"The past few months have been really stressful," said Diane Steinman, the executive director of the New York chapter.

"This is a really dramatic step," said Rachel Leon, executive director of the New York chapter of Common Cause.

She became executive director of the embryonic New York City chapter of Norml, a Washington-based group, three months ago.

His father was the executive director of the New York City chapter of the American Lung Association.

They now have three, and he is a director of the New England chapter of the Ferrari Club of America.

He was also a former legal director of the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.