Scarsdale High School PTA

Voting for the Compact Committee

There are two ways to vote for the Compact Committee.

1. Attend the PTA Meeting on FRIDAY MAY 16th at 11:30 - 1PM. Lunch will be served. At this meeting, ballots will be handed out.

2. If you are NOT ABLE to attend the PTA meeting, you may print out a ballot by clicking here. You must return this ballot to the Principal's office at the high school by Friday at 11:30 am.

Compact Committee Candidates

Valerie Abrahams

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates): 5th, 7th, 10th

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  • Girl Scout Troop Leader (2000-present)
  • Westchester Reform Temple - Publicity Co-Chair (2002-2007)
  • QRS PTA Vice President (2004-06)
  • Middle School PTA President-Elect (2006-07)
  • Middle School PTA President (2007-present)
  • Scarsdale PT Council President (incoming 2008-09)

Work Experience

Trans-Lingual Communications (Chicago, IL)
                      Translator/Instructor (1978-81)
International Marketing & Sales Management (Chicago, IL) (1981-83)
Japan Times Newspaper (Tokyo, Japan)
                      Copy Editor (1983)
                      Weekly Edition - Assistant Editor (1984-85)
Newsweek Magazine/TBS-Brittanica Japanese Edition
                     Correspondent (1985-1988)
                     NY Bureau Chief (1989-1995)
JCC of Mid-Westchester (Scarsdale, NY)
                     Publicity Asst. (1996-1999)
                     Bendheim Theatre Group Sales (2001-2006)
                     Dance School PR and Admin. (2003-present)

 

Melissa Begg

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates): 11th, 8th

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  • Trustee and Past-President, Kids' BASE & The Little School

  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Autism Speaks (formerly National Alliance for Autism Research, or NAAR)

Work Experience

Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

 

Elissa Bromer

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates): 8th, Sophomore in College

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  • Involved in PTA program in Horace Mann

Work Experience

President of apparel company
ESB Consulting LLC

 

 

Laura Fratt

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates): 8th, 9th

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  •  League of Women Voters of Westchester
  •  League of Women Voters of  Scarsdale
  •  PTA Middle School, PTA High School
  •  Committee Member of Boy Scout Troop 24
  •  Leader Girl Scouts Troop 2674
  •  Junior League of the City of New York
  • Previous Involvement:  Greenacres Compact Committee member, Middle School Safety Chair,  Sport Swap Chair, LWV Scarsdale President, Scarsdale Bowl Chair, Greenacres PTA

Work Experience

Previous Work Experience:General Atlantic, Marketing; Apple Computer, Marketing; RAM Mobile Data, Marketing

Sara Kober

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates):  6th and 8th grades

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  • Presently on Middle School Compact committee (2-year term ends June 2008
  • Past President and current board member, Kids' B.A.S.E. & The Little School
  • Middle School PTA - annual fundraiser, school store, pizza day and book fair volunteer
  • Previously -- Heathcote PTA co-chair of Visiting Author Committee, Environmental Committee and Community Service Committee.

Work Experience

Attorney - 1986-1996 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

In-house counsel and Assistant Vice President - 1996-2004 - Cantor Fitzgerald.   


Kim Meyers

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates): Freshman in college, 10th, 8th, 4th

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  • Former treasurer of Scarsdale PT Council (two year term)
  • Former President of Heathcote Elementary School
  • Variety of PTA positions in Heathcote, Middle School and HS PTAs including member of Heathcote Compact team for two years
  • Member of Principal search committee at Heathcote
  • Former trustee (approx. 10 years) of Center For Preventative Psychiatry/Andrus Childrens Center
  • Current board member of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Westchester Division
  • Current board member of Scarsdale League of Women Voters
  • Current Co-Captain of Scarsdale Tennis team

 

Work Experience

 My educational background is in finance (BA Finance, Wharton School and MBA in finance, NYU Stern School).  The lionshare of my professional experience was in the financial sector -- consultant and financial research analyst, vice president of venture capital firm responsible for small private placements and IPO's and Vice President of family owned commodities trading firm.  As a volunteer, most of my "board of director" work is performed in the areas of strategic and financial planning. 

 

Mara Perlmutter

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates): College Freshman, 9th

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  • Previous Member of Compact Committee- 2005-2007
  • Area Chair Scarsdale Girls Tennis League-1998-2007
  • Involved in WRT fundraiser events
  • Member of Fashion Group International
  • Member of Womens Jewelry Association

Work Experience

Currently Group President of Victoria  & Co, division of Nine West and Jones Apparel Group
Managing Director of Hearst Magazines
Sr Mgmt Saks Fifth Avenue

Rena Schwartzbaum

Present Grades of all Children (Including Graduates):11, 9  and 5

Community Involvement (Scarsdale or elsewhere)

  • Compact Team member at Quaker Ridge School for 2 years
  • PTA executive board at Quaker Ridge School
  • Founded and ran the nutrition committee at Quaker Ridge
  • On committee to renovate Corell Park

Work Experience

School Psychologist at the Murray Avenue School in Larchmont
In private practice as a psychologist for 15 years