Ernest L. Boyer, 68, SUNY Chancellor in the 1970s and U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Carter Administration, died Dec. 8 in his home in Princeton, N.J. after a three-year battle with cancer.

Boyer had been president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Princeton since 1979, and was a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and an education columnist for the London Times.

He was the last person to serve as commissioner of education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare before Congress split it into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services in 1970.

Richard J. Buckley, surgeon, clinical associate professor

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Jan. 11 in SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Williamsville, for Richard J. Buckley Sr., 77, a Buffalo surgeon who had served as an associate clinical professor of otolaryngology at the Boston University School of Medicine and the UB medical school and as adjunct assistant professor in the UB Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences. Buckley died Jan. 7 after a lengthy illness.

A graduate of UB and its medical school, Buckley served as a captain and chief of surgery in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Augsburg, Germany.

He was a surgical staff member at Deaconess, Emergency, St. Francis and Sisters of Charity hospitals and a courtesy staff member at Buffalo General, Kenmore Mercy and Children's hospitals. A member of several medical societies, he was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Abdominal Surgeons.

Buckley was a past president of the New Voice Club of the Niagara Frontier, a support group for recovering laryngectomy patients and was medical director of the Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center until his death.

Carlos H. Frank, North Campus construction manager

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Jan. 12 in St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Town of Tonawanda, for Carlos H. Frank, a former project manager for the construction project on UB's North Campus. Frank, 85, died Jan. 8 in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital.

Frank, a retired electrical engineer, worked for 15 years for the SUNY Construction Fund, and took part in projects at the State College of Technology at Alfred and Geneseo State College as well as overseeing the UB construction in Amherst.

An engineering graduate of Notre Dame, Frank was a member of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers and served on the faculty of Erie County Community College. He retired from his state job in 1980.

Catherine Olshevsky, research technician at medical school

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Jan. 5 in SS. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church for Catherine Olshevsky, a retired lab technician at the UB medical school. Olshevsky, 81, died Jan. 2 in the Erie County Medical Center after a long illness.

Born and educated in Poland, she moved to the Buffalo area in 1947 and during the 1950s, worked as a Russian language teacher at the Berlitz School and as a research technician at Roswell Park Memorial Institute. In the late 1950s, she became a virology research technician at UB, retiring in 1976.

Julian Szekely, former UB chemical engineering professor

Services were held Dec. 12 in South Lincoln, Mass. for Julian Szekely, 61, a professor of chemical engineering at UB from 1966-1975. Szekely, a professor of materials engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died of cancer Dec. 7 in the M.I.T. infirmary in Cambridge, Mass.

Szekely received the Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineering in 1974, when he was a professor of chemical engineering at UB and director of the Center for Process Metallurgy. In 1973 he received the Sir George Beilby Award for outstanding contributions in the field of chemical engineering. He received two awards recognizing his work from the Metallurgical Society of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering in 1972.

Widely known as a pioneer in mathematical modeling, he developed the first comprehensive mathematical model of fluid-flow, electromagnetics and heat-transfer phenomena for the refinement and solidification of metals. He also developed the first quantitative analysis of plasma torches and innovative approaches to circuit board attachment problems. Last August he organized a "Top Steel Summit" in Austria that explored future directions in steel production and promoted a dialogue between equipment builders and steelmakers worldwide.

Szekely was the author of seven textbooks; his publications also included 12 edited volumes and more than 420 journal articles. He held several patents.

He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Imperial College in London, where he taught until coming to Buffalo in 1966.

A memorial service will be held Feb. 16 in the M.I.T. Chapel.

Laurence E. Gaughan, oral surgeon, clinical assistant professor

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Jan. 15 for Laurence E. Gaughan, 74, an oral surgeon who had served as a clinical assistant professor in the UB School of Dental Medicine. Gaughan died Jan. 13 in Millard Fillmore Hospital after a short illness.

A graduate of UB and its dental school, he served in the Army Air Forces as weatherman and cryptographer during World War II.

Affiliated with Kenmore Mercy Hospital's Dental Service Division in the surgery department, he was senior dentist and consultant for the state Narcotics Addiction Control Commission. A member of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, he was accredited by the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry at the American School of Applied Hypnotherapy and Hypo-anesthesia. Gaughan, a fellow of the Royal Society of Health in London, retired in 1980.

Marvin N. Winer, dermatologist, instructor in medical school

A memorial service will be held in San Francisco for Marvin N. Winer, a dermatologist for 35 years in Buffalo and Amherst who had served as an instructor in dermatology at the UB medical school. Winer, 82, died Dec. 27 in Sarasota, Fla., where he moved about 10 years ago. He earned his undergraduate degree from UB before graduating from the medical school in 1939. He served as a major in the medical branch of the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1943-46. A diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, he had been a member of the Erie County Medical Society and a president of the Central States Dermatologic Society. Winer retired in 1981.

Donald Hall, clinical professor, medical alumni president

Donald W. Hall, 79, an obstetrician and gynecologist who served as an assistant clinical professor in the UB medical school, died Jan. 7 in Buffalo General Hospital after a brief illness.

Hall, a graduate of UB and its medical school, was a past president of the UB Medical School Alumni Association. A member of the Erie County and New York State Medical Societies, he was a past chair of the Section on Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine.

He had served as a physician in the U.S. Army in World War II, rising to the rank of major. Hall, who retired in 1983, remained active in the medical field, working with the American Red Cross Blood Services, Deaconess Center of Buffalo General Hospital Family Planning and Buffalo General Hospital admissions.