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Candidate Biographies
 
for Mayor:
Rose G. Krasnow
Lih Y. Young
Vote for Council:
Robert E. (Bob) Dorsey
Glennon J. Harrison
Charles Haughey
James T. Marrinan
Robert (Bob) Wright
 
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Rose G. Krasnow

Address:
5 Don Mills Court
Rockville, MD 20850
E-Mail: kkras@erols.com
Personal:
Date of Birth: 6/18/51
Spouse: Steven J. Krasnow
Children: Kevin (16), Kimberly (14)
Rockville Resident: 17 Years
Education:
  • B.A. in Political Science and Urban Affairs: Washington University in St. Louis, 1973
  • Masters in Urban & Regional Planning: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1975
Current Employment:
  • Administrator of the New Mark Commons Homes Association
Employment Experience:
  • Government Bond Trader: Oppenheimer & Co., New York, NY
  • Transportation Planner: North Carolina Department of Transportation, Raleigh, N.C.
Community, City, County, State Activities:
  • Completing First Term as Mayor of Rockville
  • Two Term Member of the Rockville City Council
  • Member of the Transportation Planning Board for the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments (WASH-COG)
  • Member of the Montgomery County Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Arts
  • Founding Member of the Rockville Common Ownership Communities Association
Organizational Affiliations:
  • Member of Peerless Rockville
  • Rockville Sister City Corporation
  • Richard Montgomery PTA
  • Member of Temple Beth Ami
Awards/Honors:
  • Named as one of Maryland's "Top 100 Women - 1997"
Endorsements:
  • Alliance of Rockville Citizens

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Lih Y. Young

Address:
1121 Pipestem Place
Rockville, MD 20854
Personal:
Date of Birth: April 15, 1941
Spouse: Kan H. Young
Children: Albert, Janice
Rockville Resident: 19 years
Education:
  • Ph.D., M.A., in Economics, City University of New York
  • B.A. in Economics, National Taiwan University
Current Employment:
  • Economist: OMNIX
Employment Experience:
  • Economist Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Professor of Economics, Bloomfield College, N.J.
  • Loan Official, international trade, Bank of China
  • Private instructor in mathematics and languages.
Community, City, County, State Activities:
  • Candidate for U.S. Congress, 8th Cong. Dist. 1996
  • Candidate for State Senate for Dist. 17 in 1994
  • Participant in White House Conferences on Small Business for MD & Metro. Area
  • Advocate and activist for citizen's rights, women's issues, government accountability, education, economic security, public safety, and other social issues
  • Participant in conventions and legislative caucuses
  • Served on executive boards and steering committees from local to national level for diverse organizations: ACLU, NAACP, NWPC, etc.
  • Lobbied and testified before government bodies, legislators, law enforcement, public hearings at various levels
Organizational Affiliations:
  • American Civil Liberties Union: Executive Board of MC and Nat. Cap. Area chapters
  • NAACP, Executive Board of MC chapter
  • National Women's Political Caucus, national steering committee
  • National Organization of Women, Public Citizen, AAUW, etc.
Professional Affiliations:
  • American Economic Association
  • American Statistical Association
Awards/Honors:
  • President's Leadership Circle, national steering committee
  • Recommended with strong endorsement for Presidential Appointee by Coalition for Women's Appointments
  • Passed prestigious "Special" and "High" Examinations in Taiwan

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Robert E. (Bob) Dorsey

Address:
Seven Marcia Court
Rockville Maryland 20851
E-Mail: rdorsey@capaccess.org
Personal:
Date of Birth: June 28, 1946
Spouse: Roberta Ward
Children: Harold, Harriet
Rockville Resident: 25 years
Education:
  • Graduate, International Tabulating Institute
Current Employment:
  • On-Site Manager, Lakeforest Library Connection
Employment Experience:
  • 27 years, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) as Marketing Representative, Systems Engineer and Computer Programmer/Operator
  • Two years Associate Director, Academy for Computer Training, Bowie State University
Community, City, County, State Activities:
  • Councilmember - Rockville City Council
  • Former Chair - Rockville Human Rights Commission
  • Board member of MC Sheriff's Boys and Girls Clubs
  • Board member of First Night of MC: Study Circles participant
  • Vice Chair, COG Human Service and Public Safety Committee
  • Member MATES Advisory Board
  • MML Representative to Maryland Gives, Governor's Charitable Giving Advisory Committee
  • Member Public Safety Committee, National League of Cities
Organizational Affiliations:
  • Current Member of Mount Calvary Church Board of Trustees and Sunday School Teacher
  • Rockville Optimists Club
  • Twinbrook Citizens Association
  • Lincoln Park Historical Society
  • Member and Past Area Governor of Toastmasters International
  • Committee for a New Rockville Library
  • Cofounder of Rocknet (Community Internet Network)
Endorsements:
  • The Sierra Club
  • Alliance of Rockville Citizens
  • Rockville Gazette

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Glennon J. Harrison

Address:
115 Upton Street
Rockville, MD 20850
E-Mail: harrison@universe.digex.net
Personal:
Date of Birth: August 27, 1952
Spouse: Mary Ann Saour
Children: Michael (7), Peter (5)
Rockville Resident: 15 years
Education:
  • Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1974, B.A.
  • Manchester University, Manchester, England (UK), 1977, M.A.(Econ.)
  • Manchester University, Manchester, England (UK), 1986, Ph.D.
Current Employment:
  • Head, Labor and Industries Section and Specialist in International Trade and Finance, Economics Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1986-present.
Employment Experience:
  • I manage a group of labor, industry, and transportation economists at the Congressional Research Service (CRS). I have worked as an international economist at CRS for eleven years. I cover a wide range of issues spanning U.S. trade policy, and trade agreements and legislation: U.S.-European Union economic relations, high technology export control policy, encryption technologies, international sanctions, the World Trade Organization, intellectual property rights issues, information technology trade, and global electronic commerce.
Community, City, County, State Activities:
  • Rockville City Councilmember, 1995-present
  • Rockville Planning Commission, 1986-91 and 1994-95, Chair, 1990
  • Traffic and Transportation Commission, 1982-86, Chair, 1985-86
  • West End Traffic Management Advisory Group, 1991, Chair
  • National League of Cities -- Transportation and Communications Policy Committee
  • Maryland Municipal League
  • Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments -- Metropolitan Development Policy Committee; Transportation Planning Board (Alternate)
  • Treasurer, Team for Rockville 1989
Organizational Affiliations:
  • West End Citizen's Association
  • Peerless Rockville
  • Alliance of Rockville Citizens
  • Sierra Club
  • St. Mary's Catholic Church, Rockville
  • Cofounder of Rocknet (Community Internet Network)
Endorsements:
  • The Sierra Club
  • Alliance of Rockville Citizens
  • Rockville Gazette

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Charles Haughey

Address:
1000 Aster Boulevard
Rockville, Maryland 20850-2039
E-Mail: haugheys@aol.com
Personal:
Date of Birth: May 23, 1929
Spouse: Barbara Elder Haughey
Daughters: Megan and Eleanor
Rockville Resident: 27 years
Education:
  • University of Pennsylvania: B.S., M.S., Ed.D.
Current Employment:
  • Independent consultant (Haughey Associates) in education planning and information services.
Employment Experience:
  • Twenty-two years service as a program manager and a policy advisor for research dissemination and knowledge utilization programs of federal education agencies (Department of Education, Office of Education)
  • Twelve years as an administrator and two years as a teacher in school systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Community, City, County, State Activities:
  • Rockville Planning Commission Chair (1996) and Member (1992-1997)
  • Rockville Advisory Commission on Public Education Chair (1987-89, 1990) and Member (1983-89, 1990-91)
  • Imagine Rockville Search Conference Participant (1997)
  • Member of Rockville City Manager Selection Committee (1995)
  • Rockville Goals Task Force (1988-89)
  • Chair, Scholarship Committee Richard Montgomery High School
  • Richard Montgomery High School Booster Club, (1989-1991)
  • St. Elizabeth Parish Council (1990-92)
  • Parish Board of Education (1984-1985)
  • Parent Advisory Board, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, (1991-94)
  • Vice-President, Lakewood School Parent - Teacher-Student Association (1976-78)
Organizational Affiliations:
  • American Educational Research Association
  • American Planning Association
  • Disabled American Veterans
  • Knowledge Utilization Society (Vice President)
  • Phi Delta Kappa
  • Parish of St. Elizabeth
  • Peerless Rockville
  • Rockville Chamber of Commerce
  • Alliance of Rockville Citizens

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James T. Marrinan

Address:
5 Old Creek Court
Rockville, MD 20854
E-Mail: jtmarrin@rssm.com
Personal:
Date of Birth: July 2, 1937
Spouse: Cynthia
Children: Anne and Jane
Rockville Resident: 25 years
Education:
  • Boston College, BS, MSW
  • Univ of Michigan, MPH
  • Princeton Univ.'s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Int'l Affairs - One Year Post Graduate Fellowship in Public Administration.
Current Employment:
  • Exec. Director, Long Term Acute Care Hospital Assn. of America
Employment Experience:
  • Vice President, Community Psychiatric Centers, Inc.
  • Director, American Hospital Association
  • Branch Chief, Office of Ass't Sec. for Health, U.S. Public Health Service (HHS)
  • Branch Chief, Medical Services Administration, Social & Rehabilitation Service (HEW)
  • U.S. Army Medical Service Corps.
Community, City, County, State Activities:
  • 4 term incumbent Rockville City Council
  • Past President, Fallsmead Homeowners Association
  • Past Chair, Rockville Free Clinic
  • Board of Directors, Metro. Washington Council of Governments (Past Secretary/Treasurer)
  • Member Peerless Rockville
  • Rockville Sister City Corporation
  • Past Vice President, Wootton High School, PTSA
  • Member, Parish Council, St. Raphael's Church
  • Member, Human Development Policy Committee, National League of Cities
Organizational Affiliations:
  • American Public Health Association
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • Academy of Certified Social Workers
  • American Society of Association Executives

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Robert (Bob) Wright

Address:
209 Watts Branch Parkway
Rockville, MD 20850-2913
E-Mail: wright@compuserve.com
Personal:
Date of Birth: January 30, 1941
Spouse: Stephanie Kuhn
Children: Rob, Kate, and Deb
Rockville Resident: 18 years
Education:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, B.S.M.E.
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, M.S.
  • Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Ph.D.
  • Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, M.B.A.
Current Employment:
  • Manager of Power Systems, Coal and Power Systems
  • Office of Fossil Energy, U. S. Department of Energy
Employment Experience:
  • Thirty-four years of experience as a manager, engineer and independent consultant. Positions held include Technical Assistant, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Manager, U. S. Department of Energy; Senior Engineer, Science and Technology Center, Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Independent Consultant for General Public Utilities and U.S. Navy; Research Assistant, Bureau of Engineering, Rutgers University; Project Engineer, Curtis Wright Corporation; and Engineer Trainee, U. S. Steel Corporation
Community, City, County, State Activities:
  • Council Member, City of Rockville
  • District Vice-President, Maryland Municipal League, representing Montgomery, Howard and Anne Arundel Counties.
  • President, Montgomery County Chapter, Maryland Municipal League
  • Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee, Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments
  • Metropolitan Development Policy Committee (1996), Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments
  • Community and Economic Development Steering Committee, National League of Cities
  • Past President and Treasurer, Rockshire Homeowners Association
  • Past Scoutmaster and Committee Chairman, Boy Scout Troop 944, St. Raphael's Church
  • Past Cub Master, Cub Scout Pack 1753, Fallsmead Elementary School
  • Past soccer coach, MSI
  • Past Vice President for Girls, Potomac Soccer Association
  • Past Chairman, Adult Education Committee, Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church
  • Past President, Rockshire Sharks, Montgomery County Swim League
Organizational Affiliations:
  • Registered Professional Engineer in Maryland and Pennsylvania
  • Alliance of Rockville Citizens
  • Association of West Rockville Citizens
  • Peerless Rockville
  • Rockville Sister City Corporation
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Sigma Xi (research honorary)
  • Beta Gamma Sigma (business honorary)

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