Reporter Volume 25, No.7 October 14, 1993

By arthur page
News Bureau Director

Two All-American athletes, a major booster of the UB sports program
and the entire membership of the 1958 Lambert Cup Football Team are
this year's inductees in the UB Alumni Association Athletic Hall of
Fame.
	The induction will take place at a dinner to be held by the UB
Alumni Association at 7 p.m. on Oct. 15, in the Fine Arts Center on
the North Campus. The new members will be inducted by Barbara A.
Sherman, president of the UB Alumni Association, and UB President
William R. Greiner. The induction ceremony at 9 p.m. will follow
comments by Greiner; Nelson E. Townsend, director of the UB Division
of Athletics, and William J. Evitts, executive director of the UB
Office of Alumni Relations.
	This year's individual inductees are: Margaret M. Gehring, a
1987 UB graduate who as a track-and-field and cross-country star
became UB's first female All-American athlete and the only UB athlete
to achieve All-American status in two sports; Gerald J. Quinlivan, a
1985 graduate and football standout who was UB's first recipient of
the first-team college division Academic All-American distinction, and
Donald B. Hofmar, a co-founder of the UB Alumni Association Hall of
Fame and long-time ardent supporter of UB athletics who has been a
football season-ticket holder since 1951.
	Also to be inducted on the 35th anniversary of their 8-1
winning seasonQUB's single best football season recordQare the 49
members and 8 members of the coaching staff of the 1959 football team.
The team earned the August V. Lambert Memorial Cup for winning the
Eastern Small College Football Championship in Division I-AA and
earned UB's only post-season bowl bid, an invitation to the Tangerine
Bowl in Orlando, Fla. The team turned down the offer, however, when
the bid committee imposed racial restrictions.
	Retired head coach Richard W. Offenhamer and Charles S.
Tirone, M.D., who played guard, will speak on behalf of the team.
Offenhamer has already been inducted into the UB Athletic Hall of
Fame, as have six members of the teamQthe late Nicholas A. Bottini,
team co-captain; the late J. Gordon Bukaty; Willie R. Evans; Gerald R.
Gergley; Louis M. Reale, the team's other co-captain, and Sampson
"Sam" Sanders, who later was head football coach at UB.
	The other team members are: the late Robert M. Adams, James A.
Allegretto, Phillip O. Bamford, James E. Beckerich, Nathan M. Bliss
Jr., Kenneth P. Born, William P. Brogan, David M. Brogan, George
Delaney, Jack Dempsey, Bernard Fagan and John B. Fortini.
	Also, David E. Gardner, James E. Grapes, Richard Guild, James
Heitzhaus, James Hurley, Carley A. Keats, James B. Keats, Frederick J.
Kogut, Stanley J. Kowalski, Thomas R. MacDougall, George C. Maue,
Francis M. Mazurkiewicz and the late William McCall.
	Also, Robert A. Muscarella, the late Joseph O'Grady, Joseph J.
Oliverio, Raymond V. Paolini, Stephen J. Salasny, Charles V. Scott,
Joseph W. Shifflet, Raymond G. Skaine, Ronald G. Stephan, Paul R.
Szymendera, Melvin H. Van Curen Jr., Richard Van Valkenburgh, John
Welch, Michael Wilson, Robert Yanchuk, Robert J. Yerge and Eugene C.
Zinni.
	The assistant coaches were Frederick H. Dunlap, Karl F.
Kluckhohn, Ronald M. LaRocque, Michael E. Rhodes and Seymour Pollack.
David E. Hazell was manager and the late John L. Sciera was team
trainer.
	Margaret M. Gehring set five indoor and four outdoor track
records as a UB runner. In 1985, she became UB's first female
All-American athlete, placing 15th at the NCAA championships in
cross-country. The next year, she placed fifth in the nation in
indoor-track-and-field's 3,000-meter event, becoming the first and
only UB athlete to achieve All-American status in two sports.
	Gehring served as co-captain during her junior and senior
years in cross country, indoor track-and-field and outdoor
track-and-field. She earned the UB Outstanding Female Athlete of the
Year Award, the ECAC Medal of Merit and qualified for the NCAA outdoor
track-and-field championships in 1985-86. Her indoor records still
stand for the 1,500 meters and 4 x 800 relays.
	She earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science from UB,
where she was on the Dean's List of Distinguished Students, and a
master's degree in exercise and sport studies from Smith College.
	Gehring is assistant professor of physical education and head
coach for the women's track-and-field and cross-country teams at Ohio
Wesleyan University, and serves as executive vice president of the
Cross-Country Coaches Association. 
	Gerald J. Quinlivan was named to three college football
All-American teams in 1984 and was UB's first recipient of the First
Team College Division Academic All-American distinction. A four-year
starter and two-year captain, he was named to the Kodak All-American
Team and the Associated Press Little All-American First Team. He
earned both the ECAC Medal of Merit and the Dom Grossi Scholar-Athlete
Award for two years.
	His skills as a linebacker and a scholar were recognized in
1985 with the Clifford C. Furnas Scholar-Athlete Award and the
National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award. UB presented him
with the Outstanding Bull Award in 1984 and named him Outstanding Male
Athlete in 1985. During his career as a UB linebacker, he tallied 249
tackles, six fumble recoveries, eight pass interceptions and 16 pass
deflections. Dean's List designation for seven semesters distinguished
him as a model student-athlete throughout his college career.
	Quinlivan received his bachelor's degree in chemical
engineering from UB in 1985 and MBA from the Harvard University
Business School in 1990. 
	A resident of Cincinnati, he is product development manager
for Procter & Gamble in Maineville, Ohio.
	Donald B. Hofmar, an ardent supporter of UB athletics and a
football season-ticket holder since 1951, was a co-founder in 1965 of
the UB Alumni Association Athletic Hall of Fame. He donated the
original plaques an 18K gold tie tacks for Hall of Fame inductees and
contributed to sustaining fund drives to keep the awards program
alive. Hofmar was instrumental in reviving the Quarterback Club in
1962 and in fund-raising activities to support athletics since the
1960s. In particular, he has raised funds to pay expenses incurred in
recruiting football scholarship candidates, and coordinated alumni
contacts with the candidates. He served as the alumni association's
homecoming chairperson in 1959.
	Hofmar is president of Bell-Mar Representatives, Inc. and
serves as a consultant for Thomas Publishing Co.