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.
Image of shirt documenting the 1st annual Cinco de Mayo celebration in Lansing, MI hosted by the Capital Area Cultura Commission. The creation of the shirt used to promote the celebration, is indicative of the growing Mexican population, and greater Latinx community in Lansing, in influencing local government and cultural life
