A photograph of the "Elder Statesmen" History Professor Kendall A. Birr, Hudson Winn, Bob Stierer, Dwight Smith, and Ed Sargent, participating in an event associated with Alumni Weekend, 1977. 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).