Celebrating the Creativity of our Youth
Ms. Madeline A. Quintyne, a dedicated public servant was born in
Harlem, New York and raised in Amityville, Long Island, where at
an early age she demonstrated her social consciousness as she
actively participated in the student council at Amityville Memorial
High School from which she graduated in 1972. Ms. Quintyne
broke the school’s color barrier by serving as its first African
American homecoming queen.
After graduating high school, Ms. Quintyne entered Salem College
in West Virginia, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree
in social work with a minor in sociology. One of her first career opportunities was a position as a case manager for a New York State
agency that addressed the needs of senior citizens. Since then,
Ms. Quintyne has worked in various positions where she has had
the opportunity to serve others, such as job counselor with the
Urban League of Long Island, and case manager at St. Christopher’s in Glen Cove, where she assisted with adoptions and
placing children in foster care. Ms. Quintyne also worked as a
closing manager at the law firm of David M. Green and Keith
Angerame, working closely with clients, often minorities, to assist
them in realizing the dream of home ownership.
Currently, Ms. Quintyne is the Commissioner of Human Services for the Town of Babylon. In this
capacity, she oversees four senior centers, the Drug and Alcohol Department, Women’s Services,
Senior Transportation, a residential repair program for seniors, a food pantry, a monthly senior
magazine and three yearly community programs – Black History Month Program, Women’s History
Month Program and a Hispanic Heritage Month Program. She takes great pride in knowing that she
is serving the community each and every day through these vital programs.
As an active member of her community, Ms. Quintyne is a member of Bethel AME Church in Copiague,
where she serves on the Steward Board and sings with the Mass and Sanctuary Choirs and the Voices
of Faith. She is the Chairperson of the North Amityville Community Festival Day Committee, and a life
member of the Central Long Island Branch of the NAACP, the Witness Project and the Long Island
Men’s Center. Madeline is also Chairperson of NACEC-CDC, an organization that provides economic
development and revitalization for the North Amityville community. Additionally, she is the 1st Vice Chair
of the Town of Babylon’s Democratic Party.
Ms. Quintyne affirms that her life has been inspired by her late father, Irwin S. Quintyne, a community
activist and humanitarian who taught her to be committed, diligent and involved. Adopting her father’s
motto, “Unity in the Community”, Madeline states that her reason to join the fight to improve health and
wellness in her community, particularly as it relates to breast cancer, is motivated by friends and family
who have been stricken with the disease. Through her involvement with The Witness Project, she helps
to raise much needed funds which helps the organization to educate African American women about
breast cancer and early detection.
Committed to furthering her education in the field of social work, Ms. Quintyne is attending Stony Brook
University and will obtain her Masters of Social Work degree in the Spring of 2014. She is inspired daily
by her mother, Delores Quintyne, a social activist in her own right, who together with her father, were the
ultimate role models in her life. She is grateful for those who have paved the way, opened doors and set
examples for her to follow, and credits those who have come before her for the blessings that she has
received thus far. Ms. Quintyne has been blessed with three sons and seven grandchildren.
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