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Thomas
Cooney |
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Executive
director, Forever Elmwood, nonprofit community-based organization
working to revitalize the Elmwood Village neighborhood commercial
district |
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Working
with cultural tourism and promotion of Olmsted Crescent |
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US
Navy, 1987-89, with service in the Persian Gulf and Caribbean |
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Buffalo
resident with bachelor's degree from Buffalo State College, where
he won Student of Merit Award from Western New York American Planning
Association; completing master's degree in urban planning at University
at Buffalo |
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Thomas
E. Gleed |
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Executive
assistant to Mayor Anthony Masiello whose work focuses on promoting
the City of Buffalo, chief of protocol for the City of Buffalo,
mayor's liaison to the gay and lesbian community |
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Active in
many community and political organizations, as a mayoral representative
serves on several boards and advisory committees |
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Founder and
former owner, Stuart Gleed, Inc., ladies and men's retails store
with locations in Orchard Park, NY, and Stuart, FL |
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Buffalo resident
with a bachelor's degree from Hobart College, master's degree
in special education from Buffalo State College, Certificate of
International Protocol from George Washington University |
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Darryll
J. Green |
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President
and general manager, WGRZ-TV, Gannett-owned NBC affiliate in Buffalo |
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Named 2002
"Manager of the Year" by Gannett, which owns USA Today,
24 television stations and numerous newspapers in the US |
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Board member
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo State College
Foundation, United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, NCCJ, Buffalo
Prep, Western New York Affiliate of Susan G. Komen Foundation |
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Awards include
- "Dollars and Sense" America's Best and Brightest Young
Business and Professional Men, Canisius College Center for Entrepreneurship
Honoree, Food Bank of WNY Citizen of the Year Award |
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Amherst resident
and certified public accountant with bachelor's degree from St.
John Fisher College |
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Brenda
Williams McDuffie |
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President/CEO,
Buffalo Urban League |
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Previously
executive director, Buffalo and Erie County Private Industry Council,
Inc., past president NYS Association of Employment and Training
Professionals; past president, Leadership Buffalo; secretary,
Independent Health Association; member Kaleida Health Trustee
Council; director, Western New York Foundation, Greater Buffalo
Savings Bank, Buffalo Niagara Convention and Visitors Bureau |
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Chair, Buffalo
State College Community Advisory Committee and former member,
Buffalo State College Council |
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Buffalo News
Citizen of the Year, United Way Volunteer of the Year |
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Buffalo resident
with bachelor's degree from Buffalo State College and graduate
certificate in human resource development from University at Buffalo
School of Management |
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Douglas
Nelson |
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Affiliated
with Miss America Organization for eight years, former field director,
participant in judges school |
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Executive
Director of Miss Onondaga County Scholarship Program, previously
affiliated with Miss Oswego County Scholarship Program |
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Sales manager
for Lerner New York store in Carousel Mall, Syracuse, NY, employed
by Limited Corp. |
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Resident
of Cicero, NY, involved in community organizations including Distributive
Education Clubs of America (DECA), for which he is a judge on
the local and state level |
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Completing
a bachelor's degree in vocational education at Oswego State College |
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Ted
Polczak |
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Affiliated
with Miss America Organization since 1978, when he was co-founder
and co-director of the Miss Oswego County Scholarship Program |
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Judges chair
and former field director for Miss New York State Scholarship
Organization |
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Judge for
many state and local pageants in Miss America Organization |
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Retired owner
of Ted's Gift and Jewelry Store in Pulaski, NY, which is near
his home in Mexico, NY |
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Honorable
Donna M. Siwek |
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New York
State Supreme Court Justice |
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Previously
principal law clerk to Hon. David J. Mahoney, New York State Supreme
Court Justice, and associate trial attorney with Farrell and Quackenbush |
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Director
of University of Buffalo Law School and Nardin Academy alumni
associations; community organizations include Lawyers for Learning,
Kids Voting Western New York, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and
The New Group at Albright-Knox Art Gallery |
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Instructor
at Canisius College with National Academy for Paralegal Studies |
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Buffalo resident
with bachelor's degree awarded cum laude from St. Lawrence University
and juris doctor degree from UB Law School |
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Karen
Young |
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Manager/marketing
director of Olean Center Mall, Olean |
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Executive
director, Miss Southern Tier Scholarship Program 2000 |
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Director
of several local pageants |
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Member of
numerous civic organizations, including Greater Olean Chamber
of Commerce |
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Attendee
at managerial and marketing conferences at Syracuse University
and Michigan State University |
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Resident
of Olean |
