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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 12, 2006

UUP re-elects officers, chooses board members

Representatives to United University Professions Spring 2006 Delegate Assembly have elected three officers and five executive Board members to two-year terms.

Frederick Floss, a professor of economics and finance at Buffalo State College, was re-elected to a second term as UUP’s Vice President for Academics. John Marino, an associate director of radiology at SUNY Stony Brook’s Health Science Center, was re-elected to a fourth term as UUP’s Vice President for Professionals. Rowena Blackman-Stroud,  teaching hospital associate director of nuclear medicine at SUNY Brooklyn’s Health Science Center, was re-elected to a seventh term as UUP’s Treasurer.

The following three members were re-elected to UUP’s Executive Board:

Lorna Arrington, an associate professor at the Equal Opportunity Center (EOC) at the University of Buffalo;

Raymond Dannenhoffer, a University support specialist in anatomical sciences and associate dean for support services, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of  Buffalo’s Health Science Center and president of UUP’s Buffalo Health Science Center chapter; and

Candelario Franco, a senior admissions advisor at SUNY College of Old Westbury and president of UUP’s Old Westbury chapter.

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

James Fort, a professor of social sciences at SUNY Cobleskill and president of UUP’s Cobleskill chapter; and

Donald Pisani, a teaching hospital social worker at SUNY Stony Brook’s Health Science Center.    

Nearly 300 UUP delegates voted in the elections conducted during the Delegate Assembly held in Albany April 21-22.           

Photos of the officers and Executive Board are available upon request

UUP represents more then 34,000 academic and professional faculty on 29 New York state-operated campuses, and is an affiliate of New York State United Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. Scheuerman also serves as president of AFT’s Higher Education Program and Policy Council, representing 150,000 higher education union members across the nation.     

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