LEAVE DONATIONS NEEDED


Ailing members need your leave donations


By SHERRY HALBROOK The following PEF members have


reported a need for leave donations: • Charles Ashelman is an information


technology specialist 3, systems programming, for the state Insurance Fund in Albany. He is being treated for advanced cancer. To donate leave to him, call the personnel office at 212-312-9105. • Melissa Barringer is a nurse 2 at


SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. She has continuing medical issues and had already used most of her leave when her school-age son suddenly died in May. To donate leave to her, contact Linda Mazzone in human resources at the hospital. Her number is 315-464-4943. • Susan Bell is a vocational


rehabilitation counselor for the state Education Department in White Plains. She has been on medical leave since January 8 and is now out on half-pay. To donate leave to her, call the SED human relations office at 518-474-5215. • Derelaine (Dee) Benton-Smith is a


nurse 1 at SUNY Buffalo Student Health Services. She has been diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis and needs a liver


transplant. Having exhausted her leave, she is in danger of losing health insurance coverage for herself and her family. To donate leave to Benton-Smith, call Tammi Blajszczak at 716-829-5940 or email her at tlb25@buffalo.edu. • Melissa Conklin is a management


specialist 1 for the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) in Harlem. She is receiving rehabilitative therapy after serious complications to gall bladder surgery following pregnancy. To donate leave to her, please call the OTDA personnel office at 518-402-3991. • Karen Corbin is an education finance


specialist 2 at the state Education Department in Albany. Complications to intestinal surgery have required several additional hospitalizations and surgeries since March and she needs help to cover continued absences from work. To donate leave to her, contact the SED personnel office at 518-474-5215. • Sarah Davies is an environmental


educator 1 at the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in Albany. A single mother of two young children, she has had two surgeries for


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breast cancer since March and still needs to receive chemotherapy. To donate leave to Davies, contact Lorie Bellegard in the DEC personnel office at 518-402-9260. • JoEllen DeLuca is an alcohol and


substance abuse treatment program assistant at Great Meadow Correctional Facility. She is being treated for breast cancer and will continue to need to be absent from work for several more months. To donate leave to DeLuca, contact Kathy Hallenbeck, in the facility’s personnel office, at 518-639-5516. • Maureen Duncan is a children and


family services specialist 1 at the state Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) NYS Commission for the Blind in Albany. She is being treated for breast cancer and will need to remain out of work for some time. Duncan also is blind as a result of diabetes. To donate leave to her, please call the OCFS personnel office at 518-474-5795. • Eugene Flauraud is an offender


rehabilitation counselor at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where he is council leader of PEF Division 323. Flauraud has liver failure and is in urgent need of a liver transplant and of leave donations. To


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