Freshmen and New Student Parent Night Scheduled

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Eliopoulos to a three-year term on the board of trustees, effective immediately.

Eliopoulos is a senior vice president and chief marketing officer of M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust. He began his banking career in 1988 as a management associate with Citibank, and then spent 10 years with the management consultant firms of A.T. Kearney and Mitchell Madison Group, where he advised financial services and media companies on strategic growth and organizational improvement initiatives. In 2003, Eliopoulos returned to Citibank as senior vice president and director of marketing, where he managed the bank's marketing and advertising programs. In 2005, he assumed the additional role of North American sales director. In 2007, he joined M&T Bank as chief marketing officer, where he leads a team of more than 100 marketing and communication professionals at M&T and its renowned wealth management firm, Wilmington Trust.

Eliopoulos holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, and a bachelor's degree from Brown University. He is active in the Hellenic American Bankers Association and the New York Philharmonic Society. A musician himself, he joins the board of the BPO after nearly a year of providing hands-on assistance with marketing and fundraising for the orchestra's May 8, 2013 appearance at Spring For Music at Carnegie Hall.

2. Weather Watch: 

Wednesday's forecast calls for a chance of showers and a high temperature of 75.

• Sunrise: 5:49 a.m.
• High tide: 5:04 a.m.
• Low tide: 11:10 a.m.
• Sunset: 7:45 p.m.

4: Academic Acclaim: