☘️ March Board Member Feature: George Frantz

𝗔𝗣𝗔 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗨𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 ☘️ 𝗟𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗬 ☘️ 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

The role of a board member is giving of your time, treasure and talent. Education Officer George Frantz has been doing just that for APA NYU since 1993!

𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗥. 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘇, 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆

🟩 ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ ʀᴏʟᴇ: Education Officer

🟩ʀᴇɢɪᴏɴ: Southern Tier

🟩ᴡʜʏ ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴᴠᴏʟᴠᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀᴘᴀ: I have been actively involved off and on since 1993 as a Board member or Southern Tier Section officer.  It’s been a great opportunity to engage with planners from across the Upstate region and more recently nationally as an APA chapter delegate last year. Since I started my 3rd career in 2017 as a full-time planning professor at Cornell, it seemed natural for me to take on the duties as Education Officer for the Chapter; and I now also teach a new AICP exam prep course at Cornell, soon possible to be an online course.

🟩ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴀᴘᴀ ɴʏᴜ: The comradery I experience working with a diverse range of planners from around Upstate NY who are really dedicated to advancing the profession of planning in the region. Working on the Southern Tier team organizing the conference last fall was a challenging but enjoyable task.

🟩ꜰᴜɴ ꜰᴀᴄᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜱʜᴀʀᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀꜱʜɪᴘ: Since 2010 my teaching, consulting and research in China has taken me to 17 of that country’s 27 provinces, and last summer while doing field work in 3 national parks I found myself more than halfway around the world from Ithaca and 10 miles from Kazakhstan, 30 miles Russia, and enjoying horse milk ice cream bars.

George is a critical connection between our students, the board and overall membership. We are lucky to have his involvement. Are you a planning student wanting to get involved in the Chapter? We'd love to hear from you!