Dr. Thomas L. Facelle and Harold J. Peterson will be honored for their service to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center April 29 at the 27th Annual Good Samaritan Spring Ball at the Rockleigh Country Club.
Proceeds from “A Night in Monte Carlo” themed, black-tie affair will help fund the expansion of Good Samaritan Emergency Department in Suffern.About Harold J. Peterson
Veteran banker and Rockland County civic leader Harold J. Peterson, a member of the Good Samaritan Foundation Board of Directors, will be presented the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center Medal of Honor.
Mr. Peterson, founder and 26-year chairman of the ARC Golf Classic, has helped to raise nearly $1 million for people with developmental disabilities. He currently serves as president of the ARC Foundation.
A former Rockland County Finance Commissioner, Mr. Peterson currently serves as a board member for the Rockland Business Association, United Hospice of Rockland, Meals on Wheels and the Clarkstown Education Foundation. He also serves as a member of the St. Thomas Aquinas College President’s Council and the Dominican College Palisades Institute. He was a 10-year member of the Rockland Community College Foundation, a 10-year board member for Child Care Resources of Rockland and a 12-year member of the Nyack Hospital Board of Trustees.
In 1990, ARC awarded Mr. Peterson with its Humanitarian Award. In 2007, Child Care Resources of Rockland presented him its Purple Crayon Award.
By day, Mr. Peterson is senior vice president and senior managing director for Provident Bank. He and his wife Stella live in New City; they have two children and two grandchildren.
About Dr. Thomas L. Facelle
Dr. Thomas L. Facelle, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center’s director of surgery since 2008 and its chief of trauma services since 1995, is the recipient of the Sister Joseph Rita Award for Medical Excellence.
Dr. Facelle also co-chairs the medical center’s Cancer Committee, and has received extensive training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Early in his career, Dr. Facelle completed surgical training at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and served three years in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps. He has been a clinical
instructor in surgery at New York Medical College since 1987, the year he joined Ramapo Valley Surgical Associates. In 1990, Dr. Facelle was the first surgeon in Rockland County to perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy. He has pursued considerable laparoscopic training at major laboratory facilities in four states, and advanced hernia training in Miami.
As a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and the National Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Facelle brings a wealth of expertise and care to his patients and to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. He is married to Dr. Joan H. Facelle, who is Rockland County's health commissioner; they have three children.
The ball is being chaired by Kathy Medici and Janetlee Pillitteri. Cocktails will start at 4:30 p.m., dinner at 6. The Rockleigh is at 26 Paris Ave., Rockleigh, N.J.
Tickets - $400 per person, $4,000 for a table of 10 - are available now. Call Tracie McLee, Good Samaritan Foundation senior development officer, at 845-368-5618 or email her, Tracie_McLee@bshsi.org.
Corporate and individual sponsorship opportunities are available for “A Night in Monte Carlo.” A commemorative journal will be published; the deadline for journal ads is April 6. Contact McLee for more information.
Surgeon, Civic Leader Honored by Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation
Dr. Thomas L. Facelle and Harold J. Peterson to be cheered at Spring Ball for their efforts.
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Charles W. Samoylo June 18, 2013 at 06:54 pm
congrats for your Fundraising efforts for such a worthy cause.
Paul Williams June 16, 2013 at 08:33 am
He also wanted to know the most effective method of spying on the other kids so he could get elected…Read More Class President.
Green Farmer June 13, 2013 at 01:39 pm
Why not cut out the middle man and just send the money directly to the religious schools.
Paul Williams June 16, 2013 at 08:27 am
If they reported all their income........if every other home was not owned by a "RABBI"…Read More and tax free.....if they returned all the books and learning materials they "borrowed" .......ETC ETC.....Get real Weeder.
Lisa Buchman (Editor) June 13, 2013 at 11:20 am
Fantastic! Just posted the photo on New City Facebook too!
Tom Nimick June 11, 2013 at 09:23 pm
Mr. Pointing says that an issues conference is unusual. The unusual step is called for because this…Read More project is highly unusual; it is unprecedented. This French-owned water company wants to implement its pet technology at our expense - it makes sense for the company because the project makes lots of money. There is information available that calls into question the "definitive" studies carried out by the water company. Of course they found that their technology was the best option - what a surprise! They have not made the case that they carried out a disinterested examination of the issues in the public interest. Yes there are still issues. Also, stop threatening us with increased costs from delay. First, it does not make sense and second, you are trying to bully us into accepting your proposal. That is one more sign that something is wrong in your proposal.
John Taggart June 13, 2013 at 08:08 am
An issues conference will be a wast of time and money. So many ' issues ' have been pulled out of…Read More thin air. The people who organized against the plant will just keep saying the same thing. No amount of info will be enough, no answer will be accepted. The issues conference will be a circus of endless questions, ideas, and demands. Haverstraw bay reclassified as drinking water will better protect it, provide an endless supply of water and finally help end the stereotype of the Hudson being polluted
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Tom Nimick June 11, 2013 at 09:12 pm
There were no open meetings. I attended the April meeting and Mr. Lettre was directed by the Town…Read More Board to return with more precise estimates and to include options for other upgrades. I have attended every meeting of the Town Board since that time and Mr. Lettre never returned in an open meeting.
Mr. Borelli indicated that Mr. Lettre had addressed his concerns directly and privately.
According to the Open Meetings Law, the deliberations of the Town Board are to be open and visible to the public. Private individual meetings or communications with members of the Town Board so as to avoid open deliberations flouts the intent of the Open Meetings Law.
Mr. Gromack's statement of other meetings is inaccurate and, since it was specifically in response to a question about open meetings, dishonest.
Mr. Borelli, shame on you for accepting a private communication and not standing by your guidance to Mr. Lettre that he was to come back to an open meeting of the Town Board.
Kevin Zawacki (Editor) June 9, 2013 at 09:32 pm
Thanks for sharing, Grace! Your thoughts on their noise?
Grace Anthony Zemsky June 10, 2013 at 09:00 am
The traffic from the nearby Palisades Parkway is more of a noise nuisance than the cicada chorus.…Read More (We have triple-paned windows because of it.)
There is something almost musical about the hum of the cicadas. Of course, it may bother me more if I lived in the "affected area" and heard it constantly. Upon entering this nearby neighborhood, the sound crescendos. And yet, it can't be heard a couple of streets away.
The drone of locusts is more bothersome than these 17 year cicadas.
Coleen Crowe June 10, 2013 at 01:30 pm
There are swarms of them at my house in upper nyack. Take a ride down Broadway in Upper Nyack near…Read More Nyack beach and they are super loud.
Linda June 8, 2013 at 10:39 am
I missed this! Is there still a way to get a signed copy? Maybe he will do another signing?
John Murphy June 11, 2013 at 08:20 am
This is the most accurate word picture of one of the tragic corollary side effects of one of…Read More humanities ' gruesome failings , which is war. Thank you Pam Sitomer for putting your writing genius to work for a noble cause.
Lisa Buchman (Editor) June 6, 2013 at 03:16 pm
Now I'm hungry! Great info, great cause, thanks for sharing.