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UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT ALBANY ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
The University Foundation at Albany has elected an expanded slate of
officers and directors to its Board of Directors reflecting its new effort
to achieve greater cooperatioi: between the University at Albany and the
regional community, Steven Einher::,; Foundation president announced.
"The Foundation will broaden its activities beyond business and economic
development in order to widen participation from both the University and the
community," Einhorn said. "We have created four new councils, each headed by
a vice president, to promote University-commmnity interaction."
The 1988-89 Board of Directirs officers are Steven L. Einhorn, President
of the architectual firm of Evans Yaffee, Prescott, P.C., as Foundation
President; Richard J. Miller, Pie ident of Richard J. Miller and Associates,
P.C., as Vice President, Membe;
yi Sydney T. Jones III, President of the
Hudson Valley Paper Company, #asurer; and Phillis E. Dake, Executive
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In addition, the Board cre four new councils and elected vice
presidents to head each one.
Development; Robert J. Kracke].
President, Council for Humanities and Arts; Mark Simmons, President of
Vulcan Development and Management Corporation, Vice President, Council for
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Community Development; and Robert: H. Iseman, attorney with DeGraff, Foy,
Conway, Holt-Harris & Mealey, Vice President, Council for Intercollegiate
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New directors elected to the Board are Eve Zimmerman of Loudonville;
Ross A. Parkinson, Vice President of Northern Operations, Albany
International Felt Division; Peter Newkirk, President of Newkirk Products;
and Fred B. Wander, an attorney with O'Connell & Aronowitz, P.C.
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THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY TO NAME ITS PUBLIC AFFAIRS LIBRARY
FOR GOVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY, SEPI. 8
Thomas E. Dewey, three-term cowenon of New York and twice the
Republican Party's candidate for President of the United States, will be
honored at the University at Albany on Thursday, September 8, when the
University will name its public affairs library in his honor.
The half-hour ceremonies formally dedicating the Governor Thomas E.
Dewey Graduate Library for Public Affairs and Policy will begin at 12:15
p.m. on the University's downtown campus, 135 Western Avenue, at the
entrance to the Hawley Hall Building where the library is housed.”
The governor's son, Thomas E. Dewey, Jr., will participate in the
ceremonies as will University at Albany President Vincent O'Leary and Warren
F. Ilchman, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Joseph C. Burke,
Provost of the State University of New York, will deliver the principal
address.
"In 1946, Governor Dewey initiated the Temporary Commission on the Need
for a State University which resulted in legislation creating the university
system a few years later." President O'Leary said. "It is most appropriate
that SUNY's finest library of public affairs and policy be named in honor of
the father of the State University of New York."
The library, with 85,000 specialized volumes and a reference collection
of 8,000 books including an extensive collection of books on the law, serves
the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, one of the
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largest such schools in the nation. Rockefeller College as composed of the
School of Social Welfare, the School of Information Science and Policy, the
School of Criminal Justice, and the Graduate School of Public Affairs. The.
library is also noted for several special collections such as author Joseph
Persico's papers for his book on Governor Rockefeller.
A special two-hour program which is also open to the public, "Thomas E.
Dewey Remembered", will begin at 10 a.m. in the Arthur Levitt Executive
Seminar Room in Draper Hall. John E. Burton, past state budget director and
vice president emeritus of Cornell University who served on the Temporary
Commission on the Need for a State University, will talk on "Thomas E.
Dewey: The Father of the State University of New York." Malcolm Wilson,
former New York governor, lieutenant governor and state legislator, will
speak on "The Governor as an Innovator." Former secretary to Governor Dewey
and later his law partner R. Burdell Bixby will talk on "Thomas E. Dewey:
The Man Who Could Have Been President."
The naming of its public affairs library for Governor Thomas E. Dewey
continues an effort by the University to honor public sector leaders of New
York state. ‘Last year, the Arthur Levitt Executive Seminar Room was
dedicated and in 1981 Rockefeller College was established.
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Albany Artist Awarded in Van Guard International Photo Competition
Barry Koblenz, a May graduate of the University at Albany’s Fine Arts bachelor’s
program, was recently awarded second place and an honorable mention in the Van Guard
International Photography Competition.
Koblenz, who studied under University art professor Phyllis Galembo, competed with
more than 1,000 photographers from around the world.
He described his work as a series of studies in environmental placement, focusing on
alternate environments for people and bringing these environments to light.
"I did much of my work at night. I also worked in the darkroom to manipulate and
juxtapose human elements into an alternate environment," Koblenz said. "I portrayed a
depth of perception which showed that figures of persons enter images, look around and
experience from within:
Koblenz’s work will be on display until Sept. 25 in the Little Gallery of Albertus
Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut.
Jurors for the competition were: Peter Moore, senior editor of Modern Photography
Magazine; Jonathan Rho, J.R. Productions, New York City; and Karen Rossi, Art Education,
Connecticut.
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RICHARD DRESSNER NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT ALBANY
Dr. Richard B. Dressner has been appointed Executive Director of the
University Foundation at Albany, which was established to promote greater
cooperation between the University at Albany and its regional commnity.
The newly-created position of Executive Director is part of an effort to
expand and broadened the activities of the Foundation. In addition to its
long-standing efforts to enhance business and economic development in the
area, the Foundation has recently established councils headed by a vice
president to promote regional-university cooperation in the arts and
humanities, commmity development and intercollegiate sports.
Dressner will continue as Associate Vice President for Public Service at
the University. The Office of Public Service, which he heads, provides a
range. of services to area business and industry including corporate
contracts, seminars for professionals, and technical assistance through the
Small Business Development Center and the new Women and Minority Owned
Business Development Center.
Dressner joined the University at Albany in 1978 as Dean of the Division
of Continuing Studies which operated the University's evening undergraduate
degree programs, community education programs and professional development
workshops. The Division also administered the University's Summer Sessions.
Dressner assumed his current duties in 1985.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of George Washington University, Dressner took
his graduate training at Cornell University where he earned his Ph.D. in
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American Intellectual History. He has taught in the history departments of
Cornell, Colgate University, the University at Albany and Hiram College in
Ohio.
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A BIG DONATION FROM A BIG 8 FIRM
One of the nation’s "Big Eight" accounting firms has donated $12,000 to the
University at Albany’s Accounting and Law Department for the development of a tax
library. In a formal presentation, Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 8:30 p.m., in Lecture
Center One of the University’s uptown campus, a representative from Ernst & Whinney,
presented the check to Dr. Enrico Petri, chair of the accounting department.
The donation preceded a presentation to undergraduates by the accounting firm on ~~
interviewing techniques. Ernst-& Whinny recruits employees several times each year
from the University’s accounting department.
The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) reported this
September that the University’s accounting graduates were some of the best in the
nation, with the number of Albany students who passed the November 1987 Certified
Public Accountant examination on their first try greater than anywhere in the
country. "Albany’s graduates have been in the top ten on every CPA exam since the
results have been published," said Petri. "Considering that we do not offer a CPA
review course as part of our curriculum, this is particularly outstanding," he said.
Petri noted that in addition to its generous donation, Ernst & Whinny would
supply an advisor to help establish the new library and recommend to the University
which books to buy. Tax laws are revised often and the library will have to be
updated regularly.
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U.S. Information Agency Awards $46,000 Grant to Albany Italian Studies
The United States Information Agency’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
recently awarded a $46,000 grant to the University at Albany’s Hispanic and Italian
Studies department. The funding will support faculty exchanges between the University at
Albany and the centuries-old University of Salerno, in southern Italy, and also bring
about an international symposium in Albany.
The project, an educational and cultural exchange partnership forming a relationship
of mutual research and teaching between the two universities, will include a series of up
to eight semester-long faculty exchanges during the next three years.
In addition, an international symposium, Southern Italy and America: Regional,
Cultural aad Political Life, will be held in Albany on Apr. 11-13, 1989. It will be a
continuation of themes and topics that were discussed at a 1987 conference held in the
Italian Region of Molise.
The ultimate goal of the project is to form a Center for Southern Italian Studies at
the University at Albany, similar to the established Center for Southern Italian
Humanistic Studies located at the University of Salerno.
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"Eighty-five percent of Italian immigrants in the U.S. and Canada, including those
who settled in New York State, came from southern Italy," said Giose Rimanelli, an
Italian Studies professor at the University at Albany and project director. "Despite this
large population segment, very little is known here about that area’s social and cultural
traditions. Most research and cultural exchanges have focused on northern Italy."
Each University has a personal interest in studying the southern Italian heritage
mix. Albany seeks to better understand Italian-American heritage by studying its origins
in southern Italy. Salerno, at the same time, is interested in studying southern Italy’s
influence on American culture and values, and the works of Italian-American scholars and
artists.
"The faculty exchange will enable an intertwining of two different methods of
teaching and also of political and cultural ways," said Rimanelli, a native of Molise.
"We want to capture and focalize the attention of Italians and Americans on having the
University become a center for that type of study. It will be the only one like it in
North America."
Rimanelli, a novelist and literary critic, maintained a close relationship with his
native region. Wanting to give people a consciousness of their being, he wrote an
autobiography, Molise, Molise, which was well-received by the Italian public and his
friend, professor Paolo Nuvoli, president of Region Molise. Not wanting to lose linkage
with his heritage, and feeling the time was right, Rimanelli initiated the project with
Salerno in 1986.
Other project initiators from Albany are Alicia de Colombi-Monquio, chairman of
Hispanic and Italian Studies; Brancis Femminella, associate professor of Program
Development and Evaluation for the School of Education; and Francine Frank, dean of the
College of Humanities and Fine Arts.
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The faculty exchange between the two universities is underway. Sebastiano Martelli,
an Italian scholar, recently visited Albany’s campus and lectured on southern Italy’s
culture. Luigi Reina, an Italian professor, scholar and author, is currently visiting
Albany until December. In January, Albany will send a faculty member to Salerno.
In addition to Federal Government funding, the overall endeavor is supported by two
major national associations in the US. the National Italian American Foundation,
Washington, D.C.; and the American Italian Historical Association, New York. A number of
private sources are also interested in supporting a Center for Southern Italian Studies,
which would be based at the University at Albany.
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TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM ANXIETY IS RESUMED
With the arrival of the new school year, the University’s Center for Stress and Anxiety
Disorders is resuming its two programs for anxiety-troubled schoolchildren ages six to 16.
One program treats children who are afraid to attend classes. The other treats children
who suffer from general anxieties and phobias (fear of darkness, loud noises, crowds, dogs,
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Both programs are headed by psychologist Wendy Silverman.
School phobias may result from a fear of teachers, other children, tests, speaking before
a class, or may be rooted in family problems. Children who have been chronically absent from
school for a year or more are not eligible for treatment.
Treatments are drug-free. Psychologists work with parents as well as children to help the
children cope with’ant gradually overcome their anxieties.
For more information, call Chris Karney or Dr. Silverman at 456-4127.
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