A hard working member of Harmony Hall’s Board of Directors, Noel Jablonski passed away July 16, 2012 at the age of 72.  She was also the owner of Angelheart Antiques on Rt. 17 in Tuxexo. A retired Civil Engineer, she was born on November 23, 1940 in Brooklyn, NY. and lived in Campbell Hall, N.Y. Noel Jablonski studied Civil and Environmental Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Planning, Zoning and Drainage Law at Rutgers University and Airport Engineering at PENN State. Noel Jablonski was elected to the Westwood, N.J. Borough Council in 1973 and served as Council President, Acting Mayor, Commissioner of Capital Projects and Deputy Commissioner of Public Works. She served on the Westwood Planning Board and the Bergen County Community Development Program for 25 years, representing Westwood and later Ramsey, NJ. She also served on the Hamptonburgh, NY Planning Board.

Jablonski volunteered to work with the Structural Engineers Association of NY on debris removal at the World Trade Center. She founded and was president of Jablonski and Mead Associates, a Civil Engineering, Land Surveying and Construction Management firm with an Underwater Engineering Division and Soils and Materials Testing Laboratory. The firm had offices in New York, New Jersey and Arizona. She worked on seven of the East River Bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, La Guardia Airport and Penn Station. She performed services for over 30 major public agencies including the US Army Corps of Engineers. Following retirement she worked part time for the Sam (“Gridlock Sam”) Schwartz Company and other major engineering consulting firms.

Sloatsburg and Tuxedo will miss Noel’s lively personality and her dedicated community spirit.