The Newfane Alumni Association and Newfane Central School District are inducting their very first Distinguished Alumni class today as part of Homecoming Week celebrations. The event will happen at Newfane Senior High School at 9:15 a.m.
The honorees are:
— Tom Beilein, a 1964 graduate, Vietnam War veteran and graduate of Niagara County Community College with a 40-year profession with the Niagara County Sheriff’sOffice In 1993, he was chosen Niagara County Sheriff and led a 340-member, full-service police accountable for public security in an area of 270 square miles, emergency situation services, correctional services, and civil law enforcement services.
— Brian Hamluk, a 1994 graduate who made his Bachelor of Science in physical and health education from St Bonaventure University and his Doctorate in Education in Higher Education Administration fromGeorge Washington University Hamluk is the present vice president for trainee life at the University at Buffalo and leads the departments, systems, programs and services devoted to advancing the university experience for 30,000 trainees.
— Paul Hobbs, a 1971 graduate who’s a world-renowned wine maker. He made his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1975, and Master of Science in viticulture and enology from the University of California-Davis in 1978. Hobbs integrated his youth roots on the household farm in Western New York with an ingenious clinical method to improve the art of wine making. Today, he is owner and vintner for 8 wineries around the globe.
— Rebecca Liddell Huppi, a 1984 graduate who’s a cancer research study researcher. She made her Bachelor of Arts in biology at the State University of New York at Potsdam and her PhD in developmental biology, teratology and anatomy atThomas Jefferson University Liddell Huppi has actually operated at the National Cancer Institute because 1998 and presently acts as program director of the help Cancer Clinical Program.
— Jean Greig Roberts, a 1971 graduate who pursued her enthusiasm for music which she plainly showed throughout her years atNewfane She participated in the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, made a Master of Music degree from the Yale University School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas atAustin She likewise functioned as an organist/choir director at numerous churches. Greig Roberts passed awayAug 16, 2019.
— Susie Zafrano, a 1986 graduate who has actually been an instructor for practically thirty years and invested more than 17 years offering as a coach forSpecial Olympics Zafrano began her profession in the central city of Buffalo and has actually invested the previous 22 years teaching trainees with unique requirements at Orleans/ Niagara BOCES. As a Special Olympics coach, she has actually taken lots of groups to competitors, instilling the worths of team effort and having a good time, not simply winning.
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Other Alumni homecoming activities consist of a trip of the high school at 3:30 p.m. Friday, followed by an Alumni Mixer at Calhoun’s Pub at 5 p.m. The conscripts will likewise be presented prior to the Homecoming football video game on Saturday.
