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Member Spotlight
Mike Rielly, Friend
North Tonawanda, NY
Why am I a Friend of the
UB Alumni Association?
“Throughout my 26 years as UB’s head
athletics trainer, I fostered lifetime
relationships with faculty, staff, and
thousands of students and student
athletes. In many ways, my role with
athletes, coaches, physicians and parents
made us grow as one. I gained
tremendous respect for the efforts of
each student athlete I encountered.
Throughout my career, my primary
purpose has been to serve our student
athletes. The support I am now able
to provide the alumni association will
help ensure that our most valuable
assets—alumni and students—continue
to be served.”
Rielly close-up
Friend since January 2009; served as
UB’s head athletic trainer for 26 years,
also served as an assistant and adjunct
professor of physical therapy
and exercise science; was
instrumental in supporting
the development
of University Sports
Medicine Institute
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Brewing Company before
the Seattle Mariners
defeated the Minnesota
Twins, 11–6, in Safeco
Field.
The UB Employee chapter
comprised a large portion
of the 130 members
of the UB community
UB Alumni
A S S O C I A T I O N
who volunteered for the
annual United Way Day
of Caring August 20.
The following day, the
UB Employee chapter
joined members of the
UB Alumni Association
board of directors during
the annual New Student
Move-in Day event.
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Edward C. Schwartz, BA
1944, was inducted into the
Niagara Frontier Aviation
and Space Hall of Fame in
May 2001. While at Cornell
Aeronautical Laboratory (later
Calspan), Schwartz contributed
to the development
of terrain-following control
systems for military aircraft
that enable their safe operation
at very low altitudes,
including flight over mountainous
terrain to avoid
radar detection. He also
designed automatic control
algorithms so aircraft can
conduct timely maneuvers
to achieve desired minimum
clearance and a horizontal
flight path over terrain
peaks. Schwartz resides in
Cheektowaga, NY.
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Edwin M. Fava, BS 1952,
is principal of Sippican
Elementary School in
Marion, MA. He recently
served as principal of the
Pocasset Elementary School
in Tiverton, RI, and has
additional experience as
a teacher, middle school
principal and special education
director. He lives in Fall
River, MA.
60Frances
Kelly, PhD
1968 & BA
1953, has
been inducted
into the
International
Kelly
Adult and
Continuing Education Hall
of Fame, Class of 2008, at
ceremonies in Budapest,
Hungary. She is one of 20
international inductees,
six of whom are American.
Since her retirement as
director of U.S. Navy education
programs, Kelly has
been an e-learning technology
consultant and resides
in Altoona, PA.
Horn, PhD 1969, *James MA 1965
& BA 1963, was honored by
Universidad Internacional,
a private university in
Cuernavaca, Mexico, as
“Citizen of the World,” in
recognition of 35 years
spent leading student
and tourist
groups
in Mexico
and several
other countries.
He is
an associate
pro-
Horn
fessor of history at SUNY
College at Brockport in
Brockport, NY, and president
of Educational Travel
Service Inc. Horn resides
in Brockport. Edward
Ostrowski, BS 1969, is
chair of the American
Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME)
Committee on Ethical
Standards and Review.
He also represents ASME
on the executive board of
the National Institute of
Engineering Ethics, which
develops engineering ethics
training materials. Ostrowski
is a senior process/specialty
engineer for Fluor
Enterprises, and has more
than 38 years of experience
in the design, construction
and operation of power generating
technology. He lives
in Simpsonville, SC. Carol J.
Schrier-Polak, MSW 1969,
received the 2008 Family
Law Service Award presented
by the Virginia State Bar’s
family law section, which
recognizes people who have
improved family, domestic
relations or juvenile law in
Virginia. A partner with the
firm Bean, Kinney & Korman,
she is a member of the
Virginia Bar
Association’s
Joint
Coalition on
Family Law,
Virginia Trial
Lawyers
Schrier-Polak
Association
and Fairfax Law Foundation.
Schrier-Polak resides in Falls
Church, VA.
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Paula Allen-Meares,
BS 1970, is chancellor of
the University of Illinois’
Chicago campus. Previously,
Allen-Meares served as
dean of the University of
Michigan’s School of Social
Work and
as professor
and
dean of the
University
of Illinois’
Urbanaallen-meares
Champaign
Campus School of Social
Work. She received a
Distinguished Alumnus
Award from the UB Alumni
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