First general manager of the Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC), the governing body of student cooperatives in Ann Arbor, Mich., who served the ICC for 34 years beginning in 1951. Buchele also helped to establish the North American Student Cooperative League (NASCL) and North American Student Cooperative Organization (NASCO). Before that he was active in the student cooperative movement on the University of Kansas campus.
From the HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection: "The National Black Student Association (NSBA) focused on human rights and self determination in Southern Africa and the United States with a march to Lafayette Park, on April 1, 1978. NSBA was a national organization of African-American students working to rebuild the 'student aspect' of the struggle for Black Liberation."