Senator Ronald Rice, seated, Chairman of Senate Committee and Urban Housing.
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Pictures by Rochelle Young of Wayne, NJ
The Ronald B. Atlas Memorial Award
was named after the late tenant leader, activist and attorney, Ronald B. Atlas. Ron was the author of many of New Jersey's tenant laws and the co-founder, with Martin Aranow, of New Jersey Tenants Organization. He is remembered as a dynamic and off-beat oranizer who travelled the state and the country teaching organizing to tenant leaders. His professional life was dedicated to the service of working people, tenants and the poor. The award was created to honor and perpetuate his memory. The award breakfast honored tenant activists for their dedication and belief in the tenant movement.
Pictured are the Winners for June, 2001.
(From left to right) Steve Shaffer of
Elizabeth, NJ, Patricia Hilliard of
Bayonne, NJ and Carl Abrahams
of Elmwood Park, NJ
Recipients of the Ronald B. Atlas Memorial Award: Hanni Duffy, Leo Hammer, Senator Byron Baer, Ken Meiser, Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, Mitch Kahn, Joan Pransky, Matt Shapiro, Frank Engleberg, Jamie Jackson, Connie Pascale, John Atlas, Pat Lange, Jim Tarella, Trish Comstock, Norbert Herold, Nat Shatzoff, Bonnie Shapiro, Pat Morrissy, Esther Nemitz, Charles Sobel, Shellye Young, Florene Elam, Virginia Nardone, Gabrielle Aguele, Nancy Busby, David Sciarra, Helen Meissner, Athena Ross, Robert "Woody" Widrow, Teri Meredith, George O'Brien, Arthur Weiner, Arlene Glassman, Wafaa Mikhail, Bob, Pat Pierce, Gail Pruner, Anita Roberts, Carl Abrahams, Pat Hilliard, Steve Shaffer