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Congratulating Dominic M. Cermele for his enormous contributions and lifetime of service to Girard College and to the City of Philadelphia.
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WHEREAS, Dominic M. Cermele will retire in June after serving for the past six years as the 15th president of Girard College, one of the world's first residential schools for children from single-parent families with limited financial resources; and
WHEREAS, In choosing to head the school in which he was educated and came of age, he capped a distinguished career of public service as a Philadelphia city official and elected judge in Philadelphia traffic court; and
WHEREAS, During the weekend of May 15-18, he and his classmates will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their graduation from Girard College High School; and
WHEREAS, Cermele was born in Philadelphia on October 27, 1941, the middle child and only son of Pasquale and Rita Cermele; and
WHEREAS, Two years after his father's death, Cermele entered Girard College as a student on September 13, 1948, graduating in June 1959; and
WHEREAS, After attending Girard College, Drexel University and Cheyney State University, Cermele has spent his life and career in the city of his birth. Starting as first deputy chief clerk, he was elected to two consecutive terms as traffic court judge beginning in 1981; and
WHEREAS, In 1989, Cermele resigned his judicial commission and joined the administration of Mayor W. Wilson Goode as Deputy Finance Director, assigned to develop a new city department to handle the resolution of disputed parking tickets in a non-judicial, civil process; and
WHEREAS, When Mayor Edward G. Rendell combined the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication and the Tax Review Board in 1995, he appointed Cermele as executive director of the newly-created Office of Administrative Review; and
WHEREAS, In 1992, Cermele was appointed to the Board of Directors of City Trusts and in 1996 became a founding member and chairman of the Girard...
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