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District 1 announced that a new scholarship program for labor studies at Cornell University and elsewhere will honor the district's recently retired vice president, Larry Mancino. District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton made the announcement at a dinner in Mancino's honor on June 23. The program will initially be funded for one or more stewards to participate in a series of six labor studies courses for college credit at Cornell beginning this fall. The credits may also be applied to studies at the National Labor College. Cornell sent Mancino an honorary certificate from the new Larry Mancino Labor Course and invited him to teach at the university. Shelton also presented Mancino with a crystal lion made by Steuben Glass, a union company, and engraved, "to symbolize the courage, strength and dignity that were his hallmarks in his role as the guardian of the members of CWA District 1."
Calvin Money, 58, assistant to CWA Public, Health Care and Education Workers Vice President Brooks Sunkett, has retired. An employee of the Gloucester County, N.J., Welfare Board from 1970, Money became a steward in CWA Local 1085 in 1973. He subsequently served as local vice president and president. He joined the staff as a CWA representative in North Haven, Conn., in April 1981. He served on the University of Connecticut Labor Education Center and Labor Advisory Committee and, from 1985 to 1987, as vice president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO. In December 1986, he transferred to District 1's Trenton, N.J., office, and in October 2001, moved to CWA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., as Sunkett's assistant. Sunkett noted that Money is a minister and said that when the two traveled to South Africa in 1994 as observers for the first free elections there, ending apartheid, there was still sporadic violence. "Calvin offered to pray for people, and at first they turned him down. But that night there was an explosion about two blocks from our hotel. Then Calvin's phone was ringing off the hook with people who wanted to take him up on the offer."
NABET-CWA Network Coordinator John Krieger has retired after a 54-year career that began with jobs in print and broadcast journalism in Buffalo, N.Y. A 1951 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Krieger was honored by its Journalism and Communication School as "Alumnus of the Year" in 2002 and received numerous other journalism awards. He served as vice president and president of NABET-CWA Local 51025 and was elected to five terms, totaling 10 years, as vice president of NABET Region 2. Krieger joined the national staff as an international representative in 1981. "Throughout your career, you have worked for the benefit of our membership and played a significant role in improving the lives of workers in broadcasting," NABET-CWA President John Clark said in praising Krieger at his retirement luncheon. "Our membership and our union will miss your dedication and expertise." Krieger said he didn't have any specific retirement plans, joking that the word "retirement" had never been in his vocabulary. "Now I will make every effort to find out what the word really means," he said.
Calvin Money, 58, assistant to CWA Public, Health Care and Education Workers Vice President Brooks Sunkett, has retired. An employee of the Gloucester County, N.J., Welfare Board from 1970, Money became a steward in CWA Local 1085 in 1973. He subsequently served as local vice president and president. He joined the staff as a CWA representative in North Haven, Conn., in April 1981. He served on the University of Connecticut Labor Education Center and Labor Advisory Committee and, from 1985 to 1987, as vice president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO. In December 1986, he transferred to District 1's Trenton, N.J., office, and in October 2001, moved to CWA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., as Sunkett's assistant. Sunkett noted that Money is a minister and said that when the two traveled to South Africa in 1994 as observers for the first free elections there, ending apartheid, there was still sporadic violence. "Calvin offered to pray for people, and at first they turned him down. But that night there was an explosion about two blocks from our hotel. Then Calvin's phone was ringing off the hook with people who wanted to take him up on the offer."
NABET-CWA Network Coordinator John Krieger has retired after a 54-year career that began with jobs in print and broadcast journalism in Buffalo, N.Y. A 1951 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Krieger was honored by its Journalism and Communication School as "Alumnus of the Year" in 2002 and received numerous other journalism awards. He served as vice president and president of NABET-CWA Local 51025 and was elected to five terms, totaling 10 years, as vice president of NABET Region 2. Krieger joined the national staff as an international representative in 1981. "Throughout your career, you have worked for the benefit of our membership and played a significant role in improving the lives of workers in broadcasting," NABET-CWA President John Clark said in praising Krieger at his retirement luncheon. "Our membership and our union will miss your dedication and expertise." Krieger said he didn't have any specific retirement plans, joking that the word "retirement" had never been in his vocabulary. "Now I will make every effort to find out what the word really means," he said.