Now in its second year, the Honor Roll is sponsored by SUNY's Confederation of Alumni Associations in conjunction with the SUNY Office of University Relations. Nominations to the list are made by individual campuses.

UB alumni included in this year's roster are:

Wolf Blitzer, White House correspondent for CNN and host of a CNN public affairs program. He formerly was Washington correspondent for The Jerusalem Post.

A 1970 UB graduate, Blitzer in 1985 received the UB Alumni Association's George W. Thorn Award, presented to UB graduates under the age of 40 in recognition of their outstanding national or international contributions to their career field or academic area. He has authored "Between Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook" and "Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard." He lives in Bethesda, Md.

Harley Flack is president of Wright State University (Ohio) and founding dean of the Howard University College of Allied Health Sciences. A 1971 UB graduate, he began his career in higher education as an administrator for the UB School of Health Related Professions and also served as academic vice president at SUNY College at Old Westbury.

Former president of the National Society of Allied Health, Flack has composed more than two dozen works for piano and voice. Winner of UB's Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1995, he's also author of "African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics." Flack lives in Dayton, Ohio.

Wilson Greatbatch, whose work co-developing the first human implantable heart pacemaker has saved thousands of lives around the world, graduated from UB in 1956. Holder of 150 patents, Greatbatch is in the Inventors Hall of Fame and was recipient of the Holley Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Greatbatch has received several honorary doctorates, including one from UB in 1984. In 1981, he received the UB Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award. A resident of Clarence, he is an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at UB.

Linda Wachner, the highest paid woman in corporate America, is CEO of Warnaco, the fashion conglomerate, which includes Warner's Olga, Fruit of the Loom, Christian Dior Men's and other companies. She lives in New York City.

A 1966 UB graduate, Wachner is former president of Max Factor and the only woman to head a major public company that she neither inherited nor founded. Wachner won the UB Alumni Association's Thorn Award in 1980.