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May 1 2 , 2005

Union delegates also pick other officers, board members
Scheuerman re-elected UUP president

 

Albany, May 12, 2005—Representatives to the United University Professions Spring 2005 Delegate Assembly have reelected United University Professions President William E. Scheuerman to a seventh, two-year term in office.  Scheuerman is on leave from SUNY Oswego, where he served as a professor of political science.

The nearly 300 delegates meeting here on May 6th and 7th also reelected two other officers to two-year terms:

Eileen Landy, an associate professor of sociology at SUNY College of Old Westbury, was re-elected to a third term as UUP’s statewide secretary; and Edward Quinn, assistant to the chair of the Theatre Arts at SUNY Stony Brook, was reelected to a second term as UUP’s membership development officer.

The following eight members were elected to UUP’s Executive Board:

Harvey Axlerod, a computer discipline officer at SUNY Buffalo; 

Patricia Bentley, a librarian at SUNY Plattsburgh;

Weston Kennison, a part-time lecturer in English at SUNY Geneseo;

F. Glenn McNittt, associate professor of political science at New Paltz;

Candace Merbler, a librarian at SUNY Albany;

Robert Rees, an electrical engineering professor at Alfred;

Michael Smiles, a biology professor at SUNY Farmingdale; and

Darryl Wood, a staff associate at the Center for the arts at Binghamton University.

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UUP represents more then 34,000 academic and professional faculty on 29 New York State-operated campuses, and is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT).    

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