Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • November 16, 2011 Ramsey Just over 25 percent of Ramsey’s registered voters turned out to cast their ballots in last week’s contested general election. Democratic challenger Louis Moore received 973 votes, but did not win one of the two available seats on the council. The incumbent Republican council members handily won re-election, with Bruce Vozeh earning 1,564 ballots and Kenneth Tyburczy receiving 1,488. Vozeh is a life-long Ramsey resident. He is completing his second term on the council, where he has served as council president and finance chairman. The candidate is a graduate of Bucknell University and of Pace University, where he received his MBA. He is vice president of Sempra Commodities. Prior to his election to the borough council, he was a Ramsey Board of Education trustee. As a member of that board, he chaired the Personnel Committee and served on the Finance and Buildings & Grounds committees. In the community, Vozeh has served as treasurer of the Ramsey Baseball & Softball Association, trustee for Hotspur Soccer, and coach for youth sports. Voters re-elect GOP incumbents He and his wife, Bettina, have three children. They are members of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. Tyburczy has been a Ramsey resident since 2006. In 2010, he was named to the borough council after Andrew Siemsen resigned, and was elected to Siemsen’s one-year unexpired term in November 2010. Tyburczy is a certified project manager and is currently working with Pearson Education in Upper Saddle River. He was previously an accountant and auditor for KPMG, and worked in IT for almost 10 years in various administration and management roles. He received a master’s degree in information systems from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting and marketing with a minor in economics from Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, where he was an honors graduate. He also received his diploma with honors in computer technical support from The Chubb Institute in Parsippany. The councilman is an active member of the Knights of Columbus at Saint Paul’s parish, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Ramsey UNICO, and Ramsey OEM. He is treasurer of the Hubbard School PTO, head coach for girls’ T-ball, and assistant coach for the boys’ baseball clinic. He has served as secretary/treasurer and vice president of Business Network International. In 2010, he chaired the Health, Education, & Social Services Committee, and was a member of the Utilities, Buildings, & Grounds and Finance & Administration committees. This year, he is chairman of the Building, Planning, & Zoning Committee and a member of the Health, Education, & Social Services and Public & Governmental Relations committees. He his wife, Eileen, have two children. Moore has resided in Ramsey since 2007. He grew up in Oakland, attended the public schools, and graduated from (continued on page 17) Ramsey High School student Robert Esposito has been named a National Merit Semifinalist in the 2012 competition. He is among the approximately 16,000 students named to this status. These academically talented young people have an opportunity to continue in the competition for approximately 8,000 Merit Scholarships, worth about $31 million that will be offered next spring. Juniors in some 20,000 high schools in Robert Esposito the United States entered the 2012 Program by taking the 2010 Preliminary Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of more than one million program entrants. The highest scorers in each state, representing fewer than one percent of the state’s high school graduating class, were designated semifinalists. The next step for semifinalists is to fulfill requirements to advance to finalist standing. To become finalists, semifinalists must have an outstanding high school academic record, be endorsed and recommended by their school principal, and submit SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance. The semifinalists and a school official must submit a detailed scholarship application. Semifinalist named