The UB Alumni Association will honor a prominent local philanthropist and an internationally recognized journalist at the annual UB Alumni Association Achievement Awards ceremony, to be held at 6:30 p.m. April 9 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Attorney Gordon R. Gross, JD ’55, will receive the Samuel P. Capen Award, the UB Alumni Association’s highest honor, and CNN host Wolf Blitzer, BA ’70, will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award. They are among the 11 individuals who will be honored, along with a UB alumni group, students and volunteers.
President John B. Simpson and UB Alumni Association President Larry Zielinski, MBA ’77, BA ’75, will present the awards. A post-award reception will feature premium food stations, an open bar and entertainment in the Center for the Arts atrium.
A member of the SUNY Board of Trustees from 2001-08, Gross’s significant gifts to UB include a $1 million donation to establish the first endowed professorship in the Institute for Jewish Thought and Heritage.
“The university is the No. 1 economic engine in Western New York. Not only is it an important employer, but it spawns new businesses and attracts people to the region,” Gross said. “I’ve seen for quite some time that the university is the future of this community, and the most important thing we can do for the growth of the community is to help grow the university. It’s just that simple.”
Blitzer will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award, given in recognition of exceptional career accomplishments, community or university service, or research and scholarly activity. The host of “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” he received a SUNY honorary doctorate in humane letters in 1999, and in 2003 he endowed the UB David Blitzer Lecture Series in Jewish Studies in honor of his late father, David, a Jewish Polish refugee.
Four students will receive the J. Scott Fleming Scholarship, the only student-to-student award at UB. They are Olivia Cox, a junior nursing major and Acker Scholar; Marc Huberfeld, a senior majoring in business administration with concentrations in MIS and operations and supply chain management; Tae Hyun Moon, a senior majoring in business administration with a concentration in marketing; and Kathryn Przybyla, a junior communication major with a minor in geography of international business and world trade.
For More information, visit http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2010_03_24/alumni_awards
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