Jonathan Danes, longest-serving UB Council member and prominent advocate in an initiative that catalyzed the university’s integration into downtown Buffalo, passed away Sunday at 72.
Dandes was appointed to the UB Council in 1994, serving more than 30 years throughout five terms. He also served one term as the president of the UB Alumni Association, from 1996 to 1998.
UB was not the only place where Dandes made his mark. The president of Rich Baseball Operations from 2001 to 2018, he managed multiple baseball teams including Buffalo’s Bisons. Other jobs on Dandes’s docket consisted of chairperson positions for Shea’s Performing Arts Center, the Buffalo Zoological Society, the Erie County Medical Center and tourism agency Visit Buffalo-Niagara…