May 28, 2014 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 5 FLOW Area Regional trustees appoint new board members by Frank J. McMahon The Ramapo Indian Hills Regional Board of Education has appointed three new board members to replace the three trustees who resigned in April. The school board appointed Thomas Madigan and E. David Becker to replace Wyckoff trustees Lynn Budd and Isabelle Lanini, and Teresa Kilday to replace Oakland trustee Elizabeth Pierce. The board previously appointed Lisa Sciancalepore as a new Franklin Lakes trustee to replace Debbie Strauss, who resigned Feb. 24. Becker is a 1993 graduate of the Villanova University School of Law and he received a BA in political science from Wheaton College in 1987. Since March of 2009, he has worked at the general prac- tice law firm he founded. He specializes in commercial and residential real estate, land use, zoning, and municipal matters. Previously, he was employed at the law firm of Jeffer, Hopkinson & Vogel in Hawthorne and was a law clerk for the Honorable Robert E. Hamer in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Hackensack. He served in the United States Army from Febru- ary 1988 to August 1990 and he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on May 17, 1987, promoted to First Lieutenant in September 1989, and promoted to Captain while in the Reserves. He was awarded the Army Com- mendation 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 and was head coach of one of the junior football teams consisting of middle school age boys. In addition, he was an assistant coach of a boys’ traveling youth lacrosse team, and head coach of the seventh grade boys’ traveling select basketball team. He served as a trustee of the Christian Health Care Center Foundation and he was a founding board member of the Wyckoff Parks and Recreation Foundation, and a member of the Elder Board and Chairman of the Board Cornerstone Christian Church in Wyckoff. Madigan earned a BA summa cum laude from Stonehill College and is currently an account executive for Orange Packaging in Newburgh, NY. He was a 12-year member of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional Board of Education and served as board president and chairman of Facilities and Finance committees. His community service includes being a volunteer coach in baseball, softball, soccer, and basketball for Wyckoff’s recreation program. He is a past member of the Wyckoff Recreation Board and former liaison to the township’s 2010 master plan committee. He is currently a board member of the Wyckoff Parks and Recreation Foundation. Madigan is a past member of the Wyckoff Township Committee and the township’s zoning board, and is cur- rently a planning board member and a member of the (continued on page 29)