Coalition endorses Helen Kotzky and Fred Moore for Glen Cove School Board

Long-time Glen Cove community leaders Helen Kotzky and Fred Moore have been endorsed for election to the Glen Cove School Board by the Coalition for Glen Cove.

The Coalition for Glen Cove has voted to endorse Helen Kotzky and Fred Moore in the school board election that will be held on May 17^th, 2005.

Helen Kotzky has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in elementary education and music performance from Skidmore College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has a Masters of Arts degree in arts education from New York University and a certificate from the Lincoln Center Arts Institute.

She has been an elementary music teacher in the Cold Spring Harbor school district since 1997. She has taught in the Elmont and Locust Valley school districts, in St. Paul’s nursery school in Glen Cove, in the Brooklyn College Preparatory School of the Arts, and, in New York City at the Diller-Quaile music school, the Greenwich House music school, and the School for Strings. From 1987 to 1993 she was director of the Hollis Woods Community Music School in Queens. She has served as music education consultant and panelist for Sesame Street and created two short films, "Musical Scales" and "Names,” that were regularly broadcast by Sesame Street.

Helen and her husband Brian, who teaches social studies at Frances Lewis high school in New York City, have lived in Glen Cove for 17 years. Their daughter Brigit is a junior at Glen Cove High School and their daughter Kim is an 8^th grader at Robert M. Finley Middle School. Helen is vice-president of the Coalition for Glen Cove, was Coalition secretary for two years and has been chair of the Coalition academic excellence committee since 2003. She is a member of the Music Performing Arts Parents Association (MPAPA) and is the middle school PTA delegate to the Glen Cove Board of Education. She has been a member of the PTA budget committee and curriculum committee, was cultural arts chair for the Gribbin, Connolly, and Middle Schools, and was Parents as Reading Partners Chair for the Gribbin School.

Fred Moore is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and received a Master’s Degree in Fine Art in 1977. He is Glen Cove Community Development Agency Section 8 Program Administrator, responsible for overseeing the federal rent assistance program for over 340 local families, and is the City of Glen Cove Minority Business Enterprise and Women’s Business Enterprise Equal Opportunity Officer. He serves on the Board of the Melillo Center, is a mentor in the Glen Cove Youth Bureau Mentoring Program, and has been a member of the Glen Cove Economic Opportunity Commission board and a coach for Catholic Youth Organization basketball and for Glen Cove Junior Soccer.

Fred has been a resident of Glen Cove for over 20 years, and has been married for 22 years to Ilene, a New York City teacher specializing in English as a second language. Ilene attended Brooklyn College and holds graduate degrees from NYU and CW Post. For many years she was stage manager for Glen Cove Theatre II. The Moores have two children who are graduates of Glen Cove High School. Kate will graduate from Princeton University this spring with a major in history and Jeffrey is a sophomore at the University of Albany.

Fred had an art studio in mid-town Manhattan for six years and was founding member and vice president of the Hempstead Harbor Artist Association from 1980 to 1994. He helped initiate a monthly art exhibition which provided local and regional artists the opportunity to showcase their work in Glen Cove.

Glen Cove voters will vote for two school board members and for the proposed school budget on May 17^th from 7AM to 9PM at the Landing School, Connolly School, Middle School, and Boys and Girls Club. A list of voting places for each area of Glen Cove is available in the office of each Glen Cove school. Glen Cove residents who are not registered can register in any school office during the school day from now until May 3^rd.