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CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
Inter-Office Memorandum
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TO: ALL DEPARTMENTS --- PLEASE CIRCULATE
FROM: LES FOGASSY
Chairman, Employee Recognition Award Selection Committee
SUBJECT: Employee Recognition Award winners --- 2nd Quarter of 1995
DATE: October 13, 1995
COPIES: Mayors Office; City Administrator; Personnel ; Awardees; Committee
Members distribution below.
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The Employee Recognition Award Selection Committee has received the following
nominations for an Employee Recognition Award for the 2nd quarter of 1995:
JANET MAUREN, Facilities Management; LYNN MERRILL, Public Services; PAUL DRASIL,
Fire; DAVID KRESKE, Fire; EDWARD RUDOLPH, Police; BARBARA CABRERA, Library; LARRY
HARMAN, Public Services; KATHRYN MILLER, Police; and DEBORAH WOLDRUFF, Planning
& Bldg. Svcs.
After careful consideration, the Committee has chosen the following winners as
recipients of Employee of the Quarter Awards in each of their respective
categories:
MANAGEMENT/CONFIDENTIAL JANET MAUREN Facilities Management
MID-MANAGEMENT LYNN MERRILL Public Services
SAFETY DAVID KRF.SKE Fire
GENERAL BARBARA CABRERA Library
Congratulations to all of you ! The winners are entitled to A DAY OFF WITH PAY.
Additionally, the winners are requested to be in the lobby of City Hall on
Wednesday, NOVEMBER 8, 1995 at, 8:45 a.m. , for photo taking, after which they are
requested to attend the Council Meeting where they will be presented with a
certificate of recognition from the Mayor. If you cannot attend or need
additional information, please contact me at X 5026
LES FOGASSY
Chairman, Employee Recognition Award
Selection Committee
Committee:
Jerry Devlin, Councilman 5th Ward
7 Salvador, Mayor's Office
ilyn Dixon, City Administrator's Office
Wes Farmer, Police Department
Les Fogassy, Public Works/Engineering ��/�!
`TY OF SAN BERN " RDINO - REQUEST V_ R COUNCIL ACTION
From: Mayor Tom Minor Subject: Approve the appointment of Lenore
H. Schon to the Community Development
Dept: Mayor's Office Citizens Advisory Commission, per
Councilman David Oberhelman's request.
Date: October 26, 1995
Synopsis of Previous Council action:
Recommended motion:
Approve the appointment of Lenore H. Schon to the Community Development Citizens
Advisory Commission, per Councilman David Oberhelman's request.
Signature
Contact person: Tom Minor, Mayor Phone: Ext. 5133
Supporting data attached: Ward: 4th Ward
FUNDING REQUIREMENTS: Amount: -0-
Source: (Acct. No.) -0-
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Finance:
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MEET THE BOARD
This month's featured Board member is Lenore Schon, currently Director of Voter Services,
and our immediate Past President. She was President of LWVSB from 1991-93, and previously
Director of Voter Services from 1988 to 1991. During her Presidency, she is especially proud
of helping to organize the school voter education project, the Council of Women of San
Bernardino Valley. and manv other activities which promote advocacy for the voter and women's
issues.
Born in Brooklyn, NYM her mother was a concert pianist who was music supervisor for the New
York City school system, and her father a corporate lawyer. After her father's death when she
was five years old, she attended boarding school in Gstaad, Switzerland during her early
elementary school years. Lenore, a violinist, was the concert master of her high school
orchestra in Brooklyn where she graduated. She also attended the Juilliard School of Music
'-,-fore moving to Los Angeles, and UCLA. Active politically during her college years (Ed. Note:
Big surprise! ), she was field director for the Henry Wallace campaign on campus. She
graduated from UCLA with a degree in Psychology, minoring in Early Childhood Education.
Upon return to Brooklyn, Lenore did graduate work in Early Childhood Ed. at Columbia
University. Los Angeles called again and she went to work as a social case worker for the Bureau
of Public Assistance until she lost her job(and was "black-listed") as a result of political
activity against "McCarthyism." She than used her expertise in early childhood education to
organize and direct several cooperative nursery schools, and her talent in music as a substitute
violinist for the L.A. Philharmonir anri a singer with the. Earl Rr% incn r
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After marrying Michael Schon, a jeweler in 1950, they moved to Whittier where Lenore taught
nursery school and Kindergarten for the La Mirada School District, had three children and
busied herself with PTA, Cub Scouts, and organization of the first Jewish Temple in the area,
I plus all the other typical parental responsibilities.
In 1960, the Schons bought a jewelry store in Colton, where they moved. Lenore worked with
her husband in the store, and became active in S.P.W., the Chamber of Commerce and , of
course, PTA--eventually becoming President of three units. They have lived in San Bernardino
ince 1966, and Lenore has used her many talents and skills as a jeweler,a substitute teacher,
a real estate bro6;3r, and Administrative Assistant in the Early Childl 3W,, Deve,op,��erit program
3, S.B. Valley College. While running her Real Estate brokerage, she served as Educ-
cation,ethics and arbitration and affirmative action director for l.he PA-)a-rd of
SW rMsbfbePabW9'*§1Y? organizations other than those already mentione6: Nesiacnc`ot�
Hadassah three times, and has served on the Board of Directors of Congregation Emanu El,
President of the Sisterhood of Temple Emanu El, Retail Jewelers of America, B'nai Brith,
California Assoc. for Education of Young Children, City of Hope, and the Horneless Coalition of San
Bernardino. She is currently working on the Rediscover San Bernardino Task Force and is
d'rstribution chairman of the Congregation Emanu El Food Closet which distributes over 100
boxes of food weekly to the needy and homeless.
Lenore's family is very important to her---husband Mike,
three children and five
grandchildren who are the pride and joy of her life and through whom she keeps up with the
always-changing patterns of today's youth. All of us who know > enore are very fortunate to be I
involved with such a vibrant, concerned, and raring pr�tsRn
1995-BOARD OF DIREMRS OF OPTION HOUSE, INLAND EMPIRE; SYMPHONY GUIID
LEAGUE OF WOMIIV RIOTERS, HADASgAH, and active as a symphony docent and mentor in the ICUC mentor P r •� . ChalrDPrSnn of r,, .