Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 6, 2014 FLOW Area Six incumbents file nominating petitions for six seats by Frank J. McMahon Six incumbent Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education trustees have filed nominating petitions and will seek elec- tion unopposed on Nov. 4. Eric David Becker, a Wyckoff representative on the regional school board, has filed for a full three-year term, while Wyckoff representative Thomas Madigan filed for a two-year unexpired term. Jane Castor, an Oakland repre- sentative, has filed for a one-year unexpired term, while Oakland trustees Teresa Kilday and Sadie Quinlan filed for full three-year terms. Lisa Sciancalepore, a Franklin Lakes representative, will be running for a one-year unexpired term. Becker has been a Wyckoff resident for 21 years and his oldest son is a 2011 graduate of Indian Hills High School. He has two sons who are currently students at Indian Hills and his wife is a Ramapo High School graduate. He is a 1993 graduate of Villanova University School of Law and received a BA in political science from Wheaton College in 1987. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army and was a distinguished military graduate. Since March 2009, he has been working at his general practice law firm, which he founded. He specializes in commercial and residential real estate, land use, zoning, and municipal matters. Previously, he was employed by the law firm of Jeffer, Hopkinson & Vogel in Hawthorne and was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Hamer in the Superior Court of New Jersey- Law Division (Civil Part) in Hackensack. He served in the United States Army from February 1988 to August 1990 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on May 17, 1987, promoted to first lieuten- ant in September 1989, and promoted to captain while in the Reserves. He was awarded the Army Commenda- tion Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Combat Patch, Army Achievement Medal, and the United States Army Parachutist Badge. Becker was head coach of the Middle School Boys’ Basketball Team at Eastern Christian Middle School in Wyckoff from December 2009 to March 2011. He was also head coach of one of the junior football teams consisting of middle school boys. In addition, he was an assistant coach of a boys’ traveling lacrosse team, and head coach of the seventh grade boys’ traveling select basketball team. He also served as a member of the board of trustees of the Christian Health Care Center Foundation and he was a founding board member of the Wyckoff Parks and Recre- ation Foundation, and a member of the Elder Board and chairman of the Board Cornerstone Christian Church in Wyckoff. Castor has lived in Oakland since 1990 and she has two sons who are graduates of Indian Hills. She has been a trustee since 2008 and served on the Policy Committee and Crisis Management Committee. She also served on and chaired the Education and Personnel committees, and was the liaison representative between the board and the Indian Hills High School Parent Teacher Student Organization, and the board’s representative on the student administra- tive council. Kilday graduated from Indian Hills High School in 1982 after growing up in Oakland. She returned to Oak- land in 1994 and immediately became involved in commu- nity activities as a part of the Public Events Committee and the Oakland Historical Society. When she had children, she turned her focus to her church and her children’s school. Currently a Ramsey High School guidance counselor, she serves as a trustee at Our Lady of Perpetual Help R.C. Church in Oakland, where she is a parishioner. She has been a catechist for the religious education and RCIA programs at her church for the past 15 years, volunteer opportunities from which she recently retired. She also serves as a lector, Eucharistic minister, and as a baptism team member. Two of her three teenage children attend Ramapo High School. When they were in elementary school, she served as the Dogwood Hill PTA/PTO vice president and presi- dent after serving on various committees. She has also served on the Oakland Public Library Board of Trustees for the past seven years. From 2005-12, she managed the Ramsey Youth Sports Association Wildcat teams that her two boys played on while her husband coached their teams. While her oldest child was at Indian Hills, she was active with the Marching Band Parents and the Performing Arts Association. She is currently a member of the Ramapo Music Parents Associa- tion and active with the Ramapo boys’ soccer program. Madigan has been married for 37 years and is the father of seven children and six grandchildren. His education includes a BA degree summa cum laude from Stonehill College. He is currently an accounts executive for Orange Packaging in Newburgh, New York. Madigan was a 12-year member of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional Board of Education, during which he served as the board’s president and chairman of Facilities and Finance committees. His community service includes being a volunteer coach in baseball, softball, soccer, and basketball for the Wyckoff recreation program. He is also a past member of the Wyckoff Recreation Board and a liaison to the township’s Master Plan Committee in 2010. He is currently a board member of the Wyckoff Parks and Recreation Foundation. Madigan is also a past member of the Wyckoff Township Committee and the township’s zoning board of adjustment. He is currently a planning board member He was also the president of Wyckoff/Midland Park Rotary and his family served as the host family for four children from overseas who received life-saving open heart surgery for which he is the recipient of Gift of Life Humanitarian Award. Active in numerous support activities at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Wyckoff, including Men’s Cornerstone and St. Martin’s Soup Kitchen in Jersey City, Madigan is also director of the Elizabeth “Bitsy” Madigan Scholarship Fund that has awarded over $12,000 to students from the (continued on page 10)