Rick Geercken, a groundskeeper with the West Seneca Central School District single-handedly maintains football, soccer, baseball, field hockey and lacrosse fields at West Seneca East High School.
Joyce Howard, president of the Newburgh School District Unit and 3rd vice president of the Southern Region, has a 25-year history of steering Newburgh youths toward positive athletic activities. Outside of school, Howard has helped create a youth basketball league at the local Boys and Girls Club, served as president of a Pop Warner football league, and coached cheerleading.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Gary Van Asselt coaches girls' varsity soccer and boys' lacrosse for Haldane and also assists with the district golf team. He is known to students as "Coach".
Lisa Vanderburg is the senior accounting clerk for the Health, Physical Education and Athletics Department of the Career and Technical Center in the Levittown Public School District.
Bus driver Judy Young earns the first Excelsior Award. The Excelsior Award was developed through a partnership between New York State Public High School Athletic Association and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) to recognize a CSEA member who has helped promote and foster athletic spirit in their local school district as well as display extraordinary dedication and support of high school athletics in New York State.
An illustration by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) graphic artist Ralph Distin, is a history marker honoring CSEA's centennial. The marker was unveiled at the union's 2010 Annual Delegates Meeting and will be placed in Albany, NY.
Southold Town Bay Constables Andrew Epple, left, and Don Dzenkowski prepare for patrol aboard their boat. They uphold rules and regulations relating to marine fisheries, wetlands, recreational boating and fishing, salt and fresh water marshes and water fowl hunting in the areas of their municipality. They also enforce federal wildlife protections and U.S. customs laws as deputized federal marshals.
Nancy Ianson of the Nassau County Local in the Long Island Region at the March for Main Street rally at the Capitol Building in Albany, January 2009. Ianson was PEOPLE recruiter of the month for August, 2010.