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Music Man at CEC

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Have you ever watched Ahmad Sharbaan while he’s at CEC? The man never stands still. He moves constantly, giving instructions, taking a call, making another call – cell phone a permanent accessory at his ear.  Even when driving from site-to-site, he works the phones, and he leans forward in the seat, as if working with [...]

Thelma Arceo: CEC’s Technical Services Director Is a World Traveler

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience.  The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.  He goes “sight-seeing.”  ~Daniel J. Boorstin   Thelma Arceo has always been a traveler. Her love of travel began, she recounts, when she was a youngster growing up [...]

Richard Cherry, CEC’s president, talks at Princeton University about second careers

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

  Usually at around this time I write a profile of a CEC employee. But last February 25 Richard Cherry spoke at Princeton about what it means to be “engaged at every age,” and he talked about employees who had come to CEC after pursuing other careers for many years. So that sounded like a [...]

Christina Procolam–the New Face of Purchasing at CEC

Monday, January 31st, 2011

The self-possessed young woman sitting in a cubicle near the windows on the second floor is in charge of what is possibly the beating heart of CEC: purchasing. After all, where would CEC’s WAP or fee-for-service work be if crews did not have the cellulose for insulation or caulk guns–or trucks? Many is the time [...]

Tony Scariolo of CEC: the Vietnam Vet who loves motor cycles, pit bulls and family.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

The images of the Vietnam War exist uneasily in our memories. First come the grainy, black-and-white films of soldiers weighed down with backpacks and M14s. Then the still color photographs: HH-3 helicopters hovering over walls of orange flame, and a naked young girl, burned by napalm, running down a road. Tony Scariolo was there. Beginning [...]

Aubrey Edwards: December 26, 1964 – September 22, 2010

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

AUBREY EDWARDS December 26, 1964, Guyana – September 22, 2010, New York City Very sadly, we lost Aubrey Edwards last week. Aubrey first came to CEC on February 9, 2004. He had written on his job application, “I like to take a lot of new challenges.” From the beginning he was a quiet, friendly and [...]

Jay Ackley of CEC: A Minnesotan in Gotham

Monday, August 30th, 2010

By day he is Community Environmental Center’s policy analyst, by night he’s an acoustic guitarist playing gigs with his band. Always he’s a Minnesota ex-pat making a life in the Big Apple. “It sounds like a cliché,” says Jay Ackley during lunch at the LIC restaurant La Vuelta one torrid August day, “but I do [...]

Leroy Anthony: Weatherization Expert, CEC Historian

Monday, May 24th, 2010

“I think single houses are more challenging than multistory buildings,” says Leroy Anthony of CEC. “Because we go into closets, we go behind walls. We go into attics and crawl spaces. It’s more demanding all around.”      Leroy should know. He manages the crews that roll out of CEC every morning, to bring energy efficiency [...]

Roger Lamour: Assistant Controller at CEC

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The earthquake struck Haiti at 4:53:10 on Tuesday, January 12. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, buildings tumbled, burying people under immense, jagged stone and concrete hills. Massive cracks zigzagged through the buildings left standing, and the president’s three-story palace collapsed into one level, as though a monster had trod across its back. Haiti would later estimate [...]

Gwen McLaughlin: Explorer at CEC

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

A poster about Sylvia Earle hangs on the bulletin board over Gwen McLaughlin’s desk at CEC. Earle, who was born in New Jersey in 1935, is one of the foremost oceanographers in the world. At the age of 75, she still descends to the bottom of the ocean, to study the flora and fauna that [...]

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