Reporter Volume 26, No.24 April 13, 1995

Robert L. Brown, 73, the first associate dean of the UB School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, died April 5 in Buffalo General
Hospital after a short illness. Brown's work as an archivist helped to
preserve records from the early years of the medical school.
	Brown was a graduate of the UB medical school and served as
chief of the medical service of 124th General Hospital in Austria and
as a major in the surgeon general's office in Washington.
	Before joining the UB medical school in 1959 as assistant
dean, Brown was medical and technical director of the Arner Company in
Buffalo. He was appointed acting dean in 1960, directing the planning
for UB's merger into the state system.
	In 1974, he became archivist for the medical school. In
addition to locating and preserving early records, he designed the
school's cap and gown. In 1985, recognizing his 26-year support of the
Health Sciences Library, the university renamed the historical and
rare books collection the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine
Collection. At his retirement in 1985 he was appointed consultant to
the University Libraries and continued a close association with the
book collection until his death.
	Among honors he received were the Dean's Award in 1967 and
1973 and the Medical Alumni Award in 1974.
	Brown, who was director of the Visiting Nurses Association
from 1975-1978, was a member of the medical honor society Alpha Omega
Alpha, the Medical Foundation of Buffalo, the Faculty Club, the
Medical Historical Society, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Museum
of Science, the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, the
Friends of the School of Architecture and the Buffalo Club.
	Brown is survived by his good friend, Donald J. Savage.
	Private services will be held.	

Kenneth Gay, 83, who had served as curator of the poetry collection of
the University at Buffalo for 10 years, died March 26 in Palma,
Mallorca.
	Robert Bertholf, the present curator, noted in the New York
Times obituary that Gay had brought about a remarkable improvement in
the collection's holdings of first editions of books of poetry from
Britain, Canada and other Commonwealth nations.
	Gay was a longtime friend of the poet Robert Graves, many of
whose manuscripts and publications are included in the UB collection.
During Gay's tenure -- from 1968 until his retirement in 1978 -- the
collection more than doubled in size to more than 65,000 items.
	Robert Graves lived on Majorca for many years and his son,
William, told the Independent, a British newspaper that Gay had been
his father's secretary, friend and collaborator. Robert Graves died in
1985.
	A native of Germany, Gay, whose original name was Karl
Goldschmidt, left Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power. He served
in the British Navy during World War II.
	Gay and his wife, Irene, had two daughters.