Reporter Volume 26, No.20 March 9, 1995

John B. Fortini

Services were held March 3 in St. Joseph's Cathedral for John B.
Fortini, 57, director of parks and recreation for Lackawanna, who died
Feb. 27. Fortini, a UB graduate, played on the 1958 Lambert Cup
championship football team, which in 1993 was inducted into the UB
Alumni Association Hall of Fame.
	After receiving his degree in physical education and
recreation at UB, Fortini worked as a recreation specialist at the
Veterans Hospital in Batavia from 1959-1964, then went into the
restaurant business. After turning over the restaurant operation to
his son, Christopher, he took the Lackawanna parks position last year.
	He was a past president of the Buffalo chapter of the New York
State Restaurant Association and a member of the state organization's
board of directors. He held memberships in the Niagara Frontier, New
York State and National Recreation Associations.
	Survivors include his wife, Anna; two sons, John R. of West
Seneca and Christopher of Blasdell; a daughter, Anne Marie Rich of
Lackawanna; three sisters, Ruth Sorger of Lackawanna and Anita Rohloff
and Maria Szefler, both of Cheektowaga; and seven grandchildren.


Joseph B. Rounds

Private services will be held for Joseph B. Rounds, 85, first director
of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library system, who died Feb. 25
in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital after a short illness.
	Rounds, who had worked in the New York Public Library and in
Geneva, Switzerland under a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, was
manager of the American Library in Paris in 1940. He came to Buffalo
that year at the request of Samuel P. Capen, UB chancellor, charged
with organizing the library school at the University of Buffalo.
	Within a year he became head of the UB Library School and
acting librarian at the Grosvenor Library. He headed the Grosvenor
from 1941-1947, when it merged with the county library, and he became
the first director of the Erie County Public Library. In 1954, he
became first director of the consolidated city-county library system.
	When Rounds retired in 1975, the library board noted that he
"led long battles that resulted in many branch libraries being opened,
special programs being initiated in the inner city and staff salaries
being raised to a competitive level."
	The Central Library Board room is named in his honor.
	From 1942-45, Rounds served in the U.S. Army's Signal Radio
Intelligence Unit, participating in four campaigns in the European
Theater during World War II.
	Rounds, a graduate of Earlham College in Indiana, held
bachelor's and master's degrees in library science from the University
of Michigan.
	Honored for outstanding public service by the Buffalo Evening
News in 1954, Rounds received UB's University Citation in 1973 and
received the alumni recognition award from the University of Michigan.


B. Richard Bugelski

B. Richard Bugelski, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at
UB and a world-renowned scholar in learning theory, died March 3, in
his Getzville home. He was 81.
	A UB faculty member from 1946-78, Bugelski made a number of
significant contributions to the field of psychology. While a graduate
student at Yale University, he conducted the first experimental
demonstration of the concept of secondary reinforcement, which is now
referred to in all psychology textbooks.
	He also was the first to demonstrate experimentally the
phenomenon of unconscious mediation in learning, which showed that
although a person may believe he is learning a novel idea or new
information, the associations he has "learned" actually represent a
combination of his previous experiences in a new, temporal sequence.
	Bugelski authored or co-authored seven books, eight book
chapters and 50 articles in scholarly journals.
	He served as chair of the UB Department of Psychology from
1965-69, resigning that post when he was named a Distinguished
Professor, the highest academic rank in the State University of New
York system, by the SUNY Board of Trustees. The promotion is made in
recognition of an individual's reputation in his or her field and
contributions to the research literature or the arts. At the time, he
was one of only four Distinguished Professors at UB.
	Bugelski served as president of the Eastern Psychological
Association in 1970, and received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for
Excellence in Teaching in 1978, shortly before his retirement in May
of that year.
	A native of Johnstown, Pa., who moved to Buffalo with his
family at age 8, Bugelski was active in the Polish community in
Buffalo, serving as president of the Polish Arts Club of Buffalo.
	He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the
University of Buffalo and a doctoral degree from Yale.
	He is survived by his wife, Sadie Locurto Bugelski of
Getzville; two daughters; a sister, and four grandchildren.