Labor and Business Combine to Help Youth Business and labor leaders of Northern New Jersey will come together at the Archbishop's Sixth Annual Labor and Business Recognition Dinner to benefit CYO / Youth and Young Adult Ministries in the Archdiocese of Newark. The fund raiser will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, January 19, 1999 at the Marriott at Glenpointe, Teaneck, NJ. Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick will recognize the efforts of business and labor leaders for their commitment to the youth of the Archdiocese. Thomas P. Giblin, President of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 68 and J. Fletcher Creamer, Sr. of J. Fletcher Creamer & Sons, Inc., will be honored. This year's event coordinator, Marge Kinney, said, "it's the perfect venue to bring together influential business and labor leaders with the church for the benefit of our youth. Their continued support helps to keep our vision alive. The youth are our future." Archbishop McCarrick created the event in 1994 and it has since raised more than $700,000 to support the CYO / Youth and Young Adult Ministries. These ministries have provided positive role models, enhanced family values and inspired self-reliance and self esteem for youth in the Archdiocese for the past 57 years. Programs include summer camps, scouting programs, concerts, organized sports, programs for the disabled and leadership and peer training. More than 95,000 young men, women and children participated in CYO activities in 1998. Chairman for the Business and Labor Dinner is Frank M. Wade, Executive Director and Legislative Representative of the New Jersey State Building and Construction Trades Council, representing 125,000 members. A native of Elizabeth, NJ, Wade now resides in Colonia. He was named a Knight of St. Gregory in 1996 by Pope John Paul II. Editor's
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are the honorees' bios.
J. Fletcher Creamer, Sr. J. Fletcher Creamer, Sr. is Chairman of the Board and CEO of J. Fletcher Creamer & Son , Inc., located in Hackensack, NJ. He is also Director of American Pipe and Plastics Company, the Commerce & Industry Association of NJ, of which he also served in the capacity of Chairman, the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., the New Jersey Alliance for Action and Commerce Bank/North. "Fletch" was educated at St. Joseph's Grammar School and Teaneck High School. Upon graduation he served in the United States Navy during World War II - Pacific and also served our country in the Korean Conflict Fletch
served on the Fort Lee Fire Department from 1946 -1959 in which
he attained the position of Chief in 1958. His other civic activities
includes: Trustee of Englewood Hospital Association (1979-80), Vice
Chairman of Bergen County United Fund (1972-73), in 1974 Chairman
of the Advance Gifts Boy Scouts of America, Chairman of Private
Enterprise Political Action Committee (1978-83), Director of the
Fort Lee Chamber of Commerce (1979-80), Member of Saddle River Planning
Board (1979-81), Finance Chairman, Tom Kean for Governor, Co-Chairman
Inaugural Committee, Board of Governors of Hackensack Medical Center
(1982-Present), Commissioner of the Hackensack Meadowlands Development
Commission (1982-84), Commissioner of the New Jersey Sports and
Exposition Authority (1982-84), Chairman for the National Multiple
Sclerosis Golf Outing (1984), Vice Chairman of Friends of Tom Kean
for Governor (1985), Chairman of the 2nd Annual Colleen
Giblin Foundation Dinner (1986), Honorary Member Bergen County Police
Chiefs Association (1986-Present), Chairman of the Bergen Country
Transition Team (1987), Founding Member and Director of the 200
Club of Bergen County (1985-Present), Chairman for the Capital Campaign
- Hackensack Medical Center (1988-1995), Finance Chairman and Director
of D.A.R.E. New Jersey (1990-94), and Member of the Bergen Economic
Development Corp. (1997-Present). Fletch and his wife Katherine are the proud of parents of J. Fletcher, Jr., Glenn, Dale, and Jeffrey (deceased). They live in Saddle River. In his free time Fletch enjoys hunting, fishing and dog breeding.
Tom is the President of the Essex-West Hudson Labor Council, AFL-CIO and is a Trustee of the Union Labor Agency of Essex and West Hudson. He is a member of the Rutgers University State Advisory Council - School of Management and Labor Relations. Raised in Newark's Vailsburg section, Tom is a graduate of Seton Hall Prep and Seton Hall University with a B.A. degree in Political Science. He attended Seton Hall University and Rutgers University for post graduate courses in History and Political Science. He served with the NJ Air National Guard for six (6) years, completing basic training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, and retiring with the rank of Staff Sergeant. Tom served as an evening instructor at the Essex County Vocational School Board from 1970-75 and as Treasurer of the Board from 1975-76. He is currently a member of the St. Vincent Academy Advisory Board Newark, for 15 years and was a trustee of Lacordaire Academy of Upper Montclair for over ten (10) years. Tom was elected New Jersey State Democratic Chairman in June 1997. His Party service also includes serving as Chairman of the Essex County Democratic Committee, since June 1993, a Delegate to the 1996 Democratic National Convention, and an Alternate Delegate to the 1984 and 1988 Conventions. He was also a 1996 member of the New Jersey Electoral College. He previously served as Treasurer of the Essex County Democratic Committee from 1979 to 1982. Tom served for 10 years as a member of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders and served as President during 1987-1988. He was elected Essex County Surrogate in November 1989 and served until his election as Essex County Democratic Chairman. He was a Commissioner with the New Jersey Real Estate Commission, appointed by both Governors Brendan T. Byrne and Thomas H. Kean, during the period 1979-1982, and served as a representative on the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Study Commission from 1974-76. In addition to his other duties, for 10 years Tom served as Trustee of the New Jersey Association of Retarded Citizens-Essex Unit, and a former Chairman/now Trustee of the Saint Barnabas Burn Foundation. He is Director and member of the governing board of United Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey and is a twelve-year member/Trustee of the United Way of Essex-West Hudson. Tom is General Chairman of the Newark St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee, Inc., a post he has held 10 times. He was the Grand Marshal of the 1975 Newark St. Patrick's Day Parade, the 1984 Nutley Parade, and was General Chairman of the 1977 Irish Festival held at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel. Tom, honored by numerous civic, cultural and charitable groups throughout the State, is a member of the Ironbound Executives Association, the 200 Club of Essex County, Knights of Columbus, Elks, AOH, and a Silver Life Member of the New Jersey State PBA. Tom is the father of five children, Thomas P. Jr., a member of New York/New Jersey Bar, Noreen, a member of the New Jersey Bar, Edward, a graduate of Providence College, Patrick, a graduate of Villanova University and Anne, Senior at Northwestern University
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