Matt Shapiro, President of NJTO
Senator Byron M. Baer
Candidate for Governor, Senator Jim McGreevey
Matt Shapiro introducing
James McGreevey
Back (top) row:
Charles Sobel, Pres. of Fort Lee Tenants Assoc.
Gabrielle Aquele, 1st V. Pres., Ridgefield
Mitch Kahn, Org. Director, Ringwood
Gail Pruner, Second V. Pres., Caldwell
Center:
Virginia Nardone, Fairfield
Bottom Row:
Nat Shatzoff, Treas. Hackensack
Matt Shapiro, Pres., Fort Lee
James McGreevey, Gubenatorial Candidate
Bonnie Shapiro, Admin. Dir., Fort Lee
Leo Hammer, Co-Founder NJTO, Elmwood Park
Matt Shapiro, President NJTO
Bonnie Shapiro at left.
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Below: Press Conference Endorsing McGreevey, June 2001.
New Jersey Tenants Organization
Picture Gallery
Left:
Bonnie Shapiro, Administrative Director.
Speaking: Matt Shapiro, President.
Below left: Gail Pruner, Second Vice President.
Below right: Gabrielle Aguele, First Vice President.
Above left: Maribel Simanck, Volunteer Center: Pat Hilliard, Recording Secretary and
Right: Bonnie Shapiro
At right: Cindy Poste Arone, Volunteer
NJTO Annual Meeting, March 16, 2002.
Held in the Bloomfield Civic Center, Bloomfield, NJ.
Sponsored by Bloomfield Tenants Organization.
Center: Trish Comstock, President, Bloomfield Tenants Organization.
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
