Mrs. Carol Greiner, wife of UB President William R. Greiner, is serving as co-chair of the Sesquicentennial Honorary Committee.

One-hundred-four community leaders, elected officials and special friends of the university have accepted the invitation from President Greiner to serve on the committee, formed "to make longtime UB friends and supportersƒa part of the traditions and transitions which we are celebrating."

The university is marking its 150th birthday and that of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with a vast array of special events that began in January and will continue through June 1997.

Philip B. Wels, M.D., chair of the UB Council, is a member of the committee, as are council members Roger I. Blackwell; Lawrence P. Castellani; Frank N. Cuomo; Jonathan A. Dandes; John F. Kopczynski Sr.; James Phillips, M.D.; John N. Walsh III, and Michael Pierce. Also on the committee is council member emeritus Mary E. Randolph.

Other members of the committee are:

SUNY Chancellor Thomas A. Bartlett; D. Bruce Johnstone, Ph.D., former SUNY chancellor and now University Professor at UB; Muriel A. Moore, Ph.D., president of Buffalo State College; Louis M. Ricci, president of Erie Community College.

Thomas F. Egan, chair of the SUNY Board of Trustees; Erland E. Kailbourne, co-chair; SUNY trustees Arnold B. Gardner; Miles L. Lasser; Edward F. Cox; Candace de Russy, Ph.D.; Judith Lasher Duken; Hazel N. Dukes; Edward S. Nelson, N. Theodore Sommer; Harvey F. Wachsman, M.D.; Pamela R. Jacobs, and Diego G Muöoz.

State Transportation Commissioner John B. Daly, state Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco, state senators Mary Lou Rath, Dale M. Volker, William T. Stachowski, George D. Maziarz, Stephen M. Saland, and assemblymen Sam Hoyt, Richard R. Anderson, Arthur O. Eve and David E. Seaman.

Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, Rep. John J. LaFalce, Rep. William L. Paxon, Rep. Jack Quinn, former Rep. Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo Mayor Anthony M. Masiello, Erie County Executive Dennis T. Gorski and Amherst Town Supervisor Thomas J. Ahern.

Buffalo Councilman Kevin J. Helfer, State Supreme Court Justice Rose H. Sconiers, State Appeals Court Justice M. Dolores Denman, State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Howe, Federal Judge John T. Curtin and former State Appeals Court Justice Matthew J. Jasen.

Anthony H. Gioia; Linda J. Wachner; Randall I. Benderson; Ellen Grant Bishop, Ph.D.; Frank L. Ciminelli; Carol V. Kociela; Reginald B. Newman; William H. Pearce; Elizabeth P. Olmsted, M.D.; Jeremy J. Jacobs Sr.; Gerald S. Lippes; Robert G. Wilmers; Sal H. Alfiero; Robert E. Rich Sr., and Northrup P. Knox.

Seymour H. Knox III; George F. Goodyear; Burt P. Flickinger Jr.; Thomas M. Fricano; George M. Ellis Jr., M.D.; Arthur Woelfle; Henry A. Panasci Jr.; Wilson Greatbatch; George J. Measer; Jack Conners; John D. Reinhold; Joseph E. Goodell; Douglas Schultz, and Brian J. Wyatt.

Robert M. Bennett; William Siener; J. Michael Collins; John E. Friedlander; Joseph A. Ruffolo; Paul J. Candino; Sister Kathy Sweeney; Charles V. Van Vorst; Thomas B. Tomasi, M.D., Ph.D.; John J. Maher; Richard Droske; Timothy J. Finan; Charles E. Balbach; Joseph Ryan, and Arthur A. Russ Jr.

John R. Wright, M.D.; Sister Marie Burns; Jane Dugan Baird; Willard E. Genrich, and Albert R. Mugel.