Achievements
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008Muriel Howard, Wanda Slawinska, William Wieczorek , President, Buffalo State College
Muriel A. Howard, Buffalo State College president;Wanda Slawinska, associate librarian, E. H. Butler Library; and William Wieczorek, director, Center for Health and Social Research, have each received a Citizen of the Year Award from the Am-Pol Eagle, a weekly Polish American newspaper.
The awards acknowledge individuals and organizations for outstanding service and contributions on the behalf of the Polish American and Western New York communities. Since 1964, the Am-Pol Eagle has presented awards in more than two dozen categories ranging from art and drama to youth. Previous recipients include Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra director JoAnn Falletta, former New York governor George Pataki, UB vice provost Stephen Dunnett, former UB president Stephen B. Sample, former Buffalo mayors James D. Griffin and Anthony Masiello, local business leader Robert Rich Jr., and former congressman Jack Kemp.
Howard was honored as a non-Polish American community leader, Wieczorek as Citizen of the Year in Health, and Slawinska as Citizen of the Year in Culture.
