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^ A M E S _//V THE ISEWS~ Brooklyn,Making WorkinginBrooklynaShopping Pleasure The Soroptomist International of Brooklyn Club recently honored twelve outstanding women in business. They are (first row %u25a0 left to right): Ena Bailey, Director of Home Health Agency Booth Memorial Medical Center; Maryann Polesinelli, professional singer; Rosemarie Russo, chairman of the event; Patricia Barry, first vice president; Elizabeth Samuel, Associate Director Home Health Care, Kings County Hospital; Judith Bronstein, Associate Dean of Financial Aid, Long Island University. Second ro Alys Einsman, Director of Community Relations, Con Edison; Rose lannicelli, Director of Financial Aid, Long Island University; Barbara Malon, Executive Director Nurses association of the Counties of Long Island, Inc.; Lisa DeGennaro, Editor, Specials Magazine, Abraham and Strauss; Maureen Sheehan, Vice President, bank manager, Citibank; Catherine Pearson, Executive Director Scouting for the Handicapped; and Mary Buckley, assistant Vice President,Manufacturer%u2019s Hanover.W e're Proud to Be A Part ofBrooklyn's G row ing Neighborhoods and BusinessesU la n o C o r p o r a tio nClifford Weber, of Brooklyn, was promoted from General Counsel to GeneralCounsel and Assistant Secretary of the Savings Banks Association of New York State.He joined the association last March afterhaving most recently served as Counsel tothe State Assembly Committee on Insurance since 1983.Ralph Pagano has been appointed Assistant Personnel Director and Employmentmanager of the Bowery Savings Bank. Hewill be responsible for all employment functions within the bank. Prior to joining TheBowery, Pagano was the personnelmanager at CBS Toys, a division of CBS,Inc. He currently resides in Brooklyn withhis wife Maria, and their son Michael.Sheila Mandel, manager of the 960 KingsHighway branch of the American Savingsbank was recently promoted to assistanttreasurer.Mary Kopp has been promoted to vicepresident and director of revenue and accounting for the Brooklyn-based DahillMoving and Storage Company, Inc., anagency of Mayflower Transit, Inc. Koppbegan her career in 1974 as a Mayflowervan owner-operator. In addition,Christopher W. Blank has been namedDahill%u2019s Salesperson of the year.Thomas Newkirk, president of Progressive People Realty Corp., has left Century 21 to open his own consulting firm.PPRC has been designed to accommodatethe average real estate consumer. As a consultant Newkirk will function as a consumeradvocate by saving his clients time andmoney. He has compiled an up-to-date realestate library with more than 300 books andperiodicals to get started. His office is at3011 Avenue J in Brooklyn.Dr. Nancy Nedham has been appointedassistant director of the New York StateCenter for Advanced Technology inTelecommunications at Polytechnic University. She is also the director of the Center%u2019sTelecommunications Management Program. In addition to her duties atPolytechnic, she is founder and president ofthe Institute for Corporate and GovernmentStrategy, and is a management consultantto regulated industries, industrial firms andpublic sector clients.Dr. Nicholas P. Christy, chief of staff atthe Brooklyn Veterans AdministrationMedical Center has been named the recipient of the Ay erst Award for 1986. Theaward honors a member of the EndocrineSociety for distinguished service in the fieldof endocrinology. Christy was recognizedfor his 35 years of teaching, research, practice, administration, scholarship and service to society.Weeksville Gets GrantThe Society for the Preservation ofWeeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant Historyhas received a donation of $1,300 fromCitibank to help promote the Society%u2019smuseum and program.State Senator Velmanette Montgomerymade a legislative request that the funds goto cover me production ana aisiriDunon ofthe society%u2019s post and note cards. The society is working to fully restore four Nineteenth Century buildings called the Hunterfly Road Houses.Borough President Howard Golden and Sanitation Commissioner Brendon Sexton toured downtown Brooklyn on August 26 to evaluate the effectiveness of sanitation efforts in the area. Downtown streets received a mixed review, with some streets being more litter strewn than others, but Montague Street where Brooklyn Heights Association worker Cindy LaBronx, pictured here, met Golden and Sexton, received the %u201c thumbs up.%u201d (Brooklyn,Inc/Koch Photo)Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation President Beth Goldberg and Chemical Bank Vice President Sandi Wald review the economic plans for Kings County following the banks $5,000 contribution to the not-for-profit groun. Since its inception in 1979, BEDC has expanded its efforts ton-fold in stimulatina new business in the borough and Chemical has increased its contribution nearly 50 percent over the previous year as public support has diminished. Wald is a member of the board and secretary.Page 28, The Phoenix/Brooklyn.inc Section Two, Septem ber 18, 1986