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Peter Mullany, 82, Longtime Glen Rock Resident, FDU Dean
GLEN ROCK, N. J. -- Peter F. Mullany, longtime resident, English professor and dean at Fairleigh Dickinson University, died Dec. 1. He was 82.Born May 22, 1933 and raised in New York City, Mullany lived in Glen Rock for the past 45 years.
He was a professor of English, philosophy and humanities, as well as dean at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck for 43 years before retiring in 2013.
He also returned to teach each semester until 2010 at his alma mater, Fordham University in New York City. Even after earning his bachelor's, masters and doctorate degrees at Fordham, Mullany returne…
Hilde Goldberg, 90, Teaneck Holocaust Survivor, Children's Advocate
TEANECK, N. J. -- Hilde Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor, children's advocate and Teaneck resident, died Dec. 3. She was 90.Born Feb. 18, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, she grew up in Amsterdam. Her parents were deported when she was 18 and died at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Goldberg went on to join the Resistance, and helped rescue Jewish children and Allied airmen, even while hiding from the Nazis.
She met Max, her Swiss-born husband of 67 years until his death in March, when both were doing rescue work at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after the war. At Belsen, she helped s…
Cuomo, Legislature Ignoring Budget Transparency Law, Critics Say
ALBANY, N. Y. -- Formal estimates of how much money the state will have to spend next year have yet to be released by the governor's office and legislative leaders, despite a law requiring public review of revenue estimates, according to Politico New York.
A representative of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank, said the fact that those state leaders don't appear worried about the 2007 law, which was designed to make the budget process transparent to the public, is a sign of "dysfunction" in Albany. Only Comptroller Tom DiNapoli posted the revenue estimates, Polit…
