Arthur Flug
Arthur has served as Executive Director of the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College and as Director of Comprehensive Instructional Management Systems for the New York City Board of Education. His career includes a record of public service as a District Administrator for United States Congressman Ackerman and Chief of Staff for the Chair of the New York City Council’s Finance Committee.
He received his Ed.D. from Columbia University’s Teachers College in Curriculum and Teacher Training and is the author of The Laidlaw Brothers Social Studies Reading Series. Titles include A Story of the Spanish-American War, A Story of the Industrial Revolution, A Story of World War One, A Story of World War Two, and Genocide Among the Flowers co-authored with rabbi Isodoro Aizenberg. He has spoken throughout the State on issues involving the Holocaust.
Lou Grumet
Lou is the author of two books – The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel concerning a church state case for which he was the plaintiff in 1994, and This Land is My Land concerning a Mohawk armed takeover of state property in New York in which he was the state negotiator that ended the dispute. He was the Executive Director of the New York States School Boards Association for fourteen years as well as the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants for twelve years. He also served as the Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Education Department for the education of disabled students and was the special assistant to New Yor Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. He was Chief of Research for the New York State Office of Local Government, as well as serving as the Assistant Director of Research for the New York State Commission on the Powers of Local Government. Grumet has a JD from NYU Law School, a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelors in Public Affairs from the George Washington University
