Colvin Road Years of Residency: 21

Education: Cornell University, BA (‘78); Stanford University, MD (‘83); Harvard University, Internal Medicine (‘86); Columbia University, Cardiology (‘88)

Occupation: Director of Cardiology and the William Goldring Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine

Professional activities: Director of Cardiology, holds an endowed Professorship in Medicine, Physiology and Neuroscience and Pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine; chaired or participated in numerous search committees for senior faculty recruits at NYU School of Medicine; active in many heart-related professional organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association (Founders) and the Heart Rhythm Society; Chaired the American Heart Association Research Committee and currently serves as Chairman of the National Institutes of Health ESTA peer review group.

Previous civic activities: Coach, Scarsdale Recreation Soccer, Basketball and Softball teams

Michael Green, 8 Farley Road Years of Residency: 13

Education: Georgia Tech, BS Mechanical Engineering (‘59); Technion, Israel, MS, Aeronautical Engineering (‘71)

Occupation: Retired

Professional activities: Citibank, Head of Operations, North American Investment Bank, New York and Senior Country Operations Officer, UK Investment Bank, London (‘82-‘93); GreenTrak, business start-up: investment reporting service, sold to publicly-traded company in ‘04 (‘93-‘07); Instructor and Research Associate at Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) (‘68-‘71); engineering and engineering management positions related to the US space programs and industrial and manufacturing operations (‘59-‘68); owner of Baker Clothes, Inc., a high-quality men’s clothing manufacturing company (‘74-‘77)

Past Civic Activities: Coach, Scarsdale Recreation Girls Basketball teams (‘04-‘09)

Barbara L. Jaffe, 28 Kingston Road Years of Residency: 38

Education: Brown University, BA

Occupation: Legislative Aide, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (’06- );

Continuing Education Administrator, Westchester Community College, (‘00-‘06); Director of Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood (‘95-‘00)

Current civic activities: Scarsdale Representative, Westchester Community Development Advisory Group; Scarsdale League of Women Voters, member; Scarsdale Forum, member

Previous civic activities: Scarsdale Foundation (‘95-‘00), President (‘05-‘07); Citizens Nominating Committee (‘01-‘04); Scarsdale Planning Board (‘95–‘07), Chair (‘99–‘02); Scarsdale School Board (‘89-‘95), President (‘94-‘95); Scarsdale League of Women Voters: Board member (‘78-‘88), President (‘86-‘88); Greenacres, Middle School, & High School PTA Boards; PT Council Board; School Board Nominating Committee (‘83-‘85)

Mona Longman, 8 Varian Lane Years of Residency: 18

Education: Cornell University, BS; New York University, MBA

Occupation: Stock Trader

Current civic activities: Board member, Friends of the Scarsdale Library (’09- ); Co-Chair, Scarsdale High School Activities Fair (’07- ); Scarsdale High School Compact Committee (’11- )

Previous civic activities: Co-Chair, Temple Israel Center Dinner Dance (‘10); School Board Nominating Committee (‘07-‘09), Greenacres School PTA President (‘00-‘02)

Andrew Sereysky, 57 Walworth Avenue Years of Residency: 17

Education: Rutgers University, BA

Occupation: Marketing/Business Development

Current civic activities: Scarsdale Cable Commission: Member (’04- ), Chair (‘09–‘11); Greenacres Neighborhood Association Board: Member (’00- ), President (‘06–‘07)

Previous civic activities: Scarsdale Bowl Committee (‘08–‘10), Chair, Citation Committee (‘09); School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) (‘03–‘05); SBNC Administrative Committee Member (‘05–’06), Chair (‘06); Scarsdale Neighborhood Association Presidents (SNAP) Representative (‘06–‘07); Member, Board of Directors, Scarsdale Forum (TVCCEF) (‘08–‘09); Member, Board of Directors, Scarsdale Education Transfer Program (STEP) (‘03-‘05); Coach, Scarsdale Little League and Recreation sports teams (‘94–‘01)

Jeannette Warner-Goldstein, 6 Farley Road Years of Residency: 9

Education: Vanderbilt University, BA, JD; NYU School of Law, LLM in Taxation

Occupation: Attorney

Current civic activities: Board member, United Way of Westchester and Putnam; Co-Campaign Chair,

United Way of Scarsdale Edgemont; Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club

Previous civic activities: Board member, Junior League of Central Westchester; Board member, Vanderbilt Alumni Association; Junior League of the City of New York; frequent volunteer at Greenacres School and with Girls scouts and Cub Scout troops

HEATHCOTE (Vote for up to 2)

Norman W. Bernstein, 14 Wakefield Road Years of Residency: 8

Education: Columbia College, BA (‘59); Columbia Law School, LLB (‘64)

Occupation: Attorney

Professional activities: Trustee at three Superfund sites, one on US EPA’s national Priority List (current); Past Chair of the Committee on Litigation Management and Economics of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section) (mid-‘80s); Adjunct Professor, Wayne State Law School; Guest Lecturer at Yale Law School; author of articles on environmental law

Current civic activities: Member, Board of Directors of the Columbia University Club of Westchester County (’09- ); Member, Scarsdale Forum

Previous civic activities: Dean’s Award, Columbia College 50th reunion for leadership of ROTC panel (’09)

Ray Cooper, 18 Canterbury Road Years of Residency: 12

Education: Lehigh University, BS; University of Chicago, MBA

Occupation: Managing Director, Citigroup Global Healthcare

Professional activities: 19 years advising public & private healthcare services companies in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, corporate financing, and strategic planning

Previous civic activities: Little League coach (‘07-‘08); Tri-County Basketball League & JBL Basketball coach (‘09-‘10); enthusiastic neighbor and participant in the Scarsdale community

David Michaels, 41 Graham Road Years of Residency: 22

Education: Cornell University, BS in Business (’80)

Occupation: Senior Relationship Manager in Wells Fargo Bank’s New York City Regional Commercial Banking Office with over thirty years of commercial and investment banking experience; previously held senior management positions at JPMorgan Chase and Wachovia Bank

Current civic activities: Presently serves on the Boards of The Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance and Cornell Hillel; active congregant at Westchester Reform Temple, serving on the Board as Treasurer, Vice President, and Chair of the Finance Committee (‘99-‘09)

Previous civic activities: Scarsdale High School PTA Scholarship Fund (‘06-‘08); Maroon and White (‘07-‘10); Scarsdale Youth Soccer Club (‘98-‘08)

Emilia Rodriguez, 334 Heathcote Road Years of Residency: 17

Education: New York University, BA in English & Politics (‘81), New York University School of Law, JD (‘84)

Occupation: Volunteer Attorney

Professional activities: Pace Women’s Justice Center: Volunteer Attorney, (’09- )

Current civic activities: Scarsdale School District: Committee on Special Education, Representative (’06- ); Scarsdale High School PTA: Library Volunteer (’10- )

Previous civic activities: St. Pius X Church: President, Religious Education PTA, (‘99-‘09); Scarsdale High School PTA: Volunteer Service Committee, Co-Chair (‘04-‘06), CHILD (Children Having Individual Learning Differences) Representative (‘03-‘04); Heathcote PTA: Multicultural Committee, Co-Chair (‘00-‘02); Notecards Committee, Chair (‘95-‘97); Junior League of Central Westchester (‘94-‘96)

QUAKER RIDGE (Vote for up to 2)

Douglas R. Birns, 15 Haverford Avenue Years of Residency: 19

Education: Middlebury College, AB, cum laude (’77); SUNY Downstate Medical Center, MD (’81); The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Surgical Internship and Residency in Genito-Urinary Surgery (’81-’86)

Occupation: Physician and Partner at Klein Birns Urology

Professional activities: Managing Partner, Manhattan Medical Development LLP, a real estate management firm for medical facilities; Managing Partner, Premier Professionals of NY, a multi-specialty medical practice in Manhattan specializing in Urologic and Oncologic medicine

Current civic activities: Member, Heathcote Five Corner Coalition; Vice President, Quaker Ridge Neighborhood Association

Previous civic activities: Men’s Club President, Westchester Reform Temple (‘01-‘03); Trustee, Westchester Reform Temple (‘04-‘11); Coach, Westchester Reform Temple Basketball team (‘02-’10); Coach, Scarsdale Recreation Soccer teams (‘01-‘02)

Norbert Elsner, MD, 5 Westview Lane Years of Residency: 16

Education: MD, MA

Occupation: Associate Director, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center (Bronx, NY); Attending physician; Emergency Medicine

Kenneth Keats, 6 Thornwood Place Years of Residency: 11

Education: Syracuse University, BA (‘86); Fordham University, MBA (‘91)

Occupation: Deutsche Bank, Director, Emerging Market Sales

Current civic activities: TVCC Education Forum; Beach Point Club Dining committee

Previous civic activities: School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) (‘06-‘09), SBNC Chair (‘09-‘10); Scarsdale Bowl Committee (‘07-‘09)

Joseph E. Sarachek, 22 Harvest Drive Years of Residency: 13

Education: Cornell University, BS in Economics and Political Science; New York Law School, JD

Occupation: Managing Partner, Triax Capital Advisors; Restructuring Professional and bankruptcy lawyer

Professional activities: Founder and Managing Partner, Triax Capital Advisors (‘01- ); Chairman of the Board of Chazak Value Corp. (‘04- ); Member, Board of Directors of Kominox, a South Korean-based experimental cancer drug company (‘06- ); awarded 2010 Turnaround of the Year for Small Companies by the Turnaround Management Association, for work as Chapter 7 Trustee of Agriprocessors; Portfolio Manager and consultant, Balfour Investors, Inc.; Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLC (dates?); Bankruptcy Attorney, Kelley Drye & Warren (‘89-’93)

Current civic activities: Member, Young Israel of Scarsdale (’98- ); Member, Senate Club of AIPAC (‘03- ); Member, Turnaround Management Association (‘97- ); the American Bankruptcy Institute (‘87- ); the Commercial Finance Association (‘03- ); American Bar Association (‘87); Lecturer for the Cornell Entrepreneur Network, Winter 2010 and the American Bankruptcy Institute

Past civic activities: Chair, Annual Golf Outing and several large fundraisers, Young Israel of Scarsdale (’01- ); Coach, Scarsdale Little League (‘01-‘03)