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A L S O I N S I D E R o s a l i n d Jarrett, BA ’69 | G o r d o n G r o s s , JD ’55 | R ya n To o h e y , B A ’ 9 7<br />
s p r i n g 2 0 1 0<br />
Renowned pedi<strong>at</strong>rician<br />
Harvey Karp, BA ’72,<br />
shares his techniques<br />
for calming and<br />
communic<strong>at</strong>ing with<br />
young children<br />
The baby whisperer
firstlook<br />
To see more photos,<br />
go to www.buffalo.edu/RollerDerby<br />
School of<br />
Hard Knocks<br />
UB Police Officer Stacy Tuberdyke, BA ’99,<br />
(left) and UB adjunct professor Shannon<br />
Carlin, PhD ’06, MA ’01, EdM ’99 &<br />
BA ’97, square off under their respective<br />
monikers—Tuesday Hula and<br />
Dr. Dementer—as members of the<br />
Queen City Roller Girls.
a public<strong>at</strong>ion of the university <strong>at</strong> buffalo alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ion spring 2010<br />
UBtoday<br />
William R.<br />
Greiner Tribute<br />
Colleagues, friends and<br />
former students recall<br />
UB’s 13th president<br />
16<br />
12<br />
Raising happy kids<br />
Pedi<strong>at</strong>rician Harvey Karp, BA ’72, shares his<br />
ideas for calming infants and communic<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
with toddlers<br />
18<br />
Visual artist vindic<strong>at</strong>ed in strange case<br />
Steve Kurtz’s legal b<strong>at</strong>tle raised pivotal questions<br />
about First Amendment rights in a post-9/11 world<br />
24<br />
One vision, three campuses<br />
Historic master plan offers a guideline for university’s<br />
growth and transform<strong>at</strong>ion for decades to come<br />
26<br />
We Can Row!<br />
Program leverages UB’s strengths in <strong>at</strong>hletics and<br />
public health to empower breast cancer survivors<br />
A l u m n i p r o f i l e s<br />
31<br />
Rosalind Jarrett,<br />
BA ’69, tri<strong>at</strong>hlete<br />
and Hollywood<br />
executive<br />
33<br />
Gordon Gross,<br />
JD ’55, <strong>at</strong>torney,<br />
philanthropist<br />
and community<br />
leader<br />
35<br />
Ryan Toohey,<br />
BA ’97, political<br />
and corpor<strong>at</strong>e<br />
str<strong>at</strong>egist and<br />
consultant<br />
D e p a r t m e n t s<br />
Letters 4<br />
Shortform 6<br />
Seen Read Heard 9<br />
sportform 10<br />
Alumni News 36<br />
In my opinion 48<br />
Cover photo by Max S. Gerber<br />
Reaching others
2 UBTODAY Spring 2010 www.alumni.buffalo.edu
from thePresident<br />
Strenghtening our position,<br />
fulfilling our promise<br />
>><br />
To join UB Believers,<br />
a broad coalition of<br />
university advoc<strong>at</strong>es,<br />
please visit www.buffalo.<br />
edu/community.<br />
s we enter the final weeks of the spring semester here on campus, it is an<br />
appropri<strong>at</strong>e time to reflect on the past academic year and envision wh<strong>at</strong> lies ahead.<br />
Fall 2009 was a time of considerable progress <strong>at</strong> UB. We welcomed the most<br />
academically accomplished freshman class in UB history, unveiled our comprehensive<br />
master plan and saw members of our faculty earn significant n<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
honors.<br />
In February, our community came together to pay tribute to the l<strong>at</strong>e<br />
President Emeritus William R. Greiner. His enduring legacy is everywhere<br />
apparent, from major buildings th<strong>at</strong> changed the face of the campus to<br />
the interlocking “UB” th<strong>at</strong> adorns our Division I <strong>at</strong>hletes’ uniforms and<br />
is used in countless other applic<strong>at</strong>ions besides. The stories told of his unselfish mentoring,<br />
help and encouragement to so many have been quite moving. (See article on page 16.)<br />
Just as Bill’s vision shaped much of the UB th<strong>at</strong> we know today, UB 2020 carries with it<br />
the promise of tomorrow. Th<strong>at</strong> promise can be seen on the faces of current UB faculty like<br />
SUNY Distinguished Professor Esther S. Takeuchi,<br />
who received the N<strong>at</strong>ional Medal of Technology and<br />
Innov<strong>at</strong>ion from President Barack Obama. It was<br />
there when our women’s rowing team and students<br />
from the Department of Rehabilit<strong>at</strong>ion Science,<br />
School of Public Health and Health Professions,<br />
joined together to combine their unique skills for the benefit of our community. (See article<br />
on page 26.)<br />
While a struggling economy has impacted us all, UB remains true to the promise and<br />
vision of our plan. We have softened the impact of an estim<strong>at</strong>ed $55 million in st<strong>at</strong>e budget<br />
cuts (representing a 27.2 percent cut in st<strong>at</strong>e support) over the past two years by making<br />
oper<strong>at</strong>ional improvements and tapping institutional reserves, nearly depleting this<br />
resource. Even with these efforts, however, the economic challenges facing New York have<br />
eroded the financial base of UB 2020 and pushed back its timetable. Ironically, never has<br />
New York needed more to build a future economy based on innov<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
th<strong>at</strong> emerge from the st<strong>at</strong>e’s research universities.<br />
In January, Governor David A. P<strong>at</strong>erson responded to this need<br />
with a proposal th<strong>at</strong> if adopted by the Legisl<strong>at</strong>ure will grant more<br />
flexibility to all SUNY and CUNY campuses—in effect, extending<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ewide the policy reforms we have been seeking. His proposal<br />
also will do away with the sudden tuition increases of the past th<strong>at</strong><br />
have dealt a severe and unpredictable blow to students and parents.<br />
We are supporting the governor’s proposal because these reforms will<br />
be a critical step toward enhancing UB’s ability to compete<br />
among the best public research universities in the n<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Mindful of where we have been and where we aim to<br />
be, we move forward with purpose in 2010. The efforts<br />
of our dedic<strong>at</strong>ed alumni and every UB Believer have<br />
brought us closer to achieving the UB 2020 vision. Let’s<br />
continue to work toward th<strong>at</strong> promise.<br />
John B. Simpson, President<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong>
d r o p u s a l i n e !<br />
mailbox<br />
Interfaith journey<br />
is tribute to lost<br />
alumna<br />
Just a footnote to your<br />
beautiful cover story in<br />
the fall 2009 issue, “A<br />
Moment in Time.”<br />
After offering my help<br />
immedi<strong>at</strong>ely after the<br />
crash of Flight 3407<br />
on Feb. 12, 2009, and<br />
discovering th<strong>at</strong> all bases<br />
were covered by others, I<br />
volunteered to teach the<br />
“Building Bridges” class<br />
for the Bureau of Jewish<br />
Educ<strong>at</strong>ion of Gre<strong>at</strong>er<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>. Susan A. Wehle,<br />
BA ’02 & BA ’74, cantor<br />
<strong>at</strong> Temple Beth Am and<br />
one of the 50 individuals<br />
who tragically perished<br />
in the crash, had conceived<br />
the course and<br />
was to lead it <strong>at</strong> the High<br />
School of Jewish Studies.<br />
After Susan’s de<strong>at</strong>h, her<br />
class became my second<br />
voc<strong>at</strong>ion, as I tried to recre<strong>at</strong>e<br />
her vision (she did<br />
not leave a class outline<br />
or notes). I also wanted<br />
to keep her legacy of<br />
interfaith efforts alive.<br />
Ever since, I’ve been<br />
working with Othman<br />
Shibly, MS ’95, assistant<br />
professor in the<br />
UB School of Dental<br />
Medicine and a Muslim<br />
faith community leader,<br />
to bridge the gaps of<br />
understanding and fellowship<br />
among Jewish,<br />
Muslim and Christian<br />
communities. Dr. Shibly<br />
brought his students<br />
from the An-Noor<br />
Mosque in Getzville to<br />
learn and communic<strong>at</strong>e<br />
with the Jewish high<br />
school students for<br />
several sessions of the<br />
Building Bridges class,<br />
for instance.<br />
As a result of this class,<br />
Dr. Shibly and I were<br />
invited to be interfaith<br />
guests <strong>at</strong> the annual<br />
Islamic Society of North<br />
America convention<br />
in Washington, D.C.,<br />
over the Fourth of July<br />
weekend. We then<br />
volunteered to coordin<strong>at</strong>e<br />
our own “twinning<br />
weekend,” which was<br />
p<strong>at</strong>terned on an initi<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
begun in 2008 by Rabbi<br />
Marc Schneier, president<br />
and founder of the<br />
Found<strong>at</strong>ion for Ethnic<br />
Read us<br />
online<br />
Go to our Web edition <strong>at</strong><br />
www.buffalo.edu/UBT<br />
for extended coverage<br />
of selected fe<strong>at</strong>ures and<br />
departments.<br />
Understanding in New<br />
York City.<br />
In October, I traveled with<br />
Dr. Shibly to Damascus,<br />
Syria, to speak on<br />
geri<strong>at</strong>ric health issues<br />
as an invited guest <strong>at</strong> the<br />
Syria Dental Associ<strong>at</strong>ion’s<br />
annual meeting, and I did<br />
several house calls for<br />
elder rel<strong>at</strong>ives of meeting<br />
<strong>at</strong>tendees. In November,<br />
the Metro <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.,<br />
Mosque-Synagogue Twinning<br />
Weekend took place.<br />
Four local Jewish and<br />
three Muslim congreg<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
shared religious services<br />
and spiritual study,<br />
discussed joint projects<br />
to help the community,<br />
and offered a health fair<br />
manned by Muslim and<br />
Jewish physicians and<br />
dentists.<br />
I’m sure th<strong>at</strong> Susan would<br />
be happy th<strong>at</strong> someone is<br />
trying to keep her vision<br />
alive.<br />
Robert S. Stall, MD ’83<br />
Tonawanda, NY<br />
Vol. 28, No. 2<br />
UB Today is published twice annually by the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion, in cooper<strong>at</strong>ion with the Office of<br />
<strong>University</strong> Communic<strong>at</strong>ions, Division of External Affairs, and the Office of Alumni Rel<strong>at</strong>ions, Division of Development<br />
and Alumni Rel<strong>at</strong>ions. Standard r<strong>at</strong>e postage paid <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong>, New York.<br />
Editor Ann Whitcher-Gentzke<br />
Art Director Rebecca Farnham<br />
Editorial Assistant Julie Wesolowski<br />
Production Coordin<strong>at</strong>or Cynthia Todd-Flick<br />
Alumni News Director Barbara A. Byers<br />
Communic<strong>at</strong>ions Coordin<strong>at</strong>or Gina Cali-Misterkiewicz, MA ’05<br />
Development News Editor Cynthia Leavell<br />
Class Notes Editor Kelly Barrett<br />
09-ALR-003<br />
DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS<br />
Vice President K<strong>at</strong>hryn R. Costello<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Vice President for Alumni Rel<strong>at</strong>ions Jay R. Friedman, EdM ’00 & BA ’86<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Directors Nancy B<strong>at</strong>taglia, MBA ’96 & BS ’89; Barbara A. Byers; Michael L. Jankowski, Andrew Wilcox<br />
Assistant Directors Kristen M. Murphy, BA ’96; P<strong>at</strong>ricia A. Starr<br />
DIVISION OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS<br />
Vice President Marsha S. Henderson, BA ’73<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>e Vice President for <strong>University</strong> Communic<strong>at</strong>ions Joseph A. Brennan, PhD ’96 & MA ’88<br />
Assistant Vice President for Str<strong>at</strong>egic Communic<strong>at</strong>ions Arthur Page<br />
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UB Today editorial offices are loc<strong>at</strong>ed <strong>at</strong> 330 Crofts Hall, <strong>University</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong>, <strong>Buffalo</strong>, New York 14260.<br />
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from theUBAAPresident<br />
We asked UBAA<br />
President Larry Zielinski,<br />
MBA ’77 & BA ’75, to dispel<br />
some common misconceptions<br />
about wh<strong>at</strong> constitutes membership<br />
in the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Q: Is every UB gradu<strong>at</strong>e autom<strong>at</strong>ically a member of the<br />
UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
No. Members are individuals who have purchased a<br />
membership from the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion. Whether<br />
you’re a UB parent, spouse, UB Believer, neighbor or<br />
Bulls fan, anyone in Western New York or around the<br />
world is welcome to officially join our network.<br />
Q: How many alumni are actually members of the<br />
alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Of our more than 208,000 alumni living worldwide, only<br />
about 12,000 have made this commitment and are duespaying<br />
members. I know our alums are loyal and want<br />
to do the right thing, but for wh<strong>at</strong>ever reason they’ve not<br />
taken the extra step to show it. With all of the wonderful<br />
things th<strong>at</strong> are happening here under President John<br />
B. Simpson and with the UB 2020 vision, my goal is to<br />
engender much broader support.<br />
Q: Wh<strong>at</strong> about UB Today Does receiving this issue<br />
mean th<strong>at</strong> someone is a member<br />
Actually, th<strong>at</strong> is probably the biggest misconception concerning<br />
membership. Many other universities reserve<br />
their magazine exclusively for members of the alumni<br />
associ<strong>at</strong>ion; however, we think th<strong>at</strong> UB Today is such a<br />
valuable public<strong>at</strong>ion th<strong>at</strong> we send it to all alumni (unless<br />
they have specifically requested not to receive it).<br />
Q: So wh<strong>at</strong> do members get<br />
The value of membership varies from person to person.<br />
Some people tell me they join simply because they want<br />
to give something back, others because they feel it’s the<br />
“right thing to do.” Many others like the fact th<strong>at</strong> we<br />
offer so many discounts and benefits, such as on-campus<br />
parking privileges, reduced ticket prices for alumni<br />
events in <strong>Buffalo</strong> and around the country, online retailer<br />
discounts, travel and insurance programs, and the like.<br />
Still others take advantage of our networking and career<br />
services benefits, and access to our network of more than<br />
200,000 alumni around the world.<br />
Q: How long have you been a member<br />
Proudly, since 1991.<br />
(See rel<strong>at</strong>ed article on p. 36.)<br />
Schussmeisters’ officers and staff, ca. 1977.<br />
flashback<br />
1960<br />
Schussmeisters hits<br />
the slopes<br />
Snow in the forecast Th<strong>at</strong>’s<br />
good news for members of the<br />
Schussmeisters Ski Club Inc., an<br />
organiz<strong>at</strong>ion founded in 1960<br />
by a group of UB students who<br />
embraced all aspects of skiing.<br />
These students established connections<br />
with Western New York<br />
ski areas, local ski shops and bus<br />
companies in an effort to bring affordable skiing to the UB community.<br />
During the 1960s, the club invited ski teams from other colleges<br />
and universities to ski meets th<strong>at</strong> fe<strong>at</strong>ured slalom, downhill and crosscountry<br />
races, as well as ski jumping events.<br />
The Schussmeisters became a student-run, non-profit corpor<strong>at</strong>ion in<br />
1972, offering memberships to UB students, faculty, staff, alumni and<br />
members of their immedi<strong>at</strong>e families. From December through March,<br />
club members can enjoy regularly scheduled outings to local ski areas,<br />
including Holiday Valley, Kissing Bridge, Cockaigne and Peek’n Peak.<br />
Currently celebr<strong>at</strong>ing its 50th anniversary, Schussmeisters is one of<br />
the largest and most active clubs <strong>at</strong> UB. With more than 2,100 members,<br />
the group ranks as one of the largest ski clubs in the Eastern<br />
United St<strong>at</strong>es. In past years, Schussmeisters has sponsored many<br />
out-of-town trips. The group’s 2009-10 travel offerings include trips to<br />
Park City, Utah, and Killington, Vt., as well as a spring break sojourn<br />
in Cancún, Mexico.<br />
Schussmeisters is run by eight undergradu<strong>at</strong>e students, a faculty/staff<br />
adviser and a full-time office manager. K<strong>at</strong>hy Witt, the club’s office<br />
manager for the past 23 years, describes the student-run corpor<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
as “excellent prepar<strong>at</strong>ion for getting a job.” Students who start<br />
out as volunteers can l<strong>at</strong>er apply for such positions as bus captain,<br />
head bus captain and finally, director. Many students enjoy their<br />
Schussmeisters experience so much th<strong>at</strong> they keep in touch with the<br />
club long after gradu<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
The Schussmeisters will mark its 50th anniversary with a party on<br />
July 24, 2010 <strong>at</strong> Kissing Bridge Ski Resort. The party, fe<strong>at</strong>uring music,<br />
food, a cash bar and prizes, is open to the public and everyone is invited<br />
to celebr<strong>at</strong>e with the Schussmeisters, a UB club for all seasons!<br />
—K<strong>at</strong>hleen Quinlivan, <strong>University</strong> Libraries<br />
www.alumni.buffalo.edu UBTODAY Spring 2010 5<br />
Photo: UB ARCHIVES
shortform<br />
Ac a d e m i c i n s i g h t s, b r e a k i n g r e s e a r c h , U B p e o p l e a n d u n i v e r s i t y n e w s<br />
Douglas Levere, BA ’89<br />
Architecture students<br />
Bailie and Dudkowski<br />
turned a master’s thesis<br />
into a masterpiece.<br />
A c a d e m i c i n s i g h t<br />
139 Howell Street<br />
Where others saw blight, Michael-John Bailie, MArch ’09 & BA ’07, Paul<br />
Dudkowski, MArch ’09 & BA ’07, Ernest Ng, MArch ’09, and Dan Stripp,<br />
MArch ’09 & BA ’07, saw opportunity. In October 2008, the four friends,<br />
then entering their final year in UB’s architecture master’s program, purchased<br />
crumbling 139 Howell St. in <strong>Buffalo</strong>—their thesis project—for<br />
$6,500 <strong>at</strong> a public auction. They gutted the home and began a renov<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
th<strong>at</strong> would transform the derelict property into a neighborhood gem.<br />
Ultim<strong>at</strong>ely, they put $36,000 into renov<strong>at</strong>ions, with don<strong>at</strong>ions of some<br />
m<strong>at</strong>erials.<br />
The finished product, “Quad Space,” is a work of art and a tribute to<br />
minimalist living. At less than 700 square feet, the dwelling includes a<br />
b<strong>at</strong>hroom with a claw-foot tub, a kitchenette, a parlor and four bedrooms,<br />
one of which doubles as a lounge. Each of the priv<strong>at</strong>e quarters consists<br />
largely of a giant “cube,” a 7-by-7-by-7.5 foot space constructed using a<br />
sleek, warm-toned wood. The boxes protrude partway from the house’s<br />
original brick exterior, giving the structure a whimsical quality.<br />
“These students have a sophistic<strong>at</strong>ed architectural sensibility,” says<br />
Mehrdad Hadighi, associ<strong>at</strong>e professor and chair of the architecture department,<br />
and a Quad Space thesis advisor. “It usually takes people a good<br />
10 to 15 years after school and being in practice to be able to figure these<br />
things out.”<br />
To read more, visit http://cjhsu.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/<br />
U B b y t h e n u m b e r s<br />
School of Management<br />
Rankings<br />
6 UBTODAY Spring 2010 www.alumni.buffalo.edu<br />
5<br />
[Forbes cites MBA program as<br />
one of the best in the U.S. for<br />
1return on investment]<br />
B r e a k i n g<br />
R e s e a r c h<br />
MS research<br />
probes new<br />
theory on cause<br />
UB neurologists are conducting<br />
a research study<br />
th<strong>at</strong> could overturn the<br />
prevailing wisdom on<br />
the cause of multiple<br />
sclerosis (MS).<br />
The researchers will test<br />
the possibility th<strong>at</strong> the<br />
symptoms of MS result<br />
from the narrowing<br />
of the primary veins<br />
outside the skull, a<br />
condition called “chronic<br />
cerebrospinal venous<br />
insufficiency,” or CCSVI.<br />
This complex vascular<br />
condition restricts the<br />
normal outflow of blood<br />
from the brain, resulting<br />
in brain tissue injury<br />
and degener<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
neurons. Discovered by<br />
Paolo Zamboni <strong>at</strong> the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Ferrara in<br />
Italy, CCSVI was found to<br />
increase the risk of developing<br />
MS by 43-fold.<br />
Preliminary findings<br />
from a small pilot<br />
study <strong>at</strong> the <strong>Buffalo</strong><br />
Neuroimaging Analysis<br />
Center (BNAC) headed<br />
by Robert Zivadinov, UB<br />
associ<strong>at</strong>e professor of<br />
neurology, director of<br />
the BNAC and principal<br />
investig<strong>at</strong>or, and <strong>at</strong> the<br />
universities of Ferrara<br />
and Bologna, Italy,<br />
directed by Zamboni and<br />
Fabrizio Salvi, respec-<br />
tively, showed th<strong>at</strong><br />
abnormalities affecting<br />
predominant p<strong>at</strong>hways<br />
th<strong>at</strong> return venous blood<br />
from the brain to the<br />
heart occurred more<br />
frequently in MS p<strong>at</strong>ients<br />
than in controls.<br />
The UB/BNAC study,<br />
involving 1,600 adults<br />
and 100 children—1,100<br />
p<strong>at</strong>ients who were<br />
diagnosed with possible<br />
or definite MS, 300<br />
age-and-sex m<strong>at</strong>ched<br />
normal controls, and<br />
300 p<strong>at</strong>ients with other<br />
autoimmune and neurodegener<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
diseases—<br />
will determine if the<br />
pilot-study findings can<br />
be replic<strong>at</strong>ed. All participants<br />
will receive Doppler<br />
ultrasound scans of<br />
the head and neck, while<br />
MS participants also<br />
will undergo MRI brain<br />
scans. Results from the<br />
first 500 participants<br />
were expected to be released<br />
in February 2010.<br />
MS p<strong>at</strong>ients from across<br />
the U.S. are eligible to<br />
particip<strong>at</strong>e in the study.<br />
For more details on the<br />
study, go to www.bnac.<br />
net/page_id=517.<br />
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schools with strong regional recruiting bases]<br />
[N<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
ranking by<br />
Business<br />
[Ranking in Northeast<br />
by Business Week]<br />
69Week]<br />
[The Wall Street Journal ranks UB<br />
MBA in the top five for fastest<br />
return on investment]<br />
zivadinov<br />
Douglas Levere, BA ’89
Go to<br />
www.buffalo.edu/news<br />
for the l<strong>at</strong>est in campus news reports.<br />
Douglas Levere, BA ’89<br />
>><br />
Open Wide Stefan Ruhl, a faculty member<br />
in the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental<br />
Medicine, obtains saliva, blood and dental plaque samples<br />
from Kwizera, a 200-plus-pound female gorilla <strong>at</strong> the <strong>Buffalo</strong><br />
Zoo who was receiving a physical examin<strong>at</strong>ion before heading<br />
to the Memphis Zoo for breeding. The specimens will help<br />
advance Ruhl’s research into human evolution and how and<br />
why the types of bacteria living inside the oral cavity of prim<strong>at</strong>es<br />
differ from the types living inside humans.<br />
U B P e o p l e<br />
White House honors for engineering professor<br />
In an October 2009 White House ceremony,<br />
Esther S. Takeuchi, Gre<strong>at</strong>b<strong>at</strong>ch Professor in<br />
Power Sources Research and SUNY Distinguished<br />
Professor in the School of Engineering<br />
and Applied Sciences, received the N<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Medal of Technology and Innov<strong>at</strong>ion—the highest<br />
honor awarded in the U.S. for technological<br />
achievement—from President Barack Obama.<br />
Takeuchi, a UB faculty member since 2007, was<br />
the first UB professor to receive this honor. The<br />
takeuchi<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional Medal of Technology and Innov<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
recognizes individuals or companies for outstanding contributions to<br />
the promotion of technology for the improvement of the economic,<br />
environmental or social well-being of the United St<strong>at</strong>es.<br />
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s<br />
Public Health<br />
and Health<br />
Professions<br />
earns<br />
accredit<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
The School of Public<br />
Health and Health Professions<br />
(SPHHP) has<br />
earned full accredit<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
from the Council<br />
on Educ<strong>at</strong>ion for Public<br />
Health for five years, the<br />
maximum for an initial<br />
accredit<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Accredit<strong>at</strong>ion was the<br />
culmin<strong>at</strong>ion of a rigorous<br />
multi-year peerreview<br />
process. UB’s<br />
SPHHP now is one of<br />
only 43 schools in the<br />
U.S. to hold membership<br />
in the Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of Schools of Public<br />
Health.<br />
“When the school was<br />
founded in 2003, the<br />
vision was to become<br />
S p e a k i n g o f<br />
accredited and join<br />
the first rank of public<br />
health schools in the<br />
country,” says Lynn<br />
T. Kozlowski, dean of<br />
SPHHP. “I’m proud th<strong>at</strong><br />
we have accomplished<br />
this on our first effort.<br />
“We have a significant<br />
shortage of public health<br />
workers,” continues<br />
Kozlowski, “and this<br />
shortage challenges us<br />
in Western New York, in<br />
the st<strong>at</strong>e, in the n<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
and in the world. We<br />
will need more than<br />
250,000 public health<br />
workers by 2020 to meet<br />
the world’s health care<br />
needs—a challenge th<strong>at</strong><br />
is compounded by the<br />
impending retirement<br />
of nearly one-fourth of<br />
the current public health<br />
workforce. SPHHP now<br />
can ramp up its training<br />
of public health workers<br />
and help deal with this<br />
shortage.”<br />
“Can we actually find<br />
within the soul of humankind the<br />
ability to live with each other, to<br />
exist with each other peacefully<br />
To respect each other, no m<strong>at</strong>ter<br />
wh<strong>at</strong> our faith, our culture, our<br />
civiliz<strong>at</strong>ion Th<strong>at</strong>’s the biggest<br />
challenge th<strong>at</strong> we have.”<br />
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Distinguished<br />
Speakers Series, Alumni Arena, Oct. 7, 2009<br />
For 2009-2010 Distinguished Speakers Series ticket inform<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
go to www.specialevents.buffalo.edu.<br />
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shortform<br />
Douglas Levere, BA ’89<br />
Artist’s rendering of William R. Greiner Hall.<br />
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s<br />
Residence hall echoes<br />
campus master plan<br />
A new residence hall th<strong>at</strong> embodies the principles<br />
of UB’s comprehensive physical plan,<br />
“Building UB,” is under construction on the<br />
North Campus. See rel<strong>at</strong>ed article on page 24.<br />
The 600-unit William R. Greiner Hall for<br />
sophomores will fe<strong>at</strong>ure a “learning landscapes”<br />
concept designed to enhance learning by blending<br />
residential, academic and recre<strong>at</strong>ional areas.<br />
“The first floor has a wide variety of settings<br />
for classroom spaces for study groups and for individual<br />
study, and fe<strong>at</strong>ures a 2,000-square-foot<br />
Market Café with se<strong>at</strong>ing for 50 people,” according<br />
to Joseph J. Krakowiak, EdM ’73, director<br />
of <strong>University</strong> Residence Halls and Apartments.<br />
“Casual study will be enhanced through the use<br />
of technology, lighting and flexible spaces.”<br />
The 198,500-square-foot residence is expected<br />
to be ready for occupancy for the fall 2011 semester.<br />
The $57 million project is being funded<br />
by a partnership between the UB Found<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
and the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
William R. Greiner Hall will include fe<strong>at</strong>ures<br />
th<strong>at</strong> qualify it for a Leadership in Energy and<br />
Environmental Design (LEED) gold standard.<br />
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s<br />
UB welcomes<br />
new dental<br />
medicine dean<br />
Michael Glick, professor<br />
of oral medicine and associ<strong>at</strong>e<br />
dean for oral and<br />
medical sciences <strong>at</strong> the<br />
School of Osteop<strong>at</strong>hic<br />
Medicine <strong>at</strong> A. T. Still<br />
<strong>University</strong> in Arizona and<br />
editor of The Journal<br />
of the American Dental<br />
A c a d e m i c I n s i g h t<br />
glick<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion, has been<br />
named dean of the UB<br />
School of Dental Medicine.<br />
Known for his innov<strong>at</strong>ive,<br />
medicineoriented<br />
approach to<br />
dental care, Glick is<br />
a proponent of having<br />
dental students think<br />
of themselves as health<br />
care professionals first,<br />
and dentists second. His<br />
Reaching out to Haiti<br />
research interests are<br />
focused primarily on the<br />
care of the medically<br />
complex dental p<strong>at</strong>ient,<br />
and he has published<br />
extensively and lectured<br />
worldwide on this topic.<br />
Glick succeeds Richard<br />
Buchanan, who in 2008<br />
announced plans to<br />
step down as dean after<br />
seven years in the post<br />
to devote more time to<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ional issues in dental<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
The powerful aftershock on Jan. 20 th<strong>at</strong> hit the already devast<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
city of Port-au-Prince only intensified Haiti’s need for Frenchspeaking<br />
structural engineers who could immedi<strong>at</strong>ely determine<br />
which of the structures left standing still<br />
posed a thre<strong>at</strong> to human safety.<br />
André Fili<strong>at</strong>rault, UB professor of civil,<br />
structural and environmental engineering<br />
and director of the Multidisciplinary Center<br />
for Earthquake Engineering Research<br />
(MCEER), headquartered <strong>at</strong> UB, led one of<br />
the first such missions to address this critical<br />
need. He was part of a team of 10 architects<br />
and engineers from U.S. educ<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
institutions and priv<strong>at</strong>e engineering firms.<br />
André Fili<strong>at</strong>rault (in white<br />
h<strong>at</strong>) <strong>at</strong> Haitian orphanage.<br />
“The sole purpose of these missions is<br />
humanitarian, to ensure the safety and welfare<br />
of Haitian citizens,” Fili<strong>at</strong>rault says. “We are taking the knowledge<br />
of earthquake engineers <strong>at</strong> MCEER, UB and in the engineering<br />
profession <strong>at</strong> large and applying it <strong>at</strong> a time when it is most urgently<br />
needed.”<br />
Douglas Levere, BA ’89<br />
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s<br />
Scholarships will<br />
retain UB students<br />
in WNY<br />
8 UBTODAY Spring 2010 www.alumni.buffalo.edu<br />
The Prentice Family Found<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
has given more<br />
than $380,000 to help UB<br />
students gradu<strong>at</strong>e and establish<br />
their careers in the<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong> Niagara region.<br />
The Prentice Family<br />
Found<strong>at</strong>ion’s Western<br />
New York Prosperity<br />
Scholarship Program is<br />
designed to help build a<br />
highly educ<strong>at</strong>ed, innov<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
and experienced<br />
professional workforce<br />
prepared to contribute<br />
to the economic growth<br />
and sustainability of the<br />
area. These scholarships<br />
will enable qualified<br />
students in the UB<br />
schools of Medicine and<br />
Biomedical Sciences,<br />
Engineering and Applied<br />
Sciences, and Management<br />
to become better<br />
acquainted with career<br />
possibilities in the<br />
region.<br />
“Through this gift, my<br />
family hopes to make<br />
a multi-gener<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
impact on Western<br />
New York, helping<br />
to transform it into a<br />
21st-century knowledge<br />
economy,” says Bryant<br />
H. Prentice III, president<br />
of the Prentice Family<br />
Found<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Visit http://wnyprosperityscholars.buffalo.edu.
seenreadheard<br />
Books<br />
The Politics of Cocaine<br />
By William L. Marcy, PhD ’07<br />
b o o k s , m u s i c a n d f i l m s b y U B a l u m n i<br />
Drawing on<br />
declassified<br />
documents and<br />
extensive firsthand<br />
research,<br />
“The Politics<br />
of Cocaine” is<br />
an examin<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of the U.S. narcotics policy<br />
in South America and Central<br />
America from 1972 to 2008.<br />
The book explores why the U.S.<br />
remains unable to control the<br />
flow of cocaine into the U.S. and<br />
why the “war on drugs” appears<br />
to be spiraling out of control.<br />
(Lawrence Hill Books, 2010)<br />
The Happy Book<br />
By Rachel Kempster BA ’97<br />
“The Happy<br />
Book” shows<br />
how to practice<br />
and<br />
celebr<strong>at</strong>e<br />
happiness<br />
so you can<br />
find it when<br />
you really need it. Packed with<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ive prompts, wacky ideas,<br />
and hip activities, this is the ultim<strong>at</strong>e<br />
pick-me-up. Packaged to<br />
encourage doodling and drawing,<br />
The Happy Book has space<br />
to scribble thoughts, make lists,<br />
fill in the blanks, and paste pictures.<br />
This book is about cre<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
a record of wh<strong>at</strong> makes you<br />
glad, whether th<strong>at</strong> means ‘80s<br />
hair bands or hot chocol<strong>at</strong>e with<br />
churros. (Sourcebooks, 2009)<br />
Called Back: My Reply to Cancer,<br />
My Return to Life<br />
By Mary Cappello, PhD ’88<br />
& MA ’85<br />
In her intensely personal<br />
and insightful memoir, Mary<br />
Cappello wonders aloud wh<strong>at</strong><br />
breast cancer<br />
awareness<br />
really makes<br />
us aware of,<br />
and responds<br />
as if for the<br />
first time to<br />
the deceivingly<br />
simple command, “tell me wh<strong>at</strong><br />
you’re feeling.” “Called Back”<br />
looks through the lens of cancer<br />
to discover—often with humor—<br />
new truths about intimacy and<br />
essential solitude, eroticism, the<br />
fact of the body, and the impossibility<br />
of turning away. (Alyson<br />
Books, 2009)<br />
The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food<br />
and Friendship<br />
By Andrea Israel and Nancy<br />
Garfinkel, PhD ’80 & MA ’77<br />
“The Recipe<br />
Club” is a<br />
“novel cookbook,”<br />
a deliciously<br />
funny,<br />
touching story<br />
of friendship,<br />
loss and the<br />
ties th<strong>at</strong> bind—with more than<br />
80 recipes th<strong>at</strong> keep the plot<br />
cooking. This heartfelt story<br />
celebr<strong>at</strong>es the resilience and<br />
power of women’s friendships.<br />
It’s a charming pastiche of<br />
e-mails, handwritten childhood<br />
letters, third-person narr<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
photographs and illustr<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />
(Polhemus Press, 2009)<br />
Runaway Dream<br />
By Louis P. Masur, BA ’78<br />
“Runaway<br />
Dream” is a rich<br />
history of Bruce<br />
Springsteen’s<br />
gre<strong>at</strong>est album,<br />
“Born to Run,”<br />
celebr<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
its themes of<br />
youth, escape and possibility,<br />
just in time for the Boss’<br />
recent 60th birthday. Louis<br />
Masur chronicles the making<br />
of the album th<strong>at</strong> launched<br />
Springsteen and his E Street<br />
Band into the firmament of<br />
American art, deftly sketching<br />
the ambition, history and personalities<br />
th<strong>at</strong> combined to cre<strong>at</strong>e<br />
the enduring “Born to Run.”<br />
(Bloomsbury Press, 2009)<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>: Architecture in the<br />
American Forgotten Land<br />
By David A. Steele, MArch ’86<br />
& BS ’82<br />
In a black<br />
and white<br />
photographic<br />
homage<br />
to <strong>Buffalo</strong>,<br />
Chicago<br />
architect David Steele captures<br />
the amazing facades and essential<br />
architectural high points<br />
th<strong>at</strong> make <strong>Buffalo</strong> unique. From<br />
his personal photographic collection<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong> spanning two<br />
decades, this 160-page photo<br />
journal assembles <strong>Buffalo</strong>’s past<br />
and current architectural treasures.<br />
Available <strong>at</strong> http://www.<br />
buffbuildings.com. (Blurb, 2009)<br />
Rude Awakenings of a Jane<br />
Austen Addict<br />
By Laurie Viera Rigler, BA ’79<br />
Part comedy,<br />
part love story,<br />
part timebending<br />
social<br />
commentary,<br />
“Rude<br />
Awakenings<br />
of a Jane<br />
Austen Addict”<br />
is the story of Jane Mansfield,<br />
a gentleman’s daughter from<br />
Regency England who inexplicably<br />
awakens in the body and life<br />
of a 21st-century Los Angeles<br />
woman. (Dutton Adult, 2009)<br />
Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and<br />
Society in the Early Republic<br />
By Thomas H. Cox, PhD ’04<br />
& MA ’98<br />
This is the first<br />
book-length<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ment of the<br />
landmark 1824<br />
Supreme Court<br />
decision th<strong>at</strong><br />
gave Congress<br />
the power to<br />
regul<strong>at</strong>e commerce among<br />
the st<strong>at</strong>es. “Gibbons v. Ogden”<br />
provides the historical context<br />
for one of the Supreme Court’s<br />
most significant decisions—a<br />
decision th<strong>at</strong> is still taught in<br />
constitutional law courses and<br />
continues to influence cases<br />
involving interst<strong>at</strong>e trade. (Ohio<br />
<strong>University</strong> Press, 2009)<br />
Music<br />
Vesuvius<br />
Chris Vasi, BA ’91<br />
This CD<br />
compil<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
from guitarist<br />
Chris<br />
Vasi and<br />
his quartet<br />
brings together original work<br />
alongside musical compositions<br />
by Charles Mingus, Thelonious<br />
Monk and the Be<strong>at</strong>les. The<br />
result is smooth jazz music<br />
infused with L<strong>at</strong>in, West African<br />
and funk elements. “Vesuvius”<br />
is available <strong>at</strong> CD Baby and<br />
iTunes. (Fortuitous Records,<br />
2009)<br />
Go to<br />
www.buffalo.edu/ubt<br />
for more titles and submission guidelines.<br />
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sportform<br />
t h e l a t e s t a t h l e t i c n e w s f r o m t h e b u l l s<br />
F o o t b a l l<br />
Where F is a passing grade<br />
Quinn was hired to replace Turner Gill, who<br />
has been named new head coach of Big 12 power<br />
Kansas.<br />
paul Hokanson<br />
paul Hokanson<br />
Quinn<br />
The UB football Bulls ushered in a new era with<br />
the hiring of Jeff Quinn, who hopes to bring his<br />
student <strong>at</strong>hletes a whole lot of “F’s.”<br />
Some explan<strong>at</strong>ion is in order.<br />
“To know Jeff Quinn, I always talk about the<br />
five F’s,” Quinn said on a <strong>Buffalo</strong> sports radio<br />
program shortly after the announcement of his<br />
appointment in December. “My faith, my family,<br />
football, fishing and having some fun.”<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong> is Quinn’s first head-coaching position,<br />
but his resume is packed with passing grades—<br />
and then some. The offensive-minded coach has<br />
tutored star quarterbacks Dan LeFevour and Tony<br />
Pike in a standout career as assistant coach <strong>at</strong><br />
Grand Valley St<strong>at</strong>e, Central Michigan and, most<br />
recently, the <strong>University</strong> of Cincinn<strong>at</strong>i, where he<br />
was offensive coordin<strong>at</strong>or and line coach. He<br />
served as the Bearc<strong>at</strong>s’ interim head coach for the<br />
team’s Sugar Bowl appearance against Florida on<br />
New Year’s Day. And Quinn was a finalist for the<br />
2010 Frank Broyles Award, which is given to the<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ion’s top assistant football coach.<br />
sportsspectrum<br />
Finest<br />
moments<br />
of fall and<br />
winter<br />
Nov. 10, 2009 Football’s Naaman Roosevelt<br />
becomes UB’s all-time leading receiver with eight<br />
receptions for 165 yards and three touchdowns in a<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ionally televised game vs. Ohio <strong>at</strong> UB Stadium.<br />
Nov. 11, 2009 Men’s cross-country earns<br />
superl<strong>at</strong>ive No. 13 ranking in U.S. Track & Field<br />
and Cross Country Coaches’ poll for the Northeast<br />
Region.<br />
Nov. 17, 2009 Women’s volleyball team be<strong>at</strong>s<br />
Kent St<strong>at</strong>e to reach first-ever Mid-American Conference<br />
quarterfinals.<br />
Dec. 6, 2009 Men’s and women’s swimming<br />
teams break multiple tournament records, while<br />
finishing second <strong>at</strong> Akron’s Zippy Invit<strong>at</strong>ional.<br />
Jan. 9, 2010 Senior wrestler Dan Bishop and<br />
sophomore grappler Kevin Smith lead UB to massive<br />
upset of No. 12 Nebraska <strong>at</strong> NWCA/Cliff Keen<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional Duals held <strong>at</strong> the <strong>University</strong> of Northern<br />
Iowa.<br />
Two former Bulls <strong>at</strong> Super<br />
Bowl XLIV<br />
Football alumni Drew Willy, BA ’09, and Jamey<br />
Richard, BS ’08, represented the Indianapolis<br />
Colts in the Super Bowl—Willy on the practice<br />
roster and as the team’s third quarterback, and<br />
Richard on special teams. (See photo on page 38.)<br />
The Feb. 7 m<strong>at</strong>ch-up between Indianapolis and<br />
New Orleans was the first time in more than 40<br />
years th<strong>at</strong> Bulls alumni had played in the n<strong>at</strong>ion’s<br />
most-w<strong>at</strong>ched football tourney. The previous occasion<br />
was Super Bowl III in 1969, when Gerry Philbin,<br />
BA ’67, played for the New York Jets against<br />
the Baltimore Colts. (New York won, 16-7.)<br />
“It’s incredible,” Richard told The <strong>Buffalo</strong> News<br />
in a Feb. 4 interview. “In my second year I never<br />
thought I’d be here. You think about it your whole<br />
life but you never know th<strong>at</strong> you’re going to make<br />
it to the NFL until you actually get there. Playing<br />
for the Colts and being in the Super Bowl, I’ve just<br />
tried to take it all in.”<br />
For his part, Willy spent the week<br />
before the game assuming Drew<br />
Brees’ role during Colts practices.<br />
“I’m just glad to be here and I’m willing<br />
to do anything I can to help the<br />
team,” Willy told The <strong>Buffalo</strong> News,<br />
adding th<strong>at</strong> studying with Peyton<br />
Manning offers invaluable lessons.<br />
“We’re blessed to learn from him and<br />
it’s something we look forward to<br />
every practice.”<br />
W o m e n ’ s b a s k e t b a l l<br />
Long road home<br />
If Nytor Longar’s life journey could<br />
be illustr<strong>at</strong>ed with a phone coverage<br />
map, she’d definitely have the competition<br />
licked.<br />
The UB women’s hoopster has<br />
spent time on three continents in<br />
her 21 years, moving about the globe<br />
in a remarkable family odyssey th<strong>at</strong><br />
closely resembles a Hollywood movie.<br />
The youngest of 11 children, Longar
Former UB quarterback Drew Willy<br />
takes the snap from former UB<br />
center Jamey Richard. Both players<br />
were <strong>at</strong> Super Bowl XLIV with the<br />
Indianapolis Colts.<br />
Go to<br />
www.buffalobulls.com<br />
for upd<strong>at</strong>es on all team<br />
schedules and news,<br />
and for inform<strong>at</strong>ion on<br />
purchasing tickets.<br />
W o m e n ’ s S o c c e r<br />
Intercontinental assistant<br />
paul Hokanson<br />
was born in Sudan before moving<br />
to Egypt <strong>at</strong> age three.<br />
Three years l<strong>at</strong>er, the family moved<br />
st<strong>at</strong>eside and went on to realize the proverbial<br />
American dream. Her brother, Longar Longar,<br />
is a 6-foot-11 center who averaged 11.4 points and<br />
5.6 rebounds per game <strong>at</strong> Big 12 power Oklahoma<br />
in 2008.<br />
When Longar’s career took off <strong>at</strong> John Marshall<br />
High School in Rochester,<br />
Minn., and schools<br />
like Arizona, Milwaukee and<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong> came calling, she<br />
enlisted her brother for advice<br />
on where to go for college.<br />
“We are extremely close,”<br />
says Longar, a UB freshman<br />
psychology major. “He’d<br />
always make time for me, go<br />
to the gym and shoot around.<br />
He’s the main reason I started<br />
playing basketball. Our rel<strong>at</strong>ionship is the gre<strong>at</strong>est.<br />
We text all the time.”<br />
Between conversing with her brother and<br />
other family members, Longar had a lot of help<br />
in deciding which college to <strong>at</strong>tend. While she<br />
had the final say, the decision was nonetheless<br />
a family one, she says. In fact, members of her<br />
extended family weighed in from various points<br />
abroad, including Australia, Canada and England,<br />
in addition to the U.S.<br />
Though Longar is trilingual (she speaks English,<br />
Arabic and Dinka), she needs precious few<br />
words to describe why she chose UB.<br />
“I felt <strong>at</strong> home here,” she says.<br />
Longar<br />
Home is a loose term for Kim Brandao,<br />
the Portuguese-American soccer star<br />
who spent the fall 2009 semester as<br />
an assistant coach on the women’s<br />
soccer team. Born in New Jersey to<br />
Portuguese immigrants,<br />
Brandao has thrived on<br />
two continents with a<br />
daunting schedule th<strong>at</strong><br />
would intimid<strong>at</strong>e most<br />
people.<br />
“Since my n<strong>at</strong>ional team debut<br />
just over two years ago, I’ve played<br />
for Portugal in various countries,<br />
including Denmark, Italy, Slovenia and<br />
Ukraine, and in World Cup-qualifying<br />
and European Cup-qualifying games,”<br />
she says. Brandao played collegi<strong>at</strong>e ball<br />
<strong>at</strong> Rutgers and now enjoys a professional<br />
career th<strong>at</strong> has taken her to Sweden,<br />
Spain and, most recently, <strong>Buffalo</strong>.<br />
Brandao<br />
“All in all, I suppose you could say<br />
I’ve been lucky enough to play soccer in about<br />
eight countries so far, and this year I also have<br />
away games in Armenia and Finland to look<br />
forward to, along with playing in my third-straight<br />
Algarve Cup, the intern<strong>at</strong>ional tournament th<strong>at</strong><br />
Portugal hosts and the USA also plays in.”<br />
Brandao also is the captain of the <strong>Buffalo</strong> Flash,<br />
the only women’s professional sports team in<br />
Western New York. The intern<strong>at</strong>ional star hopes<br />
th<strong>at</strong> her world of experience will bring professional<br />
success to her UB players.<br />
“I hope th<strong>at</strong> sharing my experiences with the<br />
girls I coach can help inspire them enough to keep<br />
working hard <strong>at</strong> their game and show them th<strong>at</strong><br />
there is opportunity for women to play beyond<br />
college, although it’s obviously much harder—due<br />
to far fewer opportunities, and much less money<br />
involved—than it is for men,” she says.<br />
Compiled by Nick Mendola, BA ’05<br />
New and<br />
improved<br />
You may have noticed a<br />
change in our UB mascot,<br />
Victor E. Bull. Victor<br />
spent last summer<br />
working out in the Morris<br />
Center on the North<br />
Campus, with the goal<br />
of becoming stronger,<br />
harder and faster for the<br />
2009 football season.<br />
Victor comments on his<br />
recent transform<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
“I did it for the team and<br />
the fans!”<br />
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s t o r y B y L y n d o n S t a m b l e r<br />
the baby<br />
whisperer<br />
t 10 weeks, Willamina Gerber looks healthy enough, with soft<br />
skin, downy hair, alert eyes—and a cry like a fire engine. For pedi<strong>at</strong>rician<br />
Harvey Karp, BA ’72, who has calmed thousands of babies,<br />
soothing Willamina should pose no problem. But <strong>at</strong> a photo shoot<br />
in Karp’s Los Angeles office, a photographer wants to place the<br />
Pedi<strong>at</strong>rician<br />
Harvey Karp<br />
reassures<br />
anxious<br />
parents with<br />
his sure-fire<br />
methods for<br />
calming their<br />
infants.<br />
14-pound baby on a cold glass table and make it look like she’s<br />
having fun. Willamina is fussy, so Karp applies the “Five S’s” he<br />
popularized in his 2002 best-selling DVD and book, “The Happiest<br />
Baby on the Block.” He swaddles Willamina in a polka-dot blanket,<br />
shushes in her ear, cradles her on her side and swings her gently.<br />
She sucks on a bottle and calms down. But when Karp unwraps and<br />
readies Willamina for her close-up, she whimpers. He repe<strong>at</strong>s the<br />
Five S’s until her arms flop trance-like to her sides.<br />
p h o t o s B y m a x s . g e r b e r<br />
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Karp honed his baby calming skills<br />
during his 30-year practice, ministering<br />
to children of regular folks and, yes, to the<br />
children of many LA-rooted celebrities<br />
(Madonna, Pierce Brosnan). He’s known<br />
as a “baby whisperer” and toddler tamer,<br />
and called his 2004 DVD and book, “The<br />
Happiest Toddler on the Block.”<br />
The books offer straightforward<br />
paradigms. Babies are born three months<br />
before they’re fully ready for the world<br />
and, mimicking womb sens<strong>at</strong>ions, Karp<br />
discovered, activ<strong>at</strong>es a previously unknown<br />
calming reflex th<strong>at</strong> switches off crying and<br />
switches on sleep. Toddlers are more like<br />
cavemen than humans; thus, short, repetitive<br />
commands stop tantrums faster than<br />
reasoning with them.<br />
With his brown hair and sparkling<br />
smile, Karp seems younger than his 58<br />
years. “I think of you as 8,” a friend told<br />
him <strong>at</strong> his last birthday party. “I’m a kid,”<br />
Karp admits. “Maintaining a sense of playfulness<br />
throughout our lifetime is one of<br />
the gre<strong>at</strong> gifts given to human beings.”<br />
But the blue ribbon he wears to raise<br />
awareness about child abuse underscores<br />
the seriousness of his work: Teaching parents<br />
to soothe their babies prevents child<br />
abuse. His shelves are lined with his books<br />
transl<strong>at</strong>ed into 20 languages. Karp, who<br />
gave up his star-studded practice, is driven<br />
more by conscience than by fame. “Wh<strong>at</strong><br />
motiv<strong>at</strong>es me are the millions of children<br />
worldwide, whose poor sleep and persistent<br />
screaming are a huge burden for them<br />
and their families,” he says. “It provokes<br />
serious public health issues like abuse,<br />
depression and even crib de<strong>at</strong>h. I hope th<strong>at</strong><br />
my work is a tiny step to strengthen the<br />
family fabric.”<br />
Louise Mark, a Virginia-based RN and<br />
“Happiest Baby” educ<strong>at</strong>or who has worked<br />
with drug-addicted mothers and their<br />
babies, has seen Karp’s impact firsthand.<br />
“When I saw him wrap these kids up and<br />
shushed them and they stopped screaming<br />
immedi<strong>at</strong>ely, I got a chill,” she says.<br />
Last fall, he brought his message to<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong>, receiving the<br />
Distinguished Alumni Award from the<br />
College of Arts and Sciences. It was his first<br />
visit since his 1972 gradu<strong>at</strong>ion. Memories<br />
flooded Karp: students dressed in bellbottoms,<br />
jeans jackets and tie-dye, protesting<br />
against the Vietnam War. “You remember<br />
feelings: nighttime, crowds, jumping the<br />
dead car b<strong>at</strong>tery in the dead of winter.”<br />
Karp, the son of an engineer and a<br />
homemaker, took action on social issues<br />
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as a child in Queens. In 1960, <strong>at</strong> the age of<br />
9, he posted his hand-drawn “Kennedy for<br />
President” signs. He tutored underprivileged<br />
kids, worked in student government<br />
and joined a Students for a Democr<strong>at</strong>ic<br />
Society chapter <strong>at</strong> Bayside High. He<br />
dreamed of becoming a doctor. When he<br />
gradu<strong>at</strong>ed, he chose UB, along with 110<br />
other students from Bayside High. With a<br />
New York Regent’s Scholarship in hand,<br />
he took his first airplane flight in 1968 to<br />
begin his higher educ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
“<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> motiv<strong>at</strong>es me<br />
are the millions of<br />
children worldwide,<br />
whose poor sleep<br />
and persistent<br />
screaming are a<br />
huge burden for them<br />
and their families.<br />
”<br />
uring the marches on<br />
Washington in 1970, Karp<br />
bused down with hundreds<br />
of students. Following<br />
the May 4 shootings <strong>at</strong><br />
Kent St<strong>at</strong>e, Karp became a<br />
strike captain <strong>at</strong> UB, occupying the administr<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
building, as <strong>Buffalo</strong> police officers<br />
fired tear gas and pellets <strong>at</strong> students.<br />
“A running thread in my life is not<br />
bowing to authority,” says Karp, who also<br />
particip<strong>at</strong>ed in the first Earth Day in 1970,<br />
foreshadowing his n<strong>at</strong>ional leadership in<br />
protecting children from chemicals.<br />
Amid the turmoil, he earned his BA in<br />
biology. Prof. Gordon Swartz’s embryology<br />
course introduced Karp to concepts th<strong>at</strong><br />
inspired his thinking. Swartz, who regaled<br />
students with his boxing tales, taught Karp<br />
th<strong>at</strong> “ontogeny recapitul<strong>at</strong>es phylogeny”—<br />
meaning the development of the individual<br />
echoes the evolution of the species. In<br />
“The Happiest Toddler on the Block,”<br />
Karp concludes th<strong>at</strong> toddlers are passing<br />
through a primitive phase.<br />
Another highlight for Karp was joining<br />
the fencing team. While receiving<br />
the award last fall, he donned his fencing<br />
swe<strong>at</strong>er. “It looked like a brand new<br />
vintage swe<strong>at</strong>er and it probably fit him as<br />
well as it did then,” says Guy Tomassi, the<br />
College of Arts and Sciences development<br />
director instrumental in bringing Karp<br />
back to UB.<br />
Karp continued his social awareness <strong>at</strong><br />
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,<br />
where he earned his medical degree, and<br />
discovered his life’s work when he visited<br />
the pedi<strong>at</strong>rics ward <strong>at</strong> Jacobi Medical<br />
Center in the Bronx. “There were kids with<br />
sickle cell anemia, meningitis and other<br />
serious problems standing in their cribs,<br />
rocking and bouncing to ‘Soul Train’ on<br />
TV,” he recalls. “They were so full of life. It<br />
was exciting to help them heal.”<br />
He was hooked on kids. He didn’t have<br />
a child biologically, but he helped raise his<br />
wife Nina Montée’s daughter, Lexi, now 26,<br />
from her 8th year. “I was fortun<strong>at</strong>e because<br />
I got to be around dozens of young children<br />
every day during my practice.”<br />
He completed his residency <strong>at</strong> Children’s<br />
Hospital in Los Angeles. “It was a c<strong>at</strong>hedral<br />
of caring about helping children in need,”<br />
he says. And he followed with a combined<br />
fellowship <strong>at</strong> UCLA in child development<br />
and ambul<strong>at</strong>ory pedi<strong>at</strong>rics, educ<strong>at</strong>ing pedi<strong>at</strong>ricians<br />
about child development.<br />
He probably would have gone into academia<br />
had he not suffered a minor heart<br />
<strong>at</strong>tack <strong>at</strong> the age of 29. He was hospitalized.<br />
Instead of stents and st<strong>at</strong>ins (which didn’t<br />
exist) he went on a diet rich in omega-3s.<br />
“It was an important wake-up call for me,”<br />
recalls Karp, who finally underwent bypass<br />
surgery a few years ago.
Karp went into priv<strong>at</strong>e practice.<br />
He keeps mementos from his practice,<br />
including a framed Life magazine about<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ural childbirth from 1950 with the<br />
headline, “Mothers Actually Conscious<br />
During Delivery!” and a photo of a baby<br />
breast-feeding. Karp was medical adviser<br />
to UCLA’s breast-feeding center. “Breastfeeding<br />
was almost lost and forgotten in<br />
the mid-1950s when everyone switched to<br />
artificial formula,” he says.<br />
He became intrigued by reports of the<br />
ability of the bushmen in southern Africa<br />
to calm their fussy babies in less than one<br />
minute. “Either the bushman babies were<br />
mutant or they knew something th<strong>at</strong> we<br />
had forgotten in our own culture,” he says.<br />
As Karp perfected his 5 S’s approach,<br />
his popularity in Los Angeles ballooned.<br />
“One of the gre<strong>at</strong> privileges about being a<br />
pedi<strong>at</strong>rician is th<strong>at</strong> you’re invited into people’s<br />
families in the most intim<strong>at</strong>e way,” he<br />
says.<br />
He wanted toddlers to enjoy office<br />
visits. He insisted on half-hour checkups,<br />
r<strong>at</strong>her than 15 minutes, developing a<br />
rel<strong>at</strong>ionship with each child. He gained a<br />
reput<strong>at</strong>ion for his work with doctor-phobic<br />
toddlers. “I was terrible <strong>at</strong> winning over<br />
women in college but it turns out I was<br />
pretty darn good <strong>at</strong> winning over reluctant<br />
toddlers,” he jokes.<br />
Then, in 2000, after 20 years of refining<br />
his ideas, Karp wrote a proposal for<br />
wh<strong>at</strong> would eventually become America’s<br />
No. 1 parenting guide. Armed with a videotape<br />
displaying his “magic,” he drew bids<br />
from 10 publishers and signed a $1.1 million,<br />
two-book deal.<br />
“People joke th<strong>at</strong> kids don’t come<br />
with instructions but now they do,” Karp<br />
says. “Parents who follow these specific<br />
techniques see dram<strong>at</strong>ic changes in their<br />
child’s behavior in days or less.”<br />
Karp’s press m<strong>at</strong>erial includes glowing<br />
comments from such luminaries as Julius<br />
Richmond, a past U.S. Surgeon General:<br />
“Dr. Karp’s work is fascin<strong>at</strong>ing. I believe<br />
it will reassure and guide new parents for<br />
many years to come.”<br />
He appeared on n<strong>at</strong>ional shows, like<br />
“Good Morning America” and “Dr. Phil.”<br />
His work has entered the zeitgeist as a<br />
question on “Jeopardy” and a story line<br />
on “Ugly Betty.” And The New York Times<br />
compared him to Dr. Benjamin Spock.<br />
Says Karp: “Dr. Spock was a giant of his<br />
time. I am thrilled to have the chance to<br />
help hardworking parents succeed.”<br />
He regrets leaving his practice. “It was<br />
my identity and my social network and my<br />
daily dopamine rush.” But, as his f<strong>at</strong>her<br />
says in Yiddish: “One tuchas can’t sit on all<br />
the se<strong>at</strong>s.”<br />
Nevertheless, Karp recognizes his influence<br />
and hopes to handle it wisely. He’s<br />
turned down many endorsement offers<br />
to preserve his credibility and usefulness<br />
in the lives of parents. “I thought when<br />
the first book was published, th<strong>at</strong> would<br />
be it,” he says. “Game over. People would<br />
read it and our culture would be put back<br />
on track. But I learned th<strong>at</strong> even when a<br />
profound new idea was released—like the<br />
explan<strong>at</strong>ion and cure for colic—it takes a<br />
concerted effort to get the message out.”<br />
e cre<strong>at</strong>ed a network<br />
of 3,500 Happiest Baby<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ors. Health departments<br />
from Pennsylvania<br />
to Minnesota have adopted<br />
his programs. Karp hopes to do the same<br />
with his “Happiest Toddler” techniques.<br />
The ideas expressed in the book, along<br />
with the rel<strong>at</strong>ed classes and cre<strong>at</strong>ion of the<br />
Happiest Toddler Network, are “going to<br />
be my gre<strong>at</strong>est legacy,” he predicts, and<br />
others agree.<br />
“Parents will be delighted by this clever<br />
approach to communic<strong>at</strong>ing with toddlers,”<br />
says Janet Serwint, MD, professor<br />
of pedi<strong>at</strong>rics and director of pedi<strong>at</strong>ric resident<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion, Johns Hopkins <strong>University</strong><br />
School of Medicine.<br />
Teresa Olsen, program director of child<br />
abuse educ<strong>at</strong>ion for the Pennsylvania<br />
chapter of the American Academy of<br />
Pedi<strong>at</strong>rics, has been a Happiest Baby educ<strong>at</strong>or<br />
for four years. She says the toddler<br />
techniques work well for her five-year-old<br />
son Luke—and on husbands. “Dr. Karp<br />
is an answer to a lot of parents’ prayers,”<br />
she says. “Give me something th<strong>at</strong> works<br />
and th<strong>at</strong> is simple. W<strong>at</strong>ching the DVD, you<br />
feel like you’re having a cup of coffee with<br />
him.”<br />
Bill Meyer, associ<strong>at</strong>e clinical professor<br />
in psychi<strong>at</strong>ry and OB/GYN <strong>at</strong> Duke<br />
<strong>University</strong>, has seen Karp’s methods help<br />
women with postpartum depression. “If<br />
you can provide a tool th<strong>at</strong> suddenly calms<br />
the infant, th<strong>at</strong> in turn gives the mother<br />
more sleep and confidence,” says Meyer,<br />
who has facilit<strong>at</strong>ed a postpartum depression<br />
support group for two decades.<br />
These days, Karp is beginning to apply<br />
his techniques to children with language<br />
disorders, mental retard<strong>at</strong>ion and autism.<br />
He spoke about the benefits of immuniz<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
on “Larry King,” challenging the<br />
hypothetical connections between immuniz<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
and autism.<br />
And this year, he and his producerdirector<br />
wife have ventured into a new<br />
field, releasing a five-hour DVD titled<br />
“Breast Cancer: The P<strong>at</strong>h of Wellness &<br />
Healing.” It offers the l<strong>at</strong>est inform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
about healing from breast cancer—body,<br />
mind and spirit—and fe<strong>at</strong>ures interviews<br />
with top doctors like Susan Love and<br />
Dean Ornish, celebrity survivors like<br />
Sheryl Crow and Christina Appleg<strong>at</strong>e, and<br />
spiritual advisers like Deepak Chopra.<br />
The profits of this work will be don<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
to Breastcancer.org and UCLA’s Jonsson<br />
Comprehensive Cancer Center. “It isn’t<br />
just a medical piece,” Karp says. “It’s the<br />
whole gestalt about how one heals.”<br />
Karp’s ideas—often written on scraps<br />
of paper—keep coming, from planned<br />
books about childhood sleep to the evolution<br />
of human intelligence. He’s a leading<br />
advoc<strong>at</strong>e on protecting children from<br />
harmful chemicals. Along with Robert F.<br />
Kennedy Jr. and others, he helped rally<br />
hundreds of thousands of protesters on the<br />
Capital Mall during the 30th anniversary<br />
of Earth Day in 2000. A 2007 op-ed piece<br />
he co-authored in the Los Angeles Times<br />
about the dangers of phthal<strong>at</strong>es c<strong>at</strong>alyzed<br />
congressional legisl<strong>at</strong>ion th<strong>at</strong> banned them<br />
from children’s products. Karp also hopes<br />
to encourage the banning of bisphenol A,<br />
a synthetic estrogen used in carbonless<br />
copy paper, canned food and baby bottles.<br />
“We know from many research studies<br />
th<strong>at</strong> these chemicals have an effect on the<br />
developing fetus and child, and probably<br />
on the adult as well, increasing the risk of<br />
breast cancer and obesity,” says Karp.<br />
As the 40th Earth Day approaches,<br />
Karp continues to focus on issues affecting<br />
children th<strong>at</strong> have been ignored. In his<br />
office, he displays a painting of a husband<br />
and wife with their child on their shoulders.<br />
The child points to a green and blue<br />
earth in a velvety universe. His work is<br />
about human interconnectedness.<br />
“It’s seeing the unity r<strong>at</strong>her than the<br />
divisions, whether it’s the unity of us with<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ure, or the unity of America with other<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ions or inner city with suburbia. It’s all<br />
a m<strong>at</strong>ter of raised consciousness.”<br />
Lyndon Stambler is a LA-based writer<br />
and journalism professor <strong>at</strong> Santa Monica<br />
College who has contributed to The New<br />
York Times and the Los Angeles Times.<br />
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a<br />
Bill Greiner, an incredible<br />
teacher and a good man. No With a warm smile, Bill<br />
m<strong>at</strong>ter how high he rose, no brought “human-ness” to<br />
m<strong>at</strong>ter the demands on his UB. Over the years, it was<br />
time, he remembered your always a pleasure to see Bill<br />
and Carol Greiner grace<br />
name, wh<strong>at</strong> you did, and<br />
the Center for the Arts with<br />
always, always had a kind<br />
their presence. Bill was a<br />
word. UB is a better place dancer <strong>at</strong> heart; from w<strong>at</strong>ching<br />
him dance with Carol<br />
because of him.<br />
<strong>at</strong> UB Scholarship Galas in<br />
Wendy Irving, JD ‘91, EdM ‘91 & BA ‘87,<br />
Assistant Vice President for the CFA Atrium to <strong>at</strong>tending<br />
Gift Planning<br />
Zodiaque Dance Company<br />
concerts in the CFA Drama<br />
The<strong>at</strong>re. He respected the<br />
academic pursuits of scholars, <strong>at</strong>hletes and<br />
artists. I am confident th<strong>at</strong> he has found more<br />
golden floors bene<strong>at</strong>h his feet.<br />
Tom Ralab<strong>at</strong>e, Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor, Dance<br />
Rhea Anna<br />
In Memory of<br />
William R.<br />
Greiner<br />
President Emeritus Greiner, a<br />
beloved figure to gener<strong>at</strong>ions of UB<br />
students and faculty throughout<br />
his 42 years on campus, died on<br />
December 19, 2009. He touched<br />
the lives of people in ways he could<br />
have never imagined. Those who<br />
knew him share their stories of<br />
love, respect and admir<strong>at</strong>ion for a<br />
man who dedic<strong>at</strong>ed his life to public<br />
service and to UB.<br />
To see a pictorial tribute online and<br />
to leave your own comments, go to<br />
www.buffalo.edu/GreinerMemorial<br />
Bill Greiner cared deeply<br />
I will never forget meeting<br />
about people—his faculty<br />
President Greiner as a freshman<br />
when he and his wife opened colleagues and administr<strong>at</strong>ors,<br />
the front-line<br />
their home to the UB marching<br />
band during the 2000 football and back-office staff,<br />
season. I was overwhelmed by and most importantly<br />
their generosity <strong>at</strong> inviting us to<br />
students, especially<br />
a priv<strong>at</strong>e barbecue <strong>at</strong> their home<br />
undergradu<strong>at</strong>es. He<br />
where we spent hours talking<br />
and laughing together.<br />
h<strong>at</strong>ed inane rules th<strong>at</strong><br />
caused students incredible<br />
stress. Th<strong>at</strong>’s how<br />
Kari Terwilliger, MUP ‘08 & BA ‘06, Planner<br />
he first connected with<br />
me, enlisting me to help<br />
untangle some red tape on the behalf of those students.<br />
Bill always showed me respect and personal<br />
concern, and even praise. I was humbled by his<br />
kindness. I am so gr<strong>at</strong>eful to have known him.<br />
Joanne Plunkett, EDM ‘75, Staff Member (Retired)<br />
At one commencement ceremony, I particularly recall Bill commenting<br />
in his address about how proud and impressed he was<br />
<strong>at</strong> seeing the accomplishments of the gradu<strong>at</strong>ing class. He then,<br />
in his self-effacing manner, acknowledged how <strong>at</strong> th<strong>at</strong> moment<br />
he felt upstaged by them.<br />
Anthony Rozak, BFA ‘69, Associ<strong>at</strong>e Professor, Department of Art<br />
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I am proud to say Professor and<br />
President Greiner was a major reason<br />
for my success. Two (of many)<br />
stories from my 28 UB years stand<br />
out. Bill Greiner stood by me during<br />
the politically risky work in Hickory<br />
Woods; he understood my commitment<br />
and instead of retre<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
under political pressure, supported<br />
my work publicly as an example<br />
of how university faculty should<br />
contribute to difficult community<br />
issues, linking research with community<br />
problems. The second is<br />
when Carol and Bill were marching<br />
as I received the Newman Award<br />
from the Newman Center. Carol<br />
leaned over to my son and whispered<br />
to him th<strong>at</strong> of all the awards<br />
we might receive, this one was the<br />
most important one. No one cared<br />
so much for UB and <strong>Buffalo</strong>.<br />
Joe Gardella, Professor and Larkin Chair<br />
of Chemistry<br />
There is an Italian<br />
expression, “sprezz<strong>at</strong>ura,”<br />
th<strong>at</strong> is hard to<br />
transl<strong>at</strong>e but means<br />
something like “the<br />
talent for doing something<br />
unusually difficult<br />
with unaffected<br />
ease and grace.” Bill<br />
Greiner had th<strong>at</strong> gift.<br />
Jack Peradotto, SUNY<br />
Distinguished Teaching<br />
Professor Emeritus<br />
I will always remember “Mr. G’s” kind smile and welcoming<br />
<strong>at</strong>titude. Whether it was hosting parties for professors<br />
or shaking the hands of students <strong>at</strong> football and basketball<br />
games, you never felt th<strong>at</strong> you could not approach him.<br />
He always remembered your name and always took the<br />
time to see how you were doing. The years I spent working<br />
c<strong>at</strong>ered events <strong>at</strong> the Greiners’ home and office are some of<br />
my most treasured<br />
times <strong>at</strong> UB. I will<br />
forever cherish the<br />
moment of walking<br />
across the stage to<br />
receive my MSW<br />
and finding Mr. G<br />
with his arms outstretched<br />
for a hug.<br />
Danielle (“Danni”) Miller-<br />
Juliano, MSW ‘00 & BA ‘96,<br />
Social Worker<br />
I was amazed by Bill Greiner’s presence<br />
and his passion for the university<br />
and for <strong>at</strong>hletics. He and his wife, Carol,<br />
would come to every game possible to<br />
support the basketball team firsthand.<br />
Bill was never one to support us from a<br />
white tower in the sky; he was there in<br />
the trenches with us. Both he and his wife knew all the<br />
players by first name and always offered words of wisdom.<br />
Sometimes they cheered so loud from courtside<br />
th<strong>at</strong> I could barely hear Coach Witherspoon. The personal<br />
touch th<strong>at</strong> Bill Greiner brought to the presidency<br />
<strong>at</strong> UB is wh<strong>at</strong> I will always remember and miss most.<br />
Mark Bortz, BS ‘05, Professional Basketball Player<br />
Bill was, <strong>at</strong> his core, a man who loved teaching and students, and<br />
gave his life in service to UB. He so believed in this community and<br />
was devoted to the love and support of Carol and their family. Bill<br />
Greiner had no complic<strong>at</strong>ing ego and was always eager to find ways<br />
th<strong>at</strong> his colleagues’ lives <strong>at</strong> UB could be enriched.<br />
John N. Walsh III, vice chair of the UB Found<strong>at</strong>ion and UB Council member emeritus<br />
Professor Greiner—Bill—influenced so many lives<br />
<strong>at</strong> UB, mine included. I had the privilege of working<br />
near him twice—<strong>at</strong> the Law School in 1972 and<br />
again on the fifth floor of Capen Hall. I remember<br />
being invited to a meeting with the leaders of the<br />
WNY arts and cultural community before the opening<br />
of the Center for the Arts. I wanted to make a<br />
good impression and wore a brand new suit. I was<br />
standing nervously awaiting the start of the meeting<br />
when Bill walked in, gave me a hard slap on the<br />
back and said “nice suit.” He knew. I’ll miss him<br />
very much.<br />
Sandra Fazekas, EMBA ‘05 & bpS ‘86, Associ<strong>at</strong>e Director,<br />
Center for the Arts<br />
Professor Greiner<br />
was my teacher during<br />
the fall 2005<br />
semester for the<br />
Readings in Higher<br />
Educ<strong>at</strong>ion course.<br />
He had a gift for<br />
making you feel very<br />
important. No m<strong>at</strong>ter<br />
wh<strong>at</strong> you said—<br />
he listened and often<br />
guided you into a<br />
deb<strong>at</strong>e to explore<br />
your thoughts even<br />
deeper—something<br />
a true teacher will<br />
always strive to do.<br />
Wynnie Fisher, PhD<br />
Student<br />
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In a celebr<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
case, visual<br />
studies<br />
Steven Kurtz has made it his life’s work to take aim <strong>at</strong><br />
the st<strong>at</strong>us quo. With the counterculture ensemble he<br />
professor<br />
Steven Kurtz<br />
rebounds after<br />
co-founded as a response to the Reagan era, he stands<br />
s t r a n g e<br />
c u l t u r e<br />
u<br />
<strong>at</strong> the axis of art and activism,<br />
challenging government policies and promoting<br />
social justice in performance pieces, install<strong>at</strong>ions,<br />
videos and books.<br />
i<br />
a lengthy legal<br />
b<strong>at</strong>tle<br />
f there has been a<br />
universal theme wending its way through Kurtz’s<br />
S t o r y b y N i c o l e P e r a d o t t o<br />
oeuvre, it’s this, says the UB visual studies professor:<br />
“Authority is w<strong>at</strong>ching, and authority is everywhere. You think you<br />
have some free spaces or some autonomous spaces, but you really don’t.”<br />
Yet even Kurtz couldn’t have imagined how close to home this sentiment<br />
would hit. Right inside his home, to be precise.<br />
t<br />
he facts of Kurtz’s saga<br />
read like a bizarre case of life imit<strong>at</strong>ing art. On May 11, 2004, he awoke<br />
to find th<strong>at</strong> his 45-year-old wife, Hope, had died in her sleep. Emergency<br />
responders answering Kurtz’s 911 call became suspicious by wh<strong>at</strong> they<br />
saw, including bacteria growing in petri dishes and tinfoil covering the<br />
bedroom window.<br />
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When Kurtz explained th<strong>at</strong> the bacteria<br />
were innocuous agents in one of his art<br />
projects and th<strong>at</strong> the tinfoil was nothing<br />
more nefarious than a do-it-yourself<br />
blackout shade, authorities were unconvinced.<br />
FBI agents subsequently sealed<br />
off his block and quarantined his home<br />
in Allentown—an artistic neighborhood<br />
within the city of <strong>Buffalo</strong>—impounding<br />
scientific m<strong>at</strong>erials from his makeshift lab,<br />
as well as computers, his c<strong>at</strong> and his wife’s<br />
body.<br />
Suddenly, a longtime peace advoc<strong>at</strong>e<br />
found himself cast as a bioterrorist suspect.<br />
Even after the bacteria were found to<br />
be harmless, the FBI pressed on. Six weeks<br />
after his wife died of heart failure, a federal<br />
grand jury indicted Kurtz on charges of<br />
mail and wire fraud for receiving the bacterial<br />
samples through the mail—under the<br />
P<strong>at</strong>riot Act, a crime th<strong>at</strong> carries a penalty<br />
of up to 20 years in jail.<br />
“It was both barrels,” says Kurtz, pretending<br />
to cock an imaginary shotgun—an<br />
illustr<strong>at</strong>ion of wh<strong>at</strong> it was like to lose his<br />
wife and face a federal felony charge in one<br />
sweep.<br />
In 2008, Kurtz was vindic<strong>at</strong>ed when<br />
a U.S. district court judge dismissed the<br />
case, declaring the indictment “insufficient<br />
on its face.” A legal drama th<strong>at</strong> raised pivotal<br />
questions about the First Amendment<br />
in a post-9/11 world—all the while testing<br />
a UB professor’s mettle—had finally concluded.<br />
Today, with his life no longer under<br />
the microscope, Kurtz, 51, is repairing the<br />
emotional fabric th<strong>at</strong> was torn during the<br />
four-year ordeal. At the same time, he<br />
continues his cre<strong>at</strong>ive projects and academic<br />
duties apace, as he did throughout<br />
his prosecution. “I never missed a day of<br />
teaching,” he says with pride. Freed up<br />
from str<strong>at</strong>egy conferences with his legal<br />
team and regular visits to a prob<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
officer—a required pretrial supervision<br />
he endured for over a year—he’s gr<strong>at</strong>eful<br />
th<strong>at</strong> the only meetings he need <strong>at</strong>tend are<br />
departmental.<br />
“It was just a really unfortun<strong>at</strong>e<br />
moment for me … and emblem<strong>at</strong>ic of a<br />
very sad time in America,” says Kurtz.<br />
i<br />
“Many of my friends said this was wh<strong>at</strong><br />
I’d been preparing for my whole life—this<br />
fight. Maybe they were right. My struggle<br />
was really about how far we were going<br />
to allow these agencies to overstep their<br />
boundaries just by saying the magic word<br />
‘9/11.’<br />
“For me, and for everyone who joined<br />
in, it was a very serious fight.”<br />
Unlikely beginnings<br />
f Kurtz didn’t fit the profile of a suspected<br />
bioterrorist, those who knew<br />
him growing up in the 1960s and<br />
1970s neither would have pegged<br />
the San Francisco n<strong>at</strong>ive as a<br />
future academic.<br />
From a young age, he found little use<br />
for school, other than socializing. “It was<br />
the most boring thing ever,” he says. “The<br />
whole enterprise seemed just nothing but<br />
authoritarian, where you learn how to sit<br />
still all day and cut off all your energy and<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ivity.”<br />
Kurtz’s f<strong>at</strong>her was a DuPont executive,<br />
a job th<strong>at</strong> required frequent reloc<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
and made his son feel a bit like an Army<br />
br<strong>at</strong>. By the time Kurtz was in high school,<br />
the family was living in Sydney, Australia,<br />
and he was routinely skipping school to<br />
surf. “It seemed th<strong>at</strong> the only life worth<br />
living was the hedonistic life,” he says. “I<br />
couldn’t figure out how the intellectual life<br />
was a p<strong>at</strong>h worth living <strong>at</strong> all.”<br />
After barely gradu<strong>at</strong>ing from high<br />
school, Kurtz’s <strong>at</strong>titude toward educ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
did an about-face when he began undergradu<strong>at</strong>e<br />
studies <strong>at</strong> the <strong>University</strong> of North<br />
Texas. There, thanks to several influential<br />
professors and students—including his<br />
future wife, whom he met in a freshman<br />
philosophy course—he became enamored<br />
with academia.<br />
“Suddenly, the intellectual p<strong>at</strong>hway<br />
made perfect sense,” Kurtz says. “It was<br />
like, OK—this is the end of surfing and<br />
sk<strong>at</strong>eboarding. It’s time to put the childish<br />
stuff away. I’ve got m<strong>at</strong>ters to <strong>at</strong>tend to.”<br />
After receiving an undergradu<strong>at</strong>e and<br />
master’s degree in sociology, Kurtz moved<br />
to Florida with Hope, where he started<br />
interdisciplinary PhD studies in art history,<br />
compar<strong>at</strong>ive liter<strong>at</strong>ure and philosophy<br />
<strong>at</strong> Florida St<strong>at</strong>e <strong>University</strong>.<br />
While writing his doctoral dissert<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
however, he experienced a crisis of<br />
conscience. “I was not able to put the two<br />
me’s together: the political thinking one<br />
and the scholarly one,” he says. “I came<br />
of college age in the ’80s. It was the time<br />
of Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’”—the<br />
former president’s most popular campaign<br />
slogan—“and every bit of it sounded false.<br />
It just seemed like the U.S. was on another<br />
1950s-style march toward authoritarianism.<br />
There were all these authoritarian<br />
tendencies in the culture, and a group of<br />
us decided th<strong>at</strong> it’s not enough to be academic.<br />
You have to do something to resist<br />
these tendencies.”<br />
Th<strong>at</strong> something was Critical Art<br />
Ensemble (CAE), a collective of five artists<br />
and writers who joined forces in 1987 to<br />
explore the intersections of art, technology,<br />
radical politics and critical theory.<br />
Although the CAE’s exhibitions have<br />
been seen in such prestigious venues as<br />
the Whitney Museum in New York and<br />
the London N<strong>at</strong>ural History Museum, the<br />
group was, <strong>at</strong> the outset, committed to<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ing provoc<strong>at</strong>ive art for the masses,<br />
not just for gallery-goers. One of their first<br />
performances was a piece about cyborgs<br />
presented in a Mississippi blues bar.<br />
“We’re a lot more flexible about it now,<br />
but <strong>at</strong> the time we were very interested in<br />
demonstr<strong>at</strong>ing th<strong>at</strong> you could do this kind<br />
of work in these altern<strong>at</strong>ive places,” Kurtz<br />
says. “When the trend was to go back<br />
to the museum and the gallery, we were<br />
going the opposite direction and saying,<br />
‘How do we reach people th<strong>at</strong> are not those<br />
th<strong>at</strong> normally see [artistic] work’”<br />
For “Exit Culture,” another early project,<br />
the avant-garde troupe intersected<br />
with the “Trip Tik” crowd. For four days<br />
they traveled by Winnebago to Florida<br />
tourist sites and rest stops, playing videos<br />
about highway travel and using a CB radio<br />
to read poetry they’d cre<strong>at</strong>ed from reassembled<br />
driver manuals and lyrics about<br />
the road.<br />
“We would stop wh<strong>at</strong> we were doing before they would arre st us, but the point was made: If you<br />
r<br />
g<br />
do something out of the usual, ‘r outinized’ plan of a given space, the police are going to co m e.”<br />
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a federally funded research and development<br />
institute for the U.S. Department<br />
of Defense th<strong>at</strong> is devoted to studying<br />
Internet security, his were considered<br />
fighting words.<br />
“They wanted me fired, and they tried<br />
so hard to do it,” he says. “The college of<br />
arts took gre<strong>at</strong> umbrage with this, and it<br />
was not a minor force on campus, as it is<br />
in most places. So, I had this island of protection,<br />
and they never could get rid of me<br />
if they wanted any semblance of academic<br />
freedom. But it still broke out into a campus<br />
war.”<br />
In 2001, Kurtz received a call from Paul<br />
Vanouse, like him a bio-artist who uses tissue,<br />
bacteria and microorganisms to bridge<br />
the gap between science and art. Vanouse,<br />
one of Kurtz’s former gradu<strong>at</strong>e students<br />
<strong>at</strong> Carnegie Mellon, had joined the faculty<br />
<strong>at</strong> UB. When he told Kurtz about a job<br />
opening in <strong>Buffalo</strong>, Kurtz didn’t hesit<strong>at</strong>e to<br />
apply.<br />
“This was the place I wanted to be,<br />
where I didn’t have to fight for anything,<br />
where wh<strong>at</strong> I do is actually appreci<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
and the b<strong>at</strong>tle was over,” he says. “I could<br />
live a fairly harmonious existence.”<br />
Two years after Kurtz was hired, th<strong>at</strong><br />
peace was sh<strong>at</strong>tered.<br />
Inevitably, Kurtz says, the police<br />
showed up, even though nothing illegal<br />
was taking place.<br />
“We would stop wh<strong>at</strong> we were doing<br />
before they would arrest us, but the point<br />
was made: If you do something out of the<br />
usual, ‘routinized’ plan of a given space,<br />
the police are going to come.”<br />
a<br />
Difficult sojourn in Pittsburgh<br />
s the CAE’s members finished<br />
gradu<strong>at</strong>e school and began settling<br />
into jobs throughout the<br />
country, they continued collabor<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
on projects th<strong>at</strong> sought to dissect<br />
social, political and, increasingly, scientific<br />
issues. For his part, Kurtz remained in<br />
Florida until 1995, when he accepted a<br />
full-time teaching appointment <strong>at</strong> Carnegie<br />
Mellon <strong>University</strong>.<br />
He describes his tenure <strong>at</strong> the<br />
Pittsburgh institution as “very conflicted.”<br />
“Carnegie Mellon is an extremely conserv<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
school, and I was considered a<br />
troublemaker there, so everything was just<br />
a b<strong>at</strong>tle,” he recalls.<br />
Shortly after arriving on campus, Kurtz<br />
completed “Electronic Civil Disobedience<br />
and Other Unpopular Ideas,” a manual of<br />
electronic activism—or “hactivism,” as it’s<br />
sometimes called—th<strong>at</strong> explains how readers<br />
can commit nonviolent yet disruptive<br />
acts in the cyber age.<br />
Kurtz’s book galled his colleagues in<br />
the business school and computer science<br />
department. At a university th<strong>at</strong> oper<strong>at</strong>es<br />
Community and campus support<br />
w<br />
hile federal officials rifled<br />
through his house, Kurtz followed<br />
his <strong>at</strong>torney’s advice,<br />
leaving town to avoid the media<br />
glare. At th<strong>at</strong> point he’d endured a 22-hour<br />
FBI interrog<strong>at</strong>ion with barely a moment to<br />
grieve his wife of 27 years.<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> would happen next he wondered.<br />
Would he come home to find the<br />
word “terrorist” spray-painted on his<br />
house<br />
“When I got back, the neighbors were<br />
furious—not with me but with law enforcement,”<br />
Kurtz says. “I never had one bad<br />
comment ever from anyone. Not an e-mail.<br />
Not regular mail. No one yelled <strong>at</strong> me in<br />
public or said they hoped I would go to<br />
jail.”<br />
On the contrary, Kurtz was showered<br />
with support. Rallies were held as far away<br />
as Paris and Amsterdam. As the FBI tried<br />
to depict him as “some yahoo artist living<br />
in the depths of bohemian Allentown,” he<br />
says, artists from around the world rallied<br />
to his defense, cementing his intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ure.<br />
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Closer to home, he was buoyed by<br />
spontaneous displays of encouragement.<br />
Once, a city bus driver stopped his route<br />
to get off his bus and symp<strong>at</strong>hize with<br />
the professor. Another time, as he walked<br />
down Elmwood Avenue, a city parks crew<br />
drove past and shouted, “We’re behind ya,<br />
Steve!”<br />
“This outpouring wasn’t surprising in<br />
a way because it just shows th<strong>at</strong> people are<br />
fair-minded,” says Kurtz, describing the<br />
response as a “gre<strong>at</strong> moral victory.” “They<br />
can tell when something is not right, and<br />
they do care about it.”<br />
On campus and off, members of the UB<br />
community stood in solidarity with Kurtz.<br />
Some wrote letters to the Department of<br />
Justice and the local newspaper. Others<br />
demonstr<strong>at</strong>ed outside City Hall and s<strong>at</strong><br />
in on court proceedings. To give Kurtz an<br />
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opportunity to mourn his wife, Vanouse<br />
held a memorial for her <strong>at</strong> his home. “I<br />
thought th<strong>at</strong> had to be done immedi<strong>at</strong>ely,<br />
to help Steve separ<strong>at</strong>e the grief from all<br />
of the other things he was dealing with,”<br />
Vanouse, associ<strong>at</strong>e professor of visual<br />
studies <strong>at</strong> UB, explains. “At least there<br />
would be proper grieving before he had to<br />
get pragm<strong>at</strong>ic about how to deal with the<br />
assault from the Department of Justice.”<br />
Although UB administr<strong>at</strong>ors never<br />
commented on Kurtz’s case, he considers<br />
them among his boldest champions for<br />
making a pivotal decision as it was still<br />
pending—namely, promoting him to full<br />
professor. “I think th<strong>at</strong> was a pretty gutsy<br />
call to not say, ‘We’re going to table this<br />
and, after the trial’s over, we’ll talk about<br />
promotions and firings,’” Kurtz contends.<br />
“Th<strong>at</strong>’s wh<strong>at</strong> the gutless university would<br />
have done.”<br />
Individuals from UB were also instrumental<br />
in raising money for the legal<br />
defense of Kurtz and his co-defendant,<br />
Robert Ferrell, the <strong>University</strong> of Pittsburgh<br />
geneticist chair who mailed Kurtz the bacteria.<br />
B<strong>at</strong>tling lymphoma, Ferrell ended up<br />
pleading guilty to a lesser, misdemeanor<br />
charge out of concern for his health.<br />
As Kurtz’s case was channeling through<br />
As he walked down Elmwood Avenue, a city parks crew drove p ast<br />
and shouted, “We ’re behind ya, Steve!”<br />
e<br />
the court, “Strange Culture,” a cinem<strong>at</strong>ic<br />
re-cre<strong>at</strong>ion of the events of his arrest, premiered<br />
in art houses around the country.<br />
In one scene, several of Kurtz’s students<br />
refuse to sign a petition supporting their<br />
professor for fear of repercussions from<br />
the FBI.<br />
Th<strong>at</strong>, he points out, was dram<strong>at</strong>ic<br />
license on the filmmaker’s part; it never<br />
happened. “The students were gre<strong>at</strong>. They<br />
would turn out for the fundraisers, if not<br />
organize them. And they were understanding<br />
when I had to [leave campus to] go to<br />
prob<strong>at</strong>ion.”<br />
One of Kurtz’s most vocal defenders<br />
was former UB gradu<strong>at</strong>e student Julie<br />
Perini, MFA ’06. In addition to chronicling<br />
his arrest and prosecution for a campus<br />
public<strong>at</strong>ion, she helped organize a symposium<br />
about the law and the P<strong>at</strong>riot Act.<br />
“The crime he was charged with carried<br />
a 20-year sentence, so I and many others<br />
took th<strong>at</strong> possibility seriously,” says Perini,<br />
now a film studies instructor <strong>at</strong> Edinboro<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Pennsylvania. “I appreci<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
having Steve as part of my community of<br />
intellectuals and artists, and I did not want<br />
to have him gone.”<br />
Perini, who describes Kurtz as a “lifechanging<br />
professor,” credits him with<br />
transforming the way she thinks about art.<br />
“I was always interested in activism, but<br />
I didn’t want to get involved because the<br />
activists I’d met seemed off-putting. Then<br />
I met Steve and realized th<strong>at</strong> art doesn’t<br />
have to be a separ<strong>at</strong>e endeavor from activism.<br />
All of his projects make complex<br />
social, political and environmental issues<br />
understandable to regular people. Th<strong>at</strong>, to<br />
me, is very powerful. He is very sincere in<br />
his message, and he lives it every day.”<br />
Vanouse agrees th<strong>at</strong> Kurtz’s straightforward<br />
style is one of his fortes—not just<br />
in his install<strong>at</strong>ions, but in his classroom.<br />
“Steve is good <strong>at</strong> taking really complex<br />
m<strong>at</strong>erial th<strong>at</strong> can be daunting for students,<br />
like high theory or philosophy, and putting<br />
it forth in a user-friendly way. Sometimes,<br />
in our reverence for the m<strong>at</strong>erial, teachers<br />
aren’t willing to allow for simplific<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Steve was never th<strong>at</strong> reverent of m<strong>at</strong>erials<br />
he spent his whole life researching.”<br />
c<br />
Artistic productivity amid<br />
trauma<br />
t<br />
o look <strong>at</strong> the CAE’s body of work during<br />
the four years of Kurtz’s prosecution—from<br />
“Free Range Grains,” an<br />
install<strong>at</strong>ion on genetically modified<br />
food, to “Marching Plague,” a<br />
critique of germ warfare programs—you<br />
wouldn’t know th<strong>at</strong> one of its members’<br />
lives had been turned upside down.<br />
“They were the most productive years<br />
ever because we felt we had to be role<br />
models,” says Kurtz, who suffered from<br />
high blood pressure throughout the prosecution.<br />
“It was to send the message to the<br />
FBI and the Justice Department th<strong>at</strong> they<br />
weren’t going to stop us. We were going to<br />
do exactly wh<strong>at</strong> we had set out to do, and<br />
even step it up a notch.”<br />
After his case was dismissed, Kurtz and<br />
the CAE presented “Seized,” an install<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
th<strong>at</strong> documented the household objects the<br />
FBI confisc<strong>at</strong>ed from his home, as well as<br />
the pizza boxes, G<strong>at</strong>orade bottles and other<br />
trash the agents left behind.<br />
Beyond th<strong>at</strong>, he has no desire to reference<br />
his ordeal in his art.<br />
“We have tried to continue with our<br />
activities as they would have gone on,”<br />
says Kurtz, who’s currently writing a book<br />
about how the government uses weapons<br />
systems as propaganda. “We didn’t want<br />
to turn the case into our practice. I think<br />
if I had said it would be good th<strong>at</strong> we do<br />
th<strong>at</strong>, everybody would have gone along,<br />
but I was never tempted. I thought clearly<br />
we had to keep these two things separ<strong>at</strong>e.<br />
Th<strong>at</strong> would be playing into the Department<br />
of Justice’s hands to stop all of our antiwar<br />
activities in order to focus on them.<br />
And for wh<strong>at</strong>”<br />
Asked whether th<strong>at</strong> nightmarish chapter<br />
of his life has made him even more<br />
indignant of the powers th<strong>at</strong> be, Kurtz<br />
laughs.<br />
“I was pretty indignant to begin with.”<br />
A former reporter for The <strong>Buffalo</strong> News,<br />
Nicole Peradotto is a freelance writer/<br />
editor who has written for numerous local<br />
and n<strong>at</strong>ional magazines.<br />
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Wh<strong>at</strong>’s behind th<strong>at</strong> tiny asterisk<br />
The asterisk means th<strong>at</strong> you’re a member of the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion. It<br />
means you know th<strong>at</strong> receiving this magazine doesn’t amount to membership,<br />
th<strong>at</strong> there are benefits for alumni around the world, th<strong>at</strong> friends are welcome<br />
to officially join our network, and th<strong>at</strong> you’re autom<strong>at</strong>ically a member of your<br />
school alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ion. Most of all, it sends a signal to your fellow alumni<br />
th<strong>at</strong> you’re willing to show your pride and support an organiz<strong>at</strong>ion whose<br />
purpose is to provide support for you.<br />
This asterisk doesn’t look so tiny anymore, does it<br />
UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion membership. A really big deal.<br />
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Three campuses<br />
One vision<br />
In conjunction with implement<strong>at</strong>ion of its UB 2020<br />
str<strong>at</strong>egic plan, the <strong>University</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong> has developed<br />
a comprehensive physical plan to guide the growth and<br />
transform<strong>at</strong>ion of its North and South campuses and<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>e a new Academic Health Center on its Downtown<br />
Campus.<br />
UB 2020 calls for UB, already the largest and most comprehensive<br />
campus in the St<strong>at</strong>e <strong>University</strong> of New York, to<br />
grow by 40 percent, increasing enrollment by 10,000 and<br />
faculty and staff ranks by more than 6,700. Physically, UB<br />
will grow within the borders of its North and South campuses,<br />
and expand its presence in downtown.<br />
“Building UB,” unveiled in October 2009, calls for three<br />
distinctive campus environments tailored to their respective<br />
suburban, urban and downtown settings, better connecting<br />
the campuses with one another and integr<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
them with their surrounding neighborhoods.<br />
It calls for the North Campus in Amherst,<br />
which already has seven million square feet of built<br />
space, to become more welcoming and more sustainable<br />
as it continues to be the intellectual core of the university,<br />
housing arts and sciences, engineering and management.<br />
The South Campus on Main Street in<br />
North <strong>Buffalo</strong>, a Western New York landmark th<strong>at</strong> d<strong>at</strong>es<br />
back to the 1920s, will be restored as a classic American<br />
collegi<strong>at</strong>e campus and a center for inter-professional<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion, bringing together the disciplines of law, management,<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion, social work, and architecture and<br />
planning.<br />
The Downtown Campus will marry<br />
medical educ<strong>at</strong>ion with clinical care and health sciences<br />
research in partnership with <strong>Buffalo</strong> Niagara’s pre-eminent<br />
hospitals and Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Longrange,<br />
the plan calls for UB’s Academic Health Center<br />
and the five health sciences schools th<strong>at</strong> constitute it to<br />
reloc<strong>at</strong>e to the <strong>Buffalo</strong> Niagara Medical<br />
Campus, where UB had its beginnings<br />
as a medical school 164 years ago.<br />
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Almost the entire border of the South<br />
Campus will be transformed into a parklike<br />
setting. An amphithe<strong>at</strong>er will fe<strong>at</strong>ure<br />
a newly unearthed section of the<br />
Onondaga Escarpment as its backdrop.
Aerial view of the Oval, a grand<br />
new lawn <strong>at</strong> the crossroads of the<br />
North Campus, Putnam Plaza and<br />
the Lee Road “Main Street.”<br />
Explore “Building<br />
UB,” the historic<br />
master plan th<strong>at</strong> will<br />
guide UB’s growth.<br />
Preview wh<strong>at</strong> UB’s<br />
campuses will look<br />
like <strong>at</strong> www.buffalo.<br />
edu/buildingUB<br />
While the Downtown Campus will<br />
have new green spaces such as the<br />
proposed McCarley Park, its primary<br />
public space will continue to<br />
be its streets.<br />
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For breast cancer survivors, rowing<br />
bolsters strength and spirit<br />
ready all, ro<br />
Lisa DeMarco, BS ’90<br />
The most difficult year of Lisa DeMarco’s<br />
life began with a lump she discovered underne<strong>at</strong>h<br />
her left armpit, and ended with chemotherapy,<br />
radi<strong>at</strong>ion and surgeries to remove her ovaries<br />
and both breasts. “I can liken it to a building th<strong>at</strong><br />
just implodes. Th<strong>at</strong>’s kind of how you feel inside,”<br />
DeMarco, BS ’90, a chiropractor in Depew, N.Y.,<br />
says of her discovery in February 2008 th<strong>at</strong> she<br />
had breast cancer.<br />
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w,row,row,row<br />
Her loved ones, as well as chiropractic p<strong>at</strong>ients who<br />
cheered her on, helped her make it through the months of<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ments, exams and oper<strong>at</strong>ions th<strong>at</strong> transformed her<br />
into a survivor in October of th<strong>at</strong> same year.<br />
As part of her rehabilit<strong>at</strong>ion process, DeMarco, 43,<br />
joined with UB in l<strong>at</strong>e 2009 to cre<strong>at</strong>e a rowing program to<br />
help female cancer survivors build their strength and selfimage.<br />
She hopes the group, WeCanRow-<strong>Buffalo</strong>, will help<br />
ensure th<strong>at</strong> other cancer survivors don’t find themselves<br />
facing challenges alone.<br />
DeMarco recalls the difference friends and family made<br />
during her own ordeal. They consoled her when she tested<br />
positive for a genetic mut<strong>at</strong>ion associ<strong>at</strong>ed with increased<br />
risk for breast cancer. They stood by her when she opted<br />
to undergo a bil<strong>at</strong>eral mastectomy and an oophorectomy<br />
to remove her ovaries, and, after it was all over, they<br />
helped her to heal.<br />
“My support network was amazing,” DeMarco says.<br />
“And th<strong>at</strong>’s really wh<strong>at</strong> gets you through it when life is as<br />
bare as it’s going to [get].<br />
“Th<strong>at</strong>, to me, is wh<strong>at</strong> this is really all about. I had a<br />
gre<strong>at</strong> support network, and really wh<strong>at</strong> I’m hoping th<strong>at</strong><br />
this program can do is reach out to people,” DeMarco<br />
says. “It’s about survivorship. It’s about, ‘You know wh<strong>at</strong><br />
Let’s make our bodies as healthy as we can to continue to<br />
b<strong>at</strong>tle this disease.’<br />
“You have to start rebuilding,” DeMarco says.<br />
Each of more than a dozen women in WeCanRow-<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong> is <strong>at</strong> a different stage of recovery. Those who have<br />
been cancer-free for longer inspire those who only recently<br />
be<strong>at</strong> the disease.<br />
The group, a regional chapter of the n<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
WeCanRow program th<strong>at</strong> Olympic gold medalist rower<br />
Holly Metcalf founded in 2002, leverages UB’s strengths<br />
Douglas Levere, BA ’89<br />
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in <strong>at</strong>hletics and public health to empower<br />
and promote healthy living among participants.<br />
To begin, doctoral students in the UB<br />
Department of Rehabilit<strong>at</strong>ion Science,<br />
with guidance from Juli Wylegala, PhD ’05<br />
& MS ’92, a clinical assistant professor,<br />
screened each WeCanRow-<strong>Buffalo</strong> member,<br />
identifying each individual’s limit<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
in strength, motion and flexibility,<br />
and providing inform<strong>at</strong>ion on how to get<br />
in better shape while avoiding injuries.<br />
In winter, coaches and students on the<br />
UB women’s rowing team volunteered<br />
each Tuesday and Thursday evening, leading<br />
hourlong workout sessions on indoor<br />
rowing machines—ergometers, or “ergs”—<br />
in Alumni Arena. This spring, the survivors<br />
will train in tank facilities th<strong>at</strong> mimic conditions<br />
on the w<strong>at</strong>er before heading out to<br />
row in real bo<strong>at</strong>s. Racing is likely.<br />
The idea for cre<strong>at</strong>ing WeCanRow-<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong> origin<strong>at</strong>ed from casual convers<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
between DeMarco and Lisa Wind,<br />
a friend who was on a dragon bo<strong>at</strong> team<br />
for breast cancer survivors. Research has<br />
shown th<strong>at</strong> the sport, which involves paddling<br />
in a long, canoe-type vessel, can be<br />
an uplifting experience, helping women to<br />
regain a feeling of control over their lives<br />
after suffering from cancer.<br />
Wind and DeMarco, an avid sailor,<br />
discussed how fun it would be to row<br />
with fellow cancer survivors. Before long,<br />
WeCanRow-<strong>Buffalo</strong> was born, a product of<br />
the women’s contagious zeal.<br />
“[DeMarco’s] e-mails alone sort of overflowed<br />
with enthusiasm,” says Wylegala,<br />
whose mother had breast cancer. “When I<br />
met her in person for the first time, it was<br />
tjust like, ‘How could I not be part of this’”<br />
he program meets members’<br />
needs in a unique manner.<br />
Some breast cancer<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ments put women <strong>at</strong> risk<br />
for lymphedema, a condition<br />
characterized by swelling of<br />
the arm, breast and chest.<br />
DeMarco, who takes part in WeCanRow,<br />
says the workouts seem to reduce swelling<br />
th<strong>at</strong> she experiences as a result of the surgery<br />
she underwent.<br />
Meanwhile, personal <strong>at</strong>tention from<br />
Wylegala and her students can provide a<br />
sense of stability and direction to women<br />
who have just completed intensive cancer<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ments—women who, for the first time<br />
since their diagnosis, are no longer meeting<br />
frequently with doctors and other caregivers.<br />
“It’s wonderful so far,” says Ellen<br />
McGr<strong>at</strong>h, MLS ’83, head of c<strong>at</strong>aloging <strong>at</strong><br />
UB’s Charles B. Sears Law Library and a<br />
WeCanRow member. “It’s, I would say,<br />
more than I expected it to be. I knew there<br />
would be involvement of the UB coaching<br />
staff and the physical therapy department,<br />
but the enthusiasm th<strong>at</strong> those participants<br />
have brought to it has just blown me away,<br />
and meeting the other women, and having<br />
an intense workout like th<strong>at</strong>, makes it just<br />
a wonderful experience on a physical and a<br />
mental and emotional level.<br />
“In terms of recurrence of breast cancer,”<br />
adds McGr<strong>at</strong>h, who b<strong>at</strong>tled the disease<br />
in 2005, “physical exercise and keeping<br />
fit is one of the things I feel I can do to<br />
prevent th<strong>at</strong> recurrence.”<br />
Rock music blasts from a stereo, adding<br />
to the clamor and excitement in a room<br />
where fans with giant propellers whir,<br />
turning to keep the space cool. More than<br />
a dozen women, all ages, slide backward<br />
and forward on indoor rowers, pulling,<br />
with all their strength, on the machine<br />
handlebars th<strong>at</strong> mimic oars.<br />
Students and coaches on the women’s<br />
rowing team are making rounds, instructing<br />
participants on proper posture and<br />
how to move. It is early December, and<br />
the sport is still new for most WeCanRow-<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong> members.<br />
The survivors sometimes exchange tidbits<br />
of inform<strong>at</strong>ion about their diagnosis,<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ment and rehabilit<strong>at</strong>ion, but the focus<br />
is on exercise. As McGr<strong>at</strong>h, 50, says, “In<br />
some ways, we don’t need to talk about<br />
it, because we know, when we’re in th<strong>at</strong><br />
room, th<strong>at</strong> everybody knows wh<strong>at</strong> we’ve<br />
been through and [has] dealt with the<br />
Elizabeth Ostermeier, assistant<br />
women’s rowing coach, helps<br />
breast cancer survivors work out.<br />
uncertainty, the pain, the fear.”<br />
Still, each woman has a story. Anne<br />
Kist, EdM ’82 & BS ’76, a 55-year-old<br />
breast cancer survivor who worked for 32<br />
years as a physical educ<strong>at</strong>ion teacher <strong>at</strong> St.<br />
Mary’s School for the Deaf in <strong>Buffalo</strong>, loves<br />
the full-body workout WeCanRow-<strong>Buffalo</strong><br />
provides.<br />
Sally Munschauer, a breast and colon<br />
cancer survivor in her 80s who was<br />
b<strong>at</strong>tling lung cancer when she joined<br />
DeMarco’s program, had been a rower for<br />
about two decades.<br />
“You’re using legs, arms, the whole<br />
body. I find it very rhythmic and pleasing<br />
in th<strong>at</strong> way, and very s<strong>at</strong>isfying when<br />
everybody’s on the same page and all<br />
together,” Munschauer says. “There are<br />
no prima donnas in the bo<strong>at</strong> who think<br />
they’re better than anybody else. Th<strong>at</strong><br />
doesn’t work. Everybody has to be with it<br />
together and want to work together to get<br />
th<strong>at</strong> shell moving as one. And there’s nothing<br />
better than th<strong>at</strong> feeling <strong>at</strong> the start,<br />
when the coxswain tells you, ‘Ready all’...<br />
and you feel th<strong>at</strong> shell lift off the w<strong>at</strong>er and<br />
you just take off. There’s nothing like it,<br />
and I’ve done a lot of sports.<br />
“I want to get back on the w<strong>at</strong>er this<br />
summer,” Munschauer says. “Th<strong>at</strong>’s my<br />
goal.”<br />
And then of course, there is DeMarco,<br />
with her huge heart and enthusiasm.<br />
Elizabeth Ostermeier, assistant women’s<br />
rowing coach, says she hopes the survivors’<br />
narr<strong>at</strong>ives will help her student <strong>at</strong>hletes<br />
grow stronger and face their own challenges<br />
with courage and dignity.<br />
Danielle Carlino, a freshman on the<br />
rowing team whose mother was recently<br />
diagnosed with breast cancer, is one of<br />
many volunteers already drawing inspir<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
from the stories of the women of<br />
WeCanRow. Their resilience is astonishing,<br />
she says: “They are determined and<br />
willing to get back into shape and be fit<br />
and continue on with their lives after such<br />
a huge milestone.<br />
“I can’t wait,” says Carlino, “until they<br />
actually get to go on the w<strong>at</strong>er on a bo<strong>at</strong>,<br />
because every day they’re learning something<br />
new, something exciting.”<br />
Charlotte Hsu, formerly a reporter for<br />
The Las Vegas Sun, is a staff writer with<br />
<strong>University</strong> Communic<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />
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alumniprofile<br />
Rosalind Jarrett, BA ’69<br />
Tri<strong>at</strong>hlete and Hollywood publicist enjoys<br />
thrill of racing on a world level<br />
jarrett close-up<br />
Life before tri<strong>at</strong>hlons Jarrett<br />
sailed both racers and cruisers,<br />
netting more than 10,000 miles;<br />
Personal hero World champion<br />
Ironman Cherie Gruenfeld, founder<br />
of Exceeding Expect<strong>at</strong>ions, a nonprofit<br />
th<strong>at</strong> helps redirect <strong>at</strong>-risk<br />
inner-city kids by using the sport<br />
of tri<strong>at</strong>hlon; Favorite quotes “Wh<strong>at</strong><br />
do you call a person who comes As a student <strong>at</strong> UB in the l<strong>at</strong>e<br />
in last in a tri<strong>at</strong>hlon A tri<strong>at</strong>hlete!” ’60s, Rosalind Jarrett took<br />
(Jef Mallett). “One hundred percent bowling for her physical educ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
requirement because she<br />
of the shots you don’t take don’t go<br />
in.” (Wayne Gretzky)<br />
didn’t want to wash her waistlength<br />
hair. She recalls getting<br />
a C-minus in the class.<br />
Today, Jarrett, 61, is a world-class tri<strong>at</strong>hlete. “I’m a l<strong>at</strong>e<br />
bloomer,” she says, underst<strong>at</strong>edly.<br />
In fact, she didn’t begin competing until her 50s, when she<br />
received a poor medical check-up. With low bone density, high<br />
cholesterol and worsening asthma, Jarrett was urged by her doctor<br />
to do something to improve her health. The final push came<br />
when she was 54, and her former public rel<strong>at</strong>ions teacher and<br />
mentor, Julian Myers, then an 84-year-old runner, told her he<br />
was exactly her age when he began running mar<strong>at</strong>hons.<br />
Jarrett started endurance training with the Leukemia and<br />
Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program in 2002. The<br />
fundraising aspect of the sport came easily for her. “When I told<br />
people I was going to swim .9 miles, bike 24.8 miles and run 10k,<br />
most people said, ‘Yeah I’ll pay for th<strong>at</strong>,’” she says.<br />
But when Jarrett began training, she hadn’t ridden a bike in<br />
more than 10 years and couldn’t swim the width of a pool, or run<br />
from her house to the corner of the street. Her first race took her<br />
5:11:08 to complete and she ended up th<strong>at</strong> night in the ER with<br />
hypon<strong>at</strong>remia (low blood sodium). But by the time she finished<br />
the race, she was hooked on the sport.<br />
Since her bumpy start, Jarrett has set yearly goals and can<br />
boast a lengthy roster of completed tri<strong>at</strong>hlons and mar<strong>at</strong>hons,<br />
including winning her age group in a 2008 Aqu<strong>at</strong>hlon World<br />
Championship, running the New York City and Los Angeles<br />
mar<strong>at</strong>hons, and being a member of Team USA in the 2009<br />
Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Tri<strong>at</strong>hlon Union Age Group World Championships on<br />
Australia’s Gold Coast. “I can’t begin to tell you wh<strong>at</strong> it’s like to be<br />
racing on a world level,”she says. “It’s thrilling and it’s all about<br />
doing your personal best.”<br />
When she’s not racing, Jarrett is the executive in charge of<br />
publicity for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. She credits her time<br />
spent <strong>at</strong> UB as partly the reason for her success in the industry.<br />
“To be a good publicist you need to be a good journalist and a<br />
good writer. To some extent, I owe th<strong>at</strong> to being an English major<br />
<strong>at</strong> UB with incredible professors, such as [SUNY Distinguished<br />
Professor] Bruce Jackson.”<br />
As co-founder of the successful UB Coast to Coast Symposium<br />
(UBC2C), Jarrett has helped to cre<strong>at</strong>e a sustainable model for<br />
engaging older, more accomplished alumni, while providing<br />
opportunities for young people who aspire to be in the entertainment<br />
industry. Jarrett’s mentoring carries over to her passion for<br />
tri<strong>at</strong>hlons and her hope th<strong>at</strong> she can inspire other women. “You<br />
can change your life, your shape, and your health and your diet.<br />
I really do live the multisport lifestyle and I can’t begin to tell you<br />
how much it’s changed my life.”<br />
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Gross close-up<br />
Gordon Gross, JD ’55<br />
Enthusiastic benefactor combines passion<br />
for UB with concern for the region<br />
Went to law school because his<br />
f<strong>at</strong>her thought his legal bills were<br />
too high. Married to Gretchen<br />
for 30 years. Served seven years<br />
Gordon Gross , JD ‘55, makes things<br />
as SUNY Trustee. On search<br />
happen—in his own life, his career,<br />
committee th<strong>at</strong> brought John<br />
B. Simpson to <strong>Buffalo</strong>—now<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong> and the<br />
on UB Found<strong>at</strong>ion Investment wider Western New York community.<br />
Committee. Rode bicycle<br />
For his many outstanding achievements<br />
and contributions, he will<br />
across U.S. to raise funds for<br />
the Community Found<strong>at</strong>ion for receive the 2010 Samuel P. Capen<br />
Gre<strong>at</strong>er <strong>Buffalo</strong>. Climbed Mount Award, the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion’s<br />
Kilimanjaro. No. 1 fundraiser for highest honor, in April.<br />
the Ride for Roswell. Newest<br />
“My mother often called me a<br />
challenge: helping to launch Read cockeyed optimist,” laughs Gross,<br />
to Succeed <strong>Buffalo</strong> initi<strong>at</strong>ive. 78, who is semiretired as a senior<br />
partner in the <strong>Buffalo</strong> law firm Gross<br />
Shuman Brizdle & Gilfillan P.C. “But<br />
if you’re not an optimist, how do you see where success could<br />
be I also see myself as a risk-taker and a salesman, because<br />
these ingredients are essential in successful ventures. For<br />
me, the cup is not just half-full, it’s usually overflowing.”<br />
Early on, Gross says, “I realized I could sell things. When<br />
I started getting involved in community organiz<strong>at</strong>ions, I was<br />
able to be cre<strong>at</strong>ive in helping them raise money. I felt challenged<br />
by the opportunity to make a difference.” And he<br />
always challenged himself to give first before asking others to<br />
follow his lead.<br />
The result has been an extraordinary record of philanthropy—especially<br />
to UB and its Law School—and of c<strong>at</strong>alyzing<br />
community support for important quality-of-life efforts in<br />
Western New York. It’s his deep concern for the health of this<br />
region th<strong>at</strong> spurs Gross’ involvement in UB.<br />
Gross and his wife, Gretchen, have long been among the<br />
university’s most generous benefactors. They made a $1 million<br />
gift to help fund the first endowed professorship in the<br />
university’s newly established Institute of Jewish Thought<br />
and Heritage. They are major donors to the Law School, and<br />
an O’Brian Hall classroom is named in their honor. Gross<br />
also gave a significant gift to the School of Dental Medicine,<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ing a dental student fund in memory of his brother, Alan<br />
Gross, PhD ’96, MS ’83 & BS ’52.<br />
His support of UB, he says, is rooted in its economic potential.<br />
“The university is the No. 1 economic engine in Western<br />
New York,” he says passion<strong>at</strong>ely. “Not only is it an important<br />
employer, but it spawns new businesses and <strong>at</strong>tracts people<br />
to the region. I’ve seen for quite some time th<strong>at</strong> the university<br />
is the future of this community, and the most important thing<br />
we can do for the growth of the community is to help grow the<br />
university.<br />
“It’s just th<strong>at</strong> simple.”<br />
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Savvy consultant hones his skills to serve<br />
politicians and corpor<strong>at</strong>e clients alike<br />
Ryan Toohey, BA ’97<br />
toohey close-up<br />
Major and minor <strong>at</strong> UB political science<br />
and classics; UB family connections<br />
Dad, Timothy, gradu<strong>at</strong>ed from<br />
UB School of Law in 1974 and sister, Ryan Toohey, BA ’97, may be<br />
Megan, works <strong>at</strong> UB as director of sitting in a beautifully designed<br />
government rel<strong>at</strong>ions; Dream job To loft office space in downtown<br />
have worked on the Obama presidential<br />
campaign. “Th<strong>at</strong> campaign was N.Y.” belt buckle th<strong>at</strong> he’s<br />
Manh<strong>at</strong>tan, but the “<strong>Buffalo</strong>,<br />
a model of professionalism, aggressiveness<br />
and belief in the candid<strong>at</strong>e”; hometown pride.<br />
wearing demonstr<strong>at</strong>es his<br />
Favorite trip abroad Argentina; Most Now one of fewer than a<br />
recommended place to visit in NYC half-dozen partners <strong>at</strong> Global<br />
The High Line—the new elev<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
Str<strong>at</strong>egy Group, one of the<br />
park on Manh<strong>at</strong>tan’s West Side<br />
most prestigious and highpowered<br />
political and corpor<strong>at</strong>e<br />
consulting firms in New<br />
York, Toohey has already led a more exciting career <strong>at</strong> 34 years<br />
old than many experience in a lifetime.<br />
After growing up in <strong>Buffalo</strong> and studying briefly <strong>at</strong> the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Wisconsin, Toohey landed <strong>at</strong> UB’s North Campus in<br />
the early 1990s thinking it was temporary, but liked it so much<br />
th<strong>at</strong> he stayed. “UB is a very academic and collegi<strong>at</strong>e environment,”<br />
he says. “When I began studying law <strong>at</strong> Columbia, I felt<br />
better prepared than many of my classm<strong>at</strong>es who went to bigname<br />
colleges.”<br />
In law school, Toohey still didn’t know exactly wh<strong>at</strong> he wanted<br />
to do, but had always followed politics closely. So one day,<br />
<strong>at</strong> age 22, he picked up the phone and called Eliot Spitzer, who<br />
was running for New York St<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong>torney general, and asked to<br />
work on his campaign. “I liked his ideology and thought I was<br />
well suited to help out,” says Toohey, who eventually became<br />
Spitzer’s closest traveling aide and notes th<strong>at</strong> one of his career<br />
highlights so far was having a “courtside se<strong>at</strong>” to w<strong>at</strong>ch as<br />
the New York St<strong>at</strong>e Attorney General’s Office was completely<br />
remade under Spitzer.<br />
Toohey went on to manage Spitzer’s campaign for governor<br />
and was one of his trusted advisers once he took office. In a<br />
2008 New York Magazine article, Spitzer noted: “Ryan is unbe<strong>at</strong>able<br />
when it comes to reading the political pulse of the st<strong>at</strong>e.”<br />
Toohey’s political savvy and well-honed analytical skills continue<br />
to serve him well <strong>at</strong> Global Str<strong>at</strong>egy Group, where his work<br />
ranges from helping New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg<br />
retain control of the city’s massive school system to str<strong>at</strong>egizing<br />
about how to redevelop Ground Zero while helping sen<strong>at</strong>ors,<br />
mayors, and members of congress in New York and beyond get<br />
elected.<br />
“Building a professional and personal life in New York City is<br />
fun and exciting, but very complic<strong>at</strong>ed. Only now after 12 years<br />
have I started to feel like I’m hitting my stride,” says Toohey,<br />
who was married this March. “I’d like to say I’m settling down.<br />
I hope it stays th<strong>at</strong> way for a bit longer than I’m used to.”<br />
Story by Mara McGinnis, BA ’97, with photo by Douglas Levere, BA ’89<br />
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alumninews<br />
f r o m t h e U B A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n<br />
The Main Event<br />
UBAA membership puzzler<br />
“No. 1 is the<br />
magazine myth.”<br />
Larry Zielinski, UBAA<br />
President<br />
Visit www.alumni.<br />
buffalo.edu/join to<br />
show your pride and<br />
join the UBAA.<br />
Question: Wh<strong>at</strong> organiz<strong>at</strong>ion serves<br />
more than 208,000 people, yet<br />
receives support from less than<br />
6 percent of them<br />
Answer: The UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
ut of more than 208,000<br />
alumni worldwide, a mere<br />
12,000 UB gradu<strong>at</strong>es have<br />
made a commitment to support<br />
their alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ion by<br />
becoming dues-paying members<br />
of the UBAA. “It’s no secret th<strong>at</strong><br />
UB alumni have pride in their alma m<strong>at</strong>er,” says<br />
UBAA President Larry Zielinski, MBA ’77 & BA<br />
’75. “Unfortun<strong>at</strong>ely, th<strong>at</strong> pride hasn’t been transl<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
into membership like we find <strong>at</strong> other large<br />
universities. For as long as I’ve been involved with<br />
the alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ion, this disconnect between<br />
alumni and membership has prevailed … and it’s<br />
time for th<strong>at</strong> to change.” Although there are likely<br />
many reasons for the disconnect, three commonly<br />
held myths arise in convers<strong>at</strong>ions with alumni,<br />
according to Zielinski. No. 1 is the “magazine<br />
myth,” he says, which rel<strong>at</strong>es to the fact th<strong>at</strong> many<br />
alumni believe they are members of the UBAA<br />
simply because they receive UB Today. “Th<strong>at</strong>’s<br />
understandable in a way because many universities<br />
reserve their magazine only for dues-paying<br />
members,” adds Jay R. Friedman, EdM ’00 & BA<br />
’86, associ<strong>at</strong>e vice president for alumni rel<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />
“But not <strong>at</strong> UB. We believe it should go to all<br />
alumni, so we’ll just have to continue banging the<br />
drum th<strong>at</strong> it doesn’t equ<strong>at</strong>e to membership.”<br />
Next is the “local myth,” in which alumni<br />
who live outside Western New York believe there<br />
are no benefits for them. “We purposely cre<strong>at</strong>e<br />
a members-only benefits package th<strong>at</strong> provides<br />
numerous perks for out-of-town members,”<br />
explains Kristen Murphy, BA ’96, assistant director,<br />
membership. “And we’re always reevalu<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
to be sure th<strong>at</strong> wh<strong>at</strong> we’re offering is of a higher<br />
value than the cost of an annual membership. To<br />
do otherwise doesn’t make sense.”<br />
And finally, the myth about eligibility. Contrary<br />
to popular belief, anyone—whether a UB parent,<br />
And in chapter<br />
news…<br />
On Nov. 10, UB Bulls<br />
football fans packed into<br />
Blondies Sports on the<br />
Upper West Side of New<br />
York City for the chapter’s<br />
annual wings night<br />
and w<strong>at</strong>ch party event, as<br />
UB took on Ohio.<br />
The Washington, D.C.,<br />
chapter reprised its<br />
2003 Alumni Media<br />
Panel event on June 16<br />
before an audience of<br />
185 in the N<strong>at</strong>ional Press<br />
Club. Headlining the<br />
panel were CNN’s Wolf<br />
I. Blitzer, BA ’70, and<br />
Pulitzer Prize-winning<br />
editorial cartoonist Tom<br />
Toles, BA ’73, of The<br />
Washington Post.<br />
Other journalists<br />
comprising the panel<br />
were Pamela Benson,<br />
BA ’76, senior producer,<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ional security for<br />
CNN; Jo Ann Armao, BA<br />
’74, The Washington Post<br />
editorial writer; and John<br />
Schiumo, BA ’93, Emmy<br />
Award-winning anchor<br />
for 24-hour cable television<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ion NY1 in New<br />
York City.<br />
Moder<strong>at</strong>ed by Jim Militello,<br />
BA ’79, Associ<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
Press sportscaster, president<br />
of the Washington,<br />
D.C., chapter and UBAA<br />
executive committee<br />
board member, the panel<br />
discussed such topics<br />
as coverage of the H1N1<br />
virus and the future of<br />
news reporting.<br />
On July 21, the Embassy<br />
of France in Washington,<br />
D.C., hosted 150 UB<br />
alumni and guests <strong>at</strong> La<br />
Maison Française, the<br />
cultural center on the<br />
grounds, for a reception<br />
Hey, th<strong>at</strong>’s me!<br />
To see photos of other alumni friends<br />
from recent chapter meetings, go to<br />
www.alumni.buffalo.edu/chapters<br />
(Left to right) Ken Warner, BS ’77, Paolo<br />
Dizon, BS ’92, Michele Wozniak, BA ’95,<br />
and Jen Wozniak, MBA ’96 & BA ’92<br />
(former president of the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion),<br />
mingled during the pregame party<br />
before the Denver Rockies game on July 3.<br />
and present<strong>at</strong>ion by John<br />
Wood, UB associ<strong>at</strong>e vice<br />
provost for intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion. The D.C. chapter<br />
also held a pregame<br />
party and hockey game<br />
when the <strong>Buffalo</strong> Sabres<br />
played the Washington<br />
Capitals <strong>at</strong> the Verizon<br />
Center Dec. 23.<br />
Baseball provided the<br />
backdrop for alumni<br />
events in Colorado, Michigan<br />
and North Carolina.<br />
The Denver chapter’s<br />
third annual alumni<br />
pregame party and Rockies<br />
baseball game with<br />
fireworks on July 3 was<br />
a sellout; 30 UB alumni<br />
and friends were in<br />
Comerica Park July 12 as<br />
the Detroit Tigers b<strong>at</strong>tled<br />
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classnotes<br />
u p d a t e s f r o m g r a d s b y t h e d e c a d e<br />
spouse, UB Believer, neighbor or Bulls fan in<br />
Western New York or around the world—is welcome<br />
to officially join the UBAA network. “We<br />
opened up our membership in 2009. We felt th<strong>at</strong><br />
anyone who cares about UB should have a way<br />
to show it, and UBAA membership is a win-win<br />
option,” Friedman says.<br />
Academically, UB is in the big leagues,<br />
yet ranks among the lowest when it comes to<br />
alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ion membership, as revealed by<br />
the Council of Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion Executives<br />
2009 member survey. Penn St<strong>at</strong>e, Iowa St<strong>at</strong>e,<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of Michigan and the Ohio St<strong>at</strong>e<br />
<strong>University</strong> vastly outpace UB, with up to 48.3<br />
percent of addressable alumni belonging to their<br />
associ<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />
Universities with strong alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
have a base of support th<strong>at</strong> is called upon to shape<br />
policy and advoc<strong>at</strong>e on behalf of key initi<strong>at</strong>ives,<br />
like UB 2020. “In UB’s last public campaign, 62<br />
percent of alumni don<strong>at</strong>ed, the largest contingent<br />
to do so—isn’t th<strong>at</strong> powerful” Zielinski says.<br />
“Imagine our strength if we were to harness th<strong>at</strong><br />
energy into one unified group, into the UB Alumni<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
“Show your pride and support an organiz<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
whose purpose is to provide support for you,”<br />
Zielinski urges. Readers may use the envelope<br />
provided in this magazine, call the alumni office<br />
<strong>at</strong> 1-800-284-5382 or join online <strong>at</strong> www.alumni.<br />
buffalo.edu/join.<br />
the Cleveland Indians;<br />
and the Raleigh chapter<br />
hosted an alumni night<br />
<strong>at</strong> the ballpark on July<br />
25 as the Durham Bulls<br />
faced the Norfolk Tides.<br />
The Rochester, N.Y.,<br />
chapter, led by Kourtney<br />
J. Gagliano, BS ’02, welcomed<br />
spirited groups of<br />
alumni for a networking<br />
happy hour <strong>at</strong> Murphy’s<br />
Law on July 23, as well<br />
as a <strong>Buffalo</strong> Bills w<strong>at</strong>ch<br />
party on Nov. 15 <strong>at</strong> the<br />
Rochester Anchor Bar.<br />
The Albany chapter<br />
hosted a day <strong>at</strong> the<br />
races for 41 alumni and<br />
friends <strong>at</strong> Sar<strong>at</strong>oga Race<br />
Course on Aug. 1, while<br />
the Houston chapter<br />
hosted a performance of<br />
“Sherlock Holmes and<br />
the Crucifer of Blood”<br />
<strong>at</strong> the Alley The<strong>at</strong>re on<br />
Aug. 13.<br />
The Cleveland chapter<br />
held a regional event<br />
on Aug. 14, bringing<br />
54 alumni together for<br />
some <strong>Buffalo</strong>-style food.<br />
A pregame tailg<strong>at</strong>e party<br />
and <strong>Buffalo</strong> Bulls vs.<br />
UCF Knights football<br />
game were offered by<br />
the developing Orlando<br />
chapter on Sept. 19.<br />
A sunset cruise around<br />
San Diego Bay <strong>at</strong>tracted<br />
35 alumni and friends on<br />
Sept. 25, while alumni in<br />
Philadelphia caught the<br />
UB football team in action<br />
on Sept. 26 against<br />
the Temple Owls.<br />
50<br />
* Mary<br />
Ann Lohrey,<br />
BS 1955,<br />
retired from<br />
Dutchess<br />
County government<br />
in<br />
lohrey<br />
December<br />
2008, after serving as a<br />
mental health educ<strong>at</strong>or<br />
and the communic<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
director for the department<br />
of mental hygiene<br />
for 38 years. She is now a<br />
part-time consultant with<br />
the department. Lohrey<br />
resides in Poughkeepsie,<br />
N.Y. J. Mason Davis Jr.,<br />
JD 1959,<br />
an <strong>at</strong>torney<br />
with the<br />
law firm<br />
of Sirote &<br />
Permutt,<br />
is included<br />
davis in the<br />
2010 edition of The Best<br />
Lawyers in America in the<br />
areas of commercial litig<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
and corpor<strong>at</strong>e law.<br />
Davis represents clients<br />
in business, antitrust,<br />
securities, product liability<br />
litig<strong>at</strong>ion, life, health, and<br />
surety company defense<br />
work and litig<strong>at</strong>ion. He<br />
also has extensive experience<br />
before insurance<br />
regul<strong>at</strong>ory departments<br />
and commissions, and has<br />
particip<strong>at</strong>ed in numerous<br />
trials in both st<strong>at</strong>e and<br />
federal courts, as well<br />
as in appell<strong>at</strong>e practice<br />
before the Supreme Court<br />
of Alabama and the fifth<br />
and 11th Circuit Courts<br />
of Appeals. Davis, a 2004<br />
recipient of the UB Alumni<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion Distinguished<br />
Alumni Award, lives in<br />
Birmingham, Ala.<br />
60<br />
Joseph Oppenheim, BA<br />
1964, recently published a<br />
memoir entitled “Joseph’s<br />
Almanac.” He resides in<br />
San Diego, Calif. *Donald<br />
A. Alessi, JD 1969, is<br />
the chair of the <strong>Buffalo</strong><br />
and Erie County Naval<br />
and Military Park, where<br />
he previously served as<br />
a board member. A past<br />
president of the Feder<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of Italian-American<br />
Societies of Western New<br />
York, he was named its<br />
person of the year in 2008.<br />
Alessi lives in Clarence,<br />
N.Y.<br />
70<br />
Nancy Henneberger, BA<br />
1972, executive vice president<br />
and chief oper<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
officer of the Healthcare<br />
Distribution Management<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion (HDMA), was<br />
honored with a Nexus<br />
award for lifetime achievement<br />
<strong>at</strong> the 2009 HDMA<br />
annual leadership forum<br />
in Orlando, Fla. With more<br />
than 25 years of service to<br />
HDMA, she is widely credited<br />
for shaping the associ<strong>at</strong>ion’s<br />
role as the voice<br />
of primary health care<br />
distributors. Henneberger<br />
lives in Oakton, Va.<br />
Samuel Palisano, JD<br />
1972, an <strong>at</strong>torney with<br />
Harter Secrest & Emery,<br />
was named one of Upst<strong>at</strong>e<br />
New York’s top <strong>at</strong>torneys<br />
of 2009 by Upst<strong>at</strong>e New<br />
York’s Super Lawyers. He<br />
resides in East Amherst,<br />
N.Y. Marybeth Priore, MA<br />
1972, is a shareholder<br />
with the firm Colucci and<br />
Gallaher, where she has<br />
worked as an <strong>at</strong>torney<br />
since 2003. Her practice<br />
is focused on the defense<br />
of product liability actions.<br />
She lives in East Amherst,<br />
NY. Zimmerli,<br />
EdD<br />
*William<br />
1973, received the<br />
American Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
for Health Educ<strong>at</strong>ion’s<br />
2009 health educ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
professional of the year<br />
administr<strong>at</strong>ive award <strong>at</strong><br />
the group’s annual conference<br />
in Tampa, Fla. in<br />
April 2009. He is a tenured<br />
full professor of public<br />
health <strong>at</strong> Fort Valley St<strong>at</strong>e<br />
<strong>University</strong>, and celebr<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
50 years of teaching in<br />
2009. Zimmerli serves<br />
as chair of the finance<br />
committee and treasurer<br />
for the American School<br />
Health Associ<strong>at</strong>ion, and is<br />
also a life member of the<br />
UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion. He<br />
resides in K<strong>at</strong>hleen, Ga.<br />
Pamela Davis Heilman,<br />
JD 1975, was named<br />
to the advisory board<br />
of the Woodrow Wilson<br />
Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Center for<br />
Scholars Canada Institute,<br />
a forum for discussions<br />
about Canada-U.S. rel<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />
Heilman lives in<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. William<br />
Savino, JD<br />
1975, was<br />
named one<br />
of upst<strong>at</strong>e<br />
New York’s<br />
top <strong>at</strong>torneys<br />
of 2009<br />
savino<br />
by Upst<strong>at</strong>e<br />
New York Super Lawyers.<br />
He is a senior partner with<br />
Damon and Morey LLP and<br />
lives in Amherst, N.Y. Carl<br />
Dyczek, BA 1976, is the<br />
new administr<strong>at</strong>ive partner<br />
<strong>at</strong> Walter & Haverfield LLP<br />
in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a<br />
member of the firm’s business<br />
group, and focuses<br />
his practice on finance and<br />
lending transactions and<br />
commercial real est<strong>at</strong>e.<br />
Dyczek is also a mem-<br />
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u b a a b y t h e n u m b e r s<br />
Achievement Awards<br />
1950-2009<br />
60<br />
[years held]<br />
437<br />
[individuals awarded]<br />
10<br />
[award c<strong>at</strong>egories]<br />
Samuel P. Capen Award; Walter<br />
P. Cooke Award for non-alumni;<br />
Philip B. Wels Outstanding<br />
Service; Clifford C. Furnas<br />
Memorial; Dr. Richard T. Sarkin<br />
Award for Excellence in Teaching;<br />
George W. Thorn Award for<br />
alumni under 40; Distinguished<br />
Alumni Award; Community<br />
Leadership Medal; Volunteer<br />
Recognition Award; J. Scott<br />
Fleming Scholarship<br />
93<br />
[student scholarships<br />
awarded]<br />
8<br />
[volunteers<br />
recognized—award<br />
introduced in 2008]<br />
Bullish<br />
Bookends<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion Billboard<br />
A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n A c h i e v e m e n t<br />
A w a r d s<br />
Eleven individuals honored<br />
On April 9, the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion will present<br />
achievement awards to 11 deserving individuals<br />
and an associ<strong>at</strong>ion during a gala event in the Lippes<br />
Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the North Campus. Held<br />
each spring to honor UB alumni and friends for<br />
bringing distinction to themselves and the university,<br />
the event is returning to campus after being held offsite<br />
for a number of years. Another departure is th<strong>at</strong><br />
instead of a sit-down dinner, the evening will include<br />
premium food st<strong>at</strong>ions, an open bar and entertainment<br />
following the awards ceremony in the Center<br />
for the Arts Atrium.<br />
The highest honor of the evening, the Samuel P.<br />
Capen Award, will be presented to Gordon R. Gross,<br />
JD ’55, of Eggertsville, N.Y. Read more about Gross<br />
on page 33.<br />
Distinguished Alumni Awards, given in recognition of<br />
exceptional career accomplishments, community or<br />
university service, or research and scholarly activity,<br />
will go to Richard J. Ablin, PhD ’67, of Tucson,<br />
Ariz.; Laura L. Aikin, BFA ’86, of Basiglio, Italy; Wolf<br />
I. Blitzer, BA ’70, of Bethesda, Md.; and Margaret G.<br />
McGlynn, MBA ’83 & BS ’82, of Flourtown, Pa.<br />
The Clifford C. Furnas Award, presented to engineering,<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ural sciences or m<strong>at</strong>hem<strong>at</strong>ics alumni who<br />
have distinguished themselves in a field of science,<br />
will be given to Norman R. McCombs, BA ’68, of<br />
Tonawanda, N.Y.<br />
Gary A. Baker, PhD ’02, of Knoxville, Tenn., is sl<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
to receive the George W. Thorn Award, given to alum-<br />
AP sports reporter Jim Militello, BA ‘79, who leads the Washington,<br />
D.C., alumni chapter, is flanked by former Bulls Jamey Richard, BS ’08,<br />
and Drew Willy, BA ‘09 (both play for the Indianapolis Colts) during<br />
Super Bowl XLIV media day Feb. 2 in Miami. (See article on page 10.)<br />
ni under 40 in recognition of outstanding n<strong>at</strong>ional or<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional contributions to their career field or<br />
academic area.<br />
Reserved for non-alumni who have made notable and<br />
meritorious contributions to UB, the Walter P. Cooke<br />
Award will be presented to Janet H. Sung and John J.<br />
Sung of Clarence, N.Y.<br />
The Dr. Richard T. Sarkin Award for Excellence in<br />
Teaching will be presented to William G. Wild Jr., MS<br />
’87, MA ’85 & BS ’83, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
Dennis W. Elsenbeck, ME ’96, of Orchard Park, N.Y.,<br />
will be given the Community Leadership Medal.<br />
The Dr. Philip B. Wels Award, given to individuals and<br />
groups whose achievements have gre<strong>at</strong>ly enhanced<br />
the quality of life of the entire UB community, will<br />
be given to the <strong>University</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong> Dental Alumni<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Also th<strong>at</strong> evening, four students will be awarded<br />
J. Scott Fleming Scholarships and four individuals<br />
will receive Volunteer Recognition Awards. Full bios<br />
and photos of 2010 awardees are available <strong>at</strong> http://<br />
alumni.buffalo.edu/awards.<br />
U B a t N o o n<br />
Art, health care and f<strong>at</strong>e of newspapers<br />
More than 200 members of the Pillars Society,<br />
gradu<strong>at</strong>es of 50 or more years ago, were tre<strong>at</strong>ed to<br />
three inspiring UB <strong>at</strong> Noon programs last semester.<br />
On June 18, artist and art collector Gerald Mead,<br />
MFA ’08, talked about works of such <strong>Buffalo</strong> artists<br />
as James Allen and William West. Mead, a professor<br />
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classnotes<br />
u p d a t e s f r o m g r a d s b y t h e d e c a d e<br />
<strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong> St<strong>at</strong>e College, also talked about his own<br />
works, which are small-scale collages and assemblages<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ed from photographs and found objects.<br />
Health care was the topic Oct. 9 with a present<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
by David Dunn, UB’s vice president for health<br />
sciences, who discussed the role th<strong>at</strong> the university’s<br />
Academic Health Center will play in transforming<br />
health care services and educ<strong>at</strong>ion in Western New<br />
York, New York St<strong>at</strong>e and the n<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
And finally, Jody Kleinberg-Biehl, director of the<br />
journalism certific<strong>at</strong>e program and adjunct instructor<br />
in the Department of English, concluded the 2009<br />
program on Nov. 4 with a lively discussion of journalism<br />
and the future of newspapers with the rise in<br />
electronic communic<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
I n t e r n a t i o n a l n e w s<br />
Renewing ties in Turkey<br />
UB President John B. Simpson has met with countless<br />
alumni across the United St<strong>at</strong>es and around the<br />
world, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore<br />
and Thailand. In September 2009, Simpson met<br />
with alumni in the Turkey chapter of the UB Alumni<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion. Forty UB alumni and friends welcomed<br />
Simpson; his wife, K<strong>at</strong>herine; and Stephen Dunnett,<br />
PhD ’77 & BA ’68, vice provost for intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion, during a reception in Istanbul.<br />
Chapter president Zeynep Uluer Aytekin, MA ’93<br />
& BA ’91, and co-president Basak Kizildemir, MA<br />
’88, helped to coordin<strong>at</strong>e the evening <strong>at</strong> the Turkish<br />
Cultural Found<strong>at</strong>ion in Istanbul. “It was wonderful<br />
to be together … to welcome our special guests,”<br />
Aytekin says. “We were so happy to see everyone,<br />
ranging from the grads of 1986 to the newest grads<br />
from 2009.”<br />
Also during their trip to Turkey, Simpson and Dunnett<br />
visited Bilkent <strong>University</strong> in Ankara, the first<br />
priv<strong>at</strong>e, nonprofit<br />
university<br />
in Turkey, and<br />
Istanbul Technical<br />
<strong>University</strong><br />
(ITU)—a st<strong>at</strong>e<br />
university<br />
founded in 1773<br />
th<strong>at</strong> specializes<br />
in architectural<br />
and engineering<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion—to<br />
renew<br />
UB’s exchange<br />
Former intern<strong>at</strong>ional students Gustavo agreement with<br />
Lima, MArch ‘88, principal, Cannon th<strong>at</strong> institution.<br />
Design (gesturing), and Gaurav Shringarpure,<br />
ME ‘04, of SLR Contracting &<br />
Service (far right), meet UB intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
students during Intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Week in November.<br />
ber of the Ohio St<strong>at</strong>e and<br />
Cleveland Metropolitan bar<br />
associ<strong>at</strong>ions, the Gre<strong>at</strong>er<br />
Cleveland Mortgage<br />
Bankers Associ<strong>at</strong>ion and<br />
the Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Council<br />
of Shopping Centers, and<br />
serves as a member of<br />
the board of trustees of<br />
the Arthritis Found<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
Northeast Ohio chapter.<br />
He resides in Avon<br />
Lake, Ohio. *Robert<br />
J. Feldman, JD 1976,<br />
an <strong>at</strong>torney with Gross<br />
Shuman Brizdle and<br />
Gilfillan, is included in<br />
the 2010 edition of The<br />
Best Lawyers in America.<br />
He lives in Amherst, N.Y.<br />
Beverly Wright, PhD 1977<br />
& MA 1971, received a<br />
2009 Heinz Award for her<br />
work on behalf of communities,<br />
especially those<br />
in Louisiana’s “Cancer<br />
Alley.” As head of the<br />
Deep South Center for<br />
Environmental Justice <strong>at</strong><br />
Dillard <strong>University</strong> in New<br />
Orleans, she has been<br />
tackling issues of environmental<br />
racism and working<br />
to raise the profile of<br />
environmental issues in<br />
poor and minority communities<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ionwide. Wright<br />
lives in New Orleans, La.<br />
Jeffrey Human, JD 1978,<br />
an <strong>at</strong>torney with Gross<br />
Shuman Brizdle and<br />
Gilfillan, is included in the<br />
2010 edition of The Best<br />
Lawyers in America. He<br />
resides in Williamsville,<br />
N.Y. Lynette Nieman, MD<br />
1978, received the 2009<br />
distinguished physician<br />
award from the Endocrine<br />
Society. She heads the<br />
endocrine consult service<br />
<strong>at</strong> N<strong>at</strong>ional Institutes<br />
of Health (NIH), and is<br />
the associ<strong>at</strong>e director of<br />
the NIH Inter-institute<br />
Endocrine Training<br />
Program. She has received<br />
several honors, including<br />
the NIH director’s award<br />
for her major contributions<br />
to understanding<br />
female reproductive biology,<br />
and development of<br />
clinical trials and training<br />
programs <strong>at</strong> the Eunice<br />
Kennedy Shriver N<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Institute of Child Health<br />
and Human Development<br />
branch of NIH. She has<br />
also been recognized<br />
as teacher of the year<br />
by NIH endocrine fellows,<br />
and received the<br />
NIH distinguished clinical<br />
teacher award. Nieman<br />
lives in Bethesda, Md.<br />
Vikki L. Pryor, JD<br />
1978<br />
*<br />
& BA 1975, chief<br />
executive <strong>at</strong> SBLI USA,<br />
was named one of the 50<br />
Most Powerful Women<br />
in New York by Crain’s<br />
New York Business. She<br />
lives in New Rochelle,<br />
N.Y. Timothy Block, PhD<br />
1979 & BA 1975, was<br />
elected a fellow of the<br />
American Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
for the Advancement of<br />
Science. He was honored<br />
for his discovery of<br />
molecular mechanisms<br />
of viral persistence and<br />
therapeutic str<strong>at</strong>egies<br />
for hep<strong>at</strong>itis B virus and<br />
herpes simplex virus.<br />
Block is the cofounder and<br />
president of the Hep<strong>at</strong>itis<br />
B Found<strong>at</strong>ion, and has<br />
been involved in chronic<br />
viral hep<strong>at</strong>itis research<br />
for more than 20 years.<br />
He lives in Doylestown,<br />
Pa. Burns,<br />
JD 1979,<br />
*Christopher<br />
received a<br />
superior r<strong>at</strong>ing from the<br />
Minority Bar Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of Western New York Inc.<br />
as a candid<strong>at</strong>e seeking<br />
election to the New York<br />
St<strong>at</strong>e Supreme Court, 8th<br />
Judicial District. Burns<br />
resides in <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
P<strong>at</strong>rick McGreevy, MA<br />
1979, has assumed the<br />
position of dean of the<br />
American <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Beirut (AUB) faculty of arts<br />
and sciences. He is a professor<br />
in the department<br />
of history and archaeology,<br />
and joined AUB in 2004 as<br />
the director of the Prince<br />
Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin<br />
Abdulaziz Al Saud Center<br />
for American Studies and<br />
Research. McGreevy lives<br />
in New York, N.Y.<br />
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Carl N. Reed III, PhD<br />
1980 & MA 1974, was<br />
inducted into the Urban<br />
and Regional Inform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Systems Associ<strong>at</strong>ion GIS<br />
Hall of Fame as a leader<br />
of the geosp<strong>at</strong>ial community.<br />
He is the chief technical<br />
officer <strong>at</strong> the Open<br />
Geosp<strong>at</strong>ial Consortium<br />
Inc. (OGC), and serves<br />
as the executive director<br />
for OGC’s Standards<br />
Program. With more<br />
than 20 years’ experience<br />
working on geosp<strong>at</strong>ial<br />
standards, Reed collabor<strong>at</strong>es<br />
with organiz<strong>at</strong>ions,<br />
including the N<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Emergency Number<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion, Organiz<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
for the Advancement of<br />
Structured Inform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Standards, Intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Organiz<strong>at</strong>ion for<br />
Standardiz<strong>at</strong>ion, World<br />
Wide Web Consortium and<br />
the Internet Engineering<br />
Task Force. Reed resides<br />
in Fort Collins, Colo.<br />
Thomas P. Stewart, PhD<br />
1980, was appointed by<br />
New York<br />
Gov. David<br />
P<strong>at</strong>erson to<br />
the Roswell<br />
Park<br />
Cancer<br />
Institute<br />
stewart board<br />
of directors. He is the<br />
president and chief<br />
clinical officer <strong>at</strong> Gaymar<br />
Industries, where he has<br />
experience overseeing<br />
clinical research, and has<br />
also served as director<br />
of medical research. In<br />
1981, Stewart founded the<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional Pressure Ulcer<br />
Panel, and was awarded<br />
a lifetime achievement<br />
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Associ<strong>at</strong>ion Billboard<br />
Nancy B<strong>at</strong>taglia and Andrew<br />
Wilcox are new members of the<br />
Office of Alumni Rel<strong>at</strong>ions staff.<br />
C o r p o r a t e C o n n e c t i o n s<br />
UB and HSBC<br />
On October 21, President John B. Simpson and<br />
Warde Manuel, <strong>at</strong>hletics director, met with nearly 90<br />
UB alumni who work for HSBC Bank in downtown<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong> for an afternoon present<strong>at</strong>ion and reception.<br />
The event was held as part of HSBC’s afternoon<br />
lecture program cre<strong>at</strong>ed by its <strong>Buffalo</strong> Business<br />
Council.<br />
President Simpson spoke about UB 2020 and its<br />
impact in the <strong>Buffalo</strong>-Niagara region and across<br />
the st<strong>at</strong>e. Meanwhile, Manuel talked about ways in<br />
which alumni and members of the community can<br />
show their support for UB, not only in the <strong>at</strong>hletics<br />
arena, but also by becoming advoc<strong>at</strong>es through the<br />
UB Believers program, by volunteering, and simply<br />
by <strong>at</strong>tending events.<br />
UB and HSBC have a longstanding partnership<br />
in th<strong>at</strong> UB has educ<strong>at</strong>ed many students who, as<br />
alumni, have gone on to assume leadership roles<br />
within the bank. For example, Joseph Saffire, MBA<br />
’95, is HSBC’s executive vice president and regional<br />
president for commercial banking. Countless other<br />
alumni work for the bank around the world.<br />
The School of Management’s Center for Global Business<br />
Leadership (HSBC Center) was established<br />
through an endowment from HSBC. Since its inception,<br />
the HSBC Center has helped to prepare students<br />
for future leadership roles in intern<strong>at</strong>ional business<br />
and to promote awareness and understanding of<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional business.<br />
O f f i c e o f A l u m n i R e l a t i o n s<br />
Meet the new staff<br />
Two new staff members joined the Office of Alumni<br />
Rel<strong>at</strong>ions in September.<br />
Nancy M. B<strong>at</strong>taglia, MBA ’96 & BS ’89, is associ<strong>at</strong>e<br />
director, special projects. Formerly with UB’s human<br />
resources department, she focuses on programs and<br />
services for nontraditional alumni. She is also the<br />
liaison for several chapters.<br />
Andrew J. Wilcox is associ<strong>at</strong>e director, str<strong>at</strong>egic<br />
partnerships. His primary responsibility is str<strong>at</strong>egic<br />
marketing, advertising and forging revenue-gener<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
partnerships. Wilcox was previously director of<br />
marketing and special events for UB Athletics.<br />
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Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion members<br />
classnotes<br />
u p d a t e s f r o m g r a d s b y t h e d e c a d e<br />
award in 2008 from the<br />
World Union of Wound<br />
Healing Societies. He is<br />
a member of the board<br />
of directors for the Life<br />
Science Industry Council<br />
of the <strong>Buffalo</strong> Niagara<br />
Partnership, of which he<br />
is also chair. Additionally,<br />
Stewart is a member of<br />
the board of trustees of<br />
Daemen College, vice<br />
chair of the board of<br />
Insyte Consulting and<br />
a member of the UB<br />
School of Engineering<br />
and Applied Sciences<br />
Dean’s Advisory Council.<br />
He lives in Orchard Park,<br />
N.Y. Eric Altstadter, BS<br />
1981, has been named<br />
partner-in-charge of the<br />
new Long Island office<br />
of Eisner LLP. He provides<br />
auditing, consulting<br />
and tax services to<br />
public and priv<strong>at</strong>e firms<br />
across North America and<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ionally. Altstadter<br />
resides in Bellmore, N.Y.<br />
Stanley Berke, MD 1981,<br />
a partner <strong>at</strong> Ophthalmic<br />
Consultants of Long<br />
Island, N.Y., will particip<strong>at</strong>e<br />
in the Mission<br />
C<strong>at</strong>aract<br />
USA program,<br />
offering<br />
free<br />
c<strong>at</strong>aract<br />
surgery<br />
berke to residents<br />
of Long Island who<br />
are unable to pay. Berke<br />
is an associ<strong>at</strong>e clinical<br />
professor of ophthalmology<br />
and visual sciences<br />
<strong>at</strong> Albert Einstein<br />
College of Medicine and<br />
a fellow of the American<br />
Board of Ophthalmology,<br />
the American Academy<br />
of Ophthalmology, the<br />
Nassau Surgical Society<br />
and Nassau Academy<br />
of Medicine. He lives in<br />
Rockville Centre, N.Y.<br />
Craig Dye, BA 1981, is the<br />
director of investments for<br />
the Dingman Center for<br />
Entrepreneurship <strong>at</strong> the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Maryland’s<br />
Robert H. Smith School<br />
of Business, where he<br />
will head the center’s<br />
Capital Access Network.<br />
Dye resides in Washington,<br />
D.C. Hahn, BS<br />
1981,<br />
*Donald<br />
chief learning officer<br />
of Hahn Training LLC,<br />
has joined APA Solutions,<br />
Benefit Brokers of WNY,<br />
and Triple Track HR for<br />
H.I.R.E. to cre<strong>at</strong>e a onestop<br />
resource to manage<br />
human capital and form<br />
a seamless solution to<br />
human resource concerns.<br />
During his 30-year career<br />
in corpor<strong>at</strong>e development<br />
and training, Hahn has<br />
delivered marketing, training,<br />
recruiting and coaching<br />
solutions to thousands,<br />
and has trademarked<br />
powerful programs on corpor<strong>at</strong>e<br />
development and<br />
candid<strong>at</strong>e selection such<br />
as “CHAMP” and H.I.R.E.,<br />
which are designed to<br />
improve corpor<strong>at</strong>e learning<br />
and development. He<br />
resides in East Amherst,<br />
N.Y. Craig A. Sl<strong>at</strong>er, JD<br />
1981 & BA 1978, an <strong>at</strong>torney<br />
with Harter Secrest<br />
& Emery, was named in<br />
2009’s Upst<strong>at</strong>e New York<br />
Super Lawyers listing.<br />
He lives in Williamsville,<br />
N.Y. Shirley Troutman,<br />
BS 1982, received a<br />
superior r<strong>at</strong>ing from the<br />
Minority Bar Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of Western New York Inc.<br />
as a candid<strong>at</strong>e seeking<br />
election to the New York<br />
St<strong>at</strong>e Supreme Court, 8th<br />
Judicial District. Troutman<br />
resides in <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
Thomas Rechen, BA 1985,<br />
is a fellow in the Litig<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Counsel of America. He is<br />
a partner in the Hartford,<br />
Conn. office of McCarter &<br />
English, where his practice<br />
focuses on intellectual<br />
property, business tort,<br />
trade secret, restrictive<br />
covenant, trade regul<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
and unfair competition<br />
claims. Rechen has extensive<br />
experience in st<strong>at</strong>e and<br />
federal courts and arbitral<br />
forums, and is a seasoned<br />
appell<strong>at</strong>e lawyer, having<br />
briefed and argued appeals<br />
before the Connecticut<br />
Supreme and Appell<strong>at</strong>e<br />
courts and the U.S. Court<br />
of Appeals for the 2nd, 5th<br />
and federal circuits. He<br />
lives in Simsbury, Conn.<br />
Barbara Trolley, PhD<br />
1985 & MS 1981, was promoted<br />
to full professor <strong>at</strong><br />
St. Bonaventure <strong>University</strong>.<br />
She is the lead author of<br />
five books th<strong>at</strong> rel<strong>at</strong>e to<br />
cyber-bullying, school<br />
counseling and special<br />
educ<strong>at</strong>ion. In addition,<br />
she wrote and received<br />
an autism grant and has<br />
been the coordin<strong>at</strong>or of<br />
the autism program in the<br />
St. Bonaventure School<br />
of Educ<strong>at</strong>ion counseling<br />
clinic, which she<br />
cofounded. Trolley is also<br />
the editor of the New York<br />
St<strong>at</strong>e School Counseling<br />
Journal. She resides<br />
in Hamburg, N.Y. John<br />
McGonegal, BA 1986,<br />
is the managing director<br />
for Houlihan Smith &<br />
Co.’s New York City office,<br />
where he focuses on providing<br />
corpor<strong>at</strong>e finance<br />
and valu<strong>at</strong>ion services to<br />
publicly traded companies.<br />
He lives in Peapack, N.J.<br />
Hugh C. Carlin, JD 1987,<br />
is included in the 2010 edition<br />
of The Best Lawyers<br />
in America. He is an <strong>at</strong>torney<br />
with Gross Shuman<br />
Brizdle and Gillifan, and<br />
resides in <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
David Rosenblum, MD<br />
1987, was named one of<br />
Connecticut’s top doctors<br />
by Connecticut Magazine.<br />
He is the medical director<br />
of the physical medicine<br />
and rehabilit<strong>at</strong>ion program<br />
<strong>at</strong> Gaylord Hospital<br />
in Wallingford, Conn., and<br />
is double board certified<br />
in physi<strong>at</strong>ry and spinal<br />
cord injuries. Rosenblum<br />
lives in Woodbridge, Conn.<br />
M<strong>at</strong>t Tryniski, BA 1988,<br />
is assistant vice president<br />
<strong>at</strong> Syracuse Research<br />
Corpor<strong>at</strong>ion (SRC), where<br />
he works with business<br />
development to cre<strong>at</strong>e and<br />
execute str<strong>at</strong>egic plans<br />
and business capture, and<br />
will be responsible for<br />
coordin<strong>at</strong>ing day-to-day<br />
activities between SRC and<br />
its high-tech manufacturing<br />
subsidiary, SRCTec.<br />
Tryniski resides in Cicero,<br />
N.Y. Ippolito,<br />
Jr., JD<br />
*Russell<br />
1989, received a<br />
qualified r<strong>at</strong>ing from the<br />
Minority Bar Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of Western New York Inc.<br />
as a candid<strong>at</strong>e seeking<br />
election to the New York<br />
St<strong>at</strong>e Supreme Court, 8th<br />
Judicial District. Ippolito<br />
lives in Orchard Park,<br />
N.Y. Henry Nowak Jr.,<br />
JD 1989, received a wellqualified<br />
r<strong>at</strong>ing from the<br />
Minority Bar Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of Western New York Inc.<br />
as a candid<strong>at</strong>e seeking<br />
election to the New York<br />
St<strong>at</strong>e Supreme Court, 8th<br />
Judicial District. Nowak<br />
resides in <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
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John Dedie, MA 1990, is<br />
*<br />
a political science instructor<br />
<strong>at</strong> Community College<br />
of Baltimore County,<br />
School of Business, Social<br />
Science, Wellness and<br />
Educ<strong>at</strong>ion. He has more<br />
than 16 years’ experience<br />
teaching American<br />
government, introduction<br />
to political science and<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional rel<strong>at</strong>ions,<br />
and will begin teaching<br />
constitutional law and<br />
campaigns and elections<br />
classes in 2010. Dedie lives<br />
in Pasadena, Md. Charles<br />
Fulco Jr., BA 1990, traveled<br />
to Shanghai, China, in<br />
2009 to teach astronomy<br />
to Chinese and American<br />
students for one week in<br />
conjunction with the total<br />
solar eclipse. He plans to<br />
travel to Easter Island in<br />
2010 for the same purpose.<br />
Fulco resides in<br />
Rye Brook, N.Y.<br />
Kinmartin Jr., BS *Paul 1990,<br />
has been appointed to the<br />
position of principal in<br />
charge of the Philadelphia<br />
region of Parente Randolph<br />
LLC. He will oversee<br />
offices in Philadelphia and<br />
Lehigh, Pa., Cherry Hill,<br />
N.J., and Wilmington, Del.<br />
Kinmartin lives in Chester<br />
Springs, Pa.<br />
Weiner, MBA *Michael 1990, MS<br />
1974 & BA<br />
1972, was<br />
appointed<br />
president<br />
and CEO of<br />
the United<br />
Way of<br />
weiner <strong>Buffalo</strong> and<br />
Erie County. Weiner served<br />
as the commissioner of the<br />
Erie County Department<br />
of Social Services from<br />
2004 until 2009 and is a<br />
member of the Governor’s<br />
Children’s Cabinet Advisory<br />
Board. He holds affili<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
memberships with<br />
the United Way of America<br />
and the United Way of New<br />
York St<strong>at</strong>e. Weiner resides<br />
in <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. Mary<br />
Attracta Ibegbu, BS 1991,<br />
is the director of pharmacy<br />
services <strong>at</strong> Niagara Falls<br />
Memorial Medical Center.<br />
A former staff pharmacist<br />
and pharmacy manager<br />
<strong>at</strong> Millard Fillmore<br />
G<strong>at</strong>es Circle Hospital,<br />
Rite-Aid Pharmacy and<br />
Walgreens Pharmacy,<br />
she most recently served<br />
as director of pharmacy<br />
for the Medina Memorial<br />
Healthcare System in<br />
Orleans County. Ibegbu<br />
lives in Getzville, N.Y.<br />
William C. Bergmann Jr.,<br />
BS 1992, is the vice presi-<br />
Whether you are a UB alumnus,<br />
spouse, parent, Believer, neighbor or<br />
Bulls fan, anyone in Western<br />
New York or around the world is<br />
welcome to join our network.<br />
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School-based News<br />
S h o o l o f n u r s i n g<br />
Nursing on the move<br />
Wende Hall, one of the original buildings on UB’s South Campus, is now home<br />
to the School of Nursing. Comprising seven classrooms, a center for nursing research,<br />
three specialized instructional labor<strong>at</strong>ories, faculty offices, study space,<br />
and student and employee lounges, the historic building received a $7.1 million<br />
facelift, transforming it into a st<strong>at</strong>e-of-the-art learning, teaching and research<br />
facility. In addition, a number of green elements have been incorpor<strong>at</strong>ed, including<br />
energy-efficient he<strong>at</strong>ing and cooling systems.<br />
The building fe<strong>at</strong>ures a clinical skills labor<strong>at</strong>ory with nine hospital beds separ<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
by curtains. Each st<strong>at</strong>ion comes with equipment for tasks, such as suctioning<br />
and delivering oxygen. Students can further hone their nursing skills in two<br />
simul<strong>at</strong>ion rooms in the labor<strong>at</strong>ory th<strong>at</strong> house mannequins capable of exhibiting<br />
“symptoms” of illnesses.<br />
A high-tech physical assessment labor<strong>at</strong>ory will include 10 exam rooms, each<br />
double the size of similar spaces in Kimball Tower, the nursing school’s previous<br />
home. Each room will be equipped with cameras, enabling faculty members to<br />
converse with students, and w<strong>at</strong>ch and record them <strong>at</strong> work. Students can then<br />
review and learn from the recordings.<br />
An oper<strong>at</strong>ing suite for the school’s anesthesia program will come equipped with<br />
a simul<strong>at</strong>ion mannequin. From a “mission control” room next door, faculty members<br />
will be able to monitor students, manipul<strong>at</strong>ing the mannequin to respond to<br />
their actions.<br />
According to Jean Brown, dean of the School of Nursing, “Kimball Tower, with its<br />
long hallways, was built as a dormitory, so it did not enhance faculty collabor<strong>at</strong>ion.”<br />
In Wende Hall, Brown notes, “faculty will be closer together, and I think<br />
th<strong>at</strong>’s going to be a real plus. We also have a little bit of room to grow.”<br />
Member Spotlight<br />
Ruth Kleinman, BA ’05, Port Washington, N.Y.<br />
Why am I a member of the<br />
UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
I loved my UB experience and didn’t want it to end after<br />
my four years as a student. There is no better way to<br />
stay connected than to be a part of the alumni associ<strong>at</strong>ion. It helps me<br />
maintain personal and professional contacts with people I knew <strong>at</strong> UB,<br />
as well as alumni whom I’ve met since gradu<strong>at</strong>ing. I also enjoyed <strong>at</strong>tending<br />
UBAA chapter events when I lived in northeast Ohio, and now I am<br />
involved in planning events for the New York City chapter. I was invited<br />
to join the UBAA Board in 2009, which further helps me network professionally<br />
while serving fellow UB alums.<br />
Kleinman close-up<br />
Lifetime member since May 2005 (received after serving as president of the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Student Alumni Board); currently serves as co-director of Hillels<br />
of Westchester, youth group director of Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont<br />
and Emanu-El, and counselor/staff member of Camp Echo Lake; also<br />
an active volunteer in the UB Alumni Ambassador program, recruiting high<br />
school seniors to <strong>at</strong>tend UB.<br />
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Maher<br />
Coming Up<br />
Hurwitz & Fine P.C., where<br />
she has served as an associ<strong>at</strong>e<br />
since<br />
2001. Seeley<br />
focuses her<br />
practice in<br />
insurance<br />
coverage,<br />
no-fault<br />
seelEy<br />
coverage,<br />
municipal and environmental<br />
counseling, and<br />
government liability. She<br />
is the leader of the firm’s<br />
no-fault practice group<br />
and authors a biweekly<br />
column on recent developments<br />
in no-fault law<br />
for the firm’s electronic<br />
newsletter. Seeley resides<br />
in West Valley, N.Y. Joan<br />
Graci, CEL 2002, president<br />
of APA Solutions,<br />
has joined Hahn Training<br />
LLC, Benefit Brokers of<br />
WNY, and Triple Track HR<br />
for H.I.R.E. to cre<strong>at</strong>e a<br />
one-stop human resource<br />
company. She began her<br />
career as an executive<br />
recruiter <strong>at</strong> APA Solutions<br />
more than 20 years ago,<br />
and obtained sole ownership<br />
of it nine years ago.<br />
In 2005, Graci formed a<br />
second company called<br />
Career Savers. She resides<br />
in East Amherst, N.Y.<br />
Adam Storch, BS 2002,<br />
is the managing executive<br />
of the Securities and<br />
Exchange Commission’s<br />
division of enforcement.<br />
He is the enforcement division’s<br />
first chief oper<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
officer, and is responsible<br />
for project management<br />
and workflow for various<br />
infrastructure and oper<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
aspects of the division.<br />
Storch also oversees<br />
the workflow and process<br />
associ<strong>at</strong>ed with the collection<br />
and distribution<br />
of fair funds to harmed<br />
investors, and assists in<br />
supervising the office of<br />
market intelligence. He<br />
lives in New York, N.Y.<br />
Cheryl A. Aloi, JD 2003<br />
& BA 2000, is an associ<strong>at</strong>e<br />
<strong>at</strong> Hogan Willig, where<br />
she focuses her practice<br />
in the firm’s m<strong>at</strong>rimonial<br />
and family law departcalendar<br />
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Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Achievement<br />
Awards<br />
4.09.10<br />
Center for the Arts,<br />
North Campus<br />
Hump Day Hangout<br />
4.14.10<br />
Student Union, North<br />
Campus<br />
Distinguished<br />
Speakers Series<br />
Bill Maher<br />
4.23.10<br />
Alumni Arena, North<br />
Campus<br />
Oozfest<br />
Oozfest<br />
4.24.10<br />
Mud Pit, North Campus<br />
Commencement<br />
Weekend<br />
5.06-09.10<br />
Various loc<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
Jog for the Jake<br />
6.20.10<br />
Delaware Park, <strong>Buffalo</strong><br />
Ride for Roswell<br />
6.26.10<br />
North Campus<br />
Freshman<br />
Move-in Day<br />
8.26.10<br />
North Campus<br />
Linda Yalem<br />
Safety Run<br />
9.26.10<br />
North Campus<br />
All d<strong>at</strong>es and times<br />
subject to change. Visit<br />
www.alumni.buffalo.<br />
edu/events for upd<strong>at</strong>es.<br />
Freshman<br />
Move-in Day<br />
A blue asterisk denotes UB<br />
Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion members<br />
classnotes<br />
u p d a t e s f r o m g r a d s b y t h e d e c a d e<br />
dent of finance for Starz<br />
Entertainment and Starz<br />
Media, where he is responsible<br />
for budgeting, planning<br />
and internal reporting<br />
activities across the family<br />
of Starz companies. He<br />
previously held the position<br />
of executive director<br />
of finance and planning,<br />
and has been a part of the<br />
company for more than 10<br />
years. Bergmann resides<br />
in Castle Rock, Colo. Fred<br />
Hazzan, BS 1993, is controller<br />
<strong>at</strong> The Hamister<br />
Group Inc., where he<br />
oversees the accounting<br />
oper<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>at</strong> the company’s<br />
corpor<strong>at</strong>e headquarters.<br />
He also plays a<br />
lead role in budgeting for<br />
the Hamister-managed<br />
properties. Hazzan lives<br />
in Getzville, N.Y. Carol<br />
McNall, JD 1993, has<br />
earned tenure from St.<br />
Bonaventure <strong>University</strong>,<br />
where she served as<br />
assistant professor in the<br />
Russell J. Jandoli School<br />
of Journalism and Mass<br />
Communic<strong>at</strong>ion for six<br />
years. She lives in Olean,<br />
N.Y. Scott Socha, MBA<br />
1995, is the vice president<br />
of new business development<br />
<strong>at</strong> Delaware North<br />
Companies Parks &<br />
Resorts. He is in charge<br />
of directing the company’s<br />
efforts to seek<br />
out profitable business<br />
opportunities and grow<br />
its industry presence. He<br />
lives in South Wales, N.Y.<br />
Raffi Bagdasarian, BA<br />
1997, was recently promoted<br />
to vice president<br />
of product development<br />
and oper<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> Sony<br />
Pictures Television Inc.<br />
loc<strong>at</strong>ed in Culver City, Calif.<br />
He resides in Sherman<br />
Oaks, Calif. Mimi Haskins,<br />
MS 1998, serves on the<br />
board of directors of the<br />
medical-surgical nursing<br />
certific<strong>at</strong>ion board<br />
<strong>at</strong> Roswell Park Cancer<br />
Institute. She is a member<br />
of the nursing staff development<br />
department, and<br />
as a board member, will<br />
help establish credentials<br />
for valid<strong>at</strong>ing proficiency<br />
in medical-surgical nursing.<br />
Haskins is a member<br />
of the Academy of<br />
Medical-Surgical Nurses,<br />
District 1-New York St<strong>at</strong>e<br />
Nurses Associ<strong>at</strong>ion, Staff<br />
Development Educ<strong>at</strong>ors<br />
of Western New York,<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional Nursing Staff<br />
Development Organiz<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
and Oncology Nursing<br />
Society. She lives in<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. Rachel<br />
Sparacio-<br />
Foster, BA<br />
1999, won<br />
second<br />
place in the<br />
“Businessto-Business<br />
sparacio-foster Rising Star”<br />
copywriting competition.<br />
She launched her company,<br />
Fresh Perspective<br />
Copywriting, in April 2009,<br />
for which she provides<br />
freelance copywriting services<br />
for green technology<br />
companies, advertising<br />
agencies, and nonprofit<br />
organiz<strong>at</strong>ions. Sparacio-<br />
Foster lives in Toronto,<br />
Ontario.<br />
00<br />
Jeffrey Fick, BS 2001,<br />
an associ<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong> Trautman<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>es, recently<br />
passed the examin<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
administered by the U.S.<br />
Green Building Council and<br />
achieved LEED accredited<br />
professional design<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
He lives in Cheektowaga,<br />
N.Y. Angela Fraas, MusB<br />
2001, is teaching voice<br />
and choir <strong>at</strong> Antalya<br />
St<strong>at</strong>e Conserv<strong>at</strong>ory, part<br />
of Akdeniz <strong>University</strong> in<br />
Antalya, Turkey. Fraas<br />
resides in Antalya. Audrey<br />
Seeley, JD 2001, has been<br />
promoted to member <strong>at</strong><br />
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Ways to make a difference<br />
Alumni Ambassadors<br />
We all know th<strong>at</strong> professional networking can bring many benefits to your career—sometimes<br />
a personal connection is wh<strong>at</strong> it takes to land th<strong>at</strong> new job.<br />
By the same token, a personal introduction from a UB alumnus can be just wh<strong>at</strong><br />
it takes for high school students to choose UB. If you would like to help UB recruit<br />
the best and brightest students to your alma m<strong>at</strong>er, the UB Alumni Ambassador<br />
Program offers a number of opportunities across the country.<br />
Whether you have two hours to give or 20, there’s a recruitment activity to fit your<br />
schedule. For example, some ambassadors represent UB <strong>at</strong> college fairs, some<br />
“adopt” their former high school to boost UB visibility and others make phone<br />
calls or send e-mails to prospective students. If you have an undergradu<strong>at</strong>e<br />
degree from UB and live in the continental U.S., you have wh<strong>at</strong> it takes to be an<br />
ambassador.<br />
For more inform<strong>at</strong>ion, please visit http://alumni.buffalo.edu/giveback/#ambassadors.<br />
Hump Day Hangout<br />
“Take a slice, take a turn” is the one phrase you need to know for our newest<br />
student outreach activity, Hump Day Hangout (HDHO) with the UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Held one Wednesday (“hump day”) a month in the Student Union, HDHO<br />
gives students a way to unwind with free pizza and Wii games while honing their<br />
networking skills with alumni volunteers. “We wanted to raise awareness among<br />
students of all the programs the alumni office has for them, but in a way th<strong>at</strong> was<br />
casual and fun,” says P<strong>at</strong>ty Starr, assistant director, volunteer and student programs.<br />
“It’s been a huge success—we’ve had about 300 students <strong>at</strong> each of these<br />
monthly events since September.”<br />
Alumni interested in volunteering for an upcoming HDHO may find d<strong>at</strong>es on the<br />
alumni Web site <strong>at</strong> www.alumni.buffalo.edu/events.<br />
UBAA member P<strong>at</strong> Herberger, MBA ’85 & BS ’79<br />
(center), speaks with students during the Hump Day<br />
Hangout in the Student Union Social Hall on Oct. 21.<br />
Dewane Harris, BA ’93, presents an “Alumni in Training”<br />
T-shirt to a UB student during the Oct. 21 Hump<br />
Day Hangout in the Student Union Social Hall.<br />
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Where do<br />
you want to<br />
go today<br />
UB alumni<br />
travel can<br />
take you<br />
there<br />
If you love to travel,<br />
you’ll love the myriad<br />
faraway adventures on<br />
our itinerary in 2010.<br />
Marvel <strong>at</strong> the breadth of<br />
Italy’s impressive history;<br />
melt <strong>at</strong> the sight<br />
of resident pandas in<br />
China’s Chongqing Zoo;<br />
or discover the vibrant<br />
city of Milan, Italy’s<br />
economic hub and one<br />
of the gre<strong>at</strong> fashion<br />
capitals of the world.<br />
And if those trips don’t<br />
suit your fancy, how<br />
about our “Grand Journey<br />
Around the World,”<br />
where you’ll visit eight<br />
countries on three continents<br />
and nine World<br />
Heritage List sites in<br />
Japan, China, Thailand,<br />
Egypt, Jordan, Israel<br />
and Germany<br />
For more inform<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
including cost and travel<br />
d<strong>at</strong>es, visit www.alumni.<br />
buffalo.edu and click on<br />
the Alumni Services tab.<br />
Bon voyage!<br />
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A<br />
classnotes<br />
ment. Previously, she was<br />
an associ<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong> Offermann,<br />
Cassano, Greco, Slisz,<br />
and Adams. Aloi resides<br />
in Williamsville, N.Y.<br />
Pascal Cohen, MBA 2003<br />
& BS 2003, airport terminal<br />
superintendent<br />
<strong>at</strong> the <strong>Buffalo</strong> Niagara<br />
Intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Airport,<br />
has been<br />
awarded the<br />
distinction<br />
of accredited<br />
airport<br />
cohen<br />
executive by<br />
the American Associ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of Airport Executives.<br />
Cohen lives in Amherst,<br />
N.Y. Ryan J. Mills, JD 2003<br />
& BPS 2000, is a partner<br />
<strong>at</strong> Brown & Kelly, where<br />
he was formerly an intern,<br />
law clerk and associ<strong>at</strong>e.<br />
He concentr<strong>at</strong>es his practice<br />
in litig<strong>at</strong>ion, corpor<strong>at</strong>e<br />
and real est<strong>at</strong>e m<strong>at</strong>ters,<br />
and is a member of the<br />
firm’s asbestos defense<br />
department. Mills resides<br />
in Williamsville, N.Y. Philip<br />
Yizhao Zhang, MBA 2003,<br />
is the chief financial officer<br />
for Universal Travel Group<br />
in Shenzhen, China. He has<br />
more than 10 years’ experience<br />
in portfolio investment,<br />
corpor<strong>at</strong>e finance<br />
and accounting. Zhang is<br />
a certified public accountant<br />
of Delaware, and a<br />
member of the American<br />
Institute of Certified<br />
Public Accountants. He<br />
lives in Guangzhou, China.<br />
Thomas Cox, PhD 2004<br />
& MA 1998, has recently<br />
completed a monograph<br />
entitled “Gibbons v. Ogden,<br />
Law, and Society in the<br />
Early Republic.” He is on<br />
temporary leave from his<br />
position as an assistant<br />
history professor <strong>at</strong> Sam<br />
Houston St<strong>at</strong>e <strong>University</strong> in<br />
Huntsville, Texas, to serve<br />
as Fulbright Teaching<br />
Professor of American<br />
History <strong>at</strong> Northeast<br />
Normal <strong>University</strong> in<br />
Changchun, China, for the<br />
2009-2010 academic year.<br />
When he completes his<br />
Fulbright, Cox will return<br />
to his home in Shreveport,<br />
u p d a t e s f r o m g r a d s b y t h e d e c a d e<br />
La. Angie Kleeh, CEL<br />
2004, CEO of Triple Track<br />
HR for H.I.R.E., has joined<br />
APA Solutions, Hahn<br />
Training LLC and Benefit<br />
Brokers of WNY to cre<strong>at</strong>e<br />
a one-stop human<br />
resources company.<br />
During her entrepreneurial<br />
career, she has developed<br />
human service businesses,<br />
a management<br />
and consulting firm, and<br />
a human resources and<br />
work-life benefits company.<br />
Kleeh has extensive<br />
experience in collabor<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
with non-profits<br />
and union-management<br />
partnerships to provide<br />
work-life benefits. She<br />
resides in East Amherst,<br />
N.Y. J. Bizub, JD<br />
2006,<br />
*Scott<br />
is an associ<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong><br />
Siegel, Kelleher and Kahn.<br />
Previously, he was the vice<br />
president and director<br />
of government rel<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
for Chw<strong>at</strong> & Company in<br />
Alexandria, VA. He lives in<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
Lovelace, JD *Christian<br />
2006, is<br />
an associ<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong> Lippes<br />
M<strong>at</strong>hias Wexler Friedman,<br />
where he focuses his practice<br />
on corpor<strong>at</strong>e law and<br />
financial transactions. He<br />
resides in Orchard Park,<br />
N.Y. Tracy A. Hinman, BA<br />
2007 & CERT 2007, is a<br />
marketing assistant <strong>at</strong> the<br />
Accredit<strong>at</strong>ion Commission<br />
for Health Care Inc. in<br />
Raleigh, N.C. She is<br />
responsible<br />
for<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ing all<br />
marketing<br />
m<strong>at</strong>erials,<br />
advertisements<br />
and<br />
hinman press<br />
releases, media planning<br />
and buying, social<br />
media marketing and<br />
exhibiting <strong>at</strong> trade shows<br />
across the n<strong>at</strong>ion. She<br />
resides in Raleigh. Jessica<br />
Markarian, MSW 2007,<br />
is the project lead for the<br />
Infant Adoption Awareness<br />
Training Project, housed<br />
<strong>at</strong> Adoption STAR. She<br />
lives in Tonawanda, N.Y.<br />
Bo Gyung Kim, JD 2008,<br />
is an associ<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong> Kloss,<br />
blue asterisk denotes UB Alumni Associ<strong>at</strong>ion members<br />
Stenger &<br />
LoTempio,<br />
where she<br />
concentr<strong>at</strong>es<br />
her<br />
practice in<br />
business<br />
kim<br />
and corpor<strong>at</strong>e<br />
law, contracts, product<br />
liability, civil litig<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
and business immigr<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
law. Kim lives in <strong>Buffalo</strong>,<br />
N.Y. James Loree, MLS<br />
2008, JD 1983 & BA 1980,<br />
was inducted into Beta<br />
Phi Mu, the intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
library and inform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
studies honor society, in<br />
October 2009. He resides<br />
in Williamsville, N.Y.<br />
CaTyra Polland, BA<br />
2008,<br />
*<br />
recently completed<br />
a summer internship <strong>at</strong><br />
Monroe County Office of<br />
Prob<strong>at</strong>ion Community<br />
Corrections in Rochester,<br />
N.Y., and is pursuing a<br />
master of arts degree in<br />
criminal justice. She lives<br />
in Rochester.<br />
Schwach, JD 2008 *Michelle & BA<br />
2005, is an associ<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong><br />
Cohen & Lombardo P.C.,<br />
where she concentr<strong>at</strong>es<br />
her practice in m<strong>at</strong>rimonial<br />
and family law. She<br />
is a member of the Bar<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion of Erie County,<br />
and the family law and<br />
young lawyers sections of<br />
the New York St<strong>at</strong>e Bar<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion. Schwach<br />
resides in Amherst, N.Y.<br />
Douglas Smith, JD 2008<br />
& PhD 2004, is an associ<strong>at</strong>e<br />
<strong>at</strong> Kloss, Stenger<br />
& LoTempio, where he<br />
concentr<strong>at</strong>es his practice<br />
on intellectual<br />
property<br />
m<strong>at</strong>ters<br />
including<br />
p<strong>at</strong>ent,<br />
trademark,<br />
copyright<br />
smith prosecution<br />
and infringement litig<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Smith is registered<br />
to practice before the<br />
United St<strong>at</strong>es P<strong>at</strong>ent and<br />
Trademark Office. He lives<br />
in Rochester, N.Y. Jeffrey<br />
Goldberg, MBA 2009 &<br />
DDS 2003, has opened<br />
a dental practice in the<br />
Amherst-Clarence area<br />
of Western New York. His<br />
new office will fe<strong>at</strong>ure four<br />
oper<strong>at</strong>ories and a staff of<br />
six. Goldberg will focus on<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ing the entire family,<br />
with a particular interest<br />
in those individuals with<br />
sleep apnea or diabetes,<br />
as well as p<strong>at</strong>ients over<br />
55. He is the executive vice<br />
president of the Mentor<br />
Café LLC and serves as<br />
a senior docent for the<br />
Darwin D. Martin House<br />
in <strong>Buffalo</strong>. Goldberg lives<br />
in Williamsville, N.Y. Erin<br />
Graff, BS 2009, has been<br />
hired as a staff accountant<br />
for Brock, Schechter<br />
& Polakoff LLP, where<br />
she previously worked as<br />
a tax intern for the firm.<br />
Graff belongs to both<br />
Alpha Kappa Psi coed<br />
business fr<strong>at</strong>ernity and<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Buffalo</strong><br />
Accounting Associ<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
She will work on a variety<br />
of accounting and tax<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
engagements including<br />
the prepar<strong>at</strong>ion of corpor<strong>at</strong>e,<br />
individual and est<strong>at</strong>e<br />
income tax returns. Graff<br />
resides in B<strong>at</strong>avia, N.Y.<br />
Trisha Miazga, BS 2009,<br />
an employee <strong>at</strong> Trautman<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>es, recently<br />
passed the examin<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
administered by the U.S.<br />
Green Building Council<br />
and achieved LEED<br />
accredited professional<br />
design<strong>at</strong>ion. She lives in<br />
Sask<strong>at</strong>oon, Ontario. Holly<br />
West, BS 2009, has been<br />
welcomed as a new staff<br />
accountant <strong>at</strong> Brock,<br />
Schechter & Polakoff LLP.<br />
Her job duties will include<br />
a variety of accounting and<br />
tax<strong>at</strong>ion engagements,<br />
including the prepar<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of corpor<strong>at</strong>e, individual,<br />
and est<strong>at</strong>e income tax<br />
returns. West resides in<br />
Cheektowaga, N.Y.<br />
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i n m e m o r y o f U B a l u m n i<br />
SOURCE: OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS<br />
30s<br />
Kenneth E. Gerhardt, BS<br />
’35, of Grand Island, N.Y.<br />
04.04.09<br />
Daniel D. Peschio, MD ’35, of<br />
Vero Beach, Fla. 06.22.09<br />
Angelo Lapi, MD ’37, of<br />
Coconut Creek, Fla. 01.07.09<br />
S. Howard Payne, DDS ’37,<br />
of Tucson, Ariz. 04.29.09<br />
Frederick C. Holder, MA ’38<br />
& BS ’34, of Avon, Conn.<br />
04.16.09<br />
Leonard C. Lovallo, LLB ’38,<br />
of Spring Hill, Fla. 09.17.09<br />
Charles J. Mascari, DDS ’38,<br />
of Brockport, N.Y. 11.10.08<br />
George L. Morse, BS ’38, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 05.30.09<br />
Maxine K. Kelly, BS ’39 & BA<br />
’35, of Clarence Center, N.Y.<br />
06.05.09<br />
Gladys S. King, BA ’39, of<br />
Pinebluff, N.C. 06.22.09<br />
Frederick J. Szymanski, MD<br />
’39, of Naples, Fla. 04.09.09<br />
40s<br />
Benjamin Gold, LLB ’40, of<br />
Lewiston, N.Y. 10.03.09<br />
Joffre J. Moses, DDS ’40,<br />
of Farmington Hills, Mich.<br />
01.03.08<br />
Eugene J. Hanavan, MD ’41,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 07.07.09<br />
Bernadette O. Mulvey, BS<br />
’41, of Tonawanda, N.Y.<br />
11.09.08<br />
Roy V. Velie, BS ’41, of<br />
Akron, Ohio 07.23.09<br />
Lester H. Otterman, BS ’42,<br />
of Ithaca, N.Y. 11.17.09<br />
Henry A. Stroman, BA ’43, of<br />
Middleport. N.Y. 04.19.09<br />
Phyllis K. Gese, BA ’44, of<br />
Payson, Ariz. 06.29.09<br />
Samuel Goldsman, DDS ’44<br />
& BA ’40, of Liverpool, N.Y.<br />
03.31.09<br />
A. Michael Jamesson, DDS<br />
’44, of Cuba, N.Y. 05.19.09<br />
Frank H. Long, MD ’44, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 10.21.09<br />
John T. Crissey, MD ’46, of<br />
Sierra Madre, Calif. 01.29.09<br />
Carl J. Impellitier, MD ’46 &<br />
BA ’43, of Las Cruces, N.M.<br />
09.09.09<br />
William L. Marsh, MD ’46, of<br />
Bethesda, Md. 05.21.09<br />
David Kraft, DDS ’47, of Ann<br />
Arbor, Mich. 01.01.09<br />
George H. Mix, MD ’47 &<br />
BA ’43, of Melbourne, Fla.<br />
03.16.09<br />
Juanita C. Diaz, MSW ’48,<br />
of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico<br />
01.29.09<br />
Doris E. Ganger, BS ’48 &<br />
CERT ’43, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
11.14.08<br />
Leeland N. Jones, BA ’48, of<br />
Germantown, Md. 08.13.09<br />
Dominic J. Napoli, BS ’48, of<br />
Ocala, Fla. 07.25.09<br />
Alfred C. Orlowski, BS ’48,<br />
of Schertz, Texas 08.08.09<br />
Bernard F. Schreiner,<br />
BA ’48, of Advance, N.C.<br />
09.24.09<br />
Jack H. Treger, BS ’48, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 06.29.09<br />
Marilyn R. Becker, BA ’49, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 03.08.09<br />
Donald F. Doering, BA ’49, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 07.17.09<br />
Francis J. Frantz, DDS ’49,<br />
of Warsaw, N.Y. 05.07.09<br />
William T. Hammill, BS ’49,<br />
of Hilton, N.Y. 07.22.09<br />
Richard G. Miller, BA ’49,<br />
of North Tonawanda, N.Y.<br />
06.09.09<br />
Milton L. Mohart, BS ’49, of<br />
Silver Creek, N.Y. 04.08.09<br />
Thomas B. Nickson, EdM ’49<br />
& BA ’48, of Lansing, Mich.<br />
06.15.08<br />
Albert J. Rydzynski, JD ’49,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 07.28.09<br />
Jeanette M. Smith, EdM ’49,<br />
of Leesburg, Va. 06.04.09<br />
Paul C. Stolzenfels, JD ’49,<br />
of North Tonawanda, N.Y.<br />
05.10.09<br />
50s<br />
John Brucker, BS ’50, of<br />
Orchard Park, N.Y. 07.28.09<br />
Louis J. Buchheit, BS ’50, of<br />
Vero Beach, Fla. 06.10.09<br />
Thomas P. Flaherty, LLB ’50,<br />
of Derby, N.Y. 10.09.09<br />
Albert J. Gerritz, BS ’50, of<br />
Pittsford, N.Y. 07.16.09<br />
Willard A. Hess, BS ’50, of<br />
Avon, N.Y. 02.26.09<br />
Glenn H. Johnson, BS ’50, of<br />
Jamestown, N.Y. 06.22.09<br />
Mario A. Lamantia, BA ’50,<br />
of New Orleans, La. 07.13.09<br />
Henry J. Musilli, BS ’50, of<br />
Indianapolis, Ind. 06.11.09<br />
Irving W. Rosenberg, JD ’50<br />
& BS ’42, of Williamsville,<br />
N.Y. 10.03.09<br />
Perry Tzetzo, BS ’50, of East<br />
Amherst, N.Y. 04.27.09<br />
Robert E. Bushover, BS<br />
’51, of Ransomville, N.Y.<br />
02.28.09<br />
Andrew J. Castner, BS ’51,<br />
of Cranston, R.I .08.19.09<br />
John W. Doran, EdM ’51, of<br />
Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.01.09<br />
Thomas P. McMahon, JD ’51,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 05.25.09<br />
Donald G. Parker, BS ’51, of<br />
Rochester, N.Y. 06.17.09<br />
Joseph L. Parl<strong>at</strong>o, EdM ’51<br />
& BA ’49 of New Hartford,<br />
N.Y. 10.07.09<br />
Francis B. Pritchard, JD ’51<br />
& BS ’50, of Grand Island,<br />
N.Y. 06.30.09<br />
Raymond C. Seebald, BS<br />
’51, of Orchard Park, N.Y.<br />
05.26.09<br />
James R. Tyler, BA ’51, of<br />
Richardson, Texas 12.18.08<br />
Jack P. Weber, BS ’51, of Los<br />
Alamitos, Calif. 08.28.09<br />
Richard H. Wiley, BS ’51<br />
& CERT ’48, of Clarence<br />
Center, N.Y. 06.11.08<br />
William T. Ames, BS ’52,<br />
of Lake Barrington, Ill.<br />
05.26.09<br />
William J. Atkins, BS ’52, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 05.30.09<br />
P<strong>at</strong>rick T. Hurley, JD ’52, of<br />
East Amherst, N.Y. 04.19.09<br />
Edwin J. Kuzdale, LLB ’52,<br />
of Dunkirk, N.Y. 06.22.09<br />
Anthony J. Nello, BS ’52, of<br />
Elma, N.Y. 05.08.09<br />
Harry J. Pappas, MA ’52<br />
& BA ’48, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
07.12.09<br />
Walter M. Pelkey, LLB ’52,<br />
of Sarasota, Fla. 01.07.09<br />
John W. Rickers, JD ’52<br />
& BS ’51, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
09.23.09<br />
James P. Simson, BS ’52 &<br />
CERT ’49, of Cincinn<strong>at</strong>i, Ohio<br />
06.26.08<br />
Vernon N. Behrns, PhD ’53,<br />
MA ’50 & BA ’39, of Ocala,<br />
Fla. 06.24.09<br />
James T. Graley, MA ’53 &<br />
BA ’49, of Orchard Park, N.Y.<br />
08.27.09<br />
Paul Lautensack, BS ’53, of<br />
Jeffersonville, Pa. 09.10.08<br />
Mary E. Mahoney, EdM ’53<br />
& EDB ’52, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
06.17.09<br />
Robert Schaus, JD ’53, of<br />
Naples, Fla. 07.30.09<br />
Francis J. Wagner, BS ’53, of<br />
Liverpool, N.Y. 12.19.08<br />
Casimir J. Zdrojewski, DDS<br />
’53, of Marilla, N.Y. 08.23.09<br />
Joseph W. Bania, BA ’54, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 04.21.09<br />
Edward P. Finger, BS ’54, of<br />
Olean, N.Y. 07.31.08<br />
Donald J. Murray, MD ’54<br />
& BA ’50, of Globe, Ariz.<br />
06.15.09<br />
Harry J. Prosser, BA ’54,<br />
of Hendersonville, N.C.<br />
02.01.09<br />
James D. Fisher, BS ’55, of<br />
Charlotte, N.C. 05.19.09<br />
Joseph Gordon, MD ’55, of<br />
Medford, N.J. 04.09.09<br />
Justin Hofmann, EdD ’55 &<br />
MA ’51, of Cleveland, Ohio<br />
11.11.09<br />
Robert A. Loewer, EdM ’55<br />
& BS ’50, of San Jose, Calif.<br />
10.06.09<br />
Saul M. Siegel, PhD ’55, MA<br />
’52 & BA ’49, of Berkeley,<br />
Calif. 10.18.08<br />
Charles W. Anderson, BS<br />
’56, of Warminster, Pa.<br />
09.29.09<br />
Paul W. Cummings, BS ’56,<br />
of Getzville, N.Y. 05.02.09<br />
Paul K. Domroes, BS ’56, of<br />
Amherst, N.Y. 05.09.09<br />
Barbara M. Ernewein,<br />
AS ’56, of Hamburg, N.Y.<br />
06.08.09<br />
Ira Miller, MD ’56, of<br />
Bethesda, Md. 03.31.09<br />
Edwin H. Robins, BS ’56, of<br />
Lakewood, Colo. 09.23.08<br />
Joan A. Suedmeyer, BS ’56,<br />
of Emmett, Idaho 07.20.09<br />
George R. Wells, EdD ’56, of<br />
Houghton, N.Y. 10.15.09<br />
Henry G. Adaszak, BS ’57 &<br />
CERT ’50, of Boynton Beach,<br />
Fla. 08.19.08<br />
Donald J. Dell, BS ’57, of<br />
Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.<br />
09.27.09<br />
James P. Geracci, DDS ’57,<br />
of Las Vegas, Nev. 05.09.09<br />
F. B. Hamsher, JD ’57 & BA<br />
’53, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 04.19.09<br />
Donald F. Ketteman, BS ’57,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 05.30.09<br />
Roberta Magavern, BA ’57,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 05.01.09<br />
Walter A. Ruettimann,<br />
BS ’57, of Clarence, N.Y.<br />
09.15.08<br />
Alice T. Bak, BFA ’58, of<br />
Niagara Falls, N.Y. 06.14.08<br />
Thomas G. Cummiskey, MD<br />
’58, of Williamsville, N.Y.<br />
09.04.09<br />
Leonard J. Poleszak, EdM<br />
’58, of Jekyll Island, Ga.<br />
03.03.09<br />
David J. Birmingham, AS ’59,<br />
of Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.09.09<br />
Donald L. Brunner, BS ’59,<br />
of Fort Myers, Fla. 06.09.09<br />
C. C. Fisher, MBA ’59, of New<br />
Canaan, Conn. 06.10.09<br />
Salv<strong>at</strong>ore F. Giallombardo,<br />
JD ’59, of Williamsville, N.Y.<br />
05.05.09<br />
Donald P. Gorman, BS ’59, of<br />
Clarence, N.Y. 06.05.09<br />
Mary A. Kennedy, EdB ’59, of<br />
Utica, N.Y. 05.24.09<br />
Neal R. Koenig, BS ’59, of<br />
Rochester, N.Y. 04.22.09<br />
Harry Lautensack, MBA ’59,<br />
of Audubon, Pa. 04.10.09<br />
Kevin J. Loos, BS ’59, of East<br />
Amherst, N.Y. 06.05.09<br />
Charles L. Lumsden, BS<br />
’59, of Williamsville, N.Y.<br />
10.03.09<br />
Richard S. Metzgar, PhD ’59<br />
& MA ’57 of Durham, N.C.<br />
04.15.09<br />
Francis A. Pirrone, BS ’59, of<br />
Niagara Falls, N.Y. 01.31.09<br />
Calvin A. Suess, BS ’59, of<br />
Lancaster, N.Y. 09.02.09<br />
Mary Ellen Usiak, EdM ’59 &<br />
BS ’47, of East Amherst, N.Y.<br />
10.21.09<br />
60s<br />
Victor Diener, BS ’60, of Boca<br />
R<strong>at</strong>on, Fla. 08.05.09<br />
Ronald F. Lochocki, BS ’60,<br />
of Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.01.09<br />
Michael E. Case, BS ’61, of<br />
Dunwoody, Ga. 07.17.08<br />
Sherman A. Goldstein, BA<br />
’61, of Highwood, Ill. 06.27.09<br />
Willard F. Nagle, MD ’61, of<br />
Devon, Pa. 05.19.09<br />
Barbara Schwartz Bromberg,<br />
BA ’62, of Cincinn<strong>at</strong>i, Ohio<br />
01.30.09<br />
Harold C. Domres, MD ’62, of<br />
San Antonio, Texas 03.02.09<br />
Robert D. Gunderman, JD<br />
’62, of Snyder, N.Y. 10.09.09<br />
Jean L. Kask, BA ’62, of<br />
East Aurora, N.Y. 06.26.09<br />
Marie B. Kurtz, MS ’62 &<br />
BS ’58, of Orchard Park, N.Y.<br />
03.06.09<br />
Louis M. Reuter, BA ’62, of<br />
Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.17.09<br />
John P. Fehr, BS ’63, of<br />
Hamburg, N.Y. 08.26.08<br />
Joseph E. Jureller, BS ’63, of<br />
Derby, N.Y. 06.29.08<br />
Irwin L. Kipness, BS ’63, of<br />
Boca R<strong>at</strong>on, Fla. 10.22.09<br />
Mary E. Nailos, MS ’63, of<br />
Ch<strong>at</strong>tanooga, Tenn. 03.31.09<br />
John H. Rolker, MBA ’63, of<br />
Carlsbad, Calif. 10.22.08<br />
James R. Fox, BA ’64, of<br />
Shorewood, Ill. 06.14.09<br />
Ralph B. Keisling, EdB ’64, of<br />
Clarks Summit, Pa. 05.25.08<br />
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James A. Rogers, BS ’64, of<br />
Grand Island, N.Y. 08.13.09<br />
John W. Tomlinson, EdM ’64,<br />
of Potomac, Md. 09.10.09<br />
Elizabeth E. Ungerer, EdM<br />
’64, of Lakewood, N.Y.<br />
06.15.08<br />
William M. Baltz, EdD ’65 &<br />
EdM ’52 of Scottsdale, Ariz.<br />
04.12.09<br />
Nicholas F. Castiglia, BS ’65,<br />
of Victor, N.Y. 05.13.08<br />
Richard W. Hertel, BS ’65, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 03.08.09<br />
Richard M. Piccarreto,<br />
DDS ’65, of Pittsford, N.Y.<br />
12.10.08<br />
Robert H. Staplin, MBA ’65,<br />
of Hamel, Minn. 06.02.09<br />
K<strong>at</strong>hleen M. Upchurch,<br />
EdB ’65, of Williamsville,<br />
N.Y. 07.21.09<br />
Michael A. Barrell, BA ’66,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 01.12.08<br />
Henry J. Gebhardt, MBA ’66<br />
& BS ’62, of Ballston Lake,<br />
N.Y. 04.02.09<br />
Thomas H. Harmon, JD ’66,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 05.18.09<br />
Gordon A. Ingram, BA ’66, of<br />
De Witt, N.Y. 06.23.09<br />
Jillian J. Plumb, BA ’66,<br />
of Saint Petersburg, Fla.<br />
12.03.08<br />
Stephen W. Rambo, BA ’66,<br />
of Clearfield, Utah 05.08.09<br />
Douglas J. Salmon, EdM ’66,<br />
of Hamburg, N.Y. 04.12.09<br />
Richard D. Bob, BS ’67, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 03.04.09<br />
William W. Carrigan,<br />
PhD ’67, of Bellaire, Ohio<br />
11.13.08<br />
Herbert S. Eisenstein,<br />
EdD ’67, EdM ’64 & BA ’49,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 07.03.09<br />
Kenneth P. Kogut, EdM ’67 &<br />
BA ’64, of Whitesboro, N.Y.<br />
05.09.09<br />
Bruce J. Fox, BA ’68, of East<br />
Aurora, N.Y. 04.19.09<br />
Charles H. Girard, BA ’68, of<br />
Marion, N.Y. 10.06.08<br />
James M. Harrigan, BA ’68,<br />
of Tonawanda, N.Y. 07.07.09<br />
M<strong>at</strong>thew W. Hearn, MBA ’68<br />
& BA ’66, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
08.24.09<br />
Leonard M. Keilson, BA<br />
’68, of Scarborough, Maine<br />
05.25.09<br />
Donald J. Ostempowski,<br />
BA ’68, of Lancaster, N.Y.<br />
08.06.09<br />
Edward R. Sokolski, BS<br />
’68, of East Amherst, N.Y.<br />
01.31.09<br />
Harold D. Whitefoot, MA ’68,<br />
of Longmont, Colo. 12.28.08<br />
Richard J. Anderson, EdM<br />
’69 & BA ’66, of Erie, Pa.<br />
02.24.09<br />
Gerald L. Barrows, BA ’69,<br />
of Concord, N.C. 07.03.09<br />
Dorothy W. Harman, EdM<br />
’69 & BFA ’64, of Dover, Ohio<br />
02.11.09<br />
Barbara B. Whitman,<br />
EdM ’69, of Lebanon, N.H.<br />
10.19.09<br />
70s<br />
Paul J. Bedworth, BS ’70,<br />
of North Tonawanda, N.Y.<br />
05.26.08<br />
Paul Chmiel, MS ’70, of<br />
Springfield, Mass. 10.11.08<br />
Mary L. Lepkowski, EdD ’70,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 03.22.09<br />
Shirley N. Opel, MLS ’70<br />
& BA ’66, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
04.24.09<br />
Elaine M. Parkinson, BA ’70,<br />
of Leesburg, Va. 09.16.09<br />
Sherrell D. Swanson, MBA<br />
’70, of Seaford, Va. 04.18.09<br />
George L. Youngkins, BA ’70,<br />
of Nashville, Tenn. 04.30.09<br />
Edward S. Augustine, MS<br />
’71, of Pittston, Pa. 03.12.09<br />
Jon C. Daniel, PhD ’71, of<br />
Millstadt, Ill. 06.01.09<br />
Allen R. Fisgus, MS ’71,<br />
PMCRT ’70 & DDS ’68, of<br />
East Amherst, N.Y. 04.29.09<br />
Frances A. Frank, MLS ’71,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 12.19.08<br />
Dorothy M. Kirk, BS ’71, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 01.09.09<br />
Carl F. Miller, BA ’71, of<br />
Alpharetta, Ga. 03.16.09<br />
Louis H. Schwartz, BS ’71<br />
& BA ’70, of Plano, Texas<br />
06.16.09<br />
Sally A. Shimmel, MS ’71<br />
& BS ’69, of Akron, N.Y.<br />
11.10.08<br />
Paul R. Tessmer, BA ’71, of<br />
Lapeer, Mich. 10.24.09<br />
George T. Baker, MSW<br />
’72, of Silver Spring, Md.<br />
12.24.08<br />
Robert L. Benen<strong>at</strong>i, MS ’72,<br />
of Granbury, Texas 03.28.09<br />
Geraldine Brusino, BS<br />
’72, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.<br />
03.07.09<br />
Joseph M. Ferraro, BA ’72,<br />
of Angola, N.Y. 03.02.09<br />
Virginia M. Foley, EdD ’72,<br />
MA ’54 & BA ’52, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>,<br />
N.Y. 07.17.09<br />
Sophine L. Sandler, BA ’72,<br />
of Philadelphia, Pa. 05.19.09<br />
Carmene D. Buchheit,<br />
AS ’73, of Vero Beach, Fla.<br />
05.21.09<br />
Gary J. Grabenst<strong>at</strong>ter, BS<br />
’73, of New Orleans, La.<br />
06.15.09<br />
Paul A. Marshall, BA ’73, of<br />
Miami, Fla. 10.13.08<br />
Stuart Robinson, BA ’73, of<br />
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 02.02.09<br />
Mary C. M. Cadenhead,<br />
BA ’74, of Amherst, N.Y.<br />
07.09.09<br />
Geoffrey Levin, BS ’74, of Las<br />
Vegas, Nev. 08.02.09<br />
Carl H. Reynolds, PhD<br />
’74, EdM ’73 & BA ’70, of<br />
Rochester, N.Y. 03.20.08<br />
Janice A. Russell, MS ’74, of<br />
Lake Wylie, S.C. 07.25.09<br />
Andrew L. Topolski, BFA ’74,<br />
of Brooklyn, N.Y. 02.14.08<br />
Paul H. Wierzbieniec,<br />
MD ’74, of Amherst, N.Y.<br />
11.03.09<br />
Diana Winter, BA ’74, of<br />
Grand Island, N.Y. 10.13.08<br />
John K. Currie, JD ’75, of<br />
Hartford, Conn. 04.28.09<br />
John A. DiPasquale, BS ’75,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 05.11.08<br />
Ellen R. Dietz, BS ’75,<br />
of West Coxsackie, N.Y.<br />
04.20.09<br />
Bonnie V. Feinman, EdM ’75<br />
& BA ’74, of San Diego, Calif.<br />
10.18.09<br />
Richard A. Jackson, BA<br />
’75, of McLeansville, N.C.<br />
03.24.09<br />
Glen A. McIntyre, DDS ’75, of<br />
Rochester, N.Y. 08.31.09<br />
M. Virginia Schneider,<br />
BA ’75, of Annandale, Va.<br />
08.23.08<br />
Marian W. Aaron, BA ’76, of<br />
Berwyn, Pa. 01.11.09<br />
Nicholas A. Amadori, MBA<br />
’76 & BS ’71, of W<strong>at</strong>er Mill,<br />
N.Y. 09.11.08<br />
Elfie D. Berndt, BFA ’76, of<br />
Stevensville, Mich. 08.31.09<br />
Genevieve Cmiech, BA ’76, of<br />
Lake City, Fla. 05.22.09<br />
Amy M. Egan Altenburger,<br />
BA ’76, of Mendham, N.J.<br />
05.28.09<br />
Sally A. Fox, BA ’76, of<br />
New York, N.Y. 10.01.09<br />
Mary E. Good, JD ’76 & BA<br />
’73, of Orchard Park, N.Y.<br />
05.07.09<br />
Gary L. Hahn, BS ’76, of<br />
Eden, N.Y. 04.09.09<br />
George A. Maines, EdD ’76,<br />
of Erie, Pa. 04.08.09<br />
Leila L. Samuel, EdM ’76, of<br />
Amherst, N.Y. 10.28.08<br />
Thaddeus V. Samulski, PhD<br />
’76, of Chapel Hill, N.C.<br />
07.29.09<br />
Richard A. Villari, MBA ’76<br />
& BA ’71, of Brewerton, N.Y.<br />
05.07.09<br />
Minnie B. Wilson, MA ’76,<br />
EdB ’71 & BA ’71, of<br />
Parsippany, N.J. 01.27.09<br />
Irene O. Avery, BA ’77, of<br />
Cheektowaga, N.Y. 07.18.09<br />
Linda M. Becker, EdM ’77, of<br />
Tonawanda, N.Y. 06.29.09<br />
James C. Gorom, BA ’77, of<br />
Oakfield, N.Y. 08.09.09<br />
Thaddeus A. Jarzabek,<br />
BA ’78, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
08.03.08<br />
Amy E. O’Brien, BA ’78, of<br />
Groton, N.Y. 10.13.08<br />
John J. Black, PhD ’79 & MS<br />
’70, of Williamsville, N.Y.<br />
04.06.09<br />
Martin J. Dropik, BS ’79, of<br />
Erie, Pa. 11.14.08<br />
Mark L. Josephson, BA ’79,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 08.20.09<br />
P<strong>at</strong>ricia S. Lehmann, EdM ’79<br />
& BA ’73, of Annandale, Va.<br />
06.06.09<br />
Gary F. Papa, JD ’79, of Saint<br />
Davids, PA 06.19.09<br />
80s<br />
Louise R. Koenig, MLS ’80, of<br />
Blasdell, N.Y. 09.20.08<br />
Lois B. Koss, EdM ’80, of<br />
Hamburg, N.Y. 05.17.09<br />
Sally K. Fanning, MBA ’81, of<br />
Danbury, Conn. 01.06.08<br />
Rosalind McCullough, BA ’81,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 07.23.09<br />
Arthur P. Miceli, MBA ’81, of<br />
Fort Myers, Fla. 06.24.09<br />
Robert T. Mulvaugh, BA ’81,<br />
of Massena, N.Y. 03.17.09<br />
Giacomo R. Scar<strong>at</strong>o, MA ’81,<br />
of Hawthorne, N.J. 11.17.08<br />
Gary W. White, BS ’81, of<br />
West Seneca, N.Y. 05.20.09<br />
Michael H. Doran, JD ’82<br />
& BS ’79, of Amherst, N.Y.<br />
04.28.09<br />
Robert C. MacDonald,<br />
BA ’83, of Cheektowaga, N.Y.<br />
04.17.09<br />
Henry L. Wisniewski, MS ’83,<br />
of Sanborn, N.Y. 07.28.09<br />
Robert A. Church, BS ’84, of<br />
Tonawanda, N.Y. 05.01.09<br />
Rose T. Lombardo, AAS ’84,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 07.13.09<br />
John Zapalowski, BFA ’84, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 03.19.09<br />
P<strong>at</strong>rick T. Jacob, BFA ’86, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 04.11.09<br />
Marian A. Murphy, MSW<br />
’86, of Cheektowaga, N.Y.<br />
08.06.09<br />
Steven L. Thurston, BA ’86, of<br />
Alden, N.Y. 04.22.09<br />
Jeffrey J. Brown, MS ’87 &<br />
BS ’82, of Chelmsford, Mass.<br />
05.23.09<br />
John L. Martin, JD ’87, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 09.22.09<br />
Diana M. Smith-Beckerman,<br />
PhD ’87, of Newark, Calif.<br />
01.26.09<br />
Joseph H. Roquemore, PhD<br />
’88, of Austin, Texas 09.08.08<br />
Suzanne Borkowski, MS ’89,<br />
of Lancaster, N.Y. 02.15.09<br />
K<strong>at</strong>hleen A. Perry, MSW ’89,<br />
of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 05.29.09<br />
90s<br />
P<strong>at</strong>ricia L. Collins, BS ’90, of<br />
Camden, W. Va. 01.24.08<br />
Beverly A. Hern, MLS ’90, of<br />
Victor, N.Y. 02.08.09<br />
Rita A. Johnson, MA ’90, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 12.20.08<br />
Carol M. Neyerlin, MS ’90 &<br />
BS ’80, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.<br />
05.05.09<br />
Denis M. DePierro, BA ’91, of<br />
New Rochelle, N.Y. 05.03.08<br />
Carolynn E. Clapp-Sutley, MS<br />
’92 & BS ’63 of Allegany, N.Y.<br />
09.24.08<br />
Janet M. Greenia, BS ’92, of<br />
Amherst, N.Y. 07.22.09<br />
Garett L. Geake, BA ’93, of<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 05.25.09<br />
Valerie D. Teresi, BS ’93, of<br />
Clarence, N.Y. 05.05.09<br />
Christopher W. Burke, BS ’94,<br />
of West Seneca, N.Y. 03.22.08<br />
Frances H. Sit, BS ’94, of<br />
Owen Sound, Ontario 01.18.09<br />
Benedict Gonzalez, BA ’95, of<br />
Amherst, N.Y. 05.08.09<br />
Scott J. Scupien, BS ’95, of<br />
Midlothian, Va. 05.09.09<br />
Robert B. Ayotte, MusB ’96, of<br />
Danbury, Conn. 06.04.08<br />
K<strong>at</strong>hy L. Palumbo, MSW ’98,<br />
of Niagara Falls, N.Y. 04.10.09<br />
Jessica L. Wasmund, BA ’99,<br />
of Burnt Hills, N.Y. 03.15.09<br />
00s<br />
Douglas S. Manna, BA ’02, of<br />
Stamford, Conn. 02.23.09<br />
Andrew T. Conta, BA ’05, of<br />
Hamburg, N.Y. 10.16.08<br />
Lance A. Fertig, MA ’05,<br />
EdM ’04, BA ’02 & BA ’73, of<br />
Williamsville, N.Y. 06.05.09<br />
Danielle R. Guistina,<br />
JD ’05, MBA ’02 & BS ’02, of<br />
Henrietta, N.Y. 11.20.08<br />
Margaret E. Krawczyk, MA<br />
’05, of <strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y. 10.31.09<br />
Stacey E. Micoli, MusB ’05, of<br />
Lockport, N.Y. 07.27.09<br />
Mw<strong>at</strong>um Z. Muindi, MSW ’08,<br />
of Cheektowaga, N.Y. 09.07.09<br />
M<strong>at</strong>thew J. Schnirel, JD ’08,<br />
of Amherst, N.Y. 04.28.09<br />
Maggie E. Sheldon, BA ’08, of<br />
Amherst, N.Y. 07.31.09<br />
Correction<br />
The gradu<strong>at</strong>ion year of the<br />
l<strong>at</strong>e Ryan M. Perkis, BS ’07<br />
of Rochester, N.Y., was misst<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
in our last issue.<br />
www.alumni.buffalo.edu UBTODAY Spring 2010 47
opinion<br />
A l u m n i s h a r e t h e i r t h o u g h t s<br />
inmy<br />
If you had a<br />
vanity pl<strong>at</strong>e<br />
for your car, wh<strong>at</strong> would it say*<br />
Ronald Balter, BA ’80<br />
Brooklyn, N.Y.<br />
I am on my third vanity pl<strong>at</strong>e. The first<br />
was UB BULLS followed by BULLS UB.<br />
Now my car has the UB logo pl<strong>at</strong>e with<br />
BULLS1.<br />
Karl Zalar, BA ’73<br />
Tipp City, Ohio<br />
My vanity pl<strong>at</strong>e says, UNIV BUF.<br />
Ed Ostrowski, BS ’69<br />
Simpsonville, S.C.<br />
N0SUP4U—no soup for you!!!!!!!<br />
Bruce Moden, BS ’57<br />
East Aurora, N.Y.<br />
I have a vanity pl<strong>at</strong>e, PHARMR, this<br />
represents my profession as a pharmacist<br />
(co-owning a small regional chain<br />
of community pharmacies) and my<br />
avoc<strong>at</strong>ion as a farmer, several years<br />
growing tom<strong>at</strong>oes and pot<strong>at</strong>oes on<br />
our 65-acre farm, as well as helping in<br />
my f<strong>at</strong>her-in-law’s business of growing<br />
10,000 tulips and hyacinths for the<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>-area Easter trade.<br />
Tom Trinchera, MLS ’96 & BA ’94<br />
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.<br />
I first bought a car when I was a master’s<br />
student, early in 1995. With the<br />
new car came my first auto loan, n<strong>at</strong>urally,<br />
so I thought a gre<strong>at</strong> idea for a<br />
vanity pl<strong>at</strong>e would be ON LOAN. When<br />
the car was officially paid for, I thought<br />
I’d get a new pl<strong>at</strong>e th<strong>at</strong> read PAID FOR.<br />
Never went through with it, though, but<br />
I am planning to buy another car in the<br />
next few weeks so perhaps I’ll get my<br />
chance!<br />
Jill Sessa, BA ’94<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
FUN RZR—I’m a development officer<br />
for the UB School of Management and<br />
th<strong>at</strong> should go on my little red convertible.<br />
Mmmm, I might head to the DMV<br />
this week!<br />
Amy Nash, BA ’84<br />
East Amherst, N.Y.<br />
KDNY2LIV, DON8LIFE, THNXKDNY,<br />
IMALIVE.<br />
P<strong>at</strong>rick Ellingham, MA ’77 & BA ’74<br />
Hollywood, Fla.<br />
There are dozens of specialty pl<strong>at</strong>es in<br />
Florida. Every school, every team, and<br />
every cause has one. Aside from those,<br />
many thousands have vanity pl<strong>at</strong>es, as<br />
well. Mine is very simple and obvious to<br />
anyone who knows me: Dr. Elvis.<br />
Paul Karas, MD, ’87<br />
Amherst, N.Y.<br />
Either: “Fencer,” “Foilist,” “RowDad,”<br />
or “CrewDad.”<br />
Ronald C. Fazar, BA ’92<br />
Rochester, N.Y.<br />
It’s a “vanity” pl<strong>at</strong>e—wh<strong>at</strong> else would I<br />
put FAZAR9…my name and favorite<br />
number! Seriously, there are some other<br />
ideas—probably something rel<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
to the two hardball leagues I play in—or<br />
possibly something rel<strong>at</strong>ed to my vehicle,<br />
especially if I get another Jeep.<br />
Chuck Swanekamp, MBA ’80,<br />
JD ’79 & BA ’78<br />
Getzville, N.Y.<br />
I’m a scuba diving and Caribbean<br />
fan<strong>at</strong>ic, so my first automobile vanity<br />
pl<strong>at</strong>e was “Caribbe.” I was in the<br />
Caribbean with my dive buddies shortly<br />
after I bought my first Harley and we<br />
were having a few adult beverages after<br />
the dive. We were wracking our brains<br />
for ideas for a vanity pl<strong>at</strong>e for the bike<br />
when all of a sudden the waitress put<br />
down the next round of beers—it was<br />
the Caribbean beer “Carib.” When I got<br />
home I raced to the DMV to reserve<br />
“Carib” as the pl<strong>at</strong>e for my Harley. So in<br />
all honesty my bike is named in honor<br />
of a Caribbean beer!<br />
Kevin Eye, BS ’01<br />
Orchard Park, N.Y.<br />
I looked into getting H4X0R (hacker),<br />
but somebody else got to it first.<br />
Mark Ferguson, BA ’00<br />
Williamsville, N.Y.<br />
UB16—I’m planning ahead.<br />
Amanda Rundell, BA ’07<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong>, N.Y.<br />
My vanity pl<strong>at</strong>e would say GO VEG<br />
because going vegetarian is important<br />
for one’s health, the planet and the<br />
animals!<br />
*Question posed in “In My Opinion,” a fe<strong>at</strong>ure of the monthly electronic<br />
newsletter @UB, a portion of which also appears regularly in UB Today.<br />
To subscribe, go to the Stay Informed tab <strong>at</strong> www.alumni.buffalo.edu.<br />
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