396:, March 5, 1999. Accessed August 5, 2015. "Gov. Whitman yesterday named as her chief counsel Richard S. Mroz, an administration member since 1994 who recently has coordinated state involvement in economic-development projects such as redeveloping the waterfront in his native Camden.... Mroz, who lives in Haddonfield, graduated in 1979 with the last class at St. Joseph's High School in Camden - an event he called `'bittersweet.'"
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