Vicki Gekas (Class of 1969 and MA, 1972) with arms upraised in Sirtaki dance during the 1971 International Students' Night celebration at the Brubacher Residence Hall cafeteria. Gekas was the inspiration for the main character in Las Isla de los Jacinto Cortados (The Island of the Cut Hyacinths) (1980) by award-winning Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.
Vicki Gekas (Class of 1969 and MA, 1972) enters her dorm room in Brubacher Hall. Gekas was the inspiration for the main character in Las Isla de los Jacinto Cortados (The Island of the Cut Hyacinths) (1980) by award-winning Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Vicki Gekas (Class of 1969 and MA, 1972) with Marie-Louise, a French graduate student, mixes drinks at during the 1971 International Students' Night celebration at the Brubacher Residence Hall cafeteria. Gekas was the inspiration for the main character in Las Isla de los Jacinto Cortados (The Island of the Cut Hyacinths) (1980) by award-winning Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Vicki Gekas (Class of 1969 and MA, 1972) and Marie-Louise prepare dessert at during the 1971 International Students' Night celebration at the Brubacher Residence Hall cafeteria. Gekas was the inspiration for the main character in Las Isla de los Jacinto Cortados (The Island of the Cut Hyacinths) (1980) by award-winning Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Vicki Gekas (Class of 1969 and MA, 1972) attends Greek anti-junta protest ; behind her is a protest poster entitled "The Colossus" drawn by Roger T. Conant, graduate student in the Department of History. Gekas was the inspiration for the main character in Las Isla de los Jacinto Cortados (The Island of the Cut Hyacinths) (1980) by award-winning Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Vincent O'Leary, Acting President from 1977-1978 and President from 1978-July 31, 1990, stands in front of the large fountain on the Uptown Campus. The small fountain and the Campus Center are in the background as well as some students. During O'Leary's administrations, the institution was named State University of New York at Albany from August 1962-Fall 1986 and the University at Albany, SUNY starting in the fall of 1986 and continuing
New York State College for Teachers (now the University at Albany) students Dorothy De Cicco, '52 (representing Gamma Kappa Phi), Joan Reilly, '53 (representing Chi Sigma Theta), John Stevenson, '51 (representing Sigma Lambda) and David Wetherby, '51 (Potter Club) follow student tradition and meet at the statue of Minerva, then in Draper Hall. Minerva is one of the symbolic figures of the school.