Scene from a reception on the uptown campus' Academic Podium for visiting speaker, U Thant, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971. At the time of his appointment as Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant had been Permanent Representative of Burma to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador (1957-1961). He visited the university on the occasion of the University Seminar on Peaceful Changes, 1966. Evan R. Collins, President of the State University of New York at Albany (the name of the university at the time of this photograph and was so from August 1962 until the fall of 1986) from July 1949-June 30, 1969, is the gentleman on the viewer's left.

Date created

• 1966

Type

• Image

Creator

• University at Albany

Master Format

• TIF

Identifier

• nam_ua_390_pm_017984

Subject

• Thant, U, 1909-1974
• University Seminar on Peaceful Changes
• Receptions
• Academic Podium
• Speeches, addresses, etc.
• Uptown Campus
• University Archives Photographs
• Buildings -- Uptown Campus
• United Nations. Secretary-General

License

• Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0

  

ITEM CONTEXT

Collection

University Photograph Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives