Area November 14, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 11 Voters in Allendale and Upper Saddle River selected their representatives to the Northern Highlands Regional High School Board of Education last week. Sheila Yallowitz took the single available Upper Saddle River seat on the regional school board with 1,166 votes. Upper Saddle River candidate Peter Koski received 775 ballots. Yallowitz, the top vote-getter in the regional election, has worked with the Upper Saddle River Education Foundation, which raises money for education enhancement, and has served as president of the Upper Saddle River Parent Teachers Association. Voters choose Highlands, Allendale K-8 representatives Koski has a degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and works as vice president of technology for a major firm. He has three children in the school system. Allendale’s Gail Link-Trumbetti won reelection to her seat on the Northern Highlands Board of Education with 1,073 votes, while Allendale’s James Mulanaphy won reelection with 890 votes. Trumbetti is a video producer with a degree in psychology, arts, and philosophy. She operates her own company. Mulanaphy is a retired director of corporate research who had almost 40 years of research experience before Kenneth Schindler recently received a Technical Emmy at the awards ceremony in Burbank, California. Schindler grew up in Allendale and graduated from Northern Highlands Regional High School in 1992. After graduating from University of Miami in Florida with a double major in music and engineering, he went on to University of Gainsville to complete a master’s in engineering. From there, he went to work at Dolby Digital in San Francisco. This is Schindler’s second Emmy; the first one was awarded to him in 2000 for his work on audio coding technology called “Dolby –E,” a professional encoder and decoder. This recent Emmy was awarded to him for his work on the “PRM-4200: A Professional Reference Monitor.” “This time, he was invited to the actual awards ceremony in Burbank,” said Schidnler’s mom, Nickie Lisella. “We are so excited for him. It is wonderful to receive this kind of recognition within the industry.” The statue will be kept at the Dolby headquarters in San Francisco. Schindler will receive a framed certificate that he will display in his office next to his first one. Schindler and his wife Pauline reside in Alameda, a suburb of San Francisco. Schindler earns second Emmy Award his retirement. He was first appointed to fill a vacant term and then elected to a full term. Allendale K-8 School Board The two incumbent candidates for the Allendale K-8 Board of Education both swept to uncontested victories on Nov. 6. Natalie Capano, an attorney and adjunct college professor at Montclair State University, was the top votegetter with 1,003 votes and Mark McAuliffe, an attorney who specializes in family law, received 956 votes. Capano was appointed to the unexpired term of Lynn Barsanian, and has now been elected to a full three-year term. She had previously served for four years on the Woodland Park Board of Education and has been active in the Allendale Foundation for Educational Excellence. McAuliffe received his law degree from Boston College Law School and his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown, with an additional degree in international business from the University of Nijerode in The Netherlands. He has previous served as an assistant prosecutor for Bergen County. J. KOSTER Kenneth Schindler Parents weigh in on lost school days (continued from page 5) two emergency days built into its calendar, which can be applied if there are no snow or other emergency closings through June. The two teachers’ convention days also count as makeup days. “We are in a holding pattern. There are no other options. When we come back we’ll assess and plan,” said Middle School Principal Michael Meyers. Dr. Raupers said she was trying to determine from the state whether mandated testing would take place as scheduled or would be postponed. Once this is over, we’ll put everything on the table and come up with the best possible solution,” pledged Dr. Raupers.