{"id":2891,"date":"2012-09-06T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www4.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2012-09-06T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:25:48","slug":"esu-names-representative-peifer-legislative-fellow-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-names-representative-peifer-legislative-fellow-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Names Representative Peifer Legislative Fellow for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A breakfast honoring East Stroudsburg University\u2019s 2012 Legislative Fellow, State Representative Michael T. Peifer (R \u2013139th District), will take place on Friday, September 14, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. on the third floor of the university\u2019s Innovation Center, 562 \u00a0Independence Road, East Stroudsburg, Pa.<em>\u00a0 <\/em>President, Dr. Marcia G. Welsh, will introduce Rep. Peifer at a breakfast in his honor.\u00a0 University faculty, students, staff and special guests from the community will be in attendance.\u00a0 The Legislative Fellow Program at ESU was established in 1999 to invite a different Pennsylvania state legislator every year to participate in ESU campus and student life on a variety of levels.<\/p>\n<p>The Fellows meet formally and informally with students, faculty and staff throughout the academic year. As part of the program, ESU Legislative Fellows may also request a student intern for a full semester.\u00a0 The program is co-sponsored by the university administration and the local chapter of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) at ESU.\u00a0 Fellows are selected by a committee of faculty and administrators and jointly appointed by the university president and the president of APSCUF at the beginning of each calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Peifer was first elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2007.\u00a0 From 1999 to 2006 he was the treasurer ofPikeCounty.\u00a0 Prior to serving Pike County, he was employed by Price Waterhouse LLP as a senior tax consultant\/certified public accountant and in 1995 opened his own firm, Michael Peifer, CPA.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Peifer represents the 139<sup>th<\/sup> District on four standing House committees: Appropriations, Finance, Game and Fisheries, and House Republican Policy Committee on Job Creation.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Wallenpaupack Area High School, Rep. Peifer earned his undergraduate degree in accounting from Rider College in 1990. \u00a0He lives in Greentown,Pa., with his wife, Jen (Teeter), and their three children Corine, Wyatt, and Elijah.\u00a0 He is the son of Tom and Linda Peifer.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Peifer is the fourteenth Legislative Fellow named by the university.\u00a0 Serving previously were:\u00a0 Sen. John T. Yudichak, of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Senatorial District, 2011; Rep. Mike Carroll, of the 118<sup>th<\/sup> Legislative District, 2010; Sen. Robert J. Mellow, of the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> Senatorial District, 2009; Sen. Lisa J. Baker, of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Senatorial District, 2008; Rep John J. Siptroth, of the 189<sup>th<\/sup> Legislative District, 2007; Sen. Raphael J. Musto of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Senatorial District, 2006;\u00a0 Rep. Mario Scavello of the 176<sup>th<\/sup> Legislative District, 2005; and Sen. Charles D. Lemmond of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Senatorial District, 2004; Rep. Thomas M. Tigue of the 118<sup>th<\/sup> Legislative District, 2003; Rep. Craig A. Dally of the 138<sup>th<\/sup> Legislative District, 2002; Rep. Richard T. Grucela of the 137<sup>th<\/sup> Legislative District, 2001; Sen. Lisa M. Boscola of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Senatorial District, 2000; and, former Rep. Joseph W. Battisto of the 189<sup>th<\/sup> Legislative District, was ESU\u2019s first Legislative Fellow in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Legislative Fellow Program or the upcoming breakfast, contact Mr. Miguel Barbosa, interim chief of staff, at (570) 422-3545.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU Names Representative Peifer Legislative Fellow for 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}