Township resident and former Montville schools superintendent Dr. Richard G. Bozza was drawn to education by teachers and coaches who had a dramatic impact on his life. So, despite politics, funding and other issues that often threaten to override students in the education equation, Bozza aspires to keep children at the forefront of every conversation, he said. “I talk about that a lot,” said Bozza, executive director of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators in Trenton. “Every one of us has had a teacher who we’d describe as ‘demanding but supportive.’ Or who ‘had high …

Completing electrical circuits, tinkering with electronic gadgets, and learning about biology; that was how Dr. Nicholas G. Tullo spent his free time as a boy in the Bronx. Today, Tullo is listed as one of the state's top doctors in the October issue of New Jersey Monthly. Out of more than 20,000 doctors in the state, Tullo was one of 647 featured physicians to be selected by their peers. Tullo’s specialty is cardiac electrophysiology. The field combines Tullo’s passion for biology with his fascination with electricity. “I deal primarily with the electrical system of the heart,” Tullo …

Montville mother and daughter acting team, Lucy Tullo and her daughter, Veronica, will open in an original new play Friday at the Darress Theatre in Boonton. “Lost in the Field,” written and directed by Perry Award-nominated playwright Keith E. Brown, is the story of life in foster care. The title refers to what it is called when a child, who has been placed in foster care, is monitored by the system. Those who work in the system must go out into the field to make reports on the child’s quality of life, progress and future. Veronica, 9, plays Alex, a little girl in the foster care system who …

When Hurricane Irene prevented insurance agency CEO George Yost and his employees from entering their Fairfield office, Yost staged a temporary work station at the Lake Valhalla Club and then at his Virginia Road home in the township. Yost, 58, heads The Chadler Group, an independent insurance agency with 50 employees and more than 6,000 commercial, professional and personal customers. The agency, which has been in business for more than two decades, sells home, auto, flood, life and other types of insurance and writes policies with more than 20 different insurance companies. Last week, …

Name: This Sunday, Adam Foye, 10, will be featured on the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association’s (MDA) telethon. Adam, a student at Woodmont Elementary School, was born with a rare muscle disease known as centronuclear myopathy (CNM). “One out of every 400,000 people have it,” said Adam’s mom, Sarah Foye, 42, “So, it is very rare. We know of, say, 200, families around the world…. In New Jersey there are less than a dozen.” Family: Sarah, an occupational therapist, and her husband, Patrick Foye, a physician, have been married for 13 years. The family of three lives in the Pine Brook section …

Name: Angeline-Rose Troy is an actress and producer. Named for both of her grandmothers, the 25-year-old performer with a hyphenated first name began her career when she was 18 months old. For her first performance, she starred in a tights commercial. Troy landed the role at her first audition. “The stockings didn’t fit,” Troy said. “They pooled at my ankles. But I liked it. So I continued from there.” Independent Film: On Sept. 2, Troy will premiere in her first major film. “‘In/Sight’ is a really exciting film,” said Troy of the upcoming movie. “Some people feel it’s more psychological in …

Name: Rosalee Keech is the Main Observer to the United Nations for the League of Women Voters U.S. As an Observer, Keech, along with four Alternate Observers from throughout the nation, sits on a variety of U.N. committees representing the goals and priorities of the League of Women Voters. Founded in 1920, the league was not only “instrumental in helping to foster the right of women to vote,” said Keech, who was appointed in May. “They were also instrumental in fostering the establishment of the United Nations.” As a result, the League of Women Voters was one of the first Non-Governmental …

Name: Gail Strumph has been the head animal control officer at the Montville Township Animal Shelter for eight years. “I’ve been working for Animal Control for 22 years,” Strumph said. “Actually, my mother was animal control before me and that’s how I started.” Strumph’s mother, Helen Emery, had an assistant, who left. “I came in temporarily,” Strumph explained. “And, I never left.” Age: The 47-year-old mother of two has lived in Montville “all my life,” she said. Strumph and her husband have been married 11 years. Her children are 19 and 7. The family has three cats and a dog. Career: “There…

Name: Frans and Kaisy Chung have owned the Towaco Cleaners for 5 years. They have been in the clothing business all their lives. Married: Frans, 51, and Kaisy, 50, met 22 years ago. “We dated 8 months,” said Kaisy. “Then we married.” The couple has two boys. Part of Town: The road from North Korea to Towaco was circuitous for both Frans and Kaisy Chung. Though the couple did not meet until they moved to New York City, both had parents who moved to São Paulo, Brazil, from North Korea in the hopes that some day they would be able to find an opportunity to move their children to the United …

Name: Eileen Gallagher is the mother of three children. Her oldest daughter, Kiersten, is 19, her youngest, Kaitlyn, is 14 months, and her middle child, a son named Christian, is 4. Part of Town: In 2004 Gallagher and her husband, Jim, purchased a 120-year-old farm house on Stiles Lane. The family moved in, in 2005. “When we bought the house it had been a day care for 45 years,” said Gallagher. She explained that the home, which had been Silverland Day Care, was outfitted throughout with florescent lighting, exit signs and emergency exit doors. “It was quite an undertaking,” she added, noting…

Name: Father Mark Andrew Olenowski has a Masters in Theology and a Doctorate of Ministry. “The 'SKI' stands for Skill, Knowledge, and Intelligence,” joked Olenowski while spelling his name. The Priest has been the Pastor of Saint Pius the X Church in Montville Township for 14 days. “The people have been gracious, and generous, and welcoming,” Olenowski said. “Beyond my expectations, they gave me a warm welcome. I am delighted and privileged to be here with a parish of this refinement and sophistication.” The pastor comes to Montville from Our Lady of the Mountain, in Long Valley, with 25 …

Name: Barry Braverman, 63, is the owner of Barry’s Montville Pharmacy on Changebridge Road in Montville. “We’re in our 31st year. We opened the store December 1, 1979,” Braverman said. “At that time we named it ‘Montville Pharmacy.’ We’ve answered the phone ‘Montville Pharmacy’ for 31 years, and for 31 years the entire town has called it ‘Barry’s.’” This past year Braverman finally decided to officially embrace the town’s nickname for the store. “We are now ‘Barry’s’ and we now use the slogan, ‘Barry’s has it,’” he added. “In my mind it’s always been ‘Montville Pharmacy.’ In everyone else’s …

Name: Rev. Dr. Moses D. K. Yang, 71, was born in China. At 8, he and his family moved to Bandung, Indonesia, a very crowded city of “about a million people,” said Yang. The move occurred because, “My father was killed by second war; Japanese war,” he added. Yang was 5 when his father died. Following high school, Yang made his way to a seminary in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “I knew two words of English when I came to this country: Yes and no.” After mastering English and preaching to people of Chinese decent throughout the United States and around the globe, Yang settled in New Jersey. “I was a …

Name: Drew TerWaarbeek is an Assistant Vice President for Lakeland Bank. He also manages the Montville branch of the bank, which, for six years, has served as the official sponsor for the Montville Township 4th of July Celebration. “To us it means that we (Lakeland Bank) are there for everybody,” explained TerWaarbeek. “Without an official sponsor a lot of the events couldn’t take place because of the cost that’s involved in everything. So we like to help out with that.” Current Activities: Because it takes place during the last weekend in June, the Montville Township 4th of July Celebration …

Name: Funda Duval Istvan is a professional actress with twenty years in the entertainment business. “I’ve been working since I came out of college.” Career:   The New Jersey native earned a BFA from the Rutgers conservatory program, and then headed to New York City. She started by working in classical theatre. But, before long, she found herself gravitating toward the downtown avant garde theatre scene where she had the opportunity to work with “a lot of big avant garde directors,” like Richard Foreman. “I learned a lot,” she added. “Slowly that transitioned me into playing gritty underworld …

Name: Arlene Sullivan is 56, but, when asked, her answer is, “You know what? I don’t know.” The single mother of three adult children, ages 20, 24, and 26, is too involved with work, art, and community to focus on her age. Part of Town: In 1989, Sullivan and her family moved from Oak Ridge, NJ to Towaco to be closer to family. She lives just a few houses up from her sister. Career: Sullivan studied art at William Patterson University “a thousand years ago,” she said. Since then she has taught. Currently she is an art instructor at Morris Catholic High School.  Art has “always, always,” been a…

Name: Ernie Bivona, 67, is an entrepreneur with a competitive spirit who races yachts. “We do race. We race about 45 days a year,” said Bivona about his crew of nine people. “We are pretty competitive about racing.” His crew is made up of “young professionals in their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.” The team mostly races the 34-foot yacht in Long Island Sound. However, they have been known to sail the boat to races in locations like Annapolis, MD and Newport, RI. “That’s part of my career,” said the competitive sailor. Career: “I’m not really that anxious to retire,” Bivona said. “Because I am not sure…

Name: Rabbi Mark Finkel, 58, has been a rabbi for over 30 years. For four years he has served the congregation at the Pine Brook Jewish Center. Finkel and his wife have been married for 13 years. They have three children, a daughter, 11, and twins, a boy and a girl, who are 5. Career: “My choice of professions was always going to be, ‘a rabbi or X,’ or, ‘a rabbi or Y,’ but the ‘rabbi’ was the constant in that,” Finkel explained. “And, eventually I became a rabbi.” According to Finkel, his spiritual path was a confluence of three things. Growing up, his grandparents lived with his family. They…

Name: Patrick Mann, 63, owns Green Briar Residential Facility in Pine Brook. Mann described his business as, “A health maintenance and monitoring device for seniors, for people suffering, perhaps, from depression, or mental and physical acuities.”   Part of Town: The Mann family has lived on Pine Brook Road for 30 years. Mann moved to Pine Brook because a property was available that offered him an opportunity to open a residential health care facility. There are 10 employees who care for 36 residents at Green Briar. “We started off taking care of the frail elderly, and it wound up that we …

Name: John Longo, 48, is a nationally certified massage therapist with a passion for causes. Children: Longo has four children, three of whom are grown. His youngest is 15 and attends Montville Township High School. Part of Town: In 2002, Longo moved to Montville Township to get married. Today, he lives in Towaco and operates a business in Montville.   Career: Three years ago, Longo made a career change. He left manufacturing and expanded on his interest in personal training. “I jumped in with both feet and never looked back,” Longo said of massage therapy. “I provide multiple therapeutic …