Reporter Volume 25, No.22 March 24, 1994

About 125 friends and colleagues gathered March 9 for a reception in
the Fine Arts Center Atrium, to salute the contributions of Mary
Salatino, a 39-year university employee who retires this month.
	A native of Daytona Beach, Fla., Salatino came to UB in 1955
when her husband Al enrolled as a graduate student in education. "I
thought I'd take a temporary job at the university to help him out. It
turned out the temporary job extended into a long and gratifying
career," Salatino told the Reporter.
	Most recently secretary to the director of the Fine Arts
Center, reporting to Arts and Letters Dean Kerry S. Grant, Salatino
began her career as secretary to Milton C. Albrecht, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences. She then worked as secretary to Douglas
Surgenor, dean of the medical school and was also secretary to the
late Oscar A. Silverman, who doubled as director of the Libraries and
chaired the English Department. This was followed by her long tenure
as secretary to Vice President for Academic Affairs Warren Bennis
(later president of the University of Cincinnati and now an endowed
chairholder at USC), and the nine vice presidents who followed. This
included an 11-year stint with William Greiner as Provost.
	"When Mr. Greiner became President, I expressed an interest in
working in the Fine Arts Center," Salatino recalled. "My one wish
would be that the Fine Arts Center and the arts receive the kind of
financial support that they require to grow and flourish because they
serve to enrich and humanize our lives."
	At the farewell reception, Salatino says she enjoyed "the
overall warmth and friendliness of the people whom I've worked with
over the years. It was wonderful to see and greet again people like
retired Vice President for Finance and Management Edward Doty, retired
Director of Personnel Harry Poppey, and Mr. (Charles) Fogel,
engineering professor and well-known retired administrator, whom I
first knew as director of General and Technical Studies, later MFC. I
also met with other colleagues and friends I've not see in 10 or 20
years.
	"I was overwhelmed and touched when Dr. Gordon Silber, former
chair of the Department of Modern Languages, and Professor Emeritus,
produced an offer letter sent to him by then Dean Milton C. Albrecht
and typed by me some 35 years ago." 
	Concludes Salatino: "I've come full circle in 39 years. I'd do
it all over again but not in this lifetime. This career at the
university has come to a close. It's time to go, but I'm glad because
now I can sit in the shade, sip a glass of wine and watch all the
others dance."
	She plans to seriously pursue a lifelong love of flower
gardening and is eyeing the signs of spring from her Akron home. Also
planned are "a lot of traveling and reading."