Development Director Bonnie Gannon has been elected VP of the Environmental Fund of NJ, a consortium working to convince corporations to allow employees to contribute to environmental non-profits via payroll deductions. GSWA is one of 18 consortium members.

Former Trustee and current Local Issues Committee member Jan Malay has joined the GSWA staff as office administrator.

Project Director Karen Parrish has edited "A Cleaner Whippany River Watershed," a pollution-control manual for local municipal officials and others. She represented Madison on the Nonpoint Source Committee of the Whippany Action Committee. A May publication is scheduled.

Education and Outreach Director Karen Patterson recently offered a "mapping workshop" to local teachers. Designed to give them tools to show students how to identify and delineate a watershed, the workshop attracted more than 40 participants.

Membership Director Gina Snell reports that a recent "phone-a-thon" encouraged about 50 lapsed GSWA members to renew their memberships. The effort, mounted by board members and staffers in Vice Chair David Budd’s Morristown offices, netted nearly $3,000 in membership fees.

Executive Director Julia Somers was featured prominently in the April issue of Morris Magazine, in an article on the cleanup of the Rolling Knolls landfill, a 187-acre former waste disposal site that borders Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. (Longtime local environmental activist Helen Fenske was also featured in a companion article.)