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The nominations of Alfred B.
Curtis, Jr. and Kenneth Cook
to The City University Board of
Trustees were approved on June 17,
1997 by the New York State Senate
in Albany.
Late in May, Mayor Rudolph W.
Giuliani nominated Curtis to replace
Trustee Jerome Berg, whose seat’s term
had expired last June.
Curtis, a Staten Island resident, is
President and CEO of the United Nations
Development Corporation, a not-for-
profit agency established by the State
legislature to provide facilities for the
United Nations community and funded at
$280 million.
Prior to this he served for two years
as Commissioner for the New York CIty
Department of Youth Services and Ex-
ecutive Director of the Interagency Co-
ordinating Council on Youth for the City
of New York.
An Assistant Vice President at Chemi-
cal Bank for five years before entering
public service, Curtis graduated from
the College of Staten Island with a B.S.
in 1986, and had previously attended
Queens College. He has also been a
President of the Staten Island NAACP.
Early in June Gov. George E.
Pataki nominated Cook to take the
seat formerly occupied by Trustee Charles
E. Inniss, who died on Jan. 30.
Cook, a resident of Brooklyn and a
1958 B.S. graduate in chemistry and biol-
ogy from Brooklyn College, retired in
1994 from a 25-year career as a science
teacher at Junior High School 232 in
Brooklyn. He also brings several years of
experience working with GED students at
Prospect Heights High School.
Cook was also a student counselor at
Borough of Manhattan Community
College's summer program in 1982.
From 1980-84 he worked with Pro