October 6, 1994: Vol26n5: Castellani to chair board of UB Foundation

By JED NITZBERG
Reporter Contributor
Lawrence P. Castellani, president and chief executive officer of Tops
Markets, Inc., has been reappointed chair of the Board of Trustees of
the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc. Castellani has been
affiliated with the foundation since 1986.
	The foundation promotes the activities and programs of the
University at Buffalo by providing support and advice regarding
fund-raising, managing gifts and grants on behalf of the university,
providing a wide range of financial services for various university
units, developing and managing real property on behalf of the
university, and providing a broad base of private-sector support for
UB through the foundationUs trustees and directors.
	The board of trustees is responsible for raising the
communityUs awareness of the need for private support for UB,
soliciting gifts on behalf of the university and managing assets
received by the foundation.
	Castellani joined Tops Friendly Markets as a stock clerk in
1962. After holding several managerial positions, he was appointed
director of operations in 1975. In 1991, he was named president and
CEO of Tops Markets, Inc. The company employs 16,000 people and
operates 64 Tops Friendly Markets, 93 Wilson Farms Neighborhood
Convenience Stores, 10 B-Kwik food stores and nine VIX Deep Discount
drugstores throughout Central, Western and Southern New York State and
in Bradford, Pa.

Other officers appointed by the foundation are John L. Hettrick Sr.,
chairman and CEO of WSF Industries, Inc., vice chair; Richard E. Heath
of Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods and Goodyear, secretary; James M.
Wadsworth of Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods and Goodyear, assistant
secretary, and Donald A. Ross, president of Rand Capital Corp.,
treasurer.
	The foundation also reelected several trustees for three-year
terms. They are Sal H. Alfiero, chairman and CEO of Mark IV
Industries, Inc.; Robert T. Brady, president and CEO of Moog, Inc.;
Burt P. Flickinger Jr. and John N. Walsh III, chairman and CEO of
Walsh Duffield Companies, Inc.
	The following directors were re-elected to three-year terms:
Brent D. Baird, a limited partner in Trubee, Collins & Co.; Jonathan
W. Reynolds, chief investment officer of Marine Midland Bank; Jeremy
M. Jacobs Jr., senior executive vice president of Delaware North
Companies, Inc.; William G. Gisel Jr., executive vice president of
Rich Products Corp.; Louis R. Reif, retired chairman and CEO of
National Fuel, and William I Schapiro of Jaeckle, Fleischmann and
Mugel.
	Walter E. Kempa Jr., a partner in Ernst and Young LLP, was
elected a director for a three-year term.