
    In the Matter of Richard H. Whitehill, Appellant, v New York State Teachers’ Retirement System, Respondent.
    Argued February 11, 1989;
    decided March 23, 1989
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Thomas E. Brydges for appellant.
    
      Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Julie S. Mereson, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum of the Appellate Division (142 AD2d 902).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa.  