Honor Roll
Lee Gross Anthone, founder of New York State's first one-stop center for abused children, and Robert M. Bennett, retiring president of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, received D'Youville College's 2000 Community Service Award during the institution's Justice Michael F. Dillon Presidential Scholarship Reception on Nov. 2. The annual scholarship reception honors the memory of the late New York Supreme Court Justice Michael F. Dillon, a D'Youville trustee from 1983 to 1991.Co-chairmen of the event were Joseph A. Grande, a retired history professor and vice president for academic affairs at the college, and Mary E. Kirwan, a D'Youville graduate and former head of the college's board of trustees.
Walter Simpson of Amherst, energy officer at the University at Buffalo and director of the UB Green Office, has been inducted into the Association of Energy Engineers "Energy Managers' Hall of Fame."
He was inducted Oct. 27 at the 23rd World Energy Engineering Congress in Atlanta in recognition of his achievements in the energy industry. Energy officer at UB since 1992, Simpson developed a nationally recognized campus energy-conservation program -- Conserve UB -- that is credited with annual energy savings of $ 9 million and cumulative savings of more than $ 60 million.
Between 1992 and 1997, Simpson brought together a diverse team of UB facilities engineers and technicians to work with Sempra Energy Services, formerly CES/Way International, a Houston-based energy-conservation company, to implement a self-fiancing, national award-winning $ 17 million project responsible for annual savings of $ 3 million. Two of the most cost-effective measures of the project were a gas conversion and heat-recovery system in the Cooke-Hochstetter complex on the North Campus and a massive retrofit of 60,000 light fixtures on campus that now produce the same amount of lighting while using 40 percent less electricity.
Simpson, a certified energy engineer and certified lighting-efficiency professional, has worked in the national arena promoting campus energy-conservation as well as campus environmental stewardship. He has received many energy and environmental awards and is the author of numerous publications. He has a master's degree in philosophy and environmental studies from UB and has taught more than 25 courses at the university, ranging from ethics to alternate energy systems.
Barbara Judelsohn Durham was recently appointed executive director of the Erie Community College Foundation. She has served as vice president for marketing at Durham Cos. and director of marketing and membership for the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo. Durham is the author of "Clean Your House the Lazy Way" and serves on the development committee of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College. She is a board member of the National Conference.
Thomas J. Caulfield, a professor of counselor education at Canisius College, recently received the Distinguished Career Award of the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education Alumni Association. The award was presented at the school's Biennial Alumni Recognition Dinner on Oct. 28.
Caulfield, a graduate of Canisius, earned his doctoral degree in counselor education from the University at Buffalo. He is a member of the Council on Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs. He is also the author of numerous articles in his field. He is a past president of both the Western New York Counselors Association and the New York State Association of Counselor Education and Supervision.
Carl J. Montante, a 1964 graduate of Canisius College, has been elected to a fourth consecutive term as chairman of the college's board. Also re-elected were Gerald C. Saxe, vice chairman; the Rev. James P. Higgins, secretary; and Laurence W. Franz, treasurer. They will serve for the 2000-01 academic year.
Newly elected members of the Canisius College Board of Trustees include: Rev. Robert R. Grimes, academic dean and an associate professor of music at Fordham College at Lincoln Center in New York City; Rev. Francis G. Hilton, an assistant professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore; Luiz F. Kahl, president of the Vector Group and a former member of Canisius College's Board of Regents; Patrick P. Lee, chairman of International Motion Control and a regent emeritus of the college; and Daniel W. Stanton, a partner in Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York City and a 1979 Canisius graduate. All were elected to three-year terms.
College President Rev. Vincent M. Cooke; Alumni Association President Laura A. Zaepfel; and the Alumni Association's first vice president, Sebastian W. Fasanello, will serve as ex-officio members of the board, which formulates and recommends policy to the college president. Raymond F. Gallagher, a member of the Erie Community College board for trustees since 1995, has been elected to a two-year term as a member-at-large of the New York Community College Trustees of the State University of New York. He is also a member of the legislative advocacy committee of the state trustees' group.
A former state senator and chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Gallagher is executive director of Support Services, a nonprofit corporation that provides congregate living and assistance for the elderly. Joseph F. Atkinson of Amherst, who has conducted more than a decade of Great Lakes-related research, has been named director of the Great Lakes Program at the University at Buffalo. The program is one of some 10 university-based Great Lakes research centers in the United States and Canada to develop, evaluate and synthesize scientific and technical knowledge on the Great Lakes ecosystem in support of public education and policy formation.
Atkinson, a professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was interim director of the program in 1998 and 1999. The head of UB's Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, he is on the steering committee's of the university's Environment and Society Institute and the National Sciece Foundation-funded graduate program for integrated graduate education and research training in geographic information sciences. He has been a faculty member since 1984. Last year, he was awarded a J. William Fulbright Scholarship and lectured and taught at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He has a bachelor's degree from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif., a master's degree from Cornell University and a doctorate from Massachusetts of Technology.
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