Joseph E. Sweeny
Joseph E. Sweeny, NYSUT Board member, former Dunkirk TA president and a social studies teacher for 38 years, died May 8.
Members and colleagues who knew and worked alongside Sweeny recall his passion and loyalty to the labor movement, to teaching, to students and to the Democratic Party.
"I was on the phone with Rick [Gallant, a fellow NYSUT Board member] ... we both knew what Joe would want more than anything would be for folks to register people to vote and, specifically, for the Democratic Party," said Mary Ellen Decker, Sweeny's longtime companion.
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