Delegates attending the recent Central and Capital District Conferences of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) held jointly in Cooperstown at the Otesaga Hotel are pictured above. Philip Caruso, president Utica Chapter State office workers; Loren Youngs, Unit Representative Clinton Central School and Jake Banek, Unit Representative Whitesboro Central School are in front. In the rear row are Louis Eddy and Samuel Borelly Oneida County Chapter; Mrs. Dorothy MacTavish, State Wide Secretary Albany; and Ray Castle, Syracuse. At the conference, Louis Sunderhaft, president of Oneida County Chapter CSEA was elected and installed as First Vice-President of the Central Conference Region. Highlight of the three day meeting was the swearing-in of new officers for the Central Conference and for the Conferences County Workshop. Dr. Edward Diamond CSEA Director of Education, was the main speaker. The meeting attended by more than 300 delegates. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
The Oneida County chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) hosted a number of state union and local political figures at its annual holidays party in the Trinkaus Manor in Oriskany. Shown in the top photo are, from left, Utica Mayor Michael Caruso, chapter vice-president Henry Haas, Rome Mayor William Valentine, chapter delegate and party chairman Louis Eddy, statewide CSEA president Theodore C. Wenzl, and assistant Oneida County executive Jay McLinden. In the lower photo are, from left, chapter president Louis Sunderhaft, statewide CSEA treasurer Jack Gallagher, statewide CSEA secretary Dorothy MacTavish, chapter representative and immediate past CSEA County Division chairman S. Samuel Borelly, CSEA field representative Roger Kane and statewide CSEA third vice-president Richard Tarmey. CSEA Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).