January 19, 1995: Vol26n13:  Lordi to suceed Russo at CUBRC

Anthony Russo, executive director of the Calspan-University at Buffalo
Research Center (CUBRC) since 1990 and an employee of the Calspan
Corporation since 1952, has announced he will retire Feb. 28. During
Russo's tenure, CUBRC sales have increased at an average annual rate
of nearly 20 percent and CUBRC was awarded the largest single project
in its history, a $10 million contract for construction of a
hypersonic test facility in Buffalo.
	His successor as executive director will be John Lordi, who
has held a number of technical and management positions over his
30-year tenure at Calspan, most recently as manager of a department
performing research in hypersonics, rocket and gas-turbine propulsion,
chemical defense, ballistic missile defense and environmental
sciences. He has worked closely with CUBRC . He holds B.S. and
M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in
mechanical engineering from UB.