THE BABY WHISPERER - University at Buffalo

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
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Renowned pediatrician
Harvey Karp, BA ’72,
shares his techniques
for calming and
communicating with
young children
The baby whisperer

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School of
Hard Knocks
UB Police Officer Stacy Tuberdyke, BA ’99,
(left) and UB adjunct professor Shannon
Carlin, PhD ’06, MA ’01, EdM ’99 &
BA ’97, square off under their respective
monikers—Tuesday Hula and
Dr. Dementer—as members of the
Queen City Roller Girls.

a publication of the university at buffalo alumni association spring 2010
UBtoday
William R.
Greiner Tribute
Colleagues, friends and
former students recall
UB’s 13th president
16
12
Raising happy kids
Pediatrician Harvey Karp, BA ’72, shares his
ideas for calming infants and communicating
with toddlers
18
Visual artist vindicated in strange case
Steve Kurtz’s legal battle raised pivotal questions
about First Amendment rights in a post-9/11 world
24
One vision, three campuses
Historic master plan offers a guideline for university’s
growth and transformation for decades to come
26
We Can Row!
Program leverages UB’s strengths in athletics and
public health to empower breast cancer survivors
A l u m n i p r o f i l e s
31
Rosalind Jarrett,
BA ’69, triathlete
and Hollywood
executive
33
Gordon Gross,
JD ’55, attorney,
philanthropist
and community
leader
35
Ryan Toohey,
BA ’97, political
and corporate
strategist and
consultant
D e p a r t m e n t s
Letters 4
Shortform 6
Seen Read Heard 9
sportform 10
Alumni News 36
In my opinion 48
Cover photo by Max S. Gerber
Reaching others

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from thePresident
Strenghtening our position,
fulfilling our promise
>>
To join UB Believers,
a broad coalition of
university advocates,
please visit www.buffalo.
edu/community.
s we enter the final weeks of the spring semester here on campus, it is an
appropriate time to reflect on the past academic year and envision what lies ahead.
Fall 2009 was a time of considerable progress at UB. We welcomed the most
academically accomplished freshman class in UB history, unveiled our comprehensive
master plan and saw members of our faculty earn significant national
honors.
In February, our community came together to pay tribute to the late
President Emeritus William R. Greiner. His enduring legacy is everywhere
apparent, from major buildings that changed the face of the campus to
the interlocking “UB” that adorns our Division I athletes’ uniforms and
is used in countless other applications besides. The stories told of his unselfish mentoring,
help and encouragement to so many have been quite moving. (See article on page 16.)
Just as Bill’s vision shaped much of the UB that we know today, UB 2020 carries with it
the promise of tomorrow. That promise can be seen on the faces of current UB faculty like
SUNY Distinguished Professor Esther S. Takeuchi,
who received the National Medal of Technology and
Innovation from President Barack Obama. It was
there when our women’s rowing team and students
from the Department of Rehabilitation Science,
School of Public Health and Health Professions,
joined together to combine their unique skills for the benefit of our community. (See article
on page 26.)
While a struggling economy has impacted us all, UB remains true to the promise and
vision of our plan. We have softened the impact of an estimated $55 million in state budget
cuts (representing a 27.2 percent cut in state support) over the past two years by making
operational improvements and tapping institutional reserves, nearly depleting this
resource. Even with these efforts, however, the economic challenges facing New York have
eroded the financial base of UB 2020 and pushed back its timetable. Ironically, never has
New York needed more to build a future economy based on innovations
that emerge from the state’s research universities.
In January, Governor David A. Paterson responded to this need
with a proposal that if adopted by the Legislature will grant more
flexibility to all SUNY and CUNY campuses—in effect, extending
statewide the policy reforms we have been seeking. His proposal
also will do away with the sudden tuition increases of the past that
have dealt a severe and unpredictable blow to students and parents.
We are supporting the governor’s proposal because these reforms will
be a critical step toward enhancing UB’s ability to compete
among the best public research universities in the nation.
Mindful of where we have been and where we aim to
be, we move forward with purpose in 2010. The efforts
of our dedicated alumni and every UB Believer have
brought us closer to achieving the UB 2020 vision. Let’s
continue to work toward that promise.
John B. Simpson, President
University at Buffalo

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Interfaith journey
is tribute to lost
alumna
Just a footnote to your
beautiful cover story in
the fall 2009 issue, “A
Moment in Time.”
After offering my help
immediately after the
crash of Flight 3407
on Feb. 12, 2009, and
discovering that all bases
were covered by others, I
volunteered to teach the
“Building Bridges” class
for the Bureau of Jewish
Education of Greater
Buffalo. Susan A. Wehle,
BA ’02 & BA ’74, cantor
at Temple Beth Am and
one of the 50 individuals
who tragically perished
in the crash, had conceived
the course and
was to lead it at the High
School of Jewish Studies.
After Susan’s death, her
class became my second
vocation, as I tried to recreate
her vision (she did
not leave a class outline
or notes). I also wanted
to keep her legacy of
interfaith efforts alive.
Ever since, I’ve been
working with Othman
Shibly, MS ’95, assistant
professor in the
UB School of Dental
Medicine and a Muslim
faith community leader,
to bridge the gaps of
understanding and fellowship
among Jewish,
Muslim and Christian
communities. Dr. Shibly
brought his students
from the An-Noor
Mosque in Getzville to
learn and communicate
with the Jewish high
school students for
several sessions of the
Building Bridges class,
for instance.
As a result of this class,
Dr. Shibly and I were
invited to be interfaith
guests at the annual
Islamic Society of North
America convention
in Washington, D.C.,
over the Fourth of July
weekend. We then
volunteered to coordinate
our own “twinning
weekend,” which was
patterned on an initiative
begun in 2008 by Rabbi
Marc Schneier, president
and founder of the
Foundation for Ethnic
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of selected features and
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Understanding in New
York City.
In October, I traveled with
Dr. Shibly to Damascus,
Syria, to speak on
geriatric health issues
as an invited guest at the
Syria Dental Association’s
annual meeting, and I did
several house calls for
elder relatives of meeting
attendees. In November,
the Metro Buffalo, N.Y.,
Mosque-Synagogue Twinning
Weekend took place.
Four local Jewish and
three Muslim congregations
shared religious services
and spiritual study,
discussed joint projects
to help the community,
and offered a health fair
manned by Muslim and
Jewish physicians and
dentists.
I’m sure that Susan would
be happy that someone is
trying to keep her vision
alive.
Robert S. Stall, MD ’83
Tonawanda, NY
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from theUBAAPresident
We asked UBAA
President Larry Zielinski,
MBA ’77 & BA ’75, to dispel
some common misconceptions
about what constitutes membership
in the UB Alumni Association.
Q: Is every UB graduate automatically a member of the
UB Alumni Association
No. Members are individuals who have purchased a
membership from the UB Alumni Association. Whether
you’re a UB parent, spouse, UB Believer, neighbor or
Bulls fan, anyone in Western New York or around the
world is welcome to officially join our network.
Q: How many alumni are actually members of the
alumni association
Of our more than 208,000 alumni living worldwide, only
about 12,000 have made this commitment and are duespaying
members. I know our alums are loyal and want
to do the right thing, but for whatever reason they’ve not
taken the extra step to show it. With all of the wonderful
things that are happening here under President John
B. Simpson and with the UB 2020 vision, my goal is to
engender much broader support.
Q: What about UB Today Does receiving this issue
mean that someone is a member
Actually, that is probably the biggest misconception concerning
membership. Many other universities reserve
their magazine exclusively for members of the alumni
association; however, we think that UB Today is such a
valuable publication that we send it to all alumni (unless
they have specifically requested not to receive it).
Q: So what do members get
The value of membership varies from person to person.
Some people tell me they join simply because they want
to give something back, others because they feel it’s the
“right thing to do.” Many others like the fact that we
offer so many discounts and benefits, such as on-campus
parking privileges, reduced ticket prices for alumni
events in Buffalo and around the country, online retailer
discounts, travel and insurance programs, and the like.
Still others take advantage of our networking and career
services benefits, and access to our network of more than
200,000 alumni around the world.
Q: How long have you been a member
Proudly, since 1991.
(See related article on p. 36.)
Schussmeisters’ officers and staff, ca. 1977.
flashback
1960
Schussmeisters hits
the slopes
Snow in the forecast That’s
good news for members of the
Schussmeisters Ski Club Inc., an
organization founded in 1960
by a group of UB students who
embraced all aspects of skiing.
These students established connections
with Western New York
ski areas, local ski shops and bus
companies in an effort to bring affordable skiing to the UB community.
During the 1960s, the club invited ski teams from other colleges
and universities to ski meets that featured slalom, downhill and crosscountry
races, as well as ski jumping events.
The Schussmeisters became a student-run, non-profit corporation in
1972, offering memberships to UB students, faculty, staff, alumni and
members of their immediate families. From December through March,
club members can enjoy regularly scheduled outings to local ski areas,
including Holiday Valley, Kissing Bridge, Cockaigne and Peek’n Peak.
Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, Schussmeisters is one of
the largest and most active clubs at UB. With more than 2,100 members,
the group ranks as one of the largest ski clubs in the Eastern
United States. In past years, Schussmeisters has sponsored many
out-of-town trips. The group’s 2009-10 travel offerings include trips to
Park City, Utah, and Killington, Vt., as well as a spring break sojourn
in Cancún, Mexico.
Schussmeisters is run by eight undergraduate students, a faculty/staff
adviser and a full-time office manager. Kathy Witt, the club’s office
manager for the past 23 years, describes the student-run corporation
as “excellent preparation for getting a job.” Students who start
out as volunteers can later apply for such positions as bus captain,
head bus captain and finally, director. Many students enjoy their
Schussmeisters experience so much that they keep in touch with the
club long after graduation.
The Schussmeisters will mark its 50th anniversary with a party on
July 24, 2010 at Kissing Bridge Ski Resort. The party, featuring music,
food, a cash bar and prizes, is open to the public and everyone is invited
to celebrate with the Schussmeisters, a UB club for all seasons!
—Kathleen Quinlivan, University Libraries
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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
Douglas Levere, BA ’89
Architecture students
Bailie and Dudkowski
turned a master’s thesis
into a masterpiece.
A c a d e m i c i n s i g h t
139 Howell Street
Where others saw blight, Michael-John Bailie, MArch ’09 & BA ’07, Paul
Dudkowski, MArch ’09 & BA ’07, Ernest Ng, MArch ’09, and Dan Stripp,
MArch ’09 & BA ’07, saw opportunity. In October 2008, the four friends,
then entering their final year in UB’s architecture master’s program, purchased
crumbling 139 Howell St. in Buffalo—their thesis project—for
$6,500 at a public auction. They gutted the home and began a renovation
that would transform the derelict property into a neighborhood gem.
Ultimately, they put $36,000 into renovations, with donations of some
materials.
The finished product, “Quad Space,” is a work of art and a tribute to
minimalist living. At less than 700 square feet, the dwelling includes a
bathroom with a claw-foot tub, a kitchenette, a parlor and four bedrooms,
one of which doubles as a lounge. Each of the private quarters consists
largely of a giant “cube,” a 7-by-7-by-7.5 foot space constructed using a
sleek, warm-toned wood. The boxes protrude partway from the house’s
original brick exterior, giving the structure a whimsical quality.
“These students have a sophisticated architectural sensibility,” says
Mehrdad Hadighi, associate professor and chair of the architecture department,
and a Quad Space thesis advisor. “It usually takes people a good
10 to 15 years after school and being in practice to be able to figure these
things out.”
To read more, visit http://cjhsu.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/
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School of Management
Rankings
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one of the best in the U.S. for
1return on investment]
B r e a k i n g
R e s e a r c h
MS research
probes new
theory on cause
UB neurologists are conducting
a research study
that could overturn the
prevailing wisdom on
the cause of multiple
sclerosis (MS).
The researchers will test
the possibility that the
symptoms of MS result
from the narrowing
of the primary veins
outside the skull, a
condition called “chronic
cerebrospinal venous
insufficiency,” or CCSVI.
This complex vascular
condition restricts the
normal outflow of blood
from the brain, resulting
in brain tissue injury
and degeneration of
neurons. Discovered by
Paolo Zamboni at the
University of Ferrara in
Italy, CCSVI was found to
increase the risk of developing
MS by 43-fold.
Preliminary findings
from a small pilot
study at the Buffalo
Neuroimaging Analysis
Center (BNAC) headed
by Robert Zivadinov, UB
associate professor of
neurology, director of
the BNAC and principal
investigator, and at the
universities of Ferrara
and Bologna, Italy,
directed by Zamboni and
Fabrizio Salvi, respec-
tively, showed that
abnormalities affecting
predominant pathways
that return venous blood
from the brain to the
heart occurred more
frequently in MS patients
than in controls.
The UB/BNAC study,
involving 1,600 adults
and 100 children—1,100
patients who were
diagnosed with possible
or definite MS, 300
age-and-sex matched
normal controls, and
300 patients with other
autoimmune and neurodegenerative
diseases—
will determine if the
pilot-study findings can
be replicated. All participants
will receive Doppler
ultrasound scans of
the head and neck, while
MS participants also
will undergo MRI brain
scans. Results from the
first 500 participants
were expected to be released
in February 2010.
MS patients from across
the U.S. are eligible to
participate in the study.
For more details on the
study, go to www.bnac.
net/page_id=517.
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Open Wide Stefan Ruhl, a faculty member
in the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental
Medicine, obtains saliva, blood and dental plaque samples
from Kwizera, a 200-plus-pound female gorilla at the Buffalo
Zoo who was receiving a physical examination before heading
to the Memphis Zoo for breeding. The specimens will help
advance Ruhl’s research into human evolution and how and
why the types of bacteria living inside the oral cavity of primates
differ from the types living inside humans.
U B P e o p l e
White House honors for engineering professor
In an October 2009 White House ceremony,
Esther S. Takeuchi, Greatbatch Professor in
Power Sources Research and SUNY Distinguished
Professor in the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, received the National
Medal of Technology and Innovation—the highest
honor awarded in the U.S. for technological
achievement—from President Barack Obama.
Takeuchi, a UB faculty member since 2007, was
the first UB professor to receive this honor. The
takeuchi
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
recognizes individuals or companies for outstanding contributions to
the promotion of technology for the improvement of the economic,
environmental or social well-being of the United States.
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s
Public Health
and Health
Professions
earns
accreditation
The School of Public
Health and Health Professions
(SPHHP) has
earned full accreditation
from the Council
on Education for Public
Health for five years, the
maximum for an initial
accreditation.
Accreditation was the
culmination of a rigorous
multi-year peerreview
process. UB’s
SPHHP now is one of
only 43 schools in the
U.S. to hold membership
in the Association
of Schools of Public
Health.
“When the school was
founded in 2003, the
vision was to become
S p e a k i n g o f
accredited and join
the first rank of public
health schools in the
country,” says Lynn
T. Kozlowski, dean of
SPHHP. “I’m proud that
we have accomplished
this on our first effort.
“We have a significant
shortage of public health
workers,” continues
Kozlowski, “and this
shortage challenges us
in Western New York, in
the state, in the nation
and in the world. We
will need more than
250,000 public health
workers by 2020 to meet
the world’s health care
needs—a challenge that
is compounded by the
impending retirement
of nearly one-fourth of
the current public health
workforce. SPHHP now
can ramp up its training
of public health workers
and help deal with this
shortage.”
“Can we actually find
within the soul of humankind the
ability to live with each other, to
exist with each other peacefully
To respect each other, no matter
what our faith, our culture, our
civilization That’s the biggest
challenge that we have.”
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Distinguished
Speakers Series, Alumni Arena, Oct. 7, 2009
For 2009-2010 Distinguished Speakers Series ticket information,
go to www.specialevents.buffalo.edu.
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Douglas Levere, BA ’89
Artist’s rendering of William R. Greiner Hall.
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s
Residence hall echoes
campus master plan
A new residence hall that embodies the principles
of UB’s comprehensive physical plan,
“Building UB,” is under construction on the
North Campus. See related article on page 24.
The 600-unit William R. Greiner Hall for
sophomores will feature a “learning landscapes”
concept designed to enhance learning by blending
residential, academic and recreational areas.
“The first floor has a wide variety of settings
for classroom spaces for study groups and for individual
study, and features a 2,000-square-foot
Market Café with seating for 50 people,” according
to Joseph J. Krakowiak, EdM ’73, director
of University Residence Halls and Apartments.
“Casual study will be enhanced through the use
of technology, lighting and flexible spaces.”
The 198,500-square-foot residence is expected
to be ready for occupancy for the fall 2011 semester.
The $57 million project is being funded
by a partnership between the UB Foundation
and the UB Alumni Association.
William R. Greiner Hall will include features
that qualify it for a Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) gold standard.
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s
UB welcomes
new dental
medicine dean
Michael Glick, professor
of oral medicine and associate
dean for oral and
medical sciences at the
School of Osteopathic
Medicine at A. T. Still
University in Arizona and
editor of The Journal
of the American Dental
A c a d e m i c I n s i g h t
glick
Association, has been
named dean of the UB
School of Dental Medicine.
Known for his innovative,
medicineoriented
approach to
dental care, Glick is
a proponent of having
dental students think
of themselves as health
care professionals first,
and dentists second. His
Reaching out to Haiti
research interests are
focused primarily on the
care of the medically
complex dental patient,
and he has published
extensively and lectured
worldwide on this topic.
Glick succeeds Richard
Buchanan, who in 2008
announced plans to
step down as dean after
seven years in the post
to devote more time to
national issues in dental
education.
The powerful aftershock on Jan. 20 that hit the already devastated
city of Port-au-Prince only intensified Haiti’s need for Frenchspeaking
structural engineers who could immediately determine
which of the structures left standing still
posed a threat to human safety.
André Filiatrault, UB professor of civil,
structural and environmental engineering
and director of the Multidisciplinary Center
for Earthquake Engineering Research
(MCEER), headquartered at UB, led one of
the first such missions to address this critical
need. He was part of a team of 10 architects
and engineers from U.S. educational
institutions and private engineering firms.
André Filiatrault (in white
hat) at Haitian orphanage.
“The sole purpose of these missions is
humanitarian, to ensure the safety and welfare
of Haitian citizens,” Filiatrault says. “We are taking the knowledge
of earthquake engineers at MCEER, UB and in the engineering
profession at large and applying it at a time when it is most urgently
needed.”
Douglas Levere, BA ’89
U n i v e r s i t y N e w s
Scholarships will
retain UB students
in WNY
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The Prentice Family Foundation
has given more
than $380,000 to help UB
students graduate and establish
their careers in the
Buffalo Niagara region.
The Prentice Family
Foundation’s Western
New York Prosperity
Scholarship Program is
designed to help build a
highly educated, innovative
and experienced
professional workforce
prepared to contribute
to the economic growth
and sustainability of the
area. These scholarships
will enable qualified
students in the UB
schools of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences,
Engineering and Applied
Sciences, and Management
to become better
acquainted with career
possibilities in the
region.
“Through this gift, my
family hopes to make
a multi-generational
impact on Western
New York, helping
to transform it into a
21st-century knowledge
economy,” says Bryant
H. Prentice III, president
of the Prentice Family
Foundation.
Visit http://wnyprosperityscholars.buffalo.edu.

seenreadheard
Books
The Politics of Cocaine
By William L. Marcy, PhD ’07
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
Drawing on
declassified
documents and
extensive firsthand
research,
“The Politics
of Cocaine” is
an examination
of the U.S. narcotics policy
in South America and Central
America from 1972 to 2008.
The book explores why the U.S.
remains unable to control the
flow of cocaine into the U.S. and
why the “war on drugs” appears
to be spiraling out of control.
(Lawrence Hill Books, 2010)
The Happy Book
By Rachel Kempster BA ’97
“The Happy
Book” shows
how to practice
and
celebrate
happiness
so you can
find it when
you really need it. Packed with
creative prompts, wacky ideas,
and hip activities, this is the ultimate
pick-me-up. Packaged to
encourage doodling and drawing,
The Happy Book has space
to scribble thoughts, make lists,
fill in the blanks, and paste pictures.
This book is about creating
a record of what makes you
glad, whether that means ‘80s
hair bands or hot chocolate with
churros. (Sourcebooks, 2009)
Called Back: My Reply to Cancer,
My Return to Life
By Mary Cappello, PhD ’88
& MA ’85
In her intensely personal
and insightful memoir, Mary
Cappello wonders aloud what
breast cancer
awareness
really makes
us aware of,
and responds
as if for the
first time to
the deceivingly
simple command, “tell me what
you’re feeling.” “Called Back”
looks through the lens of cancer
to discover—often with humor—
new truths about intimacy and
essential solitude, eroticism, the
fact of the body, and the impossibility
of turning away. (Alyson
Books, 2009)
The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food
and Friendship
By Andrea Israel and Nancy
Garfinkel, PhD ’80 & MA ’77
“The Recipe
Club” is a
“novel cookbook,”
a deliciously
funny,
touching story
of friendship,
loss and the
ties that bind—with more than
80 recipes that keep the plot
cooking. This heartfelt story
celebrates the resilience and
power of women’s friendships.
It’s a charming pastiche of
e-mails, handwritten childhood
letters, third-person narration,
photographs and illustrations.
(Polhemus Press, 2009)
Runaway Dream
By Louis P. Masur, BA ’78
“Runaway
Dream” is a rich
history of Bruce
Springsteen’s
greatest album,
“Born to Run,”
celebrating
its themes of
youth, escape and possibility,
just in time for the Boss’
recent 60th birthday. Louis
Masur chronicles the making
of the album that launched
Springsteen and his E Street
Band into the firmament of
American art, deftly sketching
the ambition, history and personalities
that combined to create
the enduring “Born to Run.”
(Bloomsbury Press, 2009)
Buffalo: Architecture in the
American Forgotten Land
By David A. Steele, MArch ’86
& BS ’82
In a black
and white
photographic
homage
to Buffalo,
Chicago
architect David Steele captures
the amazing facades and essential
architectural high points
that make Buffalo unique. From
his personal photographic collection
of Buffalo spanning two
decades, this 160-page photo
journal assembles Buffalo’s past
and current architectural treasures.
Available at http://www.
buffbuildings.com. (Blurb, 2009)
Rude Awakenings of a Jane
Austen Addict
By Laurie Viera Rigler, BA ’79
Part comedy,
part love story,
part timebending
social
commentary,
“Rude
Awakenings
of a Jane
Austen Addict”
is the story of Jane Mansfield,
a gentleman’s daughter from
Regency England who inexplicably
awakens in the body and life
of a 21st-century Los Angeles
woman. (Dutton Adult, 2009)
Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and
Society in the Early Republic
By Thomas H. Cox, PhD ’04
& MA ’98
This is the first
book-length
treatment of the
landmark 1824
Supreme Court
decision that
gave Congress
the power to
regulate commerce among
the states. “Gibbons v. Ogden”
provides the historical context
for one of the Supreme Court’s
most significant decisions—a
decision that is still taught in
constitutional law courses and
continues to influence cases
involving interstate trade. (Ohio
University Press, 2009)
Music
Vesuvius
Chris Vasi, BA ’91
This CD
compilation
from guitarist
Chris
Vasi and
his quartet
brings together original work
alongside musical compositions
by Charles Mingus, Thelonious
Monk and the Beatles. The
result is smooth jazz music
infused with Latin, West African
and funk elements. “Vesuvius”
is available at CD Baby and
iTunes. (Fortuitous Records,
2009)
Go to
www.buffalo.edu/ubt
for more titles and submission guidelines.
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sportform
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
F o o t b a l l
Where F is a passing grade
Quinn was hired to replace Turner Gill, who
has been named new head coach of Big 12 power
Kansas.
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Quinn
The UB football Bulls ushered in a new era with
the hiring of Jeff Quinn, who hopes to bring his
student athletes a whole lot of “F’s.”
Some explanation is in order.
“To know Jeff Quinn, I always talk about the
five F’s,” Quinn said on a Buffalo sports radio
program shortly after the announcement of his
appointment in December. “My faith, my family,
football, fishing and having some fun.”
Buffalo is Quinn’s first head-coaching position,
but his resume is packed with passing grades—
and then some. The offensive-minded coach has
tutored star quarterbacks Dan LeFevour and Tony
Pike in a standout career as assistant coach at
Grand Valley State, Central Michigan and, most
recently, the University of Cincinnati, where he
was offensive coordinator and line coach. He
served as the Bearcats’ interim head coach for the
team’s Sugar Bowl appearance against Florida on
New Year’s Day. And Quinn was a finalist for the
2010 Frank Broyles Award, which is given to the
nation’s top assistant football coach.
sportsspectrum
Finest
moments
of fall and
winter
Nov. 10, 2009 Football’s Naaman Roosevelt
becomes UB’s all-time leading receiver with eight
receptions for 165 yards and three touchdowns in a
nationally televised game vs. Ohio at UB Stadium.
Nov. 11, 2009 Men’s cross-country earns
superlative No. 13 ranking in U.S. Track & Field
and Cross Country Coaches’ poll for the Northeast
Region.
Nov. 17, 2009 Women’s volleyball team beats
Kent State to reach first-ever Mid-American Conference
quarterfinals.
Dec. 6, 2009 Men’s and women’s swimming
teams break multiple tournament records, while
finishing second at Akron’s Zippy Invitational.
Jan. 9, 2010 Senior wrestler Dan Bishop and
sophomore grappler Kevin Smith lead UB to massive
upset of No. 12 Nebraska at NWCA/Cliff Keen
National Duals held at the University of Northern
Iowa.
Two former Bulls at Super
Bowl XLIV
Football alumni Drew Willy, BA ’09, and Jamey
Richard, BS ’08, represented the Indianapolis
Colts in the Super Bowl—Willy on the practice
roster and as the team’s third quarterback, and
Richard on special teams. (See photo on page 38.)
The Feb. 7 match-up between Indianapolis and
New Orleans was the first time in more than 40
years that Bulls alumni had played in the nation’s
most-watched football tourney. The previous occasion
was Super Bowl III in 1969, when Gerry Philbin,
BA ’67, played for the New York Jets against
the Baltimore Colts. (New York won, 16-7.)
“It’s incredible,” Richard told The Buffalo News
in a Feb. 4 interview. “In my second year I never
thought I’d be here. You think about it your whole
life but you never know that you’re going to make
it to the NFL until you actually get there. Playing
for the Colts and being in the Super Bowl, I’ve just
tried to take it all in.”
For his part, Willy spent the week
before the game assuming Drew
Brees’ role during Colts practices.
“I’m just glad to be here and I’m willing
to do anything I can to help the
team,” Willy told The Buffalo News,
adding that studying with Peyton
Manning offers invaluable lessons.
“We’re blessed to learn from him and
it’s something we look forward to
every practice.”
W o m e n ’ s b a s k e t b a l l
Long road home
If Nytor Longar’s life journey could
be illustrated with a phone coverage
map, she’d definitely have the competition
licked.
The UB women’s hoopster has
spent time on three continents in
her 21 years, moving about the globe
in a remarkable family odyssey that
closely resembles a Hollywood movie.
The youngest of 11 children, Longar

Former UB quarterback Drew Willy
takes the snap from former UB
center Jamey Richard. Both players
were at Super Bowl XLIV with the
Indianapolis Colts.
Go to
www.buffalobulls.com
for updates on all team
schedules and news,
and for information on
purchasing tickets.
W o m e n ’ s S o c c e r
Intercontinental assistant
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was born in Sudan before moving
to Egypt at age three.
Three years later, the family moved
stateside and went on to realize the proverbial
American dream. Her brother, Longar Longar,
is a 6-foot-11 center who averaged 11.4 points and
5.6 rebounds per game at Big 12 power Oklahoma
in 2008.
When Longar’s career took off at John Marshall
High School in Rochester,
Minn., and schools
like Arizona, Milwaukee and
Buffalo came calling, she
enlisted her brother for advice
on where to go for college.
“We are extremely close,”
says Longar, a UB freshman
psychology major. “He’d
always make time for me, go
to the gym and shoot around.
He’s the main reason I started
playing basketball. Our relationship is the greatest.
We text all the time.”
Between conversing with her brother and
other family members, Longar had a lot of help
in deciding which college to attend. While she
had the final say, the decision was nonetheless
a family one, she says. In fact, members of her
extended family weighed in from various points
abroad, including Australia, Canada and England,
in addition to the U.S.
Though Longar is trilingual (she speaks English,
Arabic and Dinka), she needs precious few
words to describe why she chose UB.
“I felt at home here,” she says.
Longar
Home is a loose term for Kim Brandao,
the Portuguese-American soccer star
who spent the fall 2009 semester as
an assistant coach on the women’s
soccer team. Born in New Jersey to
Portuguese immigrants,
Brandao has thrived on
two continents with a
daunting schedule that
would intimidate most
people.
“Since my national team debut
just over two years ago, I’ve played
for Portugal in various countries,
including Denmark, Italy, Slovenia and
Ukraine, and in World Cup-qualifying
and European Cup-qualifying games,”
she says. Brandao played collegiate ball
at Rutgers and now enjoys a professional
career that has taken her to Sweden,
Spain and, most recently, Buffalo.
Brandao
“All in all, I suppose you could say
I’ve been lucky enough to play soccer in about
eight countries so far, and this year I also have
away games in Armenia and Finland to look
forward to, along with playing in my third-straight
Algarve Cup, the international tournament that
Portugal hosts and the USA also plays in.”
Brandao also is the captain of the Buffalo Flash,
the only women’s professional sports team in
Western New York. The international star hopes
that her world of experience will bring professional
success to her UB players.
“I hope that sharing my experiences with the
girls I coach can help inspire them enough to keep
working hard at their game and show them that
there is opportunity for women to play beyond
college, although it’s obviously much harder—due
to far fewer opportunities, and much less money
involved—than it is for men,” she says.
Compiled by Nick Mendola, BA ’05
New and
improved
You may have noticed a
change in our UB mascot,
Victor E. Bull. Victor
spent last summer
working out in the Morris
Center on the North
Campus, with the goal
of becoming stronger,
harder and faster for the
2009 football season.
Victor comments on his
recent transformation,
“I did it for the team and
the fans!”
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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
the baby
whisperer
t 10 weeks, Willamina Gerber looks healthy enough, with soft
skin, downy hair, alert eyes—and a cry like a fire engine. For pediatrician
Harvey Karp, BA ’72, who has calmed thousands of babies,
soothing Willamina should pose no problem. But at a photo shoot
in Karp’s Los Angeles office, a photographer wants to place the
Pediatrician
Harvey Karp
reassures
anxious
parents with
his sure-fire
methods for
calming their
infants.
14-pound baby on a cold glass table and make it look like she’s
having fun. Willamina is fussy, so Karp applies the “Five S’s” he
popularized in his 2002 best-selling DVD and book, “The Happiest
Baby on the Block.” He swaddles Willamina in a polka-dot blanket,
shushes in her ear, cradles her on her side and swings her gently.
She sucks on a bottle and calms down. But when Karp unwraps and
readies Willamina for her close-up, she whimpers. He repeats the
Five S’s until her arms flop trance-like to her sides.
p h o t o s B y m a x s . g e r b e r
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Karp honed his baby calming skills
during his 30-year practice, ministering
to children of regular folks and, yes, to the
children of many LA-rooted celebrities
(Madonna, Pierce Brosnan). He’s known
as a “baby whisperer” and toddler tamer,
and called his 2004 DVD and book, “The
Happiest Toddler on the Block.”
The books offer straightforward
paradigms. Babies are born three months
before they’re fully ready for the world
and, mimicking womb sensations, Karp
discovered, activates a previously unknown
calming reflex that switches off crying and
switches on sleep. Toddlers are more like
cavemen than humans; thus, short, repetitive
commands stop tantrums faster than
reasoning with them.
With his brown hair and sparkling
smile, Karp seems younger than his 58
years. “I think of you as 8,” a friend told
him at his last birthday party. “I’m a kid,”
Karp admits. “Maintaining a sense of playfulness
throughout our lifetime is one of
the great gifts given to human beings.”
But the blue ribbon he wears to raise
awareness about child abuse underscores
the seriousness of his work: Teaching parents
to soothe their babies prevents child
abuse. His shelves are lined with his books
translated into 20 languages. Karp, who
gave up his star-studded practice, is driven
more by conscience than by fame. “What
motivates me are the millions of children
worldwide, whose poor sleep and persistent
screaming are a huge burden for them
and their families,” he says. “It provokes
serious public health issues like abuse,
depression and even crib death. I hope that
my work is a tiny step to strengthen the
family fabric.”
Louise Mark, a Virginia-based RN and
“Happiest Baby” educator who has worked
with drug-addicted mothers and their
babies, has seen Karp’s impact firsthand.
“When I saw him wrap these kids up and
shushed them and they stopped screaming
immediately, I got a chill,” she says.
Last fall, he brought his message to
the University at Buffalo, receiving the
Distinguished Alumni Award from the
College of Arts and Sciences. It was his first
visit since his 1972 graduation. Memories
flooded Karp: students dressed in bellbottoms,
jeans jackets and tie-dye, protesting
against the Vietnam War. “You remember
feelings: nighttime, crowds, jumping the
dead car battery in the dead of winter.”
Karp, the son of an engineer and a
homemaker, took action on social issues
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as a child in Queens. In 1960, at the age of
9, he posted his hand-drawn “Kennedy for
President” signs. He tutored underprivileged
kids, worked in student government
and joined a Students for a Democratic
Society chapter at Bayside High. He
dreamed of becoming a doctor. When he
graduated, he chose UB, along with 110
other students from Bayside High. With a
New York Regent’s Scholarship in hand,
he took his first airplane flight in 1968 to
begin his higher education.
“
What motivates me
are the millions of
children worldwide,
whose poor sleep
and persistent
screaming are a
huge burden for them
and their families.
”
uring the marches on
Washington in 1970, Karp
bused down with hundreds
of students. Following
the May 4 shootings at
Kent State, Karp became a
strike captain at UB, occupying the administration
building, as Buffalo police officers
fired tear gas and pellets at students.
“A running thread in my life is not
bowing to authority,” says Karp, who also
participated in the first Earth Day in 1970,
foreshadowing his national leadership in
protecting children from chemicals.
Amid the turmoil, he earned his BA in
biology. Prof. Gordon Swartz’s embryology
course introduced Karp to concepts that
inspired his thinking. Swartz, who regaled
students with his boxing tales, taught Karp
that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”—
meaning the development of the individual
echoes the evolution of the species. In
“The Happiest Toddler on the Block,”
Karp concludes that toddlers are passing
through a primitive phase.
Another highlight for Karp was joining
the fencing team. While receiving
the award last fall, he donned his fencing
sweater. “It looked like a brand new
vintage sweater and it probably fit him as
well as it did then,” says Guy Tomassi, the
College of Arts and Sciences development
director instrumental in bringing Karp
back to UB.
Karp continued his social awareness at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
where he earned his medical degree, and
discovered his life’s work when he visited
the pediatrics ward at Jacobi Medical
Center in the Bronx. “There were kids with
sickle cell anemia, meningitis and other
serious problems standing in their cribs,
rocking and bouncing to ‘Soul Train’ on
TV,” he recalls. “They were so full of life. It
was exciting to help them heal.”
He was hooked on kids. He didn’t have
a child biologically, but he helped raise his
wife Nina Montée’s daughter, Lexi, now 26,
from her 8th year. “I was fortunate because
I got to be around dozens of young children
every day during my practice.”
He completed his residency at Children’s
Hospital in Los Angeles. “It was a cathedral
of caring about helping children in need,”
he says. And he followed with a combined
fellowship at UCLA in child development
and ambulatory pediatrics, educating pediatricians
about child development.
He probably would have gone into academia
had he not suffered a minor heart
attack at the age of 29. He was hospitalized.
Instead of stents and statins (which didn’t
exist) he went on a diet rich in omega-3s.
“It was an important wake-up call for me,”
recalls Karp, who finally underwent bypass
surgery a few years ago.

Karp went into private practice.
He keeps mementos from his practice,
including a framed Life magazine about
natural childbirth from 1950 with the
headline, “Mothers Actually Conscious
During Delivery!” and a photo of a baby
breast-feeding. Karp was medical adviser
to UCLA’s breast-feeding center. “Breastfeeding
was almost lost and forgotten in
the mid-1950s when everyone switched to
artificial formula,” he says.
He became intrigued by reports of the
ability of the bushmen in southern Africa
to calm their fussy babies in less than one
minute. “Either the bushman babies were
mutant or they knew something that we
had forgotten in our own culture,” he says.
As Karp perfected his 5 S’s approach,
his popularity in Los Angeles ballooned.
“One of the great privileges about being a
pediatrician is that you’re invited into people’s
families in the most intimate way,” he
says.
He wanted toddlers to enjoy office
visits. He insisted on half-hour checkups,
rather than 15 minutes, developing a
relationship with each child. He gained a
reputation for his work with doctor-phobic
toddlers. “I was terrible at winning over
women in college but it turns out I was
pretty darn good at winning over reluctant
toddlers,” he jokes.
Then, in 2000, after 20 years of refining
his ideas, Karp wrote a proposal for
what would eventually become America’s
No. 1 parenting guide. Armed with a videotape
displaying his “magic,” he drew bids
from 10 publishers and signed a $1.1 million,
two-book deal.
“People joke that kids don’t come
with instructions but now they do,” Karp
says. “Parents who follow these specific
techniques see dramatic changes in their
child’s behavior in days or less.”
Karp’s press material includes glowing
comments from such luminaries as Julius
Richmond, a past U.S. Surgeon General:
“Dr. Karp’s work is fascinating. I believe
it will reassure and guide new parents for
many years to come.”
He appeared on national shows, like
“Good Morning America” and “Dr. Phil.”
His work has entered the zeitgeist as a
question on “Jeopardy” and a story line
on “Ugly Betty.” And The New York Times
compared him to Dr. Benjamin Spock.
Says Karp: “Dr. Spock was a giant of his
time. I am thrilled to have the chance to
help hardworking parents succeed.”
He regrets leaving his practice. “It was
my identity and my social network and my
daily dopamine rush.” But, as his father
says in Yiddish: “One tuchas can’t sit on all
the seats.”
Nevertheless, Karp recognizes his influence
and hopes to handle it wisely. He’s
turned down many endorsement offers
to preserve his credibility and usefulness
in the lives of parents. “I thought when
the first book was published, that would
be it,” he says. “Game over. People would
read it and our culture would be put back
on track. But I learned that even when a
profound new idea was released—like the
explanation and cure for colic—it takes a
concerted effort to get the message out.”
e created a network
of 3,500 Happiest Baby
educators. Health departments
from Pennsylvania
to Minnesota have adopted
his programs. Karp hopes to do the same
with his “Happiest Toddler” techniques.
The ideas expressed in the book, along
with the related classes and creation of the
Happiest Toddler Network, are “going to
be my greatest legacy,” he predicts, and
others agree.
“Parents will be delighted by this clever
approach to communicating with toddlers,”
says Janet Serwint, MD, professor
of pediatrics and director of pediatric resident
education, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
Teresa Olsen, program director of child
abuse education for the Pennsylvania
chapter of the American Academy of
Pediatrics, has been a Happiest Baby educator
for four years. She says the toddler
techniques work well for her five-year-old
son Luke—and on husbands. “Dr. Karp
is an answer to a lot of parents’ prayers,”
she says. “Give me something that works
and that is simple. Watching the DVD, you
feel like you’re having a cup of coffee with
him.”
Bill Meyer, associate clinical professor
in psychiatry and OB/GYN at Duke
University, has seen Karp’s methods help
women with postpartum depression. “If
you can provide a tool that suddenly calms
the infant, that in turn gives the mother
more sleep and confidence,” says Meyer,
who has facilitated a postpartum depression
support group for two decades.
These days, Karp is beginning to apply
his techniques to children with language
disorders, mental retardation and autism.
He spoke about the benefits of immunizations
on “Larry King,” challenging the
hypothetical connections between immunizations
and autism.
And this year, he and his producerdirector
wife have ventured into a new
field, releasing a five-hour DVD titled
“Breast Cancer: The Path of Wellness &
Healing.” It offers the latest information
about healing from breast cancer—body,
mind and spirit—and features interviews
with top doctors like Susan Love and
Dean Ornish, celebrity survivors like
Sheryl Crow and Christina Applegate, and
spiritual advisers like Deepak Chopra.
The profits of this work will be donated
to Breastcancer.org and UCLA’s Jonsson
Comprehensive Cancer Center. “It isn’t
just a medical piece,” Karp says. “It’s the
whole gestalt about how one heals.”
Karp’s ideas—often written on scraps
of paper—keep coming, from planned
books about childhood sleep to the evolution
of human intelligence. He’s a leading
advocate on protecting children from
harmful chemicals. Along with Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. and others, he helped rally
hundreds of thousands of protesters on the
Capital Mall during the 30th anniversary
of Earth Day in 2000. A 2007 op-ed piece
he co-authored in the Los Angeles Times
about the dangers of phthalates catalyzed
congressional legislation that banned them
from children’s products. Karp also hopes
to encourage the banning of bisphenol A,
a synthetic estrogen used in carbonless
copy paper, canned food and baby bottles.
“We know from many research studies
that these chemicals have an effect on the
developing fetus and child, and probably
on the adult as well, increasing the risk of
breast cancer and obesity,” says Karp.
As the 40th Earth Day approaches,
Karp continues to focus on issues affecting
children that have been ignored. In his
office, he displays a painting of a husband
and wife with their child on their shoulders.
The child points to a green and blue
earth in a velvety universe. His work is
about human interconnectedness.
“It’s seeing the unity rather than the
divisions, whether it’s the unity of us with
nature, or the unity of America with other
nations or inner city with suburbia. It’s all
a matter of raised consciousness.”
Lyndon Stambler is a LA-based writer
and journalism professor at Santa Monica
College who has contributed to The New
York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
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a
Bill Greiner, an incredible
teacher and a good man. No With a warm smile, Bill
matter how high he rose, no brought “human-ness” to
matter the demands on his UB. Over the years, it was
time, he remembered your always a pleasure to see Bill
and Carol Greiner grace
name, what you did, and
the Center for the Arts with
always, always had a kind
their presence. Bill was a
word. UB is a better place dancer at heart; from watching
him dance with Carol
because of him.
at UB Scholarship Galas in
Wendy Irving, JD ‘91, EdM ‘91 & BA ‘87,
Assistant Vice President for the CFA Atrium to attending
Gift Planning
Zodiaque Dance Company
concerts in the CFA Drama
Theatre. He respected the
academic pursuits of scholars, athletes and
artists. I am confident that he has found more
golden floors beneath his feet.
Tom Ralabate, Associate Professor, Dance
Rhea Anna
In Memory of
William R.
Greiner
President Emeritus Greiner, a
beloved figure to generations of UB
students and faculty throughout
his 42 years on campus, died on
December 19, 2009. He touched
the lives of people in ways he could
have never imagined. Those who
knew him share their stories of
love, respect and admiration for a
man who dedicated his life to public
service and to UB.
To see a pictorial tribute online and
to leave your own comments, go to
www.buffalo.edu/GreinerMemorial
Bill Greiner cared deeply
I will never forget meeting
about people—his faculty
President Greiner as a freshman
when he and his wife opened colleagues and administrators,
the front-line
their home to the UB marching
band during the 2000 football and back-office staff,
season. I was overwhelmed by and most importantly
their generosity at inviting us to
students, especially
a private barbecue at their home
undergraduates. He
where we spent hours talking
and laughing together.
hated inane rules that
caused students incredible
stress. That’s how
Kari Terwilliger, MUP ‘08 & BA ‘06, Planner
he first connected with
me, enlisting me to help
untangle some red tape on the behalf of those students.
Bill always showed me respect and personal
concern, and even praise. I was humbled by his
kindness. I am so grateful to have known him.
Joanne Plunkett, EDM ‘75, Staff Member (Retired)
At one commencement ceremony, I particularly recall Bill commenting
in his address about how proud and impressed he was
at seeing the accomplishments of the graduating class. He then,
in his self-effacing manner, acknowledged how at that moment
he felt upstaged by them.
Anthony Rozak, BFA ‘69, Associate Professor, Department of Art
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I am proud to say Professor and
President Greiner was a major reason
for my success. Two (of many)
stories from my 28 UB years stand
out. Bill Greiner stood by me during
the politically risky work in Hickory
Woods; he understood my commitment
and instead of retreating
under political pressure, supported
my work publicly as an example
of how university faculty should
contribute to difficult community
issues, linking research with community
problems. The second is
when Carol and Bill were marching
as I received the Newman Award
from the Newman Center. Carol
leaned over to my son and whispered
to him that of all the awards
we might receive, this one was the
most important one. No one cared
so much for UB and Buffalo.
Joe Gardella, Professor and Larkin Chair
of Chemistry
There is an Italian
expression, “sprezzatura,”
that is hard to
translate but means
something like “the
talent for doing something
unusually difficult
with unaffected
ease and grace.” Bill
Greiner had that gift.
Jack Peradotto, SUNY
Distinguished Teaching
Professor Emeritus
I will always remember “Mr. G’s” kind smile and welcoming
attitude. Whether it was hosting parties for professors
or shaking the hands of students at football and basketball
games, you never felt that you could not approach him.
He always remembered your name and always took the
time to see how you were doing. The years I spent working
catered events at the Greiners’ home and office are some of
my most treasured
times at UB. I will
forever cherish the
moment of walking
across the stage to
receive my MSW
and finding Mr. G
with his arms outstretched
for a hug.
Danielle (“Danni”) Miller-
Juliano, MSW ‘00 & BA ‘96,
Social Worker
I was amazed by Bill Greiner’s presence
and his passion for the university
and for athletics. He and his wife, Carol,
would come to every game possible to
support the basketball team firsthand.
Bill was never one to support us from a
white tower in the sky; he was there in
the trenches with us. Both he and his wife knew all the
players by first name and always offered words of wisdom.
Sometimes they cheered so loud from courtside
that I could barely hear Coach Witherspoon. The personal
touch that Bill Greiner brought to the presidency
at UB is what I will always remember and miss most.
Mark Bortz, BS ‘05, Professional Basketball Player
Bill was, at his core, a man who loved teaching and students, and
gave his life in service to UB. He so believed in this community and
was devoted to the love and support of Carol and their family. Bill
Greiner had no complicating ego and was always eager to find ways
that his colleagues’ lives at UB could be enriched.
John N. Walsh III, vice chair of the UB Foundation and UB Council member emeritus
Professor Greiner—Bill—influenced so many lives
at UB, mine included. I had the privilege of working
near him twice—at the Law School in 1972 and
again on the fifth floor of Capen Hall. I remember
being invited to a meeting with the leaders of the
WNY arts and cultural community before the opening
of the Center for the Arts. I wanted to make a
good impression and wore a brand new suit. I was
standing nervously awaiting the start of the meeting
when Bill walked in, gave me a hard slap on the
back and said “nice suit.” He knew. I’ll miss him
very much.
Sandra Fazekas, EMBA ‘05 & bpS ‘86, Associate Director,
Center for the Arts
Professor Greiner
was my teacher during
the fall 2005
semester for the
Readings in Higher
Education course.
He had a gift for
making you feel very
important. No matter
what you said—
he listened and often
guided you into a
debate to explore
your thoughts even
deeper—something
a true teacher will
always strive to do.
Wynnie Fisher, PhD
Student
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In a celebrated
case, visual
studies
Steven Kurtz has made it his life’s work to take aim at
the status quo. With the counterculture ensemble he
professor
Steven Kurtz
rebounds after
co-founded as a response to the Reagan era, he stands
s t r a n g e
c u l t u r e
u
at the axis of art and activism,
challenging government policies and promoting
social justice in performance pieces, installations,
videos and books.
i
a lengthy legal
battle
f there has been a
universal theme wending its way through Kurtz’s
S t o r y b y N i c o l e P e r a d o t t o
oeuvre, it’s this, says the UB visual studies professor:
“Authority is watching, and authority is everywhere. You think you
have some free spaces or some autonomous spaces, but you really don’t.”
Yet even Kurtz couldn’t have imagined how close to home this sentiment
would hit. Right inside his home, to be precise.
t
he facts of Kurtz’s saga
read like a bizarre case of life imitating art. On May 11, 2004, he awoke
to find that his 45-year-old wife, Hope, had died in her sleep. Emergency
responders answering Kurtz’s 911 call became suspicious by what they
saw, including bacteria growing in petri dishes and tinfoil covering the
bedroom window.
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When Kurtz explained that the bacteria
were innocuous agents in one of his art
projects and that the tinfoil was nothing
more nefarious than a do-it-yourself
blackout shade, authorities were unconvinced.
FBI agents subsequently sealed
off his block and quarantined his home
in Allentown—an artistic neighborhood
within the city of Buffalo—impounding
scientific materials from his makeshift lab,
as well as computers, his cat and his wife’s
body.
Suddenly, a longtime peace advocate
found himself cast as a bioterrorist suspect.
Even after the bacteria were found to
be harmless, the FBI pressed on. Six weeks
after his wife died of heart failure, a federal
grand jury indicted Kurtz on charges of
mail and wire fraud for receiving the bacterial
samples through the mail—under the
Patriot Act, a crime that carries a penalty
of up to 20 years in jail.
“It was both barrels,” says Kurtz, pretending
to cock an imaginary shotgun—an
illustration of what it was like to lose his
wife and face a federal felony charge in one
sweep.
In 2008, Kurtz was vindicated when
a U.S. district court judge dismissed the
case, declaring the indictment “insufficient
on its face.” A legal drama that raised pivotal
questions about the First Amendment
in a post-9/11 world—all the while testing
a UB professor’s mettle—had finally concluded.
Today, with his life no longer under
the microscope, Kurtz, 51, is repairing the
emotional fabric that was torn during the
four-year ordeal. At the same time, he
continues his creative projects and academic
duties apace, as he did throughout
his prosecution. “I never missed a day of
teaching,” he says with pride. Freed up
from strategy conferences with his legal
team and regular visits to a probation
officer—a required pretrial supervision
he endured for over a year—he’s grateful
that the only meetings he need attend are
departmental.
“It was just a really unfortunate
moment for me … and emblematic of a
very sad time in America,” says Kurtz.
i
“Many of my friends said this was what
I’d been preparing for my whole life—this
fight. Maybe they were right. My struggle
was really about how far we were going
to allow these agencies to overstep their
boundaries just by saying the magic word
‘9/11.’
“For me, and for everyone who joined
in, it was a very serious fight.”
Unlikely beginnings
f Kurtz didn’t fit the profile of a suspected
bioterrorist, those who knew
him growing up in the 1960s and
1970s neither would have pegged
the San Francisco native as a
future academic.
From a young age, he found little use
for school, other than socializing. “It was
the most boring thing ever,” he says. “The
whole enterprise seemed just nothing but
authoritarian, where you learn how to sit
still all day and cut off all your energy and
creativity.”
Kurtz’s father was a DuPont executive,
a job that required frequent relocations
and made his son feel a bit like an Army
brat. By the time Kurtz was in high school,
the family was living in Sydney, Australia,
and he was routinely skipping school to
surf. “It seemed that the only life worth
living was the hedonistic life,” he says. “I
couldn’t figure out how the intellectual life
was a path worth living at all.”
After barely graduating from high
school, Kurtz’s attitude toward education
did an about-face when he began undergraduate
studies at the University of North
Texas. There, thanks to several influential
professors and students—including his
future wife, whom he met in a freshman
philosophy course—he became enamored
with academia.
“Suddenly, the intellectual pathway
made perfect sense,” Kurtz says. “It was
like, OK—this is the end of surfing and
skateboarding. It’s time to put the childish
stuff away. I’ve got matters to attend to.”
After receiving an undergraduate and
master’s degree in sociology, Kurtz moved
to Florida with Hope, where he started
interdisciplinary PhD studies in art history,
comparative literature and philosophy
at Florida State University.
While writing his doctoral dissertation,
however, he experienced a crisis of
conscience. “I was not able to put the two
me’s together: the political thinking one
and the scholarly one,” he says. “I came
of college age in the ’80s. It was the time
of Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’”—the
former president’s most popular campaign
slogan—“and every bit of it sounded false.
It just seemed like the U.S. was on another
1950s-style march toward authoritarianism.
There were all these authoritarian
tendencies in the culture, and a group of
us decided that it’s not enough to be academic.
You have to do something to resist
these tendencies.”
That something was Critical Art
Ensemble (CAE), a collective of five artists
and writers who joined forces in 1987 to
explore the intersections of art, technology,
radical politics and critical theory.
Although the CAE’s exhibitions have
been seen in such prestigious venues as
the Whitney Museum in New York and
the London Natural History Museum, the
group was, at the outset, committed to
creating provocative art for the masses,
not just for gallery-goers. One of their first
performances was a piece about cyborgs
presented in a Mississippi blues bar.
“We’re a lot more flexible about it now,
but at the time we were very interested in
demonstrating that you could do this kind
of work in these alternative places,” Kurtz
says. “When the trend was to go back
to the museum and the gallery, we were
going the opposite direction and saying,
‘How do we reach people that are not those
that normally see [artistic] work’”
For “Exit Culture,” another early project,
the avant-garde troupe intersected
with the “Trip Tik” crowd. For four days
they traveled by Winnebago to Florida
tourist sites and rest stops, playing videos
about highway travel and using a CB radio
to read poetry they’d created from reassembled
driver manuals and lyrics about
the road.
“We would stop what we were doing before they would arre st us, but the point was made: If you
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a federally funded research and development
institute for the U.S. Department
of Defense that is devoted to studying
Internet security, his were considered
fighting words.
“They wanted me fired, and they tried
so hard to do it,” he says. “The college of
arts took great umbrage with this, and it
was not a minor force on campus, as it is
in most places. So, I had this island of protection,
and they never could get rid of me
if they wanted any semblance of academic
freedom. But it still broke out into a campus
war.”
In 2001, Kurtz received a call from Paul
Vanouse, like him a bio-artist who uses tissue,
bacteria and microorganisms to bridge
the gap between science and art. Vanouse,
one of Kurtz’s former graduate students
at Carnegie Mellon, had joined the faculty
at UB. When he told Kurtz about a job
opening in Buffalo, Kurtz didn’t hesitate to
apply.
“This was the place I wanted to be,
where I didn’t have to fight for anything,
where what I do is actually appreciated
and the battle was over,” he says. “I could
live a fairly harmonious existence.”
Two years after Kurtz was hired, that
peace was shattered.
Inevitably, Kurtz says, the police
showed up, even though nothing illegal
was taking place.
“We would stop what we were doing
before they would arrest us, but the point
was made: If you do something out of the
usual, ‘routinized’ plan of a given space,
the police are going to come.”
a
Difficult sojourn in Pittsburgh
s the CAE’s members finished
graduate school and began settling
into jobs throughout the
country, they continued collaborating
on projects that sought to dissect
social, political and, increasingly, scientific
issues. For his part, Kurtz remained in
Florida until 1995, when he accepted a
full-time teaching appointment at Carnegie
Mellon University.
He describes his tenure at the
Pittsburgh institution as “very conflicted.”
“Carnegie Mellon is an extremely conservative
school, and I was considered a
troublemaker there, so everything was just
a battle,” he recalls.
Shortly after arriving on campus, Kurtz
completed “Electronic Civil Disobedience
and Other Unpopular Ideas,” a manual of
electronic activism—or “hactivism,” as it’s
sometimes called—that explains how readers
can commit nonviolent yet disruptive
acts in the cyber age.
Kurtz’s book galled his colleagues in
the business school and computer science
department. At a university that operates
Community and campus support
w
hile federal officials rifled
through his house, Kurtz followed
his attorney’s advice,
leaving town to avoid the media
glare. At that point he’d endured a 22-hour
FBI interrogation with barely a moment to
grieve his wife of 27 years.
What would happen next he wondered.
Would he come home to find the
word “terrorist” spray-painted on his
house
“When I got back, the neighbors were
furious—not with me but with law enforcement,”
Kurtz says. “I never had one bad
comment ever from anyone. Not an e-mail.
Not regular mail. No one yelled at me in
public or said they hoped I would go to
jail.”
On the contrary, Kurtz was showered
with support. Rallies were held as far away
as Paris and Amsterdam. As the FBI tried
to depict him as “some yahoo artist living
in the depths of bohemian Allentown,” he
says, artists from around the world rallied
to his defense, cementing his international
stature.
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Closer to home, he was buoyed by
spontaneous displays of encouragement.
Once, a city bus driver stopped his route
to get off his bus and sympathize with
the professor. Another time, as he walked
down Elmwood Avenue, a city parks crew
drove past and shouted, “We’re behind ya,
Steve!”
“This outpouring wasn’t surprising in
a way because it just shows that people are
fair-minded,” says Kurtz, describing the
response as a “great moral victory.” “They
can tell when something is not right, and
they do care about it.”
On campus and off, members of the UB
community stood in solidarity with Kurtz.
Some wrote letters to the Department of
Justice and the local newspaper. Others
demonstrated outside City Hall and sat
in on court proceedings. To give Kurtz an
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opportunity to mourn his wife, Vanouse
held a memorial for her at his home. “I
thought that had to be done immediately,
to help Steve separate the grief from all
of the other things he was dealing with,”
Vanouse, associate professor of visual
studies at UB, explains. “At least there
would be proper grieving before he had to
get pragmatic about how to deal with the
assault from the Department of Justice.”
Although UB administrators never
commented on Kurtz’s case, he considers
them among his boldest champions for
making a pivotal decision as it was still
pending—namely, promoting him to full
professor. “I think that was a pretty gutsy
call to not say, ‘We’re going to table this
and, after the trial’s over, we’ll talk about
promotions and firings,’” Kurtz contends.
“That’s what the gutless university would
have done.”
Individuals from UB were also instrumental
in raising money for the legal
defense of Kurtz and his co-defendant,
Robert Ferrell, the University of Pittsburgh
geneticist chair who mailed Kurtz the bacteria.
Battling lymphoma, Ferrell ended up
pleading guilty to a lesser, misdemeanor
charge out of concern for his health.
As Kurtz’s case was channeling through
As he walked down Elmwood Avenue, a city parks crew drove p ast
and shouted, “We ’re behind ya, Steve!”
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the court, “Strange Culture,” a cinematic
re-creation of the events of his arrest, premiered
in art houses around the country.
In one scene, several of Kurtz’s students
refuse to sign a petition supporting their
professor for fear of repercussions from
the FBI.
That, he points out, was dramatic
license on the filmmaker’s part; it never
happened. “The students were great. They
would turn out for the fundraisers, if not
organize them. And they were understanding
when I had to [leave campus to] go to
probation.”
One of Kurtz’s most vocal defenders
was former UB graduate student Julie
Perini, MFA ’06. In addition to chronicling
his arrest and prosecution for a campus
publication, she helped organize a symposium
about the law and the Patriot Act.
“The crime he was charged with carried
a 20-year sentence, so I and many others
took that possibility seriously,” says Perini,
now a film studies instructor at Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania. “I appreciated
having Steve as part of my community of
intellectuals and artists, and I did not want
to have him gone.”
Perini, who describes Kurtz as a “lifechanging
professor,” credits him with
transforming the way she thinks about art.
“I was always interested in activism, but
I didn’t want to get involved because the
activists I’d met seemed off-putting. Then
I met Steve and realized that art doesn’t
have to be a separate endeavor from activism.
All of his projects make complex
social, political and environmental issues
understandable to regular people. That, to
me, is very powerful. He is very sincere in
his message, and he lives it every day.”
Vanouse agrees that Kurtz’s straightforward
style is one of his fortes—not just
in his installations, but in his classroom.
“Steve is good at taking really complex
material that can be daunting for students,
like high theory or philosophy, and putting
it forth in a user-friendly way. Sometimes,
in our reverence for the material, teachers
aren’t willing to allow for simplification.
Steve was never that reverent of materials
he spent his whole life researching.”
c
Artistic productivity amid
trauma
t
o look at the CAE’s body of work during
the four years of Kurtz’s prosecution—from
“Free Range Grains,” an
installation on genetically modified
food, to “Marching Plague,” a
critique of germ warfare programs—you
wouldn’t know that one of its members’
lives had been turned upside down.
“They were the most productive years
ever because we felt we had to be role
models,” says Kurtz, who suffered from
high blood pressure throughout the prosecution.
“It was to send the message to the
FBI and the Justice Department that they
weren’t going to stop us. We were going to
do exactly what we had set out to do, and
even step it up a notch.”
After his case was dismissed, Kurtz and
the CAE presented “Seized,” an installation
that documented the household objects the
FBI confiscated from his home, as well as
the pizza boxes, Gatorade bottles and other
trash the agents left behind.
Beyond that, he has no desire to reference
his ordeal in his art.
“We have tried to continue with our
activities as they would have gone on,”
says Kurtz, who’s currently writing a book
about how the government uses weapons
systems as propaganda. “We didn’t want
to turn the case into our practice. I think
if I had said it would be good that we do
that, everybody would have gone along,
but I was never tempted. I thought clearly
we had to keep these two things separate.
That would be playing into the Department
of Justice’s hands to stop all of our antiwar
activities in order to focus on them.
And for what”
Asked whether that nightmarish chapter
of his life has made him even more
indignant of the powers that be, Kurtz
laughs.
“I was pretty indignant to begin with.”
A former reporter for The Buffalo News,
Nicole Peradotto is a freelance writer/
editor who has written for numerous local
and national magazines.
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means you know that receiving this magazine doesn’t amount to membership,
that there are benefits for alumni around the world, that friends are welcome
to officially join our network, and that you’re automatically a member of your
school alumni association. Most of all, it sends a signal to your fellow alumni
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Three campuses
One vision
In conjunction with implementation of its UB 2020
strategic plan, the University at Buffalo has developed
a comprehensive physical plan to guide the growth and
transformation of its North and South campuses and
create a new Academic Health Center on its Downtown
Campus.
UB 2020 calls for UB, already the largest and most comprehensive
campus in the State University of New York, to
grow by 40 percent, increasing enrollment by 10,000 and
faculty and staff ranks by more than 6,700. Physically, UB
will grow within the borders of its North and South campuses,
and expand its presence in downtown.
“Building UB,” unveiled in October 2009, calls for three
distinctive campus environments tailored to their respective
suburban, urban and downtown settings, better connecting
the campuses with one another and integrating
them with their surrounding neighborhoods.
It calls for the North Campus in Amherst,
which already has seven million square feet of built
space, to become more welcoming and more sustainable
as it continues to be the intellectual core of the university,
housing arts and sciences, engineering and management.
The South Campus on Main Street in
North Buffalo, a Western New York landmark that dates
back to the 1920s, will be restored as a classic American
collegiate campus and a center for inter-professional
education, bringing together the disciplines of law, management,
education, social work, and architecture and
planning.
The Downtown Campus will marry
medical education with clinical care and health sciences
research in partnership with Buffalo Niagara’s pre-eminent
hospitals and Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Longrange,
the plan calls for UB’s Academic Health Center
and the five health sciences schools that constitute it to
relocate to the Buffalo Niagara Medical
Campus, where UB had its beginnings
as a medical school 164 years ago.
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Almost the entire border of the South
Campus will be transformed into a parklike
setting. An amphitheater will feature
a newly unearthed section of the
Onondaga Escarpment as its backdrop.

Aerial view of the Oval, a grand
new lawn at the crossroads of the
North Campus, Putnam Plaza and
the Lee Road “Main Street.”
Explore “Building
UB,” the historic
master plan that will
guide UB’s growth.
Preview what UB’s
campuses will look
like at www.buffalo.
edu/buildingUB
While the Downtown Campus will
have new green spaces such as the
proposed McCarley Park, its primary
public space will continue to
be its streets.
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For breast cancer survivors, rowing
bolsters strength and spirit
ready all, ro
Lisa DeMarco, BS ’90
The most difficult year of Lisa DeMarco’s
life began with a lump she discovered underneath
her left armpit, and ended with chemotherapy,
radiation and surgeries to remove her ovaries
and both breasts. “I can liken it to a building that
just implodes. That’s kind of how you feel inside,”
DeMarco, BS ’90, a chiropractor in Depew, N.Y.,
says of her discovery in February 2008 that she
had breast cancer.
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w,row,row,row
Her loved ones, as well as chiropractic patients who
cheered her on, helped her make it through the months of
treatments, exams and operations that transformed her
into a survivor in October of that same year.
As part of her rehabilitation process, DeMarco, 43,
joined with UB in late 2009 to create a rowing program to
help female cancer survivors build their strength and selfimage.
She hopes the group, WeCanRow-Buffalo, will help
ensure that other cancer survivors don’t find themselves
facing challenges alone.
DeMarco recalls the difference friends and family made
during her own ordeal. They consoled her when she tested
positive for a genetic mutation associated with increased
risk for breast cancer. They stood by her when she opted
to undergo a bilateral mastectomy and an oophorectomy
to remove her ovaries, and, after it was all over, they
helped her to heal.
“My support network was amazing,” DeMarco says.
“And that’s really what gets you through it when life is as
bare as it’s going to [get].
“That, to me, is what this is really all about. I had a
great support network, and really what I’m hoping that
this program can do is reach out to people,” DeMarco
says. “It’s about survivorship. It’s about, ‘You know what
Let’s make our bodies as healthy as we can to continue to
battle this disease.’
“You have to start rebuilding,” DeMarco says.
Each of more than a dozen women in WeCanRow-
Buffalo is at a different stage of recovery. Those who have
been cancer-free for longer inspire those who only recently
beat the disease.
The group, a regional chapter of the national
WeCanRow program that Olympic gold medalist rower
Holly Metcalf founded in 2002, leverages UB’s strengths
Douglas Levere, BA ’89
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in athletics and public health to empower
and promote healthy living among participants.
To begin, doctoral students in the UB
Department of Rehabilitation Science,
with guidance from Juli Wylegala, PhD ’05
& MS ’92, a clinical assistant professor,
screened each WeCanRow-Buffalo member,
identifying each individual’s limitations
in strength, motion and flexibility,
and providing information on how to get
in better shape while avoiding injuries.
In winter, coaches and students on the
UB women’s rowing team volunteered
each Tuesday and Thursday evening, leading
hourlong workout sessions on indoor
rowing machines—ergometers, or “ergs”—
in Alumni Arena. This spring, the survivors
will train in tank facilities that mimic conditions
on the water before heading out to
row in real boats. Racing is likely.
The idea for creating WeCanRow-
Buffalo originated from casual conversations
between DeMarco and Lisa Wind,
a friend who was on a dragon boat team
for breast cancer survivors. Research has
shown that the sport, which involves paddling
in a long, canoe-type vessel, can be
an uplifting experience, helping women to
regain a feeling of control over their lives
after suffering from cancer.
Wind and DeMarco, an avid sailor,
discussed how fun it would be to row
with fellow cancer survivors. Before long,
WeCanRow-Buffalo was born, a product of
the women’s contagious zeal.
“[DeMarco’s] e-mails alone sort of overflowed
with enthusiasm,” says Wylegala,
whose mother had breast cancer. “When I
met her in person for the first time, it was
tjust like, ‘How could I not be part of this’”
he program meets members’
needs in a unique manner.
Some breast cancer
treatments put women at risk
for lymphedema, a condition
characterized by swelling of
the arm, breast and chest.
DeMarco, who takes part in WeCanRow,
says the workouts seem to reduce swelling
that she experiences as a result of the surgery
she underwent.
Meanwhile, personal attention from
Wylegala and her students can provide a
sense of stability and direction to women
who have just completed intensive cancer
treatments—women who, for the first time
since their diagnosis, are no longer meeting
frequently with doctors and other caregivers.
“It’s wonderful so far,” says Ellen
McGrath, MLS ’83, head of cataloging at
UB’s Charles B. Sears Law Library and a
WeCanRow member. “It’s, I would say,
more than I expected it to be. I knew there
would be involvement of the UB coaching
staff and the physical therapy department,
but the enthusiasm that those participants
have brought to it has just blown me away,
and meeting the other women, and having
an intense workout like that, makes it just
a wonderful experience on a physical and a
mental and emotional level.
“In terms of recurrence of breast cancer,”
adds McGrath, who battled the disease
in 2005, “physical exercise and keeping
fit is one of the things I feel I can do to
prevent that recurrence.”
Rock music blasts from a stereo, adding
to the clamor and excitement in a room
where fans with giant propellers whir,
turning to keep the space cool. More than
a dozen women, all ages, slide backward
and forward on indoor rowers, pulling,
with all their strength, on the machine
handlebars that mimic oars.
Students and coaches on the women’s
rowing team are making rounds, instructing
participants on proper posture and
how to move. It is early December, and
the sport is still new for most WeCanRow-
Buffalo members.
The survivors sometimes exchange tidbits
of information about their diagnosis,
treatment and rehabilitation, but the focus
is on exercise. As McGrath, 50, says, “In
some ways, we don’t need to talk about
it, because we know, when we’re in that
room, that everybody knows what we’ve
been through and [has] dealt with the
Elizabeth Ostermeier, assistant
women’s rowing coach, helps
breast cancer survivors work out.
uncertainty, the pain, the fear.”
Still, each woman has a story. Anne
Kist, EdM ’82 & BS ’76, a 55-year-old
breast cancer survivor who worked for 32
years as a physical education teacher at St.
Mary’s School for the Deaf in Buffalo, loves
the full-body workout WeCanRow-Buffalo
provides.
Sally Munschauer, a breast and colon
cancer survivor in her 80s who was
battling lung cancer when she joined
DeMarco’s program, had been a rower for
about two decades.
“You’re using legs, arms, the whole
body. I find it very rhythmic and pleasing
in that way, and very satisfying when
everybody’s on the same page and all
together,” Munschauer says. “There are
no prima donnas in the boat who think
they’re better than anybody else. That
doesn’t work. Everybody has to be with it
together and want to work together to get
that shell moving as one. And there’s nothing
better than that feeling at the start,
when the coxswain tells you, ‘Ready all’...
and you feel that shell lift off the water and
you just take off. There’s nothing like it,
and I’ve done a lot of sports.
“I want to get back on the water this
summer,” Munschauer says. “That’s my
goal.”
And then of course, there is DeMarco,
with her huge heart and enthusiasm.
Elizabeth Ostermeier, assistant women’s
rowing coach, says she hopes the survivors’
narratives will help her student athletes
grow stronger and face their own challenges
with courage and dignity.
Danielle Carlino, a freshman on the
rowing team whose mother was recently
diagnosed with breast cancer, is one of
many volunteers already drawing inspiration
from the stories of the women of
WeCanRow. Their resilience is astonishing,
she says: “They are determined and
willing to get back into shape and be fit
and continue on with their lives after such
a huge milestone.
“I can’t wait,” says Carlino, “until they
actually get to go on the water on a boat,
because every day they’re learning something
new, something exciting.”
Charlotte Hsu, formerly a reporter for
The Las Vegas Sun, is a staff writer with
University Communications.
Douglas Levere, BA ’89
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Rosalind Jarrett, BA ’69
Triathlete and Hollywood publicist enjoys
thrill of racing on a world level
jarrett close-up
Life before triathlons Jarrett
sailed both racers and cruisers,
netting more than 10,000 miles;
Personal hero World champion
Ironman Cherie Gruenfeld, founder
of Exceeding Expectations, a nonprofit
that helps redirect at-risk
inner-city kids by using the sport
of triathlon; Favorite quotes “What
do you call a person who comes As a student at UB in the late
in last in a triathlon A triathlete!” ’60s, Rosalind Jarrett took
(Jef Mallett). “One hundred percent bowling for her physical education
requirement because she
of the shots you don’t take don’t go
in.” (Wayne Gretzky)
didn’t want to wash her waistlength
hair. She recalls getting
a C-minus in the class.
Today, Jarrett, 61, is a world-class triathlete. “I’m a late
bloomer,” she says, understatedly.
In fact, she didn’t begin competing until her 50s, when she
received a poor medical check-up. With low bone density, high
cholesterol and worsening asthma, Jarrett was urged by her doctor
to do something to improve her health. The final push came
when she was 54, and her former public relations teacher and
mentor, Julian Myers, then an 84-year-old runner, told her he
was exactly her age when he began running marathons.
Jarrett started endurance training with the Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program in 2002. The
fundraising aspect of the sport came easily for her. “When I told
people I was going to swim .9 miles, bike 24.8 miles and run 10k,
most people said, ‘Yeah I’ll pay for that,’” she says.
But when Jarrett began training, she hadn’t ridden a bike in
more than 10 years and couldn’t swim the width of a pool, or run
from her house to the corner of the street. Her first race took her
5:11:08 to complete and she ended up that night in the ER with
hyponatremia (low blood sodium). But by the time she finished
the race, she was hooked on the sport.
Since her bumpy start, Jarrett has set yearly goals and can
boast a lengthy roster of completed triathlons and marathons,
including winning her age group in a 2008 Aquathlon World
Championship, running the New York City and Los Angeles
marathons, and being a member of Team USA in the 2009
International Triathlon Union Age Group World Championships on
Australia’s Gold Coast. “I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to be
racing on a world level,”she says. “It’s thrilling and it’s all about
doing your personal best.”
When she’s not racing, Jarrett is the executive in charge of
publicity for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. She credits her time
spent at UB as partly the reason for her success in the industry.
“To be a good publicist you need to be a good journalist and a
good writer. To some extent, I owe that to being an English major
at UB with incredible professors, such as [SUNY Distinguished
Professor] Bruce Jackson.”
As co-founder of the successful UB Coast to Coast Symposium
(UBC2C), Jarrett has helped to create a sustainable model for
engaging older, more accomplished alumni, while providing
opportunities for young people who aspire to be in the entertainment
industry. Jarrett’s mentoring carries over to her passion for
triathlons and her hope that she can inspire other women. “You
can change your life, your shape, and your health and your diet.
I really do live the multisport lifestyle and I can’t begin to tell you
how much it’s changed my life.”
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Gross close-up
Gordon Gross, JD ’55
Enthusiastic benefactor combines passion
for UB with concern for the region
Went to law school because his
father thought his legal bills were
too high. Married to Gretchen
for 30 years. Served seven years
Gordon Gross , JD ‘55, makes things
as SUNY Trustee. On search
happen—in his own life, his career,
committee that brought John
B. Simpson to Buffalo—now
the University at Buffalo and the
on UB Foundation Investment wider Western New York community.
Committee. Rode bicycle
For his many outstanding achievements
and contributions, he will
across U.S. to raise funds for
the Community Foundation for receive the 2010 Samuel P. Capen
Greater Buffalo. Climbed Mount Award, the UB Alumni Association’s
Kilimanjaro. No. 1 fundraiser for highest honor, in April.
the Ride for Roswell. Newest
“My mother often called me a
challenge: helping to launch Read cockeyed optimist,” laughs Gross,
to Succeed Buffalo initiative. 78, who is semiretired as a senior
partner in the Buffalo law firm Gross
Shuman Brizdle & Gilfillan P.C. “But
if you’re not an optimist, how do you see where success could
be I also see myself as a risk-taker and a salesman, because
these ingredients are essential in successful ventures. For
me, the cup is not just half-full, it’s usually overflowing.”
Early on, Gross says, “I realized I could sell things. When
I started getting involved in community organizations, I was
able to be creative in helping them raise money. I felt challenged
by the opportunity to make a difference.” And he
always challenged himself to give first before asking others to
follow his lead.
The result has been an extraordinary record of philanthropy—especially
to UB and its Law School—and of catalyzing
community support for important quality-of-life efforts in
Western New York. It’s his deep concern for the health of this
region that spurs Gross’ involvement in UB.
Gross and his wife, Gretchen, have long been among the
university’s most generous benefactors. They made a $1 million
gift to help fund the first endowed professorship in the
university’s newly established Institute of Jewish Thought
and Heritage. They are major donors to the Law School, and
an O’Brian Hall classroom is named in their honor. Gross
also gave a significant gift to the School of Dental Medicine,
creating a dental student fund in memory of his brother, Alan
Gross, PhD ’96, MS ’83 & BS ’52.
His support of UB, he says, is rooted in its economic potential.
“The university is the No. 1 economic engine in Western
New York,” he says passionately. “Not only is it an important
employer, but it spawns new businesses and attracts people
to the region. I’ve seen for quite some time that the university
is the future of this community, and the most important thing
we can do for the growth of the community is to help grow the
university.
“It’s just that simple.”
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Savvy consultant hones his skills to serve
politicians and corporate clients alike
Ryan Toohey, BA ’97
toohey close-up
Major and minor at UB political science
and classics; UB family connections
Dad, Timothy, graduated from
UB School of Law in 1974 and sister, Ryan Toohey, BA ’97, may be
Megan, works at UB as director of sitting in a beautifully designed
government relations; Dream job To loft office space in downtown
have worked on the Obama presidential
campaign. “That campaign was N.Y.” belt buckle that he’s
Manhattan, but the “Buffalo,
a model of professionalism, aggressiveness
and belief in the candidate”; hometown pride.
wearing demonstrates his
Favorite trip abroad Argentina; Most Now one of fewer than a
recommended place to visit in NYC half-dozen partners at Global
The High Line—the new elevated
Strategy Group, one of the
park on Manhattan’s West Side
most prestigious and highpowered
political and corporate
consulting firms in New
York, Toohey has already led a more exciting career at 34 years
old than many experience in a lifetime.
After growing up in Buffalo and studying briefly at the
University of Wisconsin, Toohey landed at UB’s North Campus in
the early 1990s thinking it was temporary, but liked it so much
that he stayed. “UB is a very academic and collegiate environment,”
he says. “When I began studying law at Columbia, I felt
better prepared than many of my classmates who went to bigname
colleges.”
In law school, Toohey still didn’t know exactly what he wanted
to do, but had always followed politics closely. So one day,
at age 22, he picked up the phone and called Eliot Spitzer, who
was running for New York State attorney general, and asked to
work on his campaign. “I liked his ideology and thought I was
well suited to help out,” says Toohey, who eventually became
Spitzer’s closest traveling aide and notes that one of his career
highlights so far was having a “courtside seat” to watch as
the New York State Attorney General’s Office was completely
remade under Spitzer.
Toohey went on to manage Spitzer’s campaign for governor
and was one of his trusted advisers once he took office. In a
2008 New York Magazine article, Spitzer noted: “Ryan is unbeatable
when it comes to reading the political pulse of the state.”
Toohey’s political savvy and well-honed analytical skills continue
to serve him well at Global Strategy Group, where his work
ranges from helping New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
retain control of the city’s massive school system to strategizing
about how to redevelop Ground Zero while helping senators,
mayors, and members of congress in New York and beyond get
elected.
“Building a professional and personal life in New York City is
fun and exciting, but very complicated. Only now after 12 years
have I started to feel like I’m hitting my stride,” says Toohey,
who was married this March. “I’d like to say I’m settling down.
I hope it stays that way for a bit longer than I’m used to.”
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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
The Main Event
UBAA membership puzzler
“No. 1 is the
magazine myth.”
Larry Zielinski, UBAA
President
Visit www.alumni.
buffalo.edu/join to
show your pride and
join the UBAA.
Question: What organization serves
more than 208,000 people, yet
receives support from less than
6 percent of them
Answer: The UB Alumni Association.
ut of more than 208,000
alumni worldwide, a mere
12,000 UB graduates have
made a commitment to support
their alumni association by
becoming dues-paying members
of the UBAA. “It’s no secret that
UB alumni have pride in their alma mater,” says
UBAA President Larry Zielinski, MBA ’77 & BA
’75. “Unfortunately, that pride hasn’t been translated
into membership like we find at other large
universities. For as long as I’ve been involved with
the alumni association, this disconnect between
alumni and membership has prevailed … and it’s
time for that to change.” Although there are likely
many reasons for the disconnect, three commonly
held myths arise in conversations with alumni,
according to Zielinski. No. 1 is the “magazine
myth,” he says, which relates to the fact that many
alumni believe they are members of the UBAA
simply because they receive UB Today. “That’s
understandable in a way because many universities
reserve their magazine only for dues-paying
members,” adds Jay R. Friedman, EdM ’00 & BA
’86, associate vice president for alumni relations.
“But not at UB. We believe it should go to all
alumni, so we’ll just have to continue banging the
drum that it doesn’t equate to membership.”
Next is the “local myth,” in which alumni
who live outside Western New York believe there
are no benefits for them. “We purposely create
a members-only benefits package that provides
numerous perks for out-of-town members,”
explains Kristen Murphy, BA ’96, assistant director,
membership. “And we’re always reevaluating
to be sure that what we’re offering is of a higher
value than the cost of an annual membership. To
do otherwise doesn’t make sense.”
And finally, the myth about eligibility. Contrary
to popular belief, anyone—whether a UB parent,
And in chapter
news…
On Nov. 10, UB Bulls
football fans packed into
Blondies Sports on the
Upper West Side of New
York City for the chapter’s
annual wings night
and watch party event, as
UB took on Ohio.
The Washington, D.C.,
chapter reprised its
2003 Alumni Media
Panel event on June 16
before an audience of
185 in the National Press
Club. Headlining the
panel were CNN’s Wolf
I. Blitzer, BA ’70, and
Pulitzer Prize-winning
editorial cartoonist Tom
Toles, BA ’73, of The
Washington Post.
Other journalists
comprising the panel
were Pamela Benson,
BA ’76, senior producer,
national security for
CNN; Jo Ann Armao, BA
’74, The Washington Post
editorial writer; and John
Schiumo, BA ’93, Emmy
Award-winning anchor
for 24-hour cable television
station NY1 in New
York City.
Moderated by Jim Militello,
BA ’79, Associated
Press sportscaster, president
of the Washington,
D.C., chapter and UBAA
executive committee
board member, the panel
discussed such topics
as coverage of the H1N1
virus and the future of
news reporting.
On July 21, the Embassy
of France in Washington,
D.C., hosted 150 UB
alumni and guests at La
Maison Française, the
cultural center on the
grounds, for a reception
Hey, that’s me!
To see photos of other alumni friends
from recent chapter meetings, go to
www.alumni.buffalo.edu/chapters
(Left to right) Ken Warner, BS ’77, Paolo
Dizon, BS ’92, Michele Wozniak, BA ’95,
and Jen Wozniak, MBA ’96 & BA ’92
(former president of the UB Alumni Association),
mingled during the pregame party
before the Denver Rockies game on July 3.
and presentation by John
Wood, UB associate vice
provost for international
education. The D.C. chapter
also held a pregame
party and hockey game
when the Buffalo Sabres
played the Washington
Capitals at the Verizon
Center Dec. 23.
Baseball provided the
backdrop for alumni
events in Colorado, Michigan
and North Carolina.
The Denver chapter’s
third annual alumni
pregame party and Rockies
baseball game with
fireworks on July 3 was
a sellout; 30 UB alumni
and friends were in
Comerica Park July 12 as
the Detroit Tigers battled
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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
spouse, UB Believer, neighbor or Bulls fan in
Western New York or around the world—is welcome
to officially join the UBAA network. “We
opened up our membership in 2009. We felt that
anyone who cares about UB should have a way
to show it, and UBAA membership is a win-win
option,” Friedman says.
Academically, UB is in the big leagues,
yet ranks among the lowest when it comes to
alumni association membership, as revealed by
the Council of Alumni Association Executives
2009 member survey. Penn State, Iowa State,
the University of Michigan and the Ohio State
University vastly outpace UB, with up to 48.3
percent of addressable alumni belonging to their
associations.
Universities with strong alumni associations
have a base of support that is called upon to shape
policy and advocate on behalf of key initiatives,
like UB 2020. “In UB’s last public campaign, 62
percent of alumni donated, the largest contingent
to do so—isn’t that powerful” Zielinski says.
“Imagine our strength if we were to harness that
energy into one unified group, into the UB Alumni
Association.
“Show your pride and support an organization
whose purpose is to provide support for you,”
Zielinski urges. Readers may use the envelope
provided in this magazine, call the alumni office
at 1-800-284-5382 or join online at www.alumni.
buffalo.edu/join.
the Cleveland Indians;
and the Raleigh chapter
hosted an alumni night
at the ballpark on July
25 as the Durham Bulls
faced the Norfolk Tides.
The Rochester, N.Y.,
chapter, led by Kourtney
J. Gagliano, BS ’02, welcomed
spirited groups of
alumni for a networking
happy hour at Murphy’s
Law on July 23, as well
as a Buffalo Bills watch
party on Nov. 15 at the
Rochester Anchor Bar.
The Albany chapter
hosted a day at the
races for 41 alumni and
friends at Saratoga Race
Course on Aug. 1, while
the Houston chapter
hosted a performance of
“Sherlock Holmes and
the Crucifer of Blood”
at the Alley Theatre on
Aug. 13.
The Cleveland chapter
held a regional event
on Aug. 14, bringing
54 alumni together for
some Buffalo-style food.
A pregame tailgate party
and Buffalo Bulls vs.
UCF Knights football
game were offered by
the developing Orlando
chapter on Sept. 19.
A sunset cruise around
San Diego Bay attracted
35 alumni and friends on
Sept. 25, while alumni in
Philadelphia caught the
UB football team in action
on Sept. 26 against
the Temple Owls.
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* Mary
Ann Lohrey,
BS 1955,
retired from
Dutchess
County government
in
lohrey
December
2008, after serving as a
mental health educator
and the communications
director for the department
of mental hygiene
for 38 years. She is now a
part-time consultant with
the department. Lohrey
resides in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. J. Mason Davis Jr.,
JD 1959,
an attorney
with the
law firm
of Sirote &
Permutt,
is included
davis in the
2010 edition of The Best
Lawyers in America in the
areas of commercial litigation
and corporate law.
Davis represents clients
in business, antitrust,
securities, product liability
litigation, life, health, and
surety company defense
work and litigation. He
also has extensive experience
before insurance
regulatory departments
and commissions, and has
participated in numerous
trials in both state and
federal courts, as well
as in appellate practice
before the Supreme Court
of Alabama and the fifth
and 11th Circuit Courts
of Appeals. Davis, a 2004
recipient of the UB Alumni
Association Distinguished
Alumni Award, lives in
Birmingham, Ala.
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Joseph Oppenheim, BA
1964, recently published a
memoir entitled “Joseph’s
Almanac.” He resides in
San Diego, Calif. *Donald
A. Alessi, JD 1969, is
the chair of the Buffalo
and Erie County Naval
and Military Park, where
he previously served as
a board member. A past
president of the Federation
of Italian-American
Societies of Western New
York, he was named its
person of the year in 2008.
Alessi lives in Clarence,
N.Y.
70
Nancy Henneberger, BA
1972, executive vice president
and chief operating
officer of the Healthcare
Distribution Management
Association (HDMA), was
honored with a Nexus
award for lifetime achievement
at the 2009 HDMA
annual leadership forum
in Orlando, Fla. With more
than 25 years of service to
HDMA, she is widely credited
for shaping the association’s
role as the voice
of primary health care
distributors. Henneberger
lives in Oakton, Va.
Samuel Palisano, JD
1972, an attorney with
Harter Secrest & Emery,
was named one of Upstate
New York’s top attorneys
of 2009 by Upstate New
York’s Super Lawyers. He
resides in East Amherst,
N.Y. Marybeth Priore, MA
1972, is a shareholder
with the firm Colucci and
Gallaher, where she has
worked as an attorney
since 2003. Her practice
is focused on the defense
of product liability actions.
She lives in East Amherst,
NY. Zimmerli,
EdD
*William
1973, received the
American Association
for Health Education’s
2009 health education
professional of the year
administrative award at
the group’s annual conference
in Tampa, Fla. in
April 2009. He is a tenured
full professor of public
health at Fort Valley State
University, and celebrated
50 years of teaching in
2009. Zimmerli serves
as chair of the finance
committee and treasurer
for the American School
Health Association, and is
also a life member of the
UB Alumni Association. He
resides in Kathleen, Ga.
Pamela Davis Heilman,
JD 1975, was named
to the advisory board
of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for
Scholars Canada Institute,
a forum for discussions
about Canada-U.S. relations.
Heilman lives in
Buffalo, N.Y. William
Savino, JD
1975, was
named one
of upstate
New York’s
top attorneys
of 2009
savino
by Upstate
New York Super Lawyers.
He is a senior partner with
Damon and Morey LLP and
lives in Amherst, N.Y. Carl
Dyczek, BA 1976, is the
new administrative partner
at Walter & Haverfield LLP
in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a
member of the firm’s business
group, and focuses
his practice on finance and
lending transactions and
commercial real estate.
Dyczek is also a mem-
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Achievement Awards
1950-2009
60
[years held]
437
[individuals awarded]
10
[award categories]
Samuel P. Capen Award; Walter
P. Cooke Award for non-alumni;
Philip B. Wels Outstanding
Service; Clifford C. Furnas
Memorial; Dr. Richard T. Sarkin
Award for Excellence in Teaching;
George W. Thorn Award for
alumni under 40; Distinguished
Alumni Award; Community
Leadership Medal; Volunteer
Recognition Award; J. Scott
Fleming Scholarship
93
[student scholarships
awarded]
8
[volunteers
recognized—award
introduced in 2008]
Bullish
Bookends
Association Billboard
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
A w a r d s
Eleven individuals honored
On April 9, the UB Alumni Association will present
achievement awards to 11 deserving individuals
and an association during a gala event in the Lippes
Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the North Campus. Held
each spring to honor UB alumni and friends for
bringing distinction to themselves and the university,
the event is returning to campus after being held offsite
for a number of years. Another departure is that
instead of a sit-down dinner, the evening will include
premium food stations, an open bar and entertainment
following the awards ceremony in the Center
for the Arts Atrium.
The highest honor of the evening, the Samuel P.
Capen Award, will be presented to Gordon R. Gross,
JD ’55, of Eggertsville, N.Y. Read more about Gross
on page 33.
Distinguished Alumni Awards, given in recognition of
exceptional career accomplishments, community or
university service, or research and scholarly activity,
will go to Richard J. Ablin, PhD ’67, of Tucson,
Ariz.; Laura L. Aikin, BFA ’86, of Basiglio, Italy; Wolf
I. Blitzer, BA ’70, of Bethesda, Md.; and Margaret G.
McGlynn, MBA ’83 & BS ’82, of Flourtown, Pa.
The Clifford C. Furnas Award, presented to engineering,
natural sciences or mathematics alumni who
have distinguished themselves in a field of science,
will be given to Norman R. McCombs, BA ’68, of
Tonawanda, N.Y.
Gary A. Baker, PhD ’02, of Knoxville, Tenn., is slated
to receive the George W. Thorn Award, given to alum-
AP sports reporter Jim Militello, BA ‘79, who leads the Washington,
D.C., alumni chapter, is flanked by former Bulls Jamey Richard, BS ’08,
and Drew Willy, BA ‘09 (both play for the Indianapolis Colts) during
Super Bowl XLIV media day Feb. 2 in Miami. (See article on page 10.)
ni under 40 in recognition of outstanding national or
international contributions to their career field or
academic area.
Reserved for non-alumni who have made notable and
meritorious contributions to UB, the Walter P. Cooke
Award will be presented to Janet H. Sung and John J.
Sung of Clarence, N.Y.
The Dr. Richard T. Sarkin Award for Excellence in
Teaching will be presented to William G. Wild Jr., MS
’87, MA ’85 & BS ’83, of Buffalo, N.Y.
Dennis W. Elsenbeck, ME ’96, of Orchard Park, N.Y.,
will be given the Community Leadership Medal.
The Dr. Philip B. Wels Award, given to individuals and
groups whose achievements have greatly enhanced
the quality of life of the entire UB community, will
be given to the University at Buffalo Dental Alumni
Association.
Also that evening, four students will be awarded
J. Scott Fleming Scholarships and four individuals
will receive Volunteer Recognition Awards. Full bios
and photos of 2010 awardees are available at http://
alumni.buffalo.edu/awards.
U B a t N o o n
Art, health care and fate of newspapers
More than 200 members of the Pillars Society,
graduates of 50 or more years ago, were treated to
three inspiring UB at Noon programs last semester.
On June 18, artist and art collector Gerald Mead,
MFA ’08, talked about works of such Buffalo artists
as James Allen and William West. Mead, a professor
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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
at Buffalo State College, also talked about his own
works, which are small-scale collages and assemblages
created from photographs and found objects.
Health care was the topic Oct. 9 with a presentation
by David Dunn, UB’s vice president for health
sciences, who discussed the role that the university’s
Academic Health Center will play in transforming
health care services and education in Western New
York, New York State and the nation.
And finally, Jody Kleinberg-Biehl, director of the
journalism certificate program and adjunct instructor
in the Department of English, concluded the 2009
program on Nov. 4 with a lively discussion of journalism
and the future of newspapers with the rise in
electronic communication.
I n t e r n a t i o n a l n e w s
Renewing ties in Turkey
UB President John B. Simpson has met with countless
alumni across the United States and around the
world, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore
and Thailand. In September 2009, Simpson met
with alumni in the Turkey chapter of the UB Alumni
Association. Forty UB alumni and friends welcomed
Simpson; his wife, Katherine; and Stephen Dunnett,
PhD ’77 & BA ’68, vice provost for international
education, during a reception in Istanbul.
Chapter president Zeynep Uluer Aytekin, MA ’93
& BA ’91, and co-president Basak Kizildemir, MA
’88, helped to coordinate the evening at the Turkish
Cultural Foundation in Istanbul. “It was wonderful
to be together … to welcome our special guests,”
Aytekin says. “We were so happy to see everyone,
ranging from the grads of 1986 to the newest grads
from 2009.”
Also during their trip to Turkey, Simpson and Dunnett
visited Bilkent University in Ankara, the first
private, nonprofit
university
in Turkey, and
Istanbul Technical
University
(ITU)—a state
university
founded in 1773
that specializes
in architectural
and engineering
education—to
renew
UB’s exchange
Former international students Gustavo agreement with
Lima, MArch ‘88, principal, Cannon that institution.
Design (gesturing), and Gaurav Shringarpure,
ME ‘04, of SLR Contracting &
Service (far right), meet UB international
students during International
Week in November.
ber of the Ohio State and
Cleveland Metropolitan bar
associations, the Greater
Cleveland Mortgage
Bankers Association and
the International Council
of Shopping Centers, and
serves as a member of
the board of trustees of
the Arthritis Foundation,
Northeast Ohio chapter.
He resides in Avon
Lake, Ohio. *Robert
J. Feldman, JD 1976,
an attorney with Gross
Shuman Brizdle and
Gilfillan, is included in
the 2010 edition of The
Best Lawyers in America.
He lives in Amherst, N.Y.
Beverly Wright, PhD 1977
& MA 1971, received a
2009 Heinz Award for her
work on behalf of communities,
especially those
in Louisiana’s “Cancer
Alley.” As head of the
Deep South Center for
Environmental Justice at
Dillard University in New
Orleans, she has been
tackling issues of environmental
racism and working
to raise the profile of
environmental issues in
poor and minority communities
nationwide. Wright
lives in New Orleans, La.
Jeffrey Human, JD 1978,
an attorney with Gross
Shuman Brizdle and
Gilfillan, is included in the
2010 edition of The Best
Lawyers in America. He
resides in Williamsville,
N.Y. Lynette Nieman, MD
1978, received the 2009
distinguished physician
award from the Endocrine
Society. She heads the
endocrine consult service
at National Institutes
of Health (NIH), and is
the associate director of
the NIH Inter-institute
Endocrine Training
Program. She has received
several honors, including
the NIH director’s award
for her major contributions
to understanding
female reproductive biology,
and development of
clinical trials and training
programs at the Eunice
Kennedy Shriver National
Institute of Child Health
and Human Development
branch of NIH. She has
also been recognized
as teacher of the year
by NIH endocrine fellows,
and received the
NIH distinguished clinical
teacher award. Nieman
lives in Bethesda, Md.
Vikki L. Pryor, JD
1978
*
& BA 1975, chief
executive at SBLI USA,
was named one of the 50
Most Powerful Women
in New York by Crain’s
New York Business. She
lives in New Rochelle,
N.Y. Timothy Block, PhD
1979 & BA 1975, was
elected a fellow of the
American Association
for the Advancement of
Science. He was honored
for his discovery of
molecular mechanisms
of viral persistence and
therapeutic strategies
for hepatitis B virus and
herpes simplex virus.
Block is the cofounder and
president of the Hepatitis
B Foundation, and has
been involved in chronic
viral hepatitis research
for more than 20 years.
He lives in Doylestown,
Pa. Burns,
JD 1979,
*Christopher
received a
superior rating from the
Minority Bar Association
of Western New York Inc.
as a candidate seeking
election to the New York
State Supreme Court, 8th
Judicial District. Burns
resides in Buffalo, N.Y.
Patrick McGreevy, MA
1979, has assumed the
position of dean of the
American University of
Beirut (AUB) faculty of arts
and sciences. He is a professor
in the department
of history and archaeology,
and joined AUB in 2004 as
the director of the Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud Center
for American Studies and
Research. McGreevy lives
in New York, N.Y.
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Carl N. Reed III, PhD
1980 & MA 1974, was
inducted into the Urban
and Regional Information
Systems Association GIS
Hall of Fame as a leader
of the geospatial community.
He is the chief technical
officer at the Open
Geospatial Consortium
Inc. (OGC), and serves
as the executive director
for OGC’s Standards
Program. With more
than 20 years’ experience
working on geospatial
standards, Reed collaborates
with organizations,
including the National
Emergency Number
Association, Organization
for the Advancement of
Structured Information
Standards, International
Organization for
Standardization, World
Wide Web Consortium and
the Internet Engineering
Task Force. Reed resides
in Fort Collins, Colo.
Thomas P. Stewart, PhD
1980, was appointed by
New York
Gov. David
Paterson to
the Roswell
Park
Cancer
Institute
stewart board
of directors. He is the
president and chief
clinical officer at Gaymar
Industries, where he has
experience overseeing
clinical research, and has
also served as director
of medical research. In
1981, Stewart founded the
National Pressure Ulcer
Panel, and was awarded
a lifetime achievement
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Association Billboard
Nancy Battaglia and Andrew
Wilcox are new members of the
Office of Alumni Relations staff.
C o r p o r a t e C o n n e c t i o n s
UB and HSBC
On October 21, President John B. Simpson and
Warde Manuel, athletics director, met with nearly 90
UB alumni who work for HSBC Bank in downtown
Buffalo for an afternoon presentation and reception.
The event was held as part of HSBC’s afternoon
lecture program created by its Buffalo Business
Council.
President Simpson spoke about UB 2020 and its
impact in the Buffalo-Niagara region and across
the state. Meanwhile, Manuel talked about ways in
which alumni and members of the community can
show their support for UB, not only in the athletics
arena, but also by becoming advocates through the
UB Believers program, by volunteering, and simply
by attending events.
UB and HSBC have a longstanding partnership
in that UB has educated many students who, as
alumni, have gone on to assume leadership roles
within the bank. For example, Joseph Saffire, MBA
’95, is HSBC’s executive vice president and regional
president for commercial banking. Countless other
alumni work for the bank around the world.
The School of Management’s Center for Global Business
Leadership (HSBC Center) was established
through an endowment from HSBC. Since its inception,
the HSBC Center has helped to prepare students
for future leadership roles in international business
and to promote awareness and understanding of
international business.
O f f i c e o f A l u m n i R e l a t i o n s
Meet the new staff
Two new staff members joined the Office of Alumni
Relations in September.
Nancy M. Battaglia, MBA ’96 & BS ’89, is associate
director, special projects. Formerly with UB’s human
resources department, she focuses on programs and
services for nontraditional alumni. She is also the
liaison for several chapters.
Andrew J. Wilcox is associate director, strategic
partnerships. His primary responsibility is strategic
marketing, advertising and forging revenue-generating
partnerships. Wilcox was previously director of
marketing and special events for UB Athletics.
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*
A blue asterisk denotes UB
Alumni Association members
classnotes
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
award in 2008 from the
World Union of Wound
Healing Societies. He is
a member of the board
of directors for the Life
Science Industry Council
of the Buffalo Niagara
Partnership, of which he
is also chair. Additionally,
Stewart is a member of
the board of trustees of
Daemen College, vice
chair of the board of
Insyte Consulting and
a member of the UB
School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences
Dean’s Advisory Council.
He lives in Orchard Park,
N.Y. Eric Altstadter, BS
1981, has been named
partner-in-charge of the
new Long Island office
of Eisner LLP. He provides
auditing, consulting
and tax services to
public and private firms
across North America and
internationally. Altstadter
resides in Bellmore, N.Y.
Stanley Berke, MD 1981,
a partner at Ophthalmic
Consultants of Long
Island, N.Y., will participate
in the Mission
Cataract
USA program,
offering
free
cataract
surgery
berke to residents
of Long Island who
are unable to pay. Berke
is an associate clinical
professor of ophthalmology
and visual sciences
at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine and
a fellow of the American
Board of Ophthalmology,
the American Academy
of Ophthalmology, the
Nassau Surgical Society
and Nassau Academy
of Medicine. He lives in
Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Craig Dye, BA 1981, is the
director of investments for
the Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship at the
University of Maryland’s
Robert H. Smith School
of Business, where he
will head the center’s
Capital Access Network.
Dye resides in Washington,
D.C. Hahn, BS
1981,
*Donald
chief learning officer
of Hahn Training LLC,
has joined APA Solutions,
Benefit Brokers of WNY,
and Triple Track HR for
H.I.R.E. to create a onestop
resource to manage
human capital and form
a seamless solution to
human resource concerns.
During his 30-year career
in corporate development
and training, Hahn has
delivered marketing, training,
recruiting and coaching
solutions to thousands,
and has trademarked
powerful programs on corporate
development and
candidate selection such
as “CHAMP” and H.I.R.E.,
which are designed to
improve corporate learning
and development. He
resides in East Amherst,
N.Y. Craig A. Slater, JD
1981 & BA 1978, an attorney
with Harter Secrest
& Emery, was named in
2009’s Upstate New York
Super Lawyers listing.
He lives in Williamsville,
N.Y. Shirley Troutman,
BS 1982, received a
superior rating from the
Minority Bar Association
of Western New York Inc.
as a candidate seeking
election to the New York
State Supreme Court, 8th
Judicial District. Troutman
resides in Buffalo, N.Y.
Thomas Rechen, BA 1985,
is a fellow in the Litigation
Counsel of America. He is
a partner in the Hartford,
Conn. office of McCarter &
English, where his practice
focuses on intellectual
property, business tort,
trade secret, restrictive
covenant, trade regulation
and unfair competition
claims. Rechen has extensive
experience in state and
federal courts and arbitral
forums, and is a seasoned
appellate lawyer, having
briefed and argued appeals
before the Connecticut
Supreme and Appellate
courts and the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 2nd, 5th
and federal circuits. He
lives in Simsbury, Conn.
Barbara Trolley, PhD
1985 & MS 1981, was promoted
to full professor at
St. Bonaventure University.
She is the lead author of
five books that relate to
cyber-bullying, school
counseling and special
education. In addition,
she wrote and received
an autism grant and has
been the coordinator of
the autism program in the
St. Bonaventure School
of Education counseling
clinic, which she
cofounded. Trolley is also
the editor of the New York
State School Counseling
Journal. She resides
in Hamburg, N.Y. John
McGonegal, BA 1986,
is the managing director
for Houlihan Smith &
Co.’s New York City office,
where he focuses on providing
corporate finance
and valuation services to
publicly traded companies.
He lives in Peapack, N.J.
Hugh C. Carlin, JD 1987,
is included in the 2010 edition
of The Best Lawyers
in America. He is an attorney
with Gross Shuman
Brizdle and Gillifan, and
resides in Buffalo, N.Y.
David Rosenblum, MD
1987, was named one of
Connecticut’s top doctors
by Connecticut Magazine.
He is the medical director
of the physical medicine
and rehabilitation program
at Gaylord Hospital
in Wallingford, Conn., and
is double board certified
in physiatry and spinal
cord injuries. Rosenblum
lives in Woodbridge, Conn.
Matt Tryniski, BA 1988,
is assistant vice president
at Syracuse Research
Corporation (SRC), where
he works with business
development to create and
execute strategic plans
and business capture, and
will be responsible for
coordinating day-to-day
activities between SRC and
its high-tech manufacturing
subsidiary, SRCTec.
Tryniski resides in Cicero,
N.Y. Ippolito,
Jr., JD
*Russell
1989, received a
qualified rating from the
Minority Bar Association
of Western New York Inc.
as a candidate seeking
election to the New York
State Supreme Court, 8th
Judicial District. Ippolito
lives in Orchard Park,
N.Y. Henry Nowak Jr.,
JD 1989, received a wellqualified
rating from the
Minority Bar Association
of Western New York Inc.
as a candidate seeking
election to the New York
State Supreme Court, 8th
Judicial District. Nowak
resides in Buffalo, N.Y.
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John Dedie, MA 1990, is
*
a political science instructor
at Community College
of Baltimore County,
School of Business, Social
Science, Wellness and
Education. He has more
than 16 years’ experience
teaching American
government, introduction
to political science and
international relations,
and will begin teaching
constitutional law and
campaigns and elections
classes in 2010. Dedie lives
in Pasadena, Md. Charles
Fulco Jr., BA 1990, traveled
to Shanghai, China, in
2009 to teach astronomy
to Chinese and American
students for one week in
conjunction with the total
solar eclipse. He plans to
travel to Easter Island in
2010 for the same purpose.
Fulco resides in
Rye Brook, N.Y.
Kinmartin Jr., BS *Paul 1990,
has been appointed to the
position of principal in
charge of the Philadelphia
region of Parente Randolph
LLC. He will oversee
offices in Philadelphia and
Lehigh, Pa., Cherry Hill,
N.J., and Wilmington, Del.
Kinmartin lives in Chester
Springs, Pa.
Weiner, MBA *Michael 1990, MS
1974 & BA
1972, was
appointed
president
and CEO of
the United
Way of
weiner Buffalo and
Erie County. Weiner served
as the commissioner of the
Erie County Department
of Social Services from
2004 until 2009 and is a
member of the Governor’s
Children’s Cabinet Advisory
Board. He holds affiliation
memberships with
the United Way of America
and the United Way of New
York State. Weiner resides
in Buffalo, N.Y. Mary
Attracta Ibegbu, BS 1991,
is the director of pharmacy
services at Niagara Falls
Memorial Medical Center.
A former staff pharmacist
and pharmacy manager
at Millard Fillmore
Gates Circle Hospital,
Rite-Aid Pharmacy and
Walgreens Pharmacy,
she most recently served
as director of pharmacy
for the Medina Memorial
Healthcare System in
Orleans County. Ibegbu
lives in Getzville, N.Y.
William C. Bergmann Jr.,
BS 1992, is the vice presi-
Whether you are a UB alumnus,
spouse, parent, Believer, neighbor or
Bulls fan, anyone in Western
New York or around the world is
welcome to join our network.
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School-based News
S h o o l o f n u r s i n g
Nursing on the move
Wende Hall, one of the original buildings on UB’s South Campus, is now home
to the School of Nursing. Comprising seven classrooms, a center for nursing research,
three specialized instructional laboratories, faculty offices, study space,
and student and employee lounges, the historic building received a $7.1 million
facelift, transforming it into a state-of-the-art learning, teaching and research
facility. In addition, a number of green elements have been incorporated, including
energy-efficient heating and cooling systems.
The building features a clinical skills laboratory with nine hospital beds separated
by curtains. Each station comes with equipment for tasks, such as suctioning
and delivering oxygen. Students can further hone their nursing skills in two
simulation rooms in the laboratory that house mannequins capable of exhibiting
“symptoms” of illnesses.
A high-tech physical assessment laboratory will include 10 exam rooms, each
double the size of similar spaces in Kimball Tower, the nursing school’s previous
home. Each room will be equipped with cameras, enabling faculty members to
converse with students, and watch and record them at work. Students can then
review and learn from the recordings.
An operating suite for the school’s anesthesia program will come equipped with
a simulation mannequin. From a “mission control” room next door, faculty members
will be able to monitor students, manipulating the mannequin to respond to
their actions.
According to Jean Brown, dean of the School of Nursing, “Kimball Tower, with its
long hallways, was built as a dormitory, so it did not enhance faculty collaboration.”
In Wende Hall, Brown notes, “faculty will be closer together, and I think
that’s going to be a real plus. We also have a little bit of room to grow.”
Member Spotlight
Ruth Kleinman, BA ’05, Port Washington, N.Y.
Why am I a member of the
UB Alumni Association
I loved my UB experience and didn’t want it to end after
my four years as a student. There is no better way to
stay connected than to be a part of the alumni association. It helps me
maintain personal and professional contacts with people I knew at UB,
as well as alumni whom I’ve met since graduating. I also enjoyed attending
UBAA chapter events when I lived in northeast Ohio, and now I am
involved in planning events for the New York City chapter. I was invited
to join the UBAA Board in 2009, which further helps me network professionally
while serving fellow UB alums.
Kleinman close-up
Lifetime member since May 2005 (received after serving as president of the
University Student Alumni Board); currently serves as co-director of Hillels
of Westchester, youth group director of Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont
and Emanu-El, and counselor/staff member of Camp Echo Lake; also
an active volunteer in the UB Alumni Ambassador program, recruiting high
school seniors to attend UB.
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Coming Up
Hurwitz & Fine P.C., where
she has served as an associate
since
2001. Seeley
focuses her
practice in
insurance
coverage,
no-fault
seelEy
coverage,
municipal and environmental
counseling, and
government liability. She
is the leader of the firm’s
no-fault practice group
and authors a biweekly
column on recent developments
in no-fault law
for the firm’s electronic
newsletter. Seeley resides
in West Valley, N.Y. Joan
Graci, CEL 2002, president
of APA Solutions,
has joined Hahn Training
LLC, Benefit Brokers of
WNY, and Triple Track HR
for H.I.R.E. to create a
one-stop human resource
company. She began her
career as an executive
recruiter at APA Solutions
more than 20 years ago,
and obtained sole ownership
of it nine years ago.
In 2005, Graci formed a
second company called
Career Savers. She resides
in East Amherst, N.Y.
Adam Storch, BS 2002,
is the managing executive
of the Securities and
Exchange Commission’s
division of enforcement.
He is the enforcement division’s
first chief operating
officer, and is responsible
for project management
and workflow for various
infrastructure and operational
aspects of the division.
Storch also oversees
the workflow and process
associated with the collection
and distribution
of fair funds to harmed
investors, and assists in
supervising the office of
market intelligence. He
lives in New York, N.Y.
Cheryl A. Aloi, JD 2003
& BA 2000, is an associate
at Hogan Willig, where
she focuses her practice
in the firm’s matrimonial
and family law departcalendar
UB Alumni
Association
Achievement
Awards
4.09.10
Center for the Arts,
North Campus
Hump Day Hangout
4.14.10
Student Union, North
Campus
Distinguished
Speakers Series
Bill Maher
4.23.10
Alumni Arena, North
Campus
Oozfest
Oozfest
4.24.10
Mud Pit, North Campus
Commencement
Weekend
5.06-09.10
Various locations
Jog for the Jake
6.20.10
Delaware Park, Buffalo
Ride for Roswell
6.26.10
North Campus
Freshman
Move-in Day
8.26.10
North Campus
Linda Yalem
Safety Run
9.26.10
North Campus
All dates and times
subject to change. Visit
www.alumni.buffalo.
edu/events for updates.
Freshman
Move-in Day
A blue asterisk denotes UB
Alumni Association members
classnotes
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
dent of finance for Starz
Entertainment and Starz
Media, where he is responsible
for budgeting, planning
and internal reporting
activities across the family
of Starz companies. He
previously held the position
of executive director
of finance and planning,
and has been a part of the
company for more than 10
years. Bergmann resides
in Castle Rock, Colo. Fred
Hazzan, BS 1993, is controller
at The Hamister
Group Inc., where he
oversees the accounting
operation at the company’s
corporate headquarters.
He also plays a
lead role in budgeting for
the Hamister-managed
properties. Hazzan lives
in Getzville, N.Y. Carol
McNall, JD 1993, has
earned tenure from St.
Bonaventure University,
where she served as
assistant professor in the
Russell J. Jandoli School
of Journalism and Mass
Communication for six
years. She lives in Olean,
N.Y. Scott Socha, MBA
1995, is the vice president
of new business development
at Delaware North
Companies Parks &
Resorts. He is in charge
of directing the company’s
efforts to seek
out profitable business
opportunities and grow
its industry presence. He
lives in South Wales, N.Y.
Raffi Bagdasarian, BA
1997, was recently promoted
to vice president
of product development
and operations at Sony
Pictures Television Inc.
located in Culver City, Calif.
He resides in Sherman
Oaks, Calif. Mimi Haskins,
MS 1998, serves on the
board of directors of the
medical-surgical nursing
certification board
at Roswell Park Cancer
Institute. She is a member
of the nursing staff development
department, and
as a board member, will
help establish credentials
for validating proficiency
in medical-surgical nursing.
Haskins is a member
of the Academy of
Medical-Surgical Nurses,
District 1-New York State
Nurses Association, Staff
Development Educators
of Western New York,
National Nursing Staff
Development Organization
and Oncology Nursing
Society. She lives in
Buffalo, N.Y. Rachel
Sparacio-
Foster, BA
1999, won
second
place in the
“Businessto-Business
sparacio-foster Rising Star”
copywriting competition.
She launched her company,
Fresh Perspective
Copywriting, in April 2009,
for which she provides
freelance copywriting services
for green technology
companies, advertising
agencies, and nonprofit
organizations. Sparacio-
Foster lives in Toronto,
Ontario.
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Jeffrey Fick, BS 2001,
an associate at Trautman
Associates, recently
passed the examination
administered by the U.S.
Green Building Council and
achieved LEED accredited
professional designation.
He lives in Cheektowaga,
N.Y. Angela Fraas, MusB
2001, is teaching voice
and choir at Antalya
State Conservatory, part
of Akdeniz University in
Antalya, Turkey. Fraas
resides in Antalya. Audrey
Seeley, JD 2001, has been
promoted to member at
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Ways to make a difference
Alumni Ambassadors
We all know that professional networking can bring many benefits to your career—sometimes
a personal connection is what it takes to land that new job.
By the same token, a personal introduction from a UB alumnus can be just what
it takes for high school students to choose UB. If you would like to help UB recruit
the best and brightest students to your alma mater, the UB Alumni Ambassador
Program offers a number of opportunities across the country.
Whether you have two hours to give or 20, there’s a recruitment activity to fit your
schedule. For example, some ambassadors represent UB at college fairs, some
“adopt” their former high school to boost UB visibility and others make phone
calls or send e-mails to prospective students. If you have an undergraduate
degree from UB and live in the continental U.S., you have what it takes to be an
ambassador.
For more information, please visit http://alumni.buffalo.edu/giveback/#ambassadors.
Hump Day Hangout
“Take a slice, take a turn” is the one phrase you need to know for our newest
student outreach activity, Hump Day Hangout (HDHO) with the UB Alumni Association.
Held one Wednesday (“hump day”) a month in the Student Union, HDHO
gives students a way to unwind with free pizza and Wii games while honing their
networking skills with alumni volunteers. “We wanted to raise awareness among
students of all the programs the alumni office has for them, but in a way that was
casual and fun,” says Patty Starr, assistant director, volunteer and student programs.
“It’s been a huge success—we’ve had about 300 students at each of these
monthly events since September.”
Alumni interested in volunteering for an upcoming HDHO may find dates on the
alumni Web site at www.alumni.buffalo.edu/events.
UBAA member Pat Herberger, MBA ’85 & BS ’79
(center), speaks with students during the Hump Day
Hangout in the Student Union Social Hall on Oct. 21.
Dewane Harris, BA ’93, presents an “Alumni in Training”
T-shirt to a UB student during the Oct. 21 Hump
Day Hangout in the Student Union Social Hall.
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Where do
you want to
go today
UB alumni
travel can
take you
there
If you love to travel,
you’ll love the myriad
faraway adventures on
our itinerary in 2010.
Marvel at the breadth of
Italy’s impressive history;
melt at the sight
of resident pandas in
China’s Chongqing Zoo;
or discover the vibrant
city of Milan, Italy’s
economic hub and one
of the great fashion
capitals of the world.
And if those trips don’t
suit your fancy, how
about our “Grand Journey
Around the World,”
where you’ll visit eight
countries on three continents
and nine World
Heritage List sites in
Japan, China, Thailand,
Egypt, Jordan, Israel
and Germany
For more information,
including cost and travel
dates, visit www.alumni.
buffalo.edu and click on
the Alumni Services tab.
Bon voyage!
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A
classnotes
ment. Previously, she was
an associate at Offermann,
Cassano, Greco, Slisz,
and Adams. Aloi resides
in Williamsville, N.Y.
Pascal Cohen, MBA 2003
& BS 2003, airport terminal
superintendent
at the Buffalo Niagara
International
Airport,
has been
awarded the
distinction
of accredited
airport
cohen
executive by
the American Association
of Airport Executives.
Cohen lives in Amherst,
N.Y. Ryan J. Mills, JD 2003
& BPS 2000, is a partner
at Brown & Kelly, where
he was formerly an intern,
law clerk and associate.
He concentrates his practice
in litigation, corporate
and real estate matters,
and is a member of the
firm’s asbestos defense
department. Mills resides
in Williamsville, N.Y. Philip
Yizhao Zhang, MBA 2003,
is the chief financial officer
for Universal Travel Group
in Shenzhen, China. He has
more than 10 years’ experience
in portfolio investment,
corporate finance
and accounting. Zhang is
a certified public accountant
of Delaware, and a
member of the American
Institute of Certified
Public Accountants. He
lives in Guangzhou, China.
Thomas Cox, PhD 2004
& MA 1998, has recently
completed a monograph
entitled “Gibbons v. Ogden,
Law, and Society in the
Early Republic.” He is on
temporary leave from his
position as an assistant
history professor at Sam
Houston State University in
Huntsville, Texas, to serve
as Fulbright Teaching
Professor of American
History at Northeast
Normal University in
Changchun, China, for the
2009-2010 academic year.
When he completes his
Fulbright, Cox will return
to his home in Shreveport,
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
La. Angie Kleeh, CEL
2004, CEO of Triple Track
HR for H.I.R.E., has joined
APA Solutions, Hahn
Training LLC and Benefit
Brokers of WNY to create
a one-stop human
resources company.
During her entrepreneurial
career, she has developed
human service businesses,
a management
and consulting firm, and
a human resources and
work-life benefits company.
Kleeh has extensive
experience in collaborations
with non-profits
and union-management
partnerships to provide
work-life benefits. She
resides in East Amherst,
N.Y. J. Bizub, JD
2006,
*Scott
is an associate at
Siegel, Kelleher and Kahn.
Previously, he was the vice
president and director
of government relations
for Chwat & Company in
Alexandria, VA. He lives in
Buffalo, N.Y.
Lovelace, JD *Christian
2006, is
an associate at Lippes
Mathias Wexler Friedman,
where he focuses his practice
on corporate law and
financial transactions. He
resides in Orchard Park,
N.Y. Tracy A. Hinman, BA
2007 & CERT 2007, is a
marketing assistant at the
Accreditation Commission
for Health Care Inc. in
Raleigh, N.C. She is
responsible
for
creating all
marketing
materials,
advertisements
and
hinman press
releases, media planning
and buying, social
media marketing and
exhibiting at trade shows
across the nation. She
resides in Raleigh. Jessica
Markarian, MSW 2007,
is the project lead for the
Infant Adoption Awareness
Training Project, housed
at Adoption STAR. She
lives in Tonawanda, N.Y.
Bo Gyung Kim, JD 2008,
is an associate at Kloss,
blue asterisk denotes UB Alumni Association members
Stenger &
LoTempio,
where she
concentrates
her
practice in
business
kim
and corporate
law, contracts, product
liability, civil litigation
and business immigration
law. Kim lives in Buffalo,
N.Y. James Loree, MLS
2008, JD 1983 & BA 1980,
was inducted into Beta
Phi Mu, the international
library and information
studies honor society, in
October 2009. He resides
in Williamsville, N.Y.
CaTyra Polland, BA
2008,
*
recently completed
a summer internship at
Monroe County Office of
Probation Community
Corrections in Rochester,
N.Y., and is pursuing a
master of arts degree in
criminal justice. She lives
in Rochester.
Schwach, JD 2008 *Michelle & BA
2005, is an associate at
Cohen & Lombardo P.C.,
where she concentrates
her practice in matrimonial
and family law. She
is a member of the Bar
Association of Erie County,
and the family law and
young lawyers sections of
the New York State Bar
Association. Schwach
resides in Amherst, N.Y.
Douglas Smith, JD 2008
& PhD 2004, is an associate
at Kloss, Stenger
& LoTempio, where he
concentrates his practice
on intellectual
property
matters
including
patent,
trademark,
copyright
smith prosecution
and infringement litigation.
Smith is registered
to practice before the
United States Patent and
Trademark Office. He lives
in Rochester, N.Y. Jeffrey
Goldberg, MBA 2009 &
DDS 2003, has opened
a dental practice in the
Amherst-Clarence area
of Western New York. His
new office will feature four
operatories and a staff of
six. Goldberg will focus on
treating the entire family,
with a particular interest
in those individuals with
sleep apnea or diabetes,
as well as patients over
55. He is the executive vice
president of the Mentor
Café LLC and serves as
a senior docent for the
Darwin D. Martin House
in Buffalo. Goldberg lives
in Williamsville, N.Y. Erin
Graff, BS 2009, has been
hired as a staff accountant
for Brock, Schechter
& Polakoff LLP, where
she previously worked as
a tax intern for the firm.
Graff belongs to both
Alpha Kappa Psi coed
business fraternity and
the University at Buffalo
Accounting Association.
She will work on a variety
of accounting and taxation
engagements including
the preparation of corporate,
individual and estate
income tax returns. Graff
resides in Batavia, N.Y.
Trisha Miazga, BS 2009,
an employee at Trautman
Associates, recently
passed the examination
administered by the U.S.
Green Building Council
and achieved LEED
accredited professional
designation. She lives in
Saskatoon, Ontario. Holly
West, BS 2009, has been
welcomed as a new staff
accountant at Brock,
Schechter & Polakoff LLP.
Her job duties will include
a variety of accounting and
taxation engagements,
including the preparation
of corporate, individual,
and estate income tax
returns. West resides in
Cheektowaga, N.Y.
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30s
Kenneth E. Gerhardt, BS
’35, of Grand Island, N.Y.
04.04.09
Daniel D. Peschio, MD ’35, of
Vero Beach, Fla. 06.22.09
Angelo Lapi, MD ’37, of
Coconut Creek, Fla. 01.07.09
S. Howard Payne, DDS ’37,
of Tucson, Ariz. 04.29.09
Frederick C. Holder, MA ’38
& BS ’34, of Avon, Conn.
04.16.09
Leonard C. Lovallo, LLB ’38,
of Spring Hill, Fla. 09.17.09
Charles J. Mascari, DDS ’38,
of Brockport, N.Y. 11.10.08
George L. Morse, BS ’38, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 05.30.09
Maxine K. Kelly, BS ’39 & BA
’35, of Clarence Center, N.Y.
06.05.09
Gladys S. King, BA ’39, of
Pinebluff, N.C. 06.22.09
Frederick J. Szymanski, MD
’39, of Naples, Fla. 04.09.09
40s
Benjamin Gold, LLB ’40, of
Lewiston, N.Y. 10.03.09
Joffre J. Moses, DDS ’40,
of Farmington Hills, Mich.
01.03.08
Eugene J. Hanavan, MD ’41,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 07.07.09
Bernadette O. Mulvey, BS
’41, of Tonawanda, N.Y.
11.09.08
Roy V. Velie, BS ’41, of
Akron, Ohio 07.23.09
Lester H. Otterman, BS ’42,
of Ithaca, N.Y. 11.17.09
Henry A. Stroman, BA ’43, of
Middleport. N.Y. 04.19.09
Phyllis K. Gese, BA ’44, of
Payson, Ariz. 06.29.09
Samuel Goldsman, DDS ’44
& BA ’40, of Liverpool, N.Y.
03.31.09
A. Michael Jamesson, DDS
’44, of Cuba, N.Y. 05.19.09
Frank H. Long, MD ’44, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 10.21.09
John T. Crissey, MD ’46, of
Sierra Madre, Calif. 01.29.09
Carl J. Impellitier, MD ’46 &
BA ’43, of Las Cruces, N.M.
09.09.09
William L. Marsh, MD ’46, of
Bethesda, Md. 05.21.09
David Kraft, DDS ’47, of Ann
Arbor, Mich. 01.01.09
George H. Mix, MD ’47 &
BA ’43, of Melbourne, Fla.
03.16.09
Juanita C. Diaz, MSW ’48,
of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
01.29.09
Doris E. Ganger, BS ’48 &
CERT ’43, of Buffalo, N.Y.
11.14.08
Leeland N. Jones, BA ’48, of
Germantown, Md. 08.13.09
Dominic J. Napoli, BS ’48, of
Ocala, Fla. 07.25.09
Alfred C. Orlowski, BS ’48,
of Schertz, Texas 08.08.09
Bernard F. Schreiner,
BA ’48, of Advance, N.C.
09.24.09
Jack H. Treger, BS ’48, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 06.29.09
Marilyn R. Becker, BA ’49, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 03.08.09
Donald F. Doering, BA ’49, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 07.17.09
Francis J. Frantz, DDS ’49,
of Warsaw, N.Y. 05.07.09
William T. Hammill, BS ’49,
of Hilton, N.Y. 07.22.09
Richard G. Miller, BA ’49,
of North Tonawanda, N.Y.
06.09.09
Milton L. Mohart, BS ’49, of
Silver Creek, N.Y. 04.08.09
Thomas B. Nickson, EdM ’49
& BA ’48, of Lansing, Mich.
06.15.08
Albert J. Rydzynski, JD ’49,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 07.28.09
Jeanette M. Smith, EdM ’49,
of Leesburg, Va. 06.04.09
Paul C. Stolzenfels, JD ’49,
of North Tonawanda, N.Y.
05.10.09
50s
John Brucker, BS ’50, of
Orchard Park, N.Y. 07.28.09
Louis J. Buchheit, BS ’50, of
Vero Beach, Fla. 06.10.09
Thomas P. Flaherty, LLB ’50,
of Derby, N.Y. 10.09.09
Albert J. Gerritz, BS ’50, of
Pittsford, N.Y. 07.16.09
Willard A. Hess, BS ’50, of
Avon, N.Y. 02.26.09
Glenn H. Johnson, BS ’50, of
Jamestown, N.Y. 06.22.09
Mario A. Lamantia, BA ’50,
of New Orleans, La. 07.13.09
Henry J. Musilli, BS ’50, of
Indianapolis, Ind. 06.11.09
Irving W. Rosenberg, JD ’50
& BS ’42, of Williamsville,
N.Y. 10.03.09
Perry Tzetzo, BS ’50, of East
Amherst, N.Y. 04.27.09
Robert E. Bushover, BS
’51, of Ransomville, N.Y.
02.28.09
Andrew J. Castner, BS ’51,
of Cranston, R.I .08.19.09
John W. Doran, EdM ’51, of
Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.01.09
Thomas P. McMahon, JD ’51,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 05.25.09
Donald G. Parker, BS ’51, of
Rochester, N.Y. 06.17.09
Joseph L. Parlato, EdM ’51
& BA ’49 of New Hartford,
N.Y. 10.07.09
Francis B. Pritchard, JD ’51
& BS ’50, of Grand Island,
N.Y. 06.30.09
Raymond C. Seebald, BS
’51, of Orchard Park, N.Y.
05.26.09
James R. Tyler, BA ’51, of
Richardson, Texas 12.18.08
Jack P. Weber, BS ’51, of Los
Alamitos, Calif. 08.28.09
Richard H. Wiley, BS ’51
& CERT ’48, of Clarence
Center, N.Y. 06.11.08
William T. Ames, BS ’52,
of Lake Barrington, Ill.
05.26.09
William J. Atkins, BS ’52, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 05.30.09
Patrick T. Hurley, JD ’52, of
East Amherst, N.Y. 04.19.09
Edwin J. Kuzdale, LLB ’52,
of Dunkirk, N.Y. 06.22.09
Anthony J. Nello, BS ’52, of
Elma, N.Y. 05.08.09
Harry J. Pappas, MA ’52
& BA ’48, of Buffalo, N.Y.
07.12.09
Walter M. Pelkey, LLB ’52,
of Sarasota, Fla. 01.07.09
John W. Rickers, JD ’52
& BS ’51, of Buffalo, N.Y.
09.23.09
James P. Simson, BS ’52 &
CERT ’49, of Cincinnati, Ohio
06.26.08
Vernon N. Behrns, PhD ’53,
MA ’50 & BA ’39, of Ocala,
Fla. 06.24.09
James T. Graley, MA ’53 &
BA ’49, of Orchard Park, N.Y.
08.27.09
Paul Lautensack, BS ’53, of
Jeffersonville, Pa. 09.10.08
Mary E. Mahoney, EdM ’53
& EDB ’52, of Buffalo, N.Y.
06.17.09
Robert Schaus, JD ’53, of
Naples, Fla. 07.30.09
Francis J. Wagner, BS ’53, of
Liverpool, N.Y. 12.19.08
Casimir J. Zdrojewski, DDS
’53, of Marilla, N.Y. 08.23.09
Joseph W. Bania, BA ’54, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 04.21.09
Edward P. Finger, BS ’54, of
Olean, N.Y. 07.31.08
Donald J. Murray, MD ’54
& BA ’50, of Globe, Ariz.
06.15.09
Harry J. Prosser, BA ’54,
of Hendersonville, N.C.
02.01.09
James D. Fisher, BS ’55, of
Charlotte, N.C. 05.19.09
Joseph Gordon, MD ’55, of
Medford, N.J. 04.09.09
Justin Hofmann, EdD ’55 &
MA ’51, of Cleveland, Ohio
11.11.09
Robert A. Loewer, EdM ’55
& BS ’50, of San Jose, Calif.
10.06.09
Saul M. Siegel, PhD ’55, MA
’52 & BA ’49, of Berkeley,
Calif. 10.18.08
Charles W. Anderson, BS
’56, of Warminster, Pa.
09.29.09
Paul W. Cummings, BS ’56,
of Getzville, N.Y. 05.02.09
Paul K. Domroes, BS ’56, of
Amherst, N.Y. 05.09.09
Barbara M. Ernewein,
AS ’56, of Hamburg, N.Y.
06.08.09
Ira Miller, MD ’56, of
Bethesda, Md. 03.31.09
Edwin H. Robins, BS ’56, of
Lakewood, Colo. 09.23.08
Joan A. Suedmeyer, BS ’56,
of Emmett, Idaho 07.20.09
George R. Wells, EdD ’56, of
Houghton, N.Y. 10.15.09
Henry G. Adaszak, BS ’57 &
CERT ’50, of Boynton Beach,
Fla. 08.19.08
Donald J. Dell, BS ’57, of
Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
09.27.09
James P. Geracci, DDS ’57,
of Las Vegas, Nev. 05.09.09
F. B. Hamsher, JD ’57 & BA
’53, of Buffalo, N.Y. 04.19.09
Donald F. Ketteman, BS ’57,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 05.30.09
Roberta Magavern, BA ’57,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 05.01.09
Walter A. Ruettimann,
BS ’57, of Clarence, N.Y.
09.15.08
Alice T. Bak, BFA ’58, of
Niagara Falls, N.Y. 06.14.08
Thomas G. Cummiskey, MD
’58, of Williamsville, N.Y.
09.04.09
Leonard J. Poleszak, EdM
’58, of Jekyll Island, Ga.
03.03.09
David J. Birmingham, AS ’59,
of Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.09.09
Donald L. Brunner, BS ’59,
of Fort Myers, Fla. 06.09.09
C. C. Fisher, MBA ’59, of New
Canaan, Conn. 06.10.09
Salvatore F. Giallombardo,
JD ’59, of Williamsville, N.Y.
05.05.09
Donald P. Gorman, BS ’59, of
Clarence, N.Y. 06.05.09
Mary A. Kennedy, EdB ’59, of
Utica, N.Y. 05.24.09
Neal R. Koenig, BS ’59, of
Rochester, N.Y. 04.22.09
Harry Lautensack, MBA ’59,
of Audubon, Pa. 04.10.09
Kevin J. Loos, BS ’59, of East
Amherst, N.Y. 06.05.09
Charles L. Lumsden, BS
’59, of Williamsville, N.Y.
10.03.09
Richard S. Metzgar, PhD ’59
& MA ’57 of Durham, N.C.
04.15.09
Francis A. Pirrone, BS ’59, of
Niagara Falls, N.Y. 01.31.09
Calvin A. Suess, BS ’59, of
Lancaster, N.Y. 09.02.09
Mary Ellen Usiak, EdM ’59 &
BS ’47, of East Amherst, N.Y.
10.21.09
60s
Victor Diener, BS ’60, of Boca
Raton, Fla. 08.05.09
Ronald F. Lochocki, BS ’60,
of Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.01.09
Michael E. Case, BS ’61, of
Dunwoody, Ga. 07.17.08
Sherman A. Goldstein, BA
’61, of Highwood, Ill. 06.27.09
Willard F. Nagle, MD ’61, of
Devon, Pa. 05.19.09
Barbara Schwartz Bromberg,
BA ’62, of Cincinnati, Ohio
01.30.09
Harold C. Domres, MD ’62, of
San Antonio, Texas 03.02.09
Robert D. Gunderman, JD
’62, of Snyder, N.Y. 10.09.09
Jean L. Kask, BA ’62, of
East Aurora, N.Y. 06.26.09
Marie B. Kurtz, MS ’62 &
BS ’58, of Orchard Park, N.Y.
03.06.09
Louis M. Reuter, BA ’62, of
Tonawanda, N.Y. 08.17.09
John P. Fehr, BS ’63, of
Hamburg, N.Y. 08.26.08
Joseph E. Jureller, BS ’63, of
Derby, N.Y. 06.29.08
Irwin L. Kipness, BS ’63, of
Boca Raton, Fla. 10.22.09
Mary E. Nailos, MS ’63, of
Chattanooga, Tenn. 03.31.09
John H. Rolker, MBA ’63, of
Carlsbad, Calif. 10.22.08
James R. Fox, BA ’64, of
Shorewood, Ill. 06.14.09
Ralph B. Keisling, EdB ’64, of
Clarks Summit, Pa. 05.25.08
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James A. Rogers, BS ’64, of
Grand Island, N.Y. 08.13.09
John W. Tomlinson, EdM ’64,
of Potomac, Md. 09.10.09
Elizabeth E. Ungerer, EdM
’64, of Lakewood, N.Y.
06.15.08
William M. Baltz, EdD ’65 &
EdM ’52 of Scottsdale, Ariz.
04.12.09
Nicholas F. Castiglia, BS ’65,
of Victor, N.Y. 05.13.08
Richard W. Hertel, BS ’65, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 03.08.09
Richard M. Piccarreto,
DDS ’65, of Pittsford, N.Y.
12.10.08
Robert H. Staplin, MBA ’65,
of Hamel, Minn. 06.02.09
Kathleen M. Upchurch,
EdB ’65, of Williamsville,
N.Y. 07.21.09
Michael A. Barrell, BA ’66,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 01.12.08
Henry J. Gebhardt, MBA ’66
& BS ’62, of Ballston Lake,
N.Y. 04.02.09
Thomas H. Harmon, JD ’66,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 05.18.09
Gordon A. Ingram, BA ’66, of
De Witt, N.Y. 06.23.09
Jillian J. Plumb, BA ’66,
of Saint Petersburg, Fla.
12.03.08
Stephen W. Rambo, BA ’66,
of Clearfield, Utah 05.08.09
Douglas J. Salmon, EdM ’66,
of Hamburg, N.Y. 04.12.09
Richard D. Bob, BS ’67, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 03.04.09
William W. Carrigan,
PhD ’67, of Bellaire, Ohio
11.13.08
Herbert S. Eisenstein,
EdD ’67, EdM ’64 & BA ’49,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 07.03.09
Kenneth P. Kogut, EdM ’67 &
BA ’64, of Whitesboro, N.Y.
05.09.09
Bruce J. Fox, BA ’68, of East
Aurora, N.Y. 04.19.09
Charles H. Girard, BA ’68, of
Marion, N.Y. 10.06.08
James M. Harrigan, BA ’68,
of Tonawanda, N.Y. 07.07.09
Matthew W. Hearn, MBA ’68
& BA ’66, of Buffalo, N.Y.
08.24.09
Leonard M. Keilson, BA
’68, of Scarborough, Maine
05.25.09
Donald J. Ostempowski,
BA ’68, of Lancaster, N.Y.
08.06.09
Edward R. Sokolski, BS
’68, of East Amherst, N.Y.
01.31.09
Harold D. Whitefoot, MA ’68,
of Longmont, Colo. 12.28.08
Richard J. Anderson, EdM
’69 & BA ’66, of Erie, Pa.
02.24.09
Gerald L. Barrows, BA ’69,
of Concord, N.C. 07.03.09
Dorothy W. Harman, EdM
’69 & BFA ’64, of Dover, Ohio
02.11.09
Barbara B. Whitman,
EdM ’69, of Lebanon, N.H.
10.19.09
70s
Paul J. Bedworth, BS ’70,
of North Tonawanda, N.Y.
05.26.08
Paul Chmiel, MS ’70, of
Springfield, Mass. 10.11.08
Mary L. Lepkowski, EdD ’70,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 03.22.09
Shirley N. Opel, MLS ’70
& BA ’66, of Buffalo, N.Y.
04.24.09
Elaine M. Parkinson, BA ’70,
of Leesburg, Va. 09.16.09
Sherrell D. Swanson, MBA
’70, of Seaford, Va. 04.18.09
George L. Youngkins, BA ’70,
of Nashville, Tenn. 04.30.09
Edward S. Augustine, MS
’71, of Pittston, Pa. 03.12.09
Jon C. Daniel, PhD ’71, of
Millstadt, Ill. 06.01.09
Allen R. Fisgus, MS ’71,
PMCRT ’70 & DDS ’68, of
East Amherst, N.Y. 04.29.09
Frances A. Frank, MLS ’71,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 12.19.08
Dorothy M. Kirk, BS ’71, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 01.09.09
Carl F. Miller, BA ’71, of
Alpharetta, Ga. 03.16.09
Louis H. Schwartz, BS ’71
& BA ’70, of Plano, Texas
06.16.09
Sally A. Shimmel, MS ’71
& BS ’69, of Akron, N.Y.
11.10.08
Paul R. Tessmer, BA ’71, of
Lapeer, Mich. 10.24.09
George T. Baker, MSW
’72, of Silver Spring, Md.
12.24.08
Robert L. Benenati, MS ’72,
of Granbury, Texas 03.28.09
Geraldine Brusino, BS
’72, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.
03.07.09
Joseph M. Ferraro, BA ’72,
of Angola, N.Y. 03.02.09
Virginia M. Foley, EdD ’72,
MA ’54 & BA ’52, of Buffalo,
N.Y. 07.17.09
Sophine L. Sandler, BA ’72,
of Philadelphia, Pa. 05.19.09
Carmene D. Buchheit,
AS ’73, of Vero Beach, Fla.
05.21.09
Gary J. Grabenstatter, BS
’73, of New Orleans, La.
06.15.09
Paul A. Marshall, BA ’73, of
Miami, Fla. 10.13.08
Stuart Robinson, BA ’73, of
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 02.02.09
Mary C. M. Cadenhead,
BA ’74, of Amherst, N.Y.
07.09.09
Geoffrey Levin, BS ’74, of Las
Vegas, Nev. 08.02.09
Carl H. Reynolds, PhD
’74, EdM ’73 & BA ’70, of
Rochester, N.Y. 03.20.08
Janice A. Russell, MS ’74, of
Lake Wylie, S.C. 07.25.09
Andrew L. Topolski, BFA ’74,
of Brooklyn, N.Y. 02.14.08
Paul H. Wierzbieniec,
MD ’74, of Amherst, N.Y.
11.03.09
Diana Winter, BA ’74, of
Grand Island, N.Y. 10.13.08
John K. Currie, JD ’75, of
Hartford, Conn. 04.28.09
John A. DiPasquale, BS ’75,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 05.11.08
Ellen R. Dietz, BS ’75,
of West Coxsackie, N.Y.
04.20.09
Bonnie V. Feinman, EdM ’75
& BA ’74, of San Diego, Calif.
10.18.09
Richard A. Jackson, BA
’75, of McLeansville, N.C.
03.24.09
Glen A. McIntyre, DDS ’75, of
Rochester, N.Y. 08.31.09
M. Virginia Schneider,
BA ’75, of Annandale, Va.
08.23.08
Marian W. Aaron, BA ’76, of
Berwyn, Pa. 01.11.09
Nicholas A. Amadori, MBA
’76 & BS ’71, of Water Mill,
N.Y. 09.11.08
Elfie D. Berndt, BFA ’76, of
Stevensville, Mich. 08.31.09
Genevieve Cmiech, BA ’76, of
Lake City, Fla. 05.22.09
Amy M. Egan Altenburger,
BA ’76, of Mendham, N.J.
05.28.09
Sally A. Fox, BA ’76, of
New York, N.Y. 10.01.09
Mary E. Good, JD ’76 & BA
’73, of Orchard Park, N.Y.
05.07.09
Gary L. Hahn, BS ’76, of
Eden, N.Y. 04.09.09
George A. Maines, EdD ’76,
of Erie, Pa. 04.08.09
Leila L. Samuel, EdM ’76, of
Amherst, N.Y. 10.28.08
Thaddeus V. Samulski, PhD
’76, of Chapel Hill, N.C.
07.29.09
Richard A. Villari, MBA ’76
& BA ’71, of Brewerton, N.Y.
05.07.09
Minnie B. Wilson, MA ’76,
EdB ’71 & BA ’71, of
Parsippany, N.J. 01.27.09
Irene O. Avery, BA ’77, of
Cheektowaga, N.Y. 07.18.09
Linda M. Becker, EdM ’77, of
Tonawanda, N.Y. 06.29.09
James C. Gorom, BA ’77, of
Oakfield, N.Y. 08.09.09
Thaddeus A. Jarzabek,
BA ’78, of Buffalo, N.Y.
08.03.08
Amy E. O’Brien, BA ’78, of
Groton, N.Y. 10.13.08
John J. Black, PhD ’79 & MS
’70, of Williamsville, N.Y.
04.06.09
Martin J. Dropik, BS ’79, of
Erie, Pa. 11.14.08
Mark L. Josephson, BA ’79,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 08.20.09
Patricia S. Lehmann, EdM ’79
& BA ’73, of Annandale, Va.
06.06.09
Gary F. Papa, JD ’79, of Saint
Davids, PA 06.19.09
80s
Louise R. Koenig, MLS ’80, of
Blasdell, N.Y. 09.20.08
Lois B. Koss, EdM ’80, of
Hamburg, N.Y. 05.17.09
Sally K. Fanning, MBA ’81, of
Danbury, Conn. 01.06.08
Rosalind McCullough, BA ’81,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 07.23.09
Arthur P. Miceli, MBA ’81, of
Fort Myers, Fla. 06.24.09
Robert T. Mulvaugh, BA ’81,
of Massena, N.Y. 03.17.09
Giacomo R. Scarato, MA ’81,
of Hawthorne, N.J. 11.17.08
Gary W. White, BS ’81, of
West Seneca, N.Y. 05.20.09
Michael H. Doran, JD ’82
& BS ’79, of Amherst, N.Y.
04.28.09
Robert C. MacDonald,
BA ’83, of Cheektowaga, N.Y.
04.17.09
Henry L. Wisniewski, MS ’83,
of Sanborn, N.Y. 07.28.09
Robert A. Church, BS ’84, of
Tonawanda, N.Y. 05.01.09
Rose T. Lombardo, AAS ’84,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 07.13.09
John Zapalowski, BFA ’84, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 03.19.09
Patrick T. Jacob, BFA ’86, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 04.11.09
Marian A. Murphy, MSW
’86, of Cheektowaga, N.Y.
08.06.09
Steven L. Thurston, BA ’86, of
Alden, N.Y. 04.22.09
Jeffrey J. Brown, MS ’87 &
BS ’82, of Chelmsford, Mass.
05.23.09
John L. Martin, JD ’87, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 09.22.09
Diana M. Smith-Beckerman,
PhD ’87, of Newark, Calif.
01.26.09
Joseph H. Roquemore, PhD
’88, of Austin, Texas 09.08.08
Suzanne Borkowski, MS ’89,
of Lancaster, N.Y. 02.15.09
Kathleen A. Perry, MSW ’89,
of Buffalo, N.Y. 05.29.09
90s
Patricia L. Collins, BS ’90, of
Camden, W. Va. 01.24.08
Beverly A. Hern, MLS ’90, of
Victor, N.Y. 02.08.09
Rita A. Johnson, MA ’90, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 12.20.08
Carol M. Neyerlin, MS ’90 &
BS ’80, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.
05.05.09
Denis M. DePierro, BA ’91, of
New Rochelle, N.Y. 05.03.08
Carolynn E. Clapp-Sutley, MS
’92 & BS ’63 of Allegany, N.Y.
09.24.08
Janet M. Greenia, BS ’92, of
Amherst, N.Y. 07.22.09
Garett L. Geake, BA ’93, of
Buffalo, N.Y. 05.25.09
Valerie D. Teresi, BS ’93, of
Clarence, N.Y. 05.05.09
Christopher W. Burke, BS ’94,
of West Seneca, N.Y. 03.22.08
Frances H. Sit, BS ’94, of
Owen Sound, Ontario 01.18.09
Benedict Gonzalez, BA ’95, of
Amherst, N.Y. 05.08.09
Scott J. Scupien, BS ’95, of
Midlothian, Va. 05.09.09
Robert B. Ayotte, MusB ’96, of
Danbury, Conn. 06.04.08
Kathy L. Palumbo, MSW ’98,
of Niagara Falls, N.Y. 04.10.09
Jessica L. Wasmund, BA ’99,
of Burnt Hills, N.Y. 03.15.09
00s
Douglas S. Manna, BA ’02, of
Stamford, Conn. 02.23.09
Andrew T. Conta, BA ’05, of
Hamburg, N.Y. 10.16.08
Lance A. Fertig, MA ’05,
EdM ’04, BA ’02 & BA ’73, of
Williamsville, N.Y. 06.05.09
Danielle R. Guistina,
JD ’05, MBA ’02 & BS ’02, of
Henrietta, N.Y. 11.20.08
Margaret E. Krawczyk, MA
’05, of Buffalo, N.Y. 10.31.09
Stacey E. Micoli, MusB ’05, of
Lockport, N.Y. 07.27.09
Mwatum Z. Muindi, MSW ’08,
of Cheektowaga, N.Y. 09.07.09
Matthew J. Schnirel, JD ’08,
of Amherst, N.Y. 04.28.09
Maggie E. Sheldon, BA ’08, of
Amherst, N.Y. 07.31.09
Correction
The graduation year of the
late Ryan M. Perkis, BS ’07
of Rochester, N.Y., was misstated
in our last issue.
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opinion
A l u m n i s h a r e t h e i r t h o u g h t s
inmy
If you had a
vanity plate
for your car, what would it say*
Ronald Balter, BA ’80
Brooklyn, N.Y.
I am on my third vanity plate. The first
was UB BULLS followed by BULLS UB.
Now my car has the UB logo plate with
BULLS1.
Karl Zalar, BA ’73
Tipp City, Ohio
My vanity plate says, UNIV BUF.
Ed Ostrowski, BS ’69
Simpsonville, S.C.
N0SUP4U—no soup for you!!!!!!!
Bruce Moden, BS ’57
East Aurora, N.Y.
I have a vanity plate, PHARMR, this
represents my profession as a pharmacist
(co-owning a small regional chain
of community pharmacies) and my
avocation as a farmer, several years
growing tomatoes and potatoes on
our 65-acre farm, as well as helping in
my father-in-law’s business of growing
10,000 tulips and hyacinths for the
Buffalo-area Easter trade.
Tom Trinchera, MLS ’96 & BA ’94
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
I first bought a car when I was a master’s
student, early in 1995. With the
new car came my first auto loan, naturally,
so I thought a great idea for a
vanity plate would be ON LOAN. When
the car was officially paid for, I thought
I’d get a new plate that read PAID FOR.
Never went through with it, though, but
I am planning to buy another car in the
next few weeks so perhaps I’ll get my
chance!
Jill Sessa, BA ’94
Buffalo, N.Y.
FUN RZR—I’m a development officer
for the UB School of Management and
that should go on my little red convertible.
Mmmm, I might head to the DMV
this week!
Amy Nash, BA ’84
East Amherst, N.Y.
KDNY2LIV, DON8LIFE, THNXKDNY,
IMALIVE.
Patrick Ellingham, MA ’77 & BA ’74
Hollywood, Fla.
There are dozens of specialty plates in
Florida. Every school, every team, and
every cause has one. Aside from those,
many thousands have vanity plates, as
well. Mine is very simple and obvious to
anyone who knows me: Dr. Elvis.
Paul Karas, MD, ’87
Amherst, N.Y.
Either: “Fencer,” “Foilist,” “RowDad,”
or “CrewDad.”
Ronald C. Fazar, BA ’92
Rochester, N.Y.
It’s a “vanity” plate—what else would I
put FAZAR9…my name and favorite
number! Seriously, there are some other
ideas—probably something related
to the two hardball leagues I play in—or
possibly something related to my vehicle,
especially if I get another Jeep.
Chuck Swanekamp, MBA ’80,
JD ’79 & BA ’78
Getzville, N.Y.
I’m a scuba diving and Caribbean
fanatic, so my first automobile vanity
plate was “Caribbe.” I was in the
Caribbean with my dive buddies shortly
after I bought my first Harley and we
were having a few adult beverages after
the dive. We were wracking our brains
for ideas for a vanity plate for the bike
when all of a sudden the waitress put
down the next round of beers—it was
the Caribbean beer “Carib.” When I got
home I raced to the DMV to reserve
“Carib” as the plate for my Harley. So in
all honesty my bike is named in honor
of a Caribbean beer!
Kevin Eye, BS ’01
Orchard Park, N.Y.
I looked into getting H4X0R (hacker),
but somebody else got to it first.
Mark Ferguson, BA ’00
Williamsville, N.Y.
UB16—I’m planning ahead.
Amanda Rundell, BA ’07
Buffalo, N.Y.
My vanity plate would say GO VEG
because going vegetarian is important
for one’s health, the planet and the
animals!
*Question posed in “In My Opinion,” a feature of the monthly electronic
newsletter @UB, a portion of which also appears regularly in UB Today.
To subscribe, go to the Stay Informed tab at www.alumni.buffalo.edu.
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