Home USFA NJ Division

NJ Division Home ---> Nominations.

Candidate Bios

The Executive Committee voted to permit all candidates for Division office to submit 150-word biographies to be posted on the Division Website on or about July 18, 2008. Per the Executive Committee's instructions, the biographies themselves are to be limited to discussion of the candidate's credentials for office. I have been instructed by the Executive Committee to review and edit any non-responsive or defamatory material before posting any biographies. Candidates wishing to post biographies should do so by forwarding them to me by email at jsavit@mail.com.

Update: All candidates for office were afforded the opportunity to post a brief bio of themselves. All bios submitted by the deadline of July 18, 2008 have been posted. Some candidates have elected not to post bios.

USFA NJ Division Nominations

The Nominating Committee considered applicants for the positions of Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Executive Committee, and Representative to Congress, and has nominated the following persons for the 2008-2009 year:

    Officers
  • Chair - Vincent Paragano (bio)
  • Vice Chair - Anne Strauss-Wieder (bio)
  • Treasurer - Debbie Bratsko (bio)
  • Secretary - George Bowden (bio)
  -   Executive Committee Members and
Representatives to USFA National Congress 		  -   Representatives to USFA National Congress
  • Charles Astudillo
  • Paul Apostol (bio)
  • Eric Bowden
  • Dirk Goldgar
  • Carol Gurnowski
  • Steve Kaplan
  • Pat Lawrence
  • Adam Pantel
  • Shameem Rehmane
  • (Alternate) Adam Pantel
Disclosure statements for each of these candidates are collected into in this document.

Petition candidates

Petition candidates for officer, membership on executive committee committee, and representative positions were nominated by written petition signed by 20 or more voting members of the division. Their names, the positions for which they are candidates, and their disclosure forms.

Petition candidates for officer positions
Steve Caputo - candidate for Chair - disclosure form
Nicole Lechner - candidate for Vice Chair - disclosure form
William Viqueira - candidate for Treasurer - disclosure form
Michele Iverson - candidate for Secretary - disclosure form

Petition candidates to be Executive Committee Members and Representatives to USFA National Congressbb
Jeff Bukantz - disclosure form
August De La Llave - disclosure form
Maria Gelman - disclosure form
Steve Kaplan - page 8 in nominating committee candidate disclosures
Dimitri Kopolov - disclosure form
Ivanka Lucchetti - disclosure form
Barbara Lynch - disclosure form
Bassam Merza - disclosure form
Frank Mustilli - disclosure form

Petition candidates to be Representatives to USFA National Congress
Alex Delaney - disclosure form
Rob Iverson - disclosure form
George Janto - disclosure form
Abigail Kong - disclosure form
David Kong - disclosure form
Anne Kong - disclosure form
Bill Lomuscio - disclosure form
Ibtihaq Muhammed - disclosure form
Zaida Pacheco - disclosure form
Rick Shellhouse - disclosure form
Demetrios Valsamis - disclosure form

Copyright © 2000-2008 New Jersey Division of the United States Fencing Association. All rights reserved.