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Scope and Contents July 21, 1997. Agenda; list of members of Board of Directors, including discipline background, years on board, years of experience; questionnaire by Suffolk state Sen. Caesar Trunzo (of constituents?) re public issues, including education, with cover note from local teachers' association president to NYSUT executive vice president Alan Lubin, June 17; District Three IUE Scholarship Awards Journal 1997, with full-page ad by NYSUT; letter to Hobart from NYS Occupational Safety and Health...

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June 17, 1997. Agenda; list of names, SRP Recommendations for Service on NYSUT Committees; memo re budgets implications for new member project; letter to Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, endorsing Paul Cole for position in Labor Department, June 5; letters of thanks to Hobart

Scope and Contents June 3, 1997. Agenda; materials for NYSUT Education and Learning Trust Board of Trustees Meeting, including trust agreement, plan of benefits, appointment of trustee, power of attorney form, application for Employer Identification Number, notification of ERISA exemption, April 22; revised Plan of Benefit, May 30; 1997-98 NYSUT Budget; materials from Upstate New York Coalition for Democracy, including draft letters to the editor in response to opinion columns in Wall Street Journal and Daily...

Scope and Contents May 13, 1997. Agenda; memo to officers re responses to questions on renewable certification asked of local presidents preceding the 1997 Representative Assembly, May 13; handwritten note to Hobart from member of audience from Oceanside Federation of Teachers, asking for more gender and ethnic diversity on board, May 2; letter from Roosevelt Teachers' Association president to chair of Citizens' Advisory Council, objecting to "opprobrious language" in letter to chair of State Review Panel re...

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April 29, 1997. Agenda; letter from Sprint offering cellular service, with handwritten note re union/non- union status

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April 3-4, 1997. NYSUT Ad Hoc Task Force on New Members Final Report, June 1996; NYSUT Officers Retreat Summary of Homework Assignment, April 3-24, 1997, with individual officers' responses; memo to NYSUT officers re new NYSUT members, listing responses by successful locals re training programs; list of external and internal factors affecting NYSUT; outline, Vision of the New NYSUT for the 21st Century, with earlier hand- edited versions

Scope and Contents March 25, 1997. Agenda; Zogby New York Poll (a monthly series), re voter perceptions of elected officials, schools, March 1997; newspaper clipping re criticism of tax exemptions granted by Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs) as burden on school districts, tax payers; materials re Officers' Retreat; materials re NYSUT/ILR-Cornell Leadership Institute; tentative speakers and program for 1997 Representative Assembly; memo from the National Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty...

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March 13, 1997. Agenda of Joint Committee Meeting to Organize State University Research Foundation (SURF); budget outline for SUNY Campaign

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March 11, 1997. Agenda; letter to Hobart from United Farm Workers of America, asking him to renew membership; letter from New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, noting Pataki administration had targeted NYCOSH for elimination, forcing it to defend against aggressive state audit, change in NYS Department of Labor grant criteria; resolution in support of credit unions

Scope and Contents February 25, 1997. Agenda; letter from National Committee on Pay Equity, thanking Hobart for contribution; letter from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King Lecture Series on Race and Nonviolent Social Change, thanking NYSUT for contribution; letter from Hobart to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, noting contribution of $100 in honor of Al Shanker, then a patient, March 18, 1994; letter from Center for the Disabled, thanking Hobart for financial contribution and serving as...