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Type:: Video
Date Created:: 1951
Collection:: Office of Communications and Marketing Records
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua391
Description:: This video features student attending orientation at the University at Albany in 1951, on the downtown campus. There are two separate orientation camps depicted, one for the women and one for the men. Students are depicting canoeing, student bonding activities at a campground. There are many scenes of students studying, working on projects and interactions between students and faculty. Many different sports are depicted, such as, archery, basketball, baseball, wrestling, and tennis. There are shots of students eating dinner, playing bridge, and socializing in front of the fire. Also "moving up day" is featured.
Subject:: College student orientation and State University of New York at Albany

Type:: Image
Date Created:: Undated
Collection:: University Photograph Collection
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua390
Description:: 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.
Subject:: Minerva, Statues, and Buildings, Draper Hall

Type:: Image
Date Created:: ca. 1985
Collection:: University Photograph Collection
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua390
Description:: 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
Subject:: Presidents and Principals, Fountains, O'Leary, Vincent, and Buildings, Campus Center

Type:: Image
Date Created:: circa 1970s
Collection:: University Photograph Collection
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua390
Description:: Architectual rendering of the Uptown campus of the University at Albany, SUNY
Subject:: Buildings -- Uptown Campus, Fountains, and Carillon

Type:: Audio
Date Created:: 1984 September 1
Collection:: The Milne School Records
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua659
Description:: The September 1984 dedication of the Milne Commons Room, Education Building Room 335
Subject:: Milne School (Albany, NY)

Type:: Video
Date Created:: 1980 January 1
Collection:: Office of Communications and Marketing Records
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua391
Description:: 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 [?].
Subject:: Telethons, Fund raising, and Variety shows (Television programs)

Type:: Image
Date Created:: 1971 January 1
Collection:: Roger T. Conant Papers
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua802.010
Description:: 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
Subject:: Student protesters and Torrente Ballester, Gonzalo

Type:: Image
Date Created:: 1971 January 1
Collection:: Roger T. Conant Papers
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua802.010
Description:: 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
Subject:: 1971 International Students' Night and Torrente Ballester, Gonzalo

Type:: Image
Date Created:: 1971 January 1
Collection:: Roger T. Conant Papers
Collecting Area:: University Archives
Collection ID:: ua802.010
Description:: 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
Subject:: 1971 International Students' Night and Torrente Ballester, Gonzalo

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