Fleischmann, Regan Named Recipients of Outstanding Service Awards at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ilene R. Fleischmann and William J. Regan have received Outstanding Service Awards from the Professional Staff Senate (PSS) at the University at Buffalo.

The Outstanding Service Award is given annually to members of UB's professional staff who are making outstanding community-service contributions. Winners receive a cash award and a certificate of recognition.

A member of the UB professional staff since 1985, Ilene R. Fleischmann is associate dean for alumni, public relations and communications in the UB Law School. She serves as executive director of the Law Alumni Association and editor of UB Forum, the law school's alumni association magazine.

Prior to joining UB, she worked as a freelance non-fiction writer for national magazines and major metropolitan dailies, as features editor forWomen's World magazine and as a reporter and columnist for the former Buffalo Courier Express.

For 16 years, Fleischmann has produced and moderated "Mind Over Myth," a monthly public-affairs television show broadcast on WKBW-TV. Her other community service activities include serving as treasurer of the National Foundation for Sigma Delta Tau sorority and advisor of the Delta chapter at UB, and as vice president of the American Jewish Committee's Western New York chapter. She was selected by the national AJC to be a Blaustein Fellow.

She earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in English literature from Buffalo State College.

She resides in East Amherst.

William J. Regan, a UB professional staff member since 1980, is director of the university's Office of Conferences and Special Events, responsible for planning, promoting and managing more than 1,500 of university-sponsored conferences, workshops, symposia, meetings and events each year.

His tenure at UB includes working as catering supervisor for the Faculty Student Association, manager of the Center for Tomorrow and associate director for conferences and special events.

Regan's community activities include serving as advisor to the director of the WNY Independent Living Project Inc., an officer and past president of the special education Parent-Teacher Association for the Amherst Central School District and chairman of the board of St. Luke's United Church of Christ.

A member of the Leadership Buffalo Class of 2001, he also is a member of the Amherst Pepsi Center Oversight Committee, and has served as a director and president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Regan received a bachelor's degree in French literature, with a minor in Russian, and an MBA, both from UB.

He resides in Snyder.