Mayor Names New Trustee

New Village Trustee Donald Brudie, center, is sworn in by Mayor Gerard Lundquist, as Barbara Brudie looks on. Donald T. Brudie will fill the trustee seat vacated by Peter Negri, announced Mayor Gerard Lundquist at the May 5th Board of Trustees meeting. Brudie will finish the remainder of Negri's term, which ends in April, 2006.

Trustee Brudie, a Garden City resident for 29 years and parishioner of St. Joseph's Church, is a practicing attorney whose legal background includes the defense of negligence and medical malpractice cases, prosecution of criminal activity on the New York/New Jersey waterfront, service as the executive assistant to the chairman of the Lawyers Disciplinary Committee, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, counsel for several lending institutions, and as an adjunct professor at Molloy College. His military record includes service in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and the New York Guard. He also served on the board of directors of several charitable organizations including a Catholic orphanage and has also been a boys' little league and girls' softball manager.

Trustee Brudie has been a director on the board of the Central Property Owners' Association for more than 10 years and was instrumental in the erection of pedestrian crossing signs on Seventh Street. Trustee Brudie and his wife Barbara were a moving force behind the installation of lighting at the "S" curve located at the southern gateway of Cathedral Avenue, which had been an accident-prone roadway for many years.

The Brudies have four children: a lawyer, two investment bankers and a doctor, all of whom are graduates of St. Joseph's School and the Garden City High School. Two of their children are Garden City homeowners and presently they have two grandsons attending Garden City schools.