Spring 2005

• A Message from the Chairperson
• Jury awards teacher in "perceived as" disabled case
• Legal Update
• A Message from Eugene Rubin
• Celebrating the holidays
• Interview with George Fesko
• In Memoriam

A Message from Eugene Rubin, our UFT Liaison

Dear Colleagues:

This year is turning out to be yet another banner year for our committee. Our speakers are more and more dynamic, covering a wide variety of exciting and varied topics. And of course, this dynamism is reflected in the content of our Web site and our newsletter.

The committee has also initiated new programs, such as group dinners, museum excursions and a meet-the-members series. At one of these, recently, we were able to see a different side of our chairperson: Carolyn Herbst world traveler. Carolyn told us about being a Fulbright scholar in India and she presented her knowledge about textiles. We hope you will attend future sessions when we have the opportunity to see some of our committee colleagues in a fresh light, as individuals outside the role of educators.

Incidentally, after Carolyn was interviewed by a UFT reporter for our Educators Unlimited newsletter, the reporter arranged for her to be interviewed by two New York City middle school students and, unexpectedly, that interview was posted on the New York Post Web site.

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Committee Members Star at
UFT Teacher Union Day — Nov. 2004

Left photo: Eugene Rubin, UFT liaison to the Capably Disabled Committee and director of the union’s HIV Resource Specialists Office, was awarded the Albert Lee Smallheiser Award for extraordinary service to members.

Right photo: Jonas Bright Jr., who was recently elected paraprofessional representative at PS 811 in Brooklyn, a District 75 school, received the Marsh/Raimo Award for political action.

 

Carolyn Herbst, Committee Chairperson • Abbe Nosoff, Editor/Writer • Eugene Rubin, UFT Committee Liaison