Obituaries

Gugino, who graduated from the University of Buffalo in 1952, was a member of the UB General Alumni Board. He organized the "Gray Bulls," a group of former UB athletes and in 1992 founded the Gordon Bukaty Annual Memorial Golf Tournament to support UB athletics.

After college, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving on the USS Niagara during the Korean conflict.

Gugino was employed as a salesman for Metropolitan Life and later was promoted to assistant sales manager.

In 1965, he managed the Tabor Agency as financial services manager, founding his own agency in 1969. He retired In 1991.

He was a life member and officer of the Buffalo Life Underwriters Association, serving on its board of directors.

Marilyn Hutchings, UB secretary, advocate for brain-injured
A memorial service was held Sept. 21 in St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Eggertsville, for Marilyn M. Hutchings, 72, who had served as a secretary in the departments of nuclear engineering and electrical engineering at UB. She died Sept. 13 in Kenmore Mercy Hospital after a long illness.

Nationally recognized as an advocate for the brain-injured, she began working to build a network of relatives of brain-injured people across the state after her daughter, Susan, suffered a severe skull fracture in 1969. She also assembled statistics and helped coordinate a symposium at UB in the 1980s on brain injuries.

As corresponding secretary for Headway for Brain Injured, she lobbied health care providers and lawmakers on local, state, national and international levels for services and treatments for the brain-injured. The organization became known worldwide through her efforts.

A secretary at UB from 1961 to 1985, she continued at UB as a contract worker for two more years following her retirement.