EuGene Alexander Peters, B.S. ’84, M.S.Ed. ’88, is a newly appointed member of the Buffalo State Foundation Board. Having recently retired as a 25-plus-year higher education professional at SUNY Farmingdale State College, he is the founder of SANKOFA Educational & Exhibition Consultants, an educational resource company based in New York City, focused on African American history education. He is also the immediate past board president of the Schomburg Corporation (an advisory affil-iate of the New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) and a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
Marty Stanford, B.S. ’84, a 36-year veteran of state and federal law enforcement, was appointed chief of inves-tigations for the Western Region of the Offices of the Inspector General by New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang. A lifelong resident of Western New York and a graduate of Cleveland Hill High School in Cheektowaga, Stanford began his distin-guished career with the United States Customs Service, where he served as a customs inspector before being promoted to the position of intelligence officer for the Port of Buffalo. Stanford would go on to become a senior special agent with the Customs Service, a role in which he was called upon to participate in investigation and recovery activities at Ground Zero following the terrorist attacks of 2001. Stanford, who is a commercial pilot, also spent a year conducting air operations for the Customs Service. Since joining the Offices of the Inspector General in 2019, Stanford has spearheaded several significant investiga-tions into thefts, frauds, and other malfeasance committed by state employees and against the state. He and his wife, Sue, to whom he has been married for over 35 years, reside in Erie County and are the proud parents of four children.
Gerald Mead, B.A. ’85, B.S. ’86, was invited to serve as the honorary advisory board chair of the West Seneca School District Academy of Visual Arts and was appointed to the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Art Committee.
Glenda Noel-Ney, B.S. ’85, has been named director of development for the Folger Shakespeare Library. Noel-Ney is a proven leader in the arts with more than 30 years of experience in fundraising, strategic planning, and team building. Before joining the Folger, she worked as a consultant with the Arts Consulting Group, collab-orating on projects for the Newark Museum of Art, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, and Bucks County Playhouse. Before that, she was vice president of advancement at Bethune-Cookman University, a private historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her professional experience also includes service as director of prin-cipal gifts at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York and vice president of advancement at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin. As development director for the Wisconsin Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she raised $25 million for the historic union’s restoration. Earlier in her career, she was manager of the philanthropic program at American Express in New York and assistant director of the Institute of African American Affairs at New York University. Noel-Ney earned a bachelor of science in business studies with a con-centration in management and marketing from Buffalo State. She served on the advisory board of the Romare Bearden Foundation, the Simpson Street Free Press board, and the Wisconsin Arts Board, and as a cultural affairs commission member for Dane Arts in Wisconsin.
Rev. Bruce Burton, B.S. ’87, M.S. ’97, was newly installed as senior pastor of Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church in Rochester, New York, on October 16, 2023. He retired in June 2019 from the Buffalo Public Schools as a social studies teacher after serving brilliant students for 32 years.
Ingrid Neuman, M.A. ’87, is completing her 16th year working in the art conservation depart-ment at the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. There she enjoys teaching the undergraduate students all about art conservation. She partners with Brown University on another course titled The Chemistry of Art. Several of her students are currently pursuing advanced degrees in art conservation, which is very gratifying. She is also starting her 22nd year teaching in the graduate Museum Studies Department, which is part of the School of Professional Studies at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where she teaches the course Collections Care and Preventive Conservation. She says the graduate art conservation program at Buffalo State was an amazing opportunity for lifelong learning.
Karl Shallowhorn, B.A. ’87, M.S. ’98, has a radio program, Mindful Music, that premiered in spring 2023 on WBFO-FM 88.7 in Buffalo.
Scott Feltrinelli, B.A. ’88, notes that at Buffalo State, he was a participant in student government representing the College Commuter Council and was also captain of the Rugby Football Club. He recently retired in 2020 after a 30-year career as a manager in the pharmaceutical industry. He lived and worked in the New York City area during most of his career and traveled the world chasing big fish with a fly rod on his days off. He has authored several articles published in some of the largest outdoor publications in the country. He is an appointee to the NYSDEC Fisheries Management and Research Group and much more. He is busier in retirement than he was during his career and owes it all to his educational experience at Buffalo State.
Lynn Hugenschmidt, B.S. ’88, has been married to her husband, Russ, for 26 years, and they have three children. She is currently an assistant vice president at HSBC Bank in Buffalo. She has many fond memories and long-lasting friendships from her college years at Buffalo State. Her daughter, Jenna, an early childhood and special education major, is a senior at Buffalo State and one of the leaders on the women’s volleyball team for the last three years. Hugenschmidt writes, “It’s been great being back on the beautiful campus watching her matches and tournaments in one of the best sports arenas in the SUNYAC! Her team also made the playoffs the past three years, so that’s been exciting!”
Alexandra Zamor, B.S. ’89, armed with a degree from Buffalo State, first worked at the National Basketball Association as a marketing assistant. She then worked at Uptown Records in the 1990s, which was her springboard to a career in the music industry. She worked at RCA Records when it first launched the Wu-Tang Clan. After many years at RCA, she worked as a Northeast regional promotion manager and as director of marketing for Virgin Urban Division. After 15 years in the music business, she worked at American Express in trade-show sales for seven years. Now she works as a sales representative for a Warren Buffet–owned company called Empire Distributors. She believes part of her success was due to a strong business foundation at Buffalo State.