In the summer of 1996, The UB casting Institute, one of the largest institutional foundries in the United States, announced their plans to conserve and recast three large bas-relief panels produced by the late Buffalo sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey in connection with one of his last commissions. The UB frieze consists of positive plaster casts made for a 1920 commission for Rice Stadium in Pelham Bay. It is comprised of three bas-relief panels totaling 60 feet in length that depict Greek athletes competing in several Olympic sports. In 1922, shortly after Rumsey completed working on the Rice Stadium commission, he tragically died in an automobile accident. The friezes, cast in concrete from the original mold, were installed in the Rice Stadium in 1928, but were destroyed when the stadium was demolished in 1989. In addition to the destroyed concrete frieze, a casting of the panels in the plaster/burlap reinforced with steel rods had also been taken from the original mold. The panels were given to UB in 1938 and comprise the only representation of the work extant. The panels were installed that year in Clark Gymnasium on the University's South campus, where they remained for 55 years, sustaining damage from wear and age. They were removed in 1993 and stored in anticipation of their restoration. Text taken from UBToday Summer 1996