Peter Hunt ’71 and Mary Jo Hunt will be inducted into the Western New York Business Hall of Fame in 2026. The ceremony takes place on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Congratulations!
Peter and Mary Jo Hunt have helped grow the fourth-generation Hunt Real Estate into a $100-plus million company. He’s now executive chairman, and she led leadership development efforts for many years. Mary Jo is also the executive director of the Cummings Foundation.
It may not be in the traditional sense, but Jim Huetter is widely recognized as a three-sport superstar.
Huetter was a competitive bicycle racer on the international stage at the highest levels. He represented the United States in 1970 at the World Championships in England, and again the following year at the Pan-American Games in Colombia. He was a member of the USA’s Olympic long team in 1972. He also participated in the 1974 Tour of Ireland 8-day, 9 stage competition, and in 1975 he was a member of Team USA team at the Rapport tour.
In the early 1970s, he was a member of Raleigh Century Road Club of America (CRC of A), a premier U.S. cycling team which was considered one of the best US teams of that era. Huetter and his fellow Raleigh members received Special Recognition from the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.
Huetter, the son of the legendary official the late Al “Whitey” Huetter, began his basketball officiating career as a 16-year-old, refereeing local hoops games. He climbed the basketball ranks and became one of the most respected basketball officials in the nation. He went from high school to junior college, and NCAA Divisions 3, 2, and 1 before working as an NBA official from 1989-91. He returned to Division I, where he worked for nearly a quarter century. In 2001 he was named the MAAC Official of the Year and earned spots on the referee crews for both the NIT and NCAA tournaments. He became the Supervisor of Officials for NJCAA Region 3 and ECAC Division 3 for nearly 30 years. He also served in the role of Officials Observer from 2007-2013 for the NBA at all Toronto Raptors games.
In addition to his work on the hardwood, Huetter is also a respected official in the NFL. He began on the field, working on the chain gang, before being recruited by the NFL to move to the press box to operate the play clock – and he hasn’t missed a game in more than 30 years. Shortly after, he was promoted to crew chief, responsible for a team of 10+ people, including the chain crew, sideline video replay, and clock operators. Huetter’s Buffalo crew has been selected to work 14 playoff games at sites around the league over the past 20 years, including Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, AZ.
From the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame Website:
Duke McGuire was a three-sport star at Amherst High School, earning ten varsity letters and seven first team all-star selections. While he excelled in soccer and basketball, his true legacy has been built in and around the sport of baseball.
McGuire continued his baseball career at Cornell University. He was drafted three times and turned pro when he was selected in the first round by the Detroit Tigers. He played three seasons professionally, including one year for Hall of Fame manager Jim Leyland, before injuring his back in spring training.
In 1978, he was a player-manager and team MVP in the New York Penn League for the Niagara Falls Pirates. He joined the legendary Voyageurs MUNY AAA team that won 14 straight league titles. That team, with ex-big leaguers Joe Charboneau and Joe Hesketh, barnstormed the country in the ’70s and ’80s and won the National Baseball Federation Championship in 1979.
When professional baseball returned to Buffalo in 1979, McGuire became a fixture with the Bisons organization. He joined the broadcast team, served as the director of Public Relations and Marketing, and then as the team’s public address announcer from 1981-95. In 1996, he became the team’s broadcast color commentator, a role he has held for more than 30 seasons. He also served as the Bisons youth baseball coordinator, and ran the team’s camps and clinics at Sahlen Field, and in local parks.
McGuire also played a key role securing “The Natural” in Buffalo by providing the first tour of War Memorial Stadium to the individuals scouting for a location to shoot the film. He made his silver screen debut, playing alongside Robert Redford in the classic film.
McGuire served as an assistant to the Dean of Students at Amherst High School for 40 years. He has also been a fixture in high school sports and has coached baseball, girls basketball, and football at Amherst and Williamsville South high schools. He remains involved in high school athletics as an announcer, timekeeper, and supervisor at a variety of athletic contests.
Each year Amherst High School presents The Duke McGuire Award to a student athlete who displays compassion and acceptance to those less fortunate. He is an inductee of the Western New York Amateur Baseball Hall (1988) and the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame (2010). In 2025 the Bisons marked his service to the organization by naming the “Duke McGuire Home Broadcast Booth” in his honor.
A US Army 3rd Infantry Division soldier died Wednesday during a training exercise at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., the service said Thursday. Spc. Adrian Bonsey, 29, of New York, was a combat engineer assigned to the 9th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, based in Fort Stewart, Ga. He had just arrived at Fort Stewart, the service said.
Adrian’s service will be at the Forest Lawn Chapel and Forest Lawn Cemetery at 11am Friday 6/26/26. If you plan to attend, the director of Forest Lawn recommends you enter the Delavan and Delaware entrance and follow the white line to the chapel.
“Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with his family, friends, teammates, and all those who had the privilege of serving alongside him. The loss of a Soldier is felt across our entire formation, and we stand together in honoring Adrian’s life, service, and sacrifice,” the 3rd Infantry Division said in a Facebook post.
Just to give you a little background on the Alumni Foundation, In the wake of celebration and sentiment that followed the close of World War II, returning veterans conceived the idea of a homecoming event to renew friendships. A dance was held downtown at Christmas time and another at a country club the following spring. To keep the idea going, officers were elected and a newsletter was published. Philip A. Schweickhard, principal of Amherst Central High School from its founding in 1930, laid the groundwork “to keep the Amherst family together” when, in 1954, he appointed Arthur E. (“Doc”) Pankow to co-ordinate Alumni Relations. By 1983, it was evident that we needed an expanded structure to perpetuate the spirit and quality unique to Amherst. In June of that year, the Amherst Alumni Foundation was conceived and incorporated. This year marks the 96th anniversary of the high school! For those of you graduating this year, we’d like to welcome you to the alumni family with the other 25,000 graduates that came before you, where we cherish the past and enhance the future.
We are proud to present the 2nd annual Amherst Alumni Foundation Dimp Wagner Scholarship in honor of Donald Dimp Wagner – class of 1948.
The late Anne Harding Joyce, class of 1970, was instrumental in connecting us with Dimp and establishing this gift. This $5,000 scholarship reflects Dimp’s lasting legacy at Amherst and beyond. It is awarded to a student who embodies the same passion for Amherst, dedication to fellow students, and commitment to school and community involvement that Dimp so clearly demonstrated. As a student, Dimp served as President of the National Honor Society, played in the Marching Band and Amherst Symphony, sang in the choir and was an accomplished athlete. His involvement and leadership left a lasting impact on the Amherst community.
Dimp was a generous supporter of the Amherst Alumni Association. You may recognize his name on the track out back, named in his honor following a generous donation. Through his trust in us and his support in establishing a fund within the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Dimp enabled the Alumni Foundation to carry on his legacy for generations to come—by which this scholarship has been established.
This year’s recipient reflects many of Dimp’s qualities, he has shown his desire to serve our local community and give back to a community who has given him a place to feel at home, with access to a great education and encouraging teachers. He plans to attend Dartmouth University in the fall where he hopes to study engineering with dreams of a career designing high-performance vehicles and pushing the limits of automotive engineering.
It is our distinct honor to present the 2nd annual Alumni Foundation Dimp Wagner Scholarship to Maif Biswas.
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