August 27, 2014 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 5 Franklin Lakes School board seeks applicants after trustee resigns by Frank J. McMahon The Franklin Lakes Board of Education is seeking applicants to fill a vacancy on the school board that was created when trustee Anthony Zolfo resigned on Aug. 11 for per- sonal reasons. Zolfo, who is an attorney, advised the board that he has accepted a professional position in Florida and will be moving out of the area. His unexpired term extends to the board’s reorganization meeting in Janu- ary 2016. Applicants for his seat have been asked to submit a letter of interest and a list of qualifications or resume to School Board President Laurence Loprete by Sept. 5 as initial interviews by the board will be con- ducted at the regularly scheduled public meeting on Sept. 9. The board must appoint a new trustee to fill the vacancy even though there will be an election of board members on Nov. 4 because the date for filing nominating peti- tions for the fall election was July 28. There are three seats on the board that are available this year. Loprete, who is a resident of White Pond Road, and current trustee Susan McGowan, who is a resident of Cinnamon Lane, are seeking re-election. Incumbent trustee Craig Urciuoli decided not to seek a new term. Seven candidates met the deadline for filing nominating petitions. In addition to Loprete and McGowan, the candidates include Randy Lee Dixon of Ashmont Road, Michael P Esposito of Aztec Trail, Victoria E Holst of Pulis Avenue, Peter John Koulikoureis of Shirley Avenue, and Jennifer Marcus of Shinnecock Trail. There are three available seats on the board. The current school board consists of nine members with Loprete as president and Shirley O’Reilly, whose term expires in 2016, as vice president; Michael Ben-David; whose term also expires in 2016; Christine Christopoul, whose term expires in 2016; McGowan; Kathie Schwartz, whose term expires in 2016; Urciuoli; and Jackie Veliky, whose term expires in 2016. The biographies submitted by Loprete, McGowan, Dixon, and Holst were pub- lished in a previous article in Villadom TIMES. The following are the biographies submitted by the other candidates seeking election to the Franklin Lakes Board of Education. Esposito has lived in the borough for five years and has three children in the High Mountain Road School. He is a member of the Most Blessed Sacrament Church. He is a licensed physician who is on the executive committee at New Jersey Urol- ogy, LLC and he is the director of the Center for Robotic/Laparoscopic Minimally Inva- sive Urologic Surgery/Endourology, and the director of Endourology/Laparoscopic Urology Fellowship at Hackensack Univer- sity Medical Center. He is also the direc- tor of the Robotics Surgical Department at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch. He received a BS degree in biology and chemistry from Saint John’s University in Queens, New York. He graduated magna cum laude in 1990. He attended the Uni- versity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, where he studied general surgery from 1994 to 1996 and urologic surgery from 1996 to 2000. He received Fellowship Training at the Royal Infir- mary Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland where he studied surgery and neurologic oncology. Esposito has many certifications and appointments, and memberships in several medical societies. He has authored numer- ous publications concerning medical and surgical issues including the first compre- hensive textbook on robotics in neurologic surgery. Koulikoureis was born in the Bronx, New York and moved to Bergen County (continued on page 15)