Young Reelected President
Of UFCW Local 1776

            Plymouth Meeting, PA, July 1 – Wendell W. Young, IV tonight was reelected President of the 23,000-member United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776.

            Also reelected in meetings that took place in Plymouth Meeting, Harrisburg, State College and Pittston were Michele Kessler as Secretary-Treasurer and Barbara Johnson as Recorder.

            Elected to the Union’s Executive Board were:

Jim Dawson, ShopRite                                     Walt O’Connor, Acme
Lois Liddell, Super Fresh                                 Melinda Robertson, Acme
Larry Vitale, Acme                                             John Chernesky, PLCB
Michael Kepich, Schott Glass                         Tommy McLean, Schott Glass
Pat Zeleski, HIS                                                 Peggy Delancey, Empire Kosher
Lou Bucci, Staff                                                 Helen Theys, Rite Aid
Ed Chew, Staff                                                   Carlos Renderos, Staff
Katrina Clifton, PLCB                                       Mary Dunne, Staff
Nick Farina, Staff                                               Mark Layer, Staff
Don McGrogan, Staff                                        Bonnie Coons, PEBTF
John Meyerson, Staff                                        Eloise Mullen, Staff
Len Purnell, Staff                                              Peg Rhodes, Staff
Ana Rivera, Cargill

UFCW Local 1776 represents 23,000 members who work in southeast, northeast and central Pennsylvania, northeast Maryland and southern New York in supermarkets, drug stores, food processing plants, government services, manufacturing facilities, nursing homes, professional offices and Pennsylvania’s Wine and Spirits Shops.