Educator and local activist Steven Erdelyi was re-elected
as a City Councillor of Cote Saint-Luc District Four during the municipal
elections on November 1st, 2009 with 94% of the vote. The election results
set the stage for Steven Erdelyi to continue to work on improvements
to District 4 and Cote Saint-Luc as a whole.
In
July 2008, Erdelyi was named the Vice-Principal of Westmount
High School after serving as the head of the Science Department
at Marymount Academy
where he taught Math and Science for six years. He has served Quebec’s
English-speaking community for many years through his positions as a
member of Alliance
Quebec’s provincial Board of Directors and Vice-President
of the Alliance Quebec Youth Commission. Erdelyi also worked as a Project
Coordinator for Alliance Quebec, where he successfully lobbied for improved
services in English for Montreal-area residents.
Erdelyi, who worked very closely with Mayor Anthony Housefather and
Councillors Glenn J. Nashen, Mitchell Brownstein and Ruth Kovac, played
an integral role on the Cote Saint-Luc Demerger Committee.
During the demerger campaign, he focused much of his efforts on District
Four.
Erdelyi
is also known for co-founding MATCH-LQ, a political action group seeking
to encourage young people to stay in Quebec. During his days at McGill
University, he was an active representative on the Student Council where
he initiated a Library
Improvement Fund that has raised over $10 million. In the past,
he has co-chaired a fundraising committee at the Saidye Bronfman Centre
for the Arts and was a member of the Young Leadership Israel Advocacy
Initiative.
Erdelyi
recently served a two-year term on the board of La Symbiose, a non-profit
group aiming to help new immigrants to the area adapt to life in Canada.
He is currently on the board of the Montreal Jewish Hereditary Disease
Fund, whose aim is to raise awareness and promote screening of common
genetic diseases. He is also a member of the board of the Quebec-Israel
Committee.
Erdelyi
is a graduate of Queen's University
with a B.Ed. and McGill University
with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry. He is currently working on a post-graduate
degree in Educational Leadership at McGill University. He is fluent
in English, French and Hebrew and partly fluent in Japanese. In 2007,
he and his wife, Randi Berman, welcomed the birth of their son, Matthew
Harry Erdelyi, and in 2009, the birth of their daughter, Bailey Leah
Erdelyi.
