Objectives:

• Preserving & Enhancing Rockville´s Neighborhoods
• Improving Traffic Control & Pedestrian Safety
• Redeveloping Town Center as a Hub of Our "Hometown"
• Keeping Rockville Environmentally Savvy
• Nurturing Our Historic Roots
• Increasing Communication Among Our Citizens & the City Government
• Creating a Science Center & Museum for Rockville -- the Home of the Human Genome
• Encouraging Stronger Partnerships w/ the Board of Ed., the County, & the State
• Revising Maintenance Code Enforcement Practices

Biographical Description:

Phyllis Marcuccio moved to Rockville as a young child. Her native roots here are most evident. She graduated from Richard Montgomery High School and only left the City long enough to get her college degrees and initial jobs experiences. Otherwise, she has lived here for more than 50 years. Her life has been filled with community-minded activities and service.

For 38 years, Phyllis worked for the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) establishing herself as a National leader and innovator in childhood education. Among educators, she was probably best known for being one of the founders and editor of Science and Children magazine; however, she wrote, edited and published journals, books and articles used by teachers at every level from Kindergarten through College. While at NSTA, she directed almost all the major departments at one time or another - publications, membership, marketing, sales, customer service, and computers, to name a few. She was also project director and/or judge for numerous grants (totaling more than $30 million) and awards. Her periodicals have been widely recognized (e.g., Eleanor Fishburn and Educational Press Awards).

Phyllis was known as a teacher of teachers, a presenter at science teacher conferences and a mentor for well over 50 NSTA staff. She was on the boards of several associations including the National Academy of Sciences / Smithsonian Institution; the Pocono Environmental Education Center; and the Rockville area´s own Hands-On-Science Outreach, Inc. She was well known for her open-door policy, her ability to listen to staff and for her efforts to find creative ways to get any job done.

At the same time, and in many of the same ways, Phyllis was always available to her neighborhood and community. She has been the science curriculum consultant to several local area school systems including Montgomery County. She helped to found the Rockville Consortium for Science and remains active in Rockville´s Annual Science Day. Phyllis served on the Rockville Housing Authority for 10 years and was part of the Croydon Park Advisory Board and Review Committee. She has held offices in the East Rockville Civic Association including its presidency. In that capacity she was instrumental in having an east Rockville park (the Mary Trumbo Park), named in remembrance for a community member who was struck by a car on the Rockville Pike in 2001. She also helped spearhead the establishment of a neighborhood plan to ensure that East Rockville was considered in Town Center master planning.

With her strong intellectual and academic background, her tireless civic-minded involvement, her ability to work with people with many different backgrounds and points of view and her eagerness to serve, Phyllis is a natural to be elected to the Rockville City Council.

Working together, listening to one another, we can all help Rockville to become a better place, and I remain committed to doing just that.