A picture of History Professor Kendall A. Birr with a group of Department of History Teaching Assistants outside the Social Science and Humanities Buildings on the uptown campus. Birr is now Professor Emeritus of History at the University at Albany, SUNY and wrote the definitive "A Tradition of Excellence: The Sesquicentennial History of the University at Albany, State University of New York, 1844 to 1994" (Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 1994).