Reporter Volume 25, No.13 December 2, 1993

Five faculty and staff will be honored by President and Mrs. Greiner
for 40 years of service to the university during a December dinner in
the Greiners' home.
	The honorees are Beverly P. Bishop, SUNY Distinguished
Teaching Professor, Department of Physiology; Piyare L. Jain,
Professor, Department of Physics; Byron J. Koekkoek, Professor,
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures; Andrew Sage,
Instructional Support Technician, Department of Orthodontics; and
Myles Slatin, Professor, Department of English.
	After receiving her B.A. from Syracuse University and master's
in psychology from the University of Rochester, Bishop studied
physiology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and with the late
Dr. Hermann Rahn at UB, where she received her Ph.D. Named an
instructor in 1958, she became a full professor in 1975. Bishop is
known for her innovative teaching methods, which she demonstrated last
month at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. 
	Her research concerns interdisciplinary areas having to do
with motor control, with a primary area in neural control of
respiration. Current research also involves her in neurodentistry. She
is a member of the American Physiological Society, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Thoracic Society
and Society for Neurosciences, among other groups. 
	An experimental particle physicist, Jain joined the UB faculty
in 1954 after earning a doctorate from Michigan State University and
working as a research associate professor in the Chemistry Department
at the Univ. of Minnesota. He .also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from
Punjab University.
	Jain has been a research associate at the University of
Chicago and Lawrence Radiation Lab in Berkeley, Ca., and visiting
professor at Bristol University in England and the University of
Washington in Seattle. From 1965-66, he was a Fulbright Visiting
Professor at Rajasthan University in India. He has served as a
scientific adviser to the American Embassy A.I.D. in New Delhi, and is
a Fellow of the American Phys. Society. His research concerns solid
state physics, electron and nuclear magnetic resonance, cosmic
radiation and high-energy physics, and heavy ions physics. He has done
experiments at particle accelerators at Cornell University, Stanford
University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi National Laboratory
and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
	Byron Koekkoek holds the Dr. Phil. in German and Germanic
linguistics from the University of Vienna in addition to an M.A. from
the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Olivet College. He taught
at the University of Illinois before joining the UB faculty in 1953
and has also taught at the University of Texas. 
	The author of numerous reviews and articles in referreed
journals, Koekkoek is a member of the American Association of Teachers
of German, Linguistic Society of America, Modern Language Association
of America and Niagara Linguistic Society. Chairman of the Department
of Germanic and Slavic Languages from 1971-76, Koekkoek has served on
the Faculty Senate and the University Senate. 
	Following military service in World War II, Andrew Sage
acquired his technical training with the UB School of Dental Medicine
under the GI Bill. He had served with the U.S. Army, Amphibian
Engineers, in the South Pacific for two years, later in New Guinea and
the Philippines. 
	At UB, Sage takes X-rays on all clinical patients in the
Department of Orthodontics, maintains machines, makes retainers for
young patients, and handles departmental inventory for all clinical
supplies. Over the years, he has worked closely with about 200 new
graduate students, teaching them how to fabricate their appliances
before they join the clinic. He works closely with UB orthodontics
faculty Dr. John Cunat, Dr. Larry Green and Dr. Eugene Lewis. A native
of West Rutland, Vermont, Sage has served as a consultant to
orthodontics manufacturers and labs. 
	Myles Slatin earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University
and a B.A. from Queens College. He joined the UB faculty as an
instructor in 1952, rising through the ranks to full professor in
1965. A former departmental associate chairman, he also served on the
English Department's library committee and chaired summer sessions for
the department. 
	He has served on the Faculty Senate and decanal committees.
From 1968-1972, he was coordinator of library and information
resources and director of University Libraries. He has served as a
consultant for legal writing instruction, and written on such figures
as Ezra Pound for Yale University Library Gazette and American
Literature, among other periodicals. His creative writings have
appeared in Buff and The Buffalo News poetry page.