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Tomanelli retires from H & S Plan

Long-time staffer Gloria Tomanelli received a warm farewell from her union and DC 37 Health and Security Plan colleagues at a Jan. 20 retirement party.

“Gloria always gave 110 percent,” said Administrator Cynthia Chin-Marshall, who recapped Tomanelli’s more than 35 years at the plan, where she started out as a summer intern and ended her service as the coordinator of benefits and services.

Honoring Tomanelli, the plan’s Audrey Browne and Mickey Toledo made high-tech presentations. Browne unveiled a PowerPoint spoof of the union’s benefit services that she prepared with plan staff and the Information Technology Dept., and Toledo presented an electronic photo album depicting Tomanelli’s long service.

Other speakers who gave Tomanelli a send-off included DC 37 Associate Director Oliver Gray, Audrey E. Iszard of the Retirees Association, DC 37 Program Director Frances M. Curtis and former Division Director John Toto.

“My dad really believed the union could improve the lives of its members,” said Tomanelli, whose father, Sam Tomanelli, was a leader of DC 37 Laborers in the early days of the union. “I hope I lived up to that commitment.”