Reporter Volume 25, No.28 Commencement Extra

The University Student Alumni Board (USAB) honored winners of the 1993
J. Scott Fleming Merit Awards during a reception May 4 at Pistachio's.

	The awards recognize meritorious service by full-time UB
students who have promoted school spirit and enhanced student life
through their extracurricular activities. 
	This year's winners are Kevin M. Burr, Gresford Gray, Karen T.
Hillary and Michael T. Smith. Each winner received a check for $250
and an engraved plaque. Their names are also engraved on the
commemorative plaque listing all previous winners since 1985.
	Kevin Burr, a senior electrical engineering major, served as
the 1993-94 president of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor
Society. He was also selected as UB's single nomination for the
National Collegiate Leadership Award. He has been first clarinetist
with the UB Wind Ensemble and UB Civic Symphony and has taken 31
credits of music while at the university. "As an engineering major not
pursuing a music minor," Burr writes, "I consider music an
extracurricular activity for me. My engineering perspectives have been
brought to music, and music's to engineering."
	Gresford Gray, a senior business administration major with a
concentration in accounting, is the 1993-94 president of the Minority
Management Society. To enhance networking opportunities and student
life at UB, he became affiliated with the National Association of
Urban Bankers, a professional organization of business professions and
helped make possible a student membership program with that
organization. He is also a member of the Golden Key Honor Society and
a student mentor for the Educational Opportunity Program. He has also
volunteered at Buffalo's City Mission and held numerous positions in
other student clubs.
	Karen Hillary, a junior chemical engineering major, is the
1994-95 Student Association president, the first African American
female to be elected to that office and the second African American
since 1964. She was SA's student activities director in 1993-94 and
coordinator of the Anti-Rape Task Force in 1992-93. She is the current
president of the UB chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers
and a member of the regional executive board, overseeing 10 chapters
in this area.
	Michael Smith, a senior with a double major in business
management and psychology, has been a member of the UB Crew Team for
the past four years, holding positions as treasurer, vice-president
and coach of the women's team. He has also been very active in AIESEC
Buffalo, holding positions as human resource director and development
assistant and, currently, president. He studied in City University,
London in 1991-92 and was a member of the Student Association Assembly
from 1989-91.