Reporter Volume 26, No.1 September 1,1994

Clifford B. Wilson, associate vice president for student affairs, has
named John Grela acting director and John Woods acting assistant
director of UB's Department of Public Safety.
	Grela, a UB employee since 1972, previously served as
associate director of public safety since 1991. He earned a bachelor
of science degree from UB in 1974 while serving as night manager of
Norton Union, and joined the Department of Public Safety as a
patrolman later that year.
	In 1977 Grela was named assistant to the director in charge of
all business operations, personnel payroll and budget, and in 1981 his
duties were expanded to include supervision of the department's seven
investigators, as well as all major and ongoing investigations.
	He is a member of UB's Labor Management Health Safety, Parking
and Traffic Safety and Handicap Accessibility committees. An
arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau of WNY and the National
Arbitration Association, he also serves on the Erie County Traffic
Safety Committee, the International Chiefs of Police Association and
the Erie County Judges and Chiefs Association.
	Woods, who joined UB in 1974 as a patrolman, was promoted to
lieutenant in 1980. In 1989 he accepted a position as interim director
of Public Safety at SUNY College at New Paltz,where he served for six
months before returning to UB.
	He received his undergraduate degree from Northeast Louisiana
State, and holds a master's degree in sociology from UB. For the past
five years, Woods has been in charge of UB's crime prevention
programs. He is responsible for community policing programs in
residence halls and on the spine. He is a member of the WNY Crime
Prevention Association and the International Association of Campus Law
Enforcement Officials.