February 9, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 5 Mahwah Three school board seats available in April election by Frank J. McMahon The Mahwah Board of Education will have three seats available in the April 27 election. The terms of Patricia Shada, Kenneth Angelo, and Peter Wendrychowicz all expire this year, and those trustees will have to seek reelection in order to stay on the board. Shada has indicated that she will seek another term, and Wendrychowicz has confirmed that he will seek reelection. Angelo said he is still undecided. Shada is seeking her fourth term. She was elected to the board in 2002 and reelected in 2005 and 2008. She has been a resident of the township since 1974 and she is a graduate of the University of Delaware with a BAAS in criminal justice. She has three daughters; one is a 2003 graduate of Mahwah High School, one is a junior at SUNY New Paltz, and one is a junior at Mahwah High School. Currently the board’s president, Shada is also the chairperson of the board’s Executive Committee and of the Instructional Committee. She is a member of the Special Education and Negotiations committees. She is a former president or vice president of the Home & School Organization at the Commodore Perry, George Washington, Joyce Kilmer, and Ramapo Ridge schools, and she is a founding member of the Mahwah Schools Foundation. If Angelo decides to run, he would be seeking his fourth term. Currently, he is the chairman of the Transportation Committee and is a member of the Facilities and the Public Relations committees. He had been the chairman of the Facilities Committee during the development and construction of new high school athletic field. Wendrychowicz has 39 years of experience in classroom education. He has been a member of the Mahwah School Board for 23 years, having served from 1985 to 1991, from 1992 to 2005, and then again from 2009 to the present. He has been the board’s president during two of his terms. A retired track and field coach at Suffern High School who still coaches track at that school, he was the school’s library media specialist from 1968 to 2004. Previously, he was the elementary school librarian for the Mahwah school system. The trustee is a graduate of King’s College in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, where he received a bachelor’s in English with a minor in history. He also graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with honors and a master’s degree in library and information science. This year’s election was moved from the third Tuesday in April, the traditional date of the school board election, to Wednesday, April 27 to avoid a conflict with a religious holiday. On April 27, registered voters will also have the opportunity to vote on the school district’s budget for 2011-12. Nominating petitions are currently available at the administrative offices of the school board, which is located on Ridge Road behind Mahwah High School. Petitions may be picked up between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. each weekday. Anyone interested in seeking election to a seat on the K-12 school board must complete and file the nominating petition with the school board secretary no later than 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8. Join Professor Richard Lettis on Feb. 9 as he discusses Mark Twain’s classic novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The program will be held at 7 p.m. in the Winter Room at the Mahwah Public Library. In his novel, Twain presents a powerful case for the idea of freedom. In a range of characters and forceful scenes, he describes a boy’s desperate struggle to free himself from his society’s restrictions, and his friend from its most dire form: slavery. So compelling and aggressive is this attack on the enemies of freedom, that “Huckleberry Finn” has been described as a subversive work of fiction. Lettis to discuss ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Dr. Lettis, professor emeritus of English literature at Long Island University, taught for 30 years on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He served as chairman of the English department and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has published two books, a pamphlet, and articles on Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and J.D. Salinger. Dr. Lettis earned his Ph.D. at Yale University and has edited several college textbooks. This program is free. No registration is necessary. The library is located at 100 Ridge Road. Call (201) 529-READ for more information. 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