A live fundrasing telethon held SUNY Albany students benefiting the Albany State Chapter of Big Bothers Big Sisters and the Wildwood School for Developmentally Handicapped Children. Featuring a number of student and community performers in the Campus Center Ballroom, hosted by Marleen Michaelson and Stuart Greskin [?].
This video contains 1989 interviews with Raymond Falconer, Vincent Schaefer, Duncan Blanchard, and Bernard Vonnegut discussing the early days of cloud seeding and the development of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, SUNY. Schaefer helped found ASRC in 1960 and served as its Director of Research until 1966 when he became Director. Schaefer brought highly qualified atmospheric science researchers to ASRC, many of whom he had met through his work at GE and Munitalp. Bernard Vonnegut, Raymond Falconer and Duncan Blanchard were all veterans of Project Cirrus who joined Schaefer at ASRC during the 1960s. It also includesd footage and images of cloud seeding and ASRC.
Marcia Brown's acceptance speech after being awarded the Honorary Doctorate from the State University of New York. Commencement ceremony, University at Albany, May 19, 1996. Marcia Brown, author and illustrator of children's literature, has been awarded the Caldecott Medal (the American Library Association's highest award for excellence in childrens' picture-book illustrations), for three of her books: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954); Once a Mouse (1961); and Shadow (1982), and six more of her books are Caldecott Honor Books.
Interview clips from the CSEA 100 Project to commemorate the union's 100th anniversary in 2010. Clips are from interviews with H. Carl McCall, Joseph Persico, Elizabeth Moore, Joe Dolan, Mel Osterman, and Marty Langer.
Marty Langer served as statewide Political Action Chairman. Under Bill McGowan, Langer was director of the Labor Management Committee and went on to be the consultant for CSEA's Mental Hygiene Group. The interview took place in July 2001