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For a second year, the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter has named Tara Arthurs of Kingston and Alycia Sofokles of Saugerties co-chairs of the planning committee for the Dutchess/Ulster Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which is expected to be held Saturday, Oct. 17, on the Walkway Over the Hudson.
Arthurs works as claims adjustment specialist at UnitedHealthcare, where she has served as captain of Team UnitedHealthcare/Optum in the Dutchess/Ulster Walk to End Alzheimer’s for the past four years. In 2019, she was honored with a UnitedHealthcare Service Hero Award. She has also been a member of the walk committee for three years, and has helped with logistics as well as advocacy on state and federal levels.
Sofokles is retired after a 21-year career with a communications company and has been a community volunteer for more than 15 years.
Both Arthurs and Sofokles will work closely with Dutchess/Ulster Walk Manager Tina Eckert.
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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum has announced three new Library Trustees: Rabbi Bruce Alpert, Anita Sonawane and Tyler O’Connor.
The trustees are charged with ensuring FDR’s legacy is preserved and accessible to the public for generations to come.
Alpert is the rabbi of Beth Israel Synagogue in Wallingford, Connecticut where he has served since 2007. Prior to his rabbinical work, he served as president of Pentron Clinical Corporation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political economy from The Johns Hopkins University
and a master’s degree in Jewish Studies from Gratz College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sonawane works as a Global Alternatives Associate at J.P Morgan Asset Management. She founded the Roosevelt Network (Roosevelt Institute) chapter at Queens College in 2009, where she graduated valedictorian with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics.
O’Connor is an Energy Litigator in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, DC office. O’Connor co-founded the Emory chapter of Roosevelt Network (Roosevelt Institute) and participated in the inaugural Hyde Park conference in 2006.
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