The Council suffered a great loss this past weekend when President Nick Yovnello succumbed to injuries sustained in a car accident in Washington Township, NJ on Saturday, July 7, 2012. The entire Council/AFT NJ State Federation and higher education community is in deep shock over the tragic loss of its long-time leader.
Nick was born and raised in Camden, NJ. He graduated from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in 1969 with a B.A. in Secondary Education and History and went on to earn graduate degrees in Library Science, Information Science and Labor History. At the time of his death, he was Assistant Director/Professor in the Campbell Library at Rowan.
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