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Born in Bayonne, NJ to immigrant parents: Father, Matthew Porter from Scotland and Mother, Svanhild Svensson from Norway. Raised in Linden, NJ where I graduated from Linden H. S. in the Business/Secretarial Course. Varied secretarial work career in Legal field, National Sigma Pi College Fraternity Executive office, Kemper Insurance, Logos Book & Magazine Publishing, and Computer Research Division of AT&T.
Married in 1950 to William Elliott and raised five children in Rahway and Warren, NJ. Currently reside in Basking Ridge, NJ. We have been blessed with ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Community activist in Rahway, instrumental in the integration of the schools, leadership in Scouting. Elder, Deacon, Senior High Youth Leader, Jr. High Sunday School Teacher, Choir of the Presbyterian Church, and Presbytery Unit Committee.
Volunteer in FISH, Inc. Dunellen Area in food and blanket distribution. Co-Founder with Anita Hoynes of the FISH Hospitality Program in 1989, serving as Executive Director and currently on the Board of Directors. Also, currently serving as Co-Coordinator of FHP, Inc. in the Dunellen Presbyterian Church.
Brock Haussamen was raised in New York City and attended Columbia College, the University of Connecticut, and Rutgers University. He holds Masters degrees in English and History. He was hired in 1968 at the opening of what is now Raritan Valley Community College to teach English and continued at Raritan until his retirement in 2006. In addition to helping launch the College's Service Learning program in 1992, he served in many capacities in the College's organizations and grant-funded projects. His research interests were in the fields of linguistics and grammar, and he published two books and a dozen articles in those areas. He was President of the national Assocation for the Teaching of English Grammar from 1996 to 2000. As retirement neared, Prof. Haussamen became increasingly interested in social service in a number of areas. He established and continues to edit a Web site about the minimum wage, "The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research" at www.raiseminwage. He helps organize American support for a school district in Tanzania, Africa. He joined the FISH Hospitality Program Board of Directors in 2004 and the advocacy group of Somerset County's Interfaith Hospitality Network in 2007.