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Former Brockport Resident Earns State University of New York Chancellor’s Award

PLATTSBURGH, NY (07/21/2008; 1350)(readMedia)-- Matthew Salvatore, a former resident of Brockport was among the six SUNY Plattsburgh faculty and staff members to have been honored with a State University of New York Chancellor's Award.

Salvatore contributes to the campus through his oversight of the Plattsburgh State Fitness Center, with its budget of half a million dollars. The center has a membership base of more than half the student population and nearly 100 faculty and staff. Under Salvatore's leadership, the center has added a state of the art climbing wall.

In addition to running the center, Salvatore has helped to design and implement the new fitness/wellness leadership program, a major that will open in the fall of 2008.

Salvatore also teaches courses related to his field and will offer additional ones under the new major.

He has been involved with committees like the Internal Control Committee, the Student Affairs Vice President's Council, and the Wellness Programming Committee, and in his spare time, he volunteers at the Samuel S. Vilas Home helping senior citizens increase their strength and flexibility.

"Mr. Salvatore has established a reputation on this campus as an active citizen of our community and an extremely competent director of the Fitness Center," said Ettling.

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Matthew Salvatore, a former Brockport resident, was honored with a State University of New York Chancellor's Award.