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Alva Randall Royston Sr., BS ’73 Cutler Bay, Fla. Member since 1991
Why did you join UBAA? To stay in touch with other UB alumni and what’s happening at the university. I think UB is the great untold education story of Western New York; in fact, for the entire region. The undergraduate education I received in the very early 1970s rivals the MBA training of many of the individuals I have interacted with and hired in recent years. I want to be a part of telling and spreading that story.
Royston close-up Financial consultant since 1976, began his career with Merrill Lynch, and also served as both sales manager and branch manager for Smith Barney. Launched his own firm, A. RANDALL Financial in 2009 and currently serves as president.
Fond UB memories Comradeship with his roommates, especially the “famous spaghetti dinner night,” when each of the five cooks added salt to the spaghetti. “We crossed the great Sahara desert that evening!”
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pharmacy benefit dimensions division in Buffalo, N.Y., where he is responsible for the oversight and direction of the business strategy, business plans and operational performance. Saeli serves on the board of directors for Meals on Wheels. He lives in Orchard Park, N.Y. Laurie F. Garrison, PhD 1992 & BA 1984, is executive director of the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Eatontown, N.J. She resides in Oceanport, N.J. Mark A. Smith, MLS 1992, is director of Scholes Library of Ceramics and associate dean of libraries at Alfred University. He lives in Hornell, N.Y. Joseph W. Belluck, JD 1994, was appointed to the SUNY Board of Trustees by then Gov. David A. Paterson. A founding partner of Belluck & Fox LLP in New York, N.Y., Belluck is a member of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. He resides in Woodstock, N.Y. Anthony P. Foti, BA 1994, chaired the congressional campaign of Matthew A. Doheny for the 23rd District of New York State. Previously, Foti led a 600-member transition advisory team for the George H.W. Bush administration, and was director of external relations for the Republican National Convention in 2008. He lives in Watertown, N.Y. Kathryn E. Seweryniak, MS 1994, is director of veterinary technology at Genesee Community College. She resides in Batavia, N.Y. David R. Adams, JD 1995, is a member of the law firm of Hurwitz & Fine P.C. in Buffalo, N.Y. He has extensive experience in many areas of complex injury litigation, and is past president of the Western New York Defense Trial Lawyers
Association. He lives in Buffalo. Tracie L. DiMarco, MD 1995, has estabDIMARCO lished a full-time family practice at the Elizabethtown Community Health Center in Elizabethtown, N.Y. She lives in Keene, N.Y. John J. Flynn Jr., JD 1995, commander, U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal Gold Star in Lieu of Third Award for meritorious achievement while serving in his Naval Reserve unit since finishing active duty in June 2001. In addition to being a Town of Tonawanda (N.Y) Town Justice, Flynn is an appellate lawyer for the Navy Reserve, lawyer at O’Brien Boyd PC, professor at Buffalo State College and a Buffalo City Court judge. He resides in Tonawanda. Joseph W. Pizzurro, BS 1995, is director of transit and rail engineering for T.Y. Lin International in New York, N.Y., where he is responsible for leading projects for various transit and rail agencies. He has more than 15 years’ experience with in-depth structural, track and civil engineering and has PIZZURRO extensive rail-related design expertise. Pizzurro is a member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-ofWay Association, the Metropolitan Railway Club of New York and Heavy Movable Structures Inc. He lives in Larchmont, N.Y. M. Shakil Rahman, JD 1995, is senior vice president and general counsel at Solar Power Partners
Inc. (SPP) in Mill Valley, Calif. He has more than 20 years’ experience as both in-house and external counsel, specializing in project finance and energy, as leader of SPP’s legal, commercial and regulatory affairs. Rahman resides in Santa Monica, Calif. Jeffrey Raugh, BS 1995, is a solution engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services in Herndon, Va. He works remotely from his home in Williamsville, N.Y. Marshann Y. Thomas, EdM 1995, is director of the polysomnographic technology program at Genesee Community College. She has more than 20 years’ experience in respiratory care. Thomas resides in Buffalo, N.Y. Timothy M. Rider, BPS 1996, is a principal of the architectural firm Trautman Associates in Buffalo, N.Y. He lives in North Tonawanda, N.Y. Crain A. Soudien, PhD 1996 & EdM 1994, was appointed vice chancellor at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is responsible for activities related to supporting the university’s transformation strategy, which deals with social justice issues. Soudien, a Fulbright Scholar, resides in Cape Town. Hratch Karamanoukian, Attended 1997, was honored in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for his services as a surgeon to those in need. Karamanoukian, who received his MD from the University of Southern California, and his colleagues donated more than 100 surgeries for people who could not afford health care services. He resides in Elma, N.Y. Scott A. Bylewski, JD 1998, MBA 1995 & BS 1995, received the Bar Association of Erie County’s 2010 Award of Merit for outstanding conduct for his actions after
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