Labor on the Move: Cusick to Head DC Musicians

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Retired CWA staffer John Cusick takes over as president of the Metropolitan D.C. Federation of Musicians, Local 161-170 on May 1. A senior writer/editor in CWA's Communications Dept for the past 16 years, Cusick has also been working part-time as a professional musician. A drummer, Cusick heads up Jazz City Trio, which has performed at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Corcoran Gallery of Art an d private receptions (and has a free noontime performance scheduled for Wednesday, May 21 at the Corcoran) Local 161-710's new vice president is Nancy Stutsman, a bassoonist with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Local Secretary-Treasurer Teresa Gafford was reelected, along with executive board members Patty Hurd and Seymour Greene. New on the executive board are Otis Ducker, Ed Malaga and Pam Lassell.