Representing Blauvelt - Orangeburg – Pearl River – Tappan

Organizations:

• Camp Venture (President) - Serving the Developmentally Disabled
• Loeb House (Co-Founder and President) - Serving the Mentally Ill
• Rockland Psychiatric Center Board of Visitors (President)
• Marine Corps League
• NYS Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled and Surrogate Decision Making Committee
• Homes for Heroes (Co-Founder and President) - Serving Our Homeless Veterans
• Petition for Paula (Advocating Against Parole of Child Murderers)
• Ancient Order of Hibernians
• Lourdes Kids of Rockland

Former Associations:

• Abbott House for Children - Serving Abused, Abandoned, Neglected and Orphaned Children
• St. Dominic's Home for Children - Serving Abused, Abandoned, Neglected and Orphaned Children
• Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center (Charter Member)
• Joseph's Home (Co-founder and former President) - Serving Our Homeless
• United States Marine Corps
• Manhattan College
• Rockland County Boards of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and Alcoholism

Landmarks:

• Co-Creator of first County Child Advocacy Committee in New York State
• Founder of Rockland County's Youth Bureau
• One of first two males elected to the Board of Director's of St. Dominic's Home (after 125 years of Nuns only)
• Longest continually serving member of the Legislature (Serving Member since December 1971) 
• Elected to the Rockland County Civil Rights Hall of Fame
• Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree by St. Thomas Aquinas College
• Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree by Dominican College
• Most Honored Elected Public and Government Official in Orangetown History