Resignation

The Gibbsboro Board of Education on Tuesday night accepted the resignation of member Timothy Dombrowski, effective next week. The board was also informed that it could no longer use the services of Joseph Greene Jr. as solicitor because Greene is being awarded a judgeship. Dombrowski said he was resigning after six years' service on the board because he is moving out of the municipality. Because his term will expire in April, the board will not appoint anyone to complete his term.

Paul Maggioncalda, Berlin Borough's superintendent of schools, resigned abruptly last night, one month after the school board had renewed his one- year, $54,590 contract. Maggioncalda cleaned out his desk yesterday and submitted his resignation to the school board about 7:30 p.m. His resignation is effective Oct. 31, but the board relieved him of all duties last night. He will continue to be paid until Oct. 31. Maggioncalda said in his resignation that he was leaving to "pursue other professional opportunities.

Police Chief Craig Rickard, whose department has been sharply criticized by the Borough Council, has resigned and been replaced by a top aide. Mayor Greg Wall said yesterday that he had "reluctantly" accepted Rickard's resignation during a meeting Friday morning and that he had appointed Sgt. Albert DiValentino acting chief. Councilman Fred Fellmeth described the resignation as Rickard "falling on the sword for the transgressions of a minority of officers in the department.

Two-term Hainesport Mayor Michael J. McMullen's resignation will be officially ruled upon at Tuesday's Township Committee meeting, township officials said. McMullen's letter of resignation, slated for review by township solicitor Bennett E. Bozarth, was entered into the record last Tuesday at a committee work session. Committee members were reluctant to act on the resignation, according to Committeeman Charles W. Gray. "We're not quite sure how to handle this," he said. "We just want to know the legal way to do it. " Township officials said McMullen abruptly walked out of an April 11 committee meeting when resident George Gauvry, a Zoning Board member, accused him of a "lack of leadership.

The head of the agency in Camden that has the power to buy or take private and public land for development submitted his resignation last week. Thomas Roberts, 50, executive director of the city's Redevelopment Agency, said the resignation is effective June 30. "It's been 12 years," said Roberts. "It's time for a change. " The powerful agency has the ability to designate developers for projects within the approximately 10 redevelopment areas of the city, take land by eminent domain in those areas, and transfer property without posting it on a competitive city auction.

The Magnolia Council last night unanimously accepted the resignation of borough tax collector Maria Capuzzi. Capuzzi said in a letter received by the council Tuesday that she wanted her resignation retroactive to March 19. She did not give a reason in her letter for quitting, but she had been under fire from the council. Contacted at her home after last night's meeting, Capuzzi declined to comment on her resignation. Last month, Capuzzi said she had not been to work since the middle of February and had failed to attend three council meetings called especially to discuss her job performance and alleged record-keeping problems in the tax collection office because of "nervous tension, stress and pressure" related to her job. At that time, Mayor Catherine M. Quigley said Capuzzi had continued to use a record-keeping method that the council twice last year asked her to change.

The Haverford Township Board of Commissioners has agreed to try to "clear the air" concerning the resignation last month of Justine Hocker as director of the township library, but it has fallen short of asking her to reconsider her resignation. The commissioners were presented Monday night with a petition, containing more than 170 names, that urged Hocker to remain as librarian. The petition revived questions about her resignation, which many township observers said they believed had been forced by John Toal, a member of the library board of trustees.

Woodlynne's police chief and a patrolman have submitted letters of resignation to the borough council, which unanimously accepted them at a meeting Thursday night. Mayor William Terrell said that the resignation of Police Chief Wilmer B. Wood is effective March 12 and that Patrolman Louis Hannon's resignation is effective Feb. 24. Terrell said he thought that morale problems were common in the police department and blamed poor management for the problems. Wood said in an interview yesterday that he thought the department was being effectively run. Wood has been a member of the department in the Camden County town for almost 12 years and has been chief since November 1982.

Herb Greenwood, vice chairman of Tredyffrin's board of supervisors and a longtime advocate of township parks, has resigned because of health problems, the board announced at its meeting last night. "This is the hardest letter I've had to write," began Greenwood's resignation letter, dated Oct. 10, to board chairwoman Judy DiFilippo. "But I can no longer do a credible job. " Greenwood, who suffers from lung cancer and emphysema, has been absent from the board since he was rushed from an supervisors meeting to Bryn Mawr Hospital with a collapsed lung on Aug. 18. "Herb Greenwood is a great guy, and it's a real loss to the township to have him in the position where he has to resign because of health reasons," said Supervisor Paul Olsen.

Ivy L. Plis, the hard-working Voorhees Township committeewoman who has championed recycling and environmental issues, could announce her resignation during tomorrow night's committee meeting. Plis, 44, who with running mate Gary Finger in 1985 gave Republicans a four-member majority on the Township Committee, is expected to resign soon to join her husband, Michael, in Waterford, Conn. Michael Plis in February started a new job with a Waterford insurance firm, and their two children started school there the first week of this month.

Rosemary Bernardi, accused of making anti-Semitic remarks at an Evesham school board meeting, resigned from the board Thursday and also as vice president of the New Jersey School Boards Association. In her resignation letter to the district, Bernardi said she was stepping down because the controversy had "become a distraction. " Bernardi, 43, is alleged to have made remarks at the May 23 board meeting that seemed to urge the town's non-Jewish residents to seek seats on the board to dilute the influence of its Jewish members.

The president of Cabrini College, Marie Angelella George, announced her resignation Monday after five years at the helm. Deb Takes, chair of Cabrini's board of trustees, will take over as interim president July 3 as the college conducts a national search for a replacement. The college posted a statement about the change in leadership on its website Monday, noting that George, Cabrini's seventh president, would "pursue other professional and academic interests. " "We thank Dr. George for her service to Cabrini and wish her every success in her future endeavors," board vice chair Thomas P. Nerney said in a statement.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State University President Gordon Gee abruptly announced his retirement Tuesday after he came under fire for jokingly referring to "those damn Catholics" at Notre Dame and poking fun at the academic quality of other schools. The remarks were first reported last week by the Associated Press, and Ohio State at the time called them unacceptable and said it had placed Gee on a "remediation plan" to change his behavior. Gee, 69, said in a teleconference that the furor was only part of his decision to retire, which he said he had been considering for a while.

Eastern High School announced Thursday that Jamie McGroarty has resigned as varsity softball coach after six years. "Mr. McGroarty was more than a coach to his student athletes, but a role model who showed his students how to succeed," Eastern's vice principal of athletics, Philip Smart, said in a statement. The announcement came a day after Eastern was eliminated in the South Jersey Group 4 semifinals. "When I took the job, it was supposed to be a one- or two-year job, and it morphed into a six-year thing," McGroarty said.

TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's parliament chief, who served under Moammar Gadhafi before becoming an opposition leader in exile, resigned Tuesday, just weeks after lawmakers passed a bill banning former regime officials from senior government posts. The law, which may effectively bar the speaker, Mohammed al-Megarif, and several other experienced Libyan leaders from high-level posts for the next 10 years, was adopted May 5 amid much turmoil and pressure from militias. The resignation was the latest turn in Libya's rocky path to democracy.

Please Touch Museum president and CEO Laura Foster is stepping down. Foster, leader of the museum for five years, said Tuesday that it was a good time for her to move on. "I want to do some new things," she said. "I want to spend time with my new grandchild. Twenty-two years is a long time," she said, referring to her tenure at the museum, where she initially served as director of development and marketing. Foster said she was not sure what her next career move would be. Her contract is up in November.

JONATHAN LAZARDE, a veteran Philly cop who's been at the center of an extortion probe, abruptly resigned from the force earlier this week. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey put Lazarde and another officer on desk duty April 11, a week after Internal Affairs investigators received a complaint that alleged Lazarde had attempted to shake down a criminal suspect. The commissioner said yesterday that the case will soon be sent to the District Attorney's Office. "It's still a criminal case as far as I'm concerned," Ramsey said.

When a judge finally dismissed the charges against Forrest Solomon, investigators said, the citation in the electronic case docket bore the user name of a different judge - RARNOLD, which belonged to Rita Arnold, a district judge in Chester County. Forrest Solomon is her son, and officials allege the dismissal culminated an elaborate effort by Arnold to hide a citation against him for an offense that would have violated his probation. Arnold resigned Tuesday after her arrest on charges of tampering with records and obstruction, the state Attorney General's Office said.

At some point during a marathon West Coast road trip that placed thousands of miles between him and his loved ones, 76ers coach Doug Collins, 62, realized that while he was physically with the team, mentally and emotionally he had checked out. And that is when Collins, who officially resigned as coach Thursday after three seasons and with a 110-120 record, knew it was time to sever the umbilical cord that has attached him to the Sixers since they...

According to several sources with knowledge of the situation, 76ers coach Doug Collins and the team's ownership are working on a buyout agreement and Collins will not return as the coach next season. "He's not coming back," a team source said. "This is something that both sides have been thinking about for some time. It looks like they are going to part ways. I'm certain Doug will be looking for a buyout. From what I understand, both sides want to make it an amicable parting of the ways.