Canisius Alumni Honored at Business Awards Dinner
Paul J. Kolkmeyer ’75, president and CEO of First Niagara Bank and First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (Nasdaq: FNFG) received the Business Executive of the Year Award at the 37th annual Canisius College Business Awards Dinner on Tuesday, October 11 at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens.  Hector V. Barreto, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, delivered the keynote address.

Mark J. Czarnecki MBA ’91, an executive vice president at M&T Bank, received the Dr. Bernard L. Martin Award, which is presented to a distinguished graduate of the Canisius College Master of Business Administration Program.

The Business Awards Dinner is co-sponsored by the Business Advisory council to the college’s Richard J. Wehle School of Business.

New Faces in Facilities Management

(left to right) Myron McAdory, housekeeping manager for facilities management, Julie Daniel, office manager for facilities management, Nathaniel Oliver, housekeeping night manager for facilities management and Carl Salemi, lead housekeeping manager for facilities management.

The Office of Facilities Management announces several staff changes.  Julie Daniel '81 is the new office manager for facilities management. She has 20 years of financial and operations management experiences. Daniel comes to Canisius from Joseph Davis, Inc., a mechanical contractor where she held the position of financial accounting manager. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Canisius College.

Nathaniel Oliver '03, is the new night housekeeping manager. He previously was custodial manager for Medaille College and also previously worked in Canisius housekeeping as a student. Oliver holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. 

Carl Salemi is the new lead housekeeping manager. He has 23 years of experience in facilities services. Prior to Canisius, he was director of facility services for Brothers of Mercy Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Myron McAdory, housekeeping manager, is now working the dayshift.  For the past five years, McAdory worked nights.

De La Pedraja’s Eighth Book to Be Published This Spring
Revolutions and Frontiers: The Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941, the latest book by Rene A. De La Pedraja, PhD, professor of history, will be published this spring by McFarland & Company Inc.  The 15-chapter publication emphasizes combat and how technology affected warfare. It also provides diplomatic, political and economic context for each war during this turbulent time in Latin American history.  This is De La Pedraja’s eighth book.

McConnell Has Third Book Published The third book by Jeffrey J. McConnell, PhD, chair of computer science, was published this summer by Jones and Bartlett Publishers. The book, entitled Computer Graphics: Theory into Practice, examines the components of the human visual system and the impact of this on how computer graphic images are generated.

Starr Authors Article for The Buffalo News
Daniel P. Starr, PhD, associate professor of history, wrote an article, entitled “Japan Would Never Have Surrendered Without the Bomb,” which appeared in the Viewpoints section of The Buffalo News July 31.  The article detailed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II and the reasons why a U.S. victory would have been unlikely without it.  

Redmond and Murphy Complete CPTED Training
Public Safety Officers James Murphy and Lori Redmond completed Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) training, which was hosted by Canisius College during the week of September 19.  Nearly 20 law enforcement officers from around Western New York attended the five-day training session, which is designed to prevent crime by designing a physical environment that positively influences human behavior.