Chief of professional contracts section of city Department of Design and Construction;

Founder of the Queens County Farm Museum and president of the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society of Bellerose Inc., the farm's governmental operation;

Vice president of the Joint Bellerose Business Development Corp.;

Board vice president of Poppenhusen Institute, and

Board chairman of Queens Village Republican Club. 
 

BIOGRAPHY

52; born in Brooklyn, reared in Bellerose; studied landscape architecture and graduated from University of Georgia; joined city Department of Public Works in 1969; while president of the Creedmoor Civic Association, he formed the Queens County Farm Museum in 1975;

Single. 
 

RESIDENCE

Home in Bellerose. 
 

WHY HE'S INVOLVED

"Public service is my motivation. My city job is the one public service that I get paid for, but it's almost seamless. Whether I'm here 9 to 5 or doing my other civic work, to me, it's all one thing. It's something you do for other people." 
 

CURRENT FOCUS

"The museum has more visitors than any other farm museum in the country. 
When we had 50,000 people coming, I thought we had reached the saturation point, and now we're exceeding 400,000 a year. We just restored the greenhouse  -  which dates from 1929  - and we're getting an award from the Chamber of Commerce." 
 

COMMITMENT

"I've worked all over this city doing a lot of different things, including getting buildings declared landmarks. Those changes are what I'm responsible for and what will remain when I'm gone."
 

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